Maybe, looking at Mt St Helens and all that. Problem is, the guys looking at "near Earth" asteroids haven't found them all and so they can't give a reasonably accurate prediction. Well, yes and no. You don't need to look at the rocks in the sky, there's no reason to believe they're suddenly all more (gravitationally) attracted to Earth than they have been in the past. From the geological/fossil/etc record, we can see that truly catastrophic collisions seem to occur on the order of once every few 10s or 100s of millions of years. Now, a much smaller rock would still wipe out a city and make life rather unpleasant for the rest of us for a few years, and they are somewhat more common. But on the timescale of recorded history, significant impacts seem fairly rare.
I don't see too big of a use outside of the overpriced mega-server market, though, and lets just hope that none of them suffer from any brown-outs. In my day-to-day work, on a 500 Mhz Pentium III with 256 megs of RAM, it takes approximately five minutes to change one file, recompile, and relink. A faster CPU would help a little, two CPUs slightly more (Anandtech got a 30% speed boost from two CPUs with Visual C++), but I think hard drive access time is the dominating factor. Could I use one of these things? Ooooh yes. The cost would be a hard sell though.
Actually, it was written for windows because windows was the platform they started reverse engineering it on.. due to the availability of licensed players. I thought it was the file system that was unsupported on Linux at the time. Further lies: they say region coding exists so that they can do staggered theatrical releases. So why the f--- are movies that are long gone from the theatres anywhere region-coded?
Any have any good ideas for pointing devices built into a keyboard? My suggestion (free for the taking) is to build pressure sensitive pads into the wrist rest, or the feet of the keyboard. You would thus move the cursor by pushing or pulling the keyboard in the direction you want to go. No one's ever used that idea as far as I know, though.
There is SO much illegal material on the Internet that some controls HAVE to be introduced. At the moment ANYONE can get their hands on all sorts of material. How to hack, how to makes bombs etc...
...all of which is legal in this country. If you don't know how to hack, you'll have trouble figuring out how to stop it. If you don't know how to make poison gas from bleach and ammonia, you don't know not to mix them. And explosives have legitimate uses (mining, fireworks, movie making, and so on), so people do need to know how to make them.
I belive that this was the DVD et all player that had "hidden" menus that allowed people to select the DVD region, hence playing DVDs that shouldnt be available to play on normal DVD players, like imports. It (Apex AD600A) is, and it does. My Farscape DVDs would be useless otherwise. It takes a truly brain-dead organization to come up with a scheme that tries to prevent people from giving them money...
What should we have done if the judge had gone the other way? Precisely what we do when the judge rules for a position that we favor. Oh, horsehockey. Our actions should be judged by MORAL senses of right and wrong, not legal judegements. If Roger B. Taney rules that slaves have no rights under law, do we shut down our underground railroad? No. Did you expect Roe vs. Wade to make the anti-abortionists sit down and shut up? Hardly. In this case, however, exactly how would one have engaged in civil disobedience? And how would you boycott the "company"? Signal 11, do you just have these blocks of canned responses ready for quick entry into new stories to karma whore?
It is nice to have public statements from artists dissing the big record companies. While mp3 is a big medium for piracy, as more people get broadband it can also do most of what the record companies do, by providing a relatively cheap mechanism to get an artist known. (mp3.com for example. Yeah, most of it's crap, but that's what Sturgeon's Law tells us about everything anyway.) If music moves to an electronic distribution system, the cost will probably drop enough that the reduced price of being honest will result in more people being honest. So the performers will still get their cash if they're good. The record stores and the RIAA will lose out, but perhaps some of them can switch to more productive pursuits.
Government regulation is [not] apparently acceptable to the rabid/.-er.
But it's not that we're needing to add new regs, it's that we're needing to stop the corporations from adding new ones that restrict us. We're wanting more freedom, not less.
The community will be more effective if it uses the mechanisms our society already has in place to achieve its end, rather than trying to ferment some sort of revolution that isn't going to happen and isn't supported by the majority of your fellow countrymen.
Despite people's satisfaction with the economy in the U.S., there's still a great deal of anti-government sentiment, because of the belief that our politicians are to beholden to and are working for commercial interests. John McCain managed to drain Dubya's massive war chest, largely by promoting the issue of campaign finance reform. That's a popular issue because it seems pretty clear that a politician is beholden to he people who pay their way into office. (Even if it isn't a quid pro quo, the commercial interests will fund the candidates that would support their position anyway, so the effect is much the same.) So there's a lot of popular anti-corporate, anti-lawyer sentiment in this country that might be harnessed by a well-run organization.
Unfortunately my Gdog 2000 campaign never got off the ground...
IAcertainlyNAL, but when you are the liscensee of a GPL'ed program you most certainly do give the liscensor something: you agree not to use their code in any proprietary programs. But that's rather like saying if I give you $5, then you gave me something because I could have given you $10. I'm giving you incomplete usage rights to my code and asking nothing in return, saying you're giving me something because I'm not giving you complete usage rights is rather flaky reasoning. Regardless, just because I give you something, that doesn't mean I can take it back. The only exception is that if I say I am going to give you something (without remuneration), I'm not legally obliged to do so. But cphack was already given (or at least one file of its was). I believe the idea of the dollar exchange is that the giving and receiving of the dollar is explicit evidence of the parties agreeing to the terms of the contract, not that the $1 makes sure the contract is not unconscionable.
I think misty is kind of sexy. Is that wrong? You're one sick, twisted bastard. Now Jessie of Team Rocket, on the other hand... oh Baby! But we both know she'd never leave James.
Sorry, but today is *my* birthday, so I give them to me. I have equipped them so they can rain flaming death across the entire world's surface. This will happen at just after the Farscape Season 2 premiere next friday unless you pay me [dramatic pause] ONE... MILLION... DOLLARS!
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Maybe, looking at Mt St Helens and all that. Problem is, the guys looking at "near Earth" asteroids haven't found them all and so they can't give a reasonably accurate prediction. Well, yes and no. You don't need to look at the rocks in the sky, there's no reason to believe they're suddenly all more (gravitationally) attracted to Earth than they have been in the past. From the geological/fossil/etc record, we can see that truly catastrophic collisions seem to occur on the order of once every few 10s or 100s of millions of years. Now, a much smaller rock would still wipe out a city and make life rather unpleasant for the rest of us for a few years, and they are somewhat more common. But on the timescale of recorded history, significant impacts seem fairly rare.
It was Antonin Scalia who took Congress to task for passing unconstitutional laws and relying on the courts to sort things out.
Couldn't Slashdot provide .PNGs instead of .GIFs based on a user preference? That's a suggestion for Rob & co. anyway...
I don't see too big of a use outside of the overpriced mega-server market, though, and lets just hope that none of them suffer from any brown-outs. In my day-to-day work, on a 500 Mhz Pentium III with 256 megs of RAM, it takes approximately five minutes to change one file, recompile, and relink. A faster CPU would help a little, two CPUs slightly more (Anandtech got a 30% speed boost from two CPUs with Visual C++), but I think hard drive access time is the dominating factor. Could I use one of these things? Ooooh yes. The cost would be a hard sell though.
either they're down $50 or they're down $200...
? They're only down $200 if they make the console and then dump it in the river or something.
Actually, it was written for windows because windows was the platform they started reverse engineering it on.. due to the availability of licensed players. I thought it was the file system that was unsupported on Linux at the time. Further lies: they say region coding exists so that they can do staggered theatrical releases. So why the f--- are movies that are long gone from the theatres anywhere region-coded?
Any have any good ideas for pointing devices built into a keyboard? My suggestion (free for the taking) is to build pressure sensitive pads into the wrist rest, or the feet of the keyboard. You would thus move the cursor by pushing or pulling the keyboard in the direction you want to go. No one's ever used that idea as far as I know, though.
There is SO much illegal material on the Internet that some controls HAVE to be introduced. At the moment ANYONE can get their hands on all sorts of material. How to hack, how to makes bombs etc...
...all of which is legal in this country. If you don't know how to hack, you'll have trouble figuring out how to stop it. If you don't know how to make poison gas from bleach and ammonia, you don't know not to mix them. And explosives have legitimate uses (mining, fireworks, movie making, and so on), so people do need to know how to make them.
It seems to me that, in theory, "illegal" material should not be on the internet
Whose laws? The Web is international, most laws are national. Even things like copyright agreements have non-signatory nations.
I belive that this was the DVD et all player that had "hidden" menus that allowed people to select the DVD region, hence playing DVDs that shouldnt be available to play on normal DVD players, like imports. It (Apex AD600A) is, and it does. My Farscape DVDs would be useless otherwise. It takes a truly brain-dead organization to come up with a scheme that tries to prevent people from giving them money...
What should we have done if the judge had gone the other way? Precisely what we do when the judge rules for a position that we favor. Oh, horsehockey. Our actions should be judged by MORAL senses of right and wrong, not legal judegements. If Roger B. Taney rules that slaves have no rights under law, do we shut down our underground railroad? No. Did you expect Roe vs. Wade to make the anti-abortionists sit down and shut up? Hardly. In this case, however, exactly how would one have engaged in civil disobedience? And how would you boycott the "company"? Signal 11, do you just have these blocks of canned responses ready for quick entry into new stories to karma whore?
It is nice to have public statements from artists dissing the big record companies. While mp3 is a big medium for piracy, as more people get broadband it can also do most of what the record companies do, by providing a relatively cheap mechanism to get an artist known. (mp3.com for example. Yeah, most of it's crap, but that's what Sturgeon's Law tells us about everything anyway.) If music moves to an electronic distribution system, the cost will probably drop enough that the reduced price of being honest will result in more people being honest. So the performers will still get their cash if they're good. The record stores and the RIAA will lose out, but perhaps some of them can switch to more productive pursuits.
Government regulation is [not] apparently acceptable to the rabid /.-er.
But it's not that we're needing to add new regs, it's that we're needing to stop the corporations from adding new ones that restrict us. We're wanting more freedom, not less.
The community will be more effective if it uses the mechanisms our society already has in place to achieve its end, rather than trying to ferment some sort of revolution that isn't going to happen and isn't supported by the majority of your fellow countrymen.
Despite people's satisfaction with the economy in the U.S., there's still a great deal of anti-government sentiment, because of the belief that our politicians are to beholden to and are working for commercial interests. John McCain managed to drain Dubya's massive war chest, largely by promoting the issue of campaign finance reform. That's a popular issue because it seems pretty clear that a politician is beholden to he people who pay their way into office. (Even if it isn't a quid pro quo, the commercial interests will fund the candidates that would support their position anyway, so the effect is much the same.) So there's a lot of popular anti-corporate, anti-lawyer sentiment in this country that might be harnessed by a well-run organization.
Unfortunately my Gdog 2000 campaign never got off the ground...
IAcertainlyNAL, but when you are the liscensee of a GPL'ed program you most certainly do give the liscensor something: you agree not to use their code in any proprietary programs. But that's rather like saying if I give you $5, then you gave me something because I could have given you $10. I'm giving you incomplete usage rights to my code and asking nothing in return, saying you're giving me something because I'm not giving you complete usage rights is rather flaky reasoning. Regardless, just because I give you something, that doesn't mean I can take it back. The only exception is that if I say I am going to give you something (without remuneration), I'm not legally obliged to do so. But cphack was already given (or at least one file of its was). I believe the idea of the dollar exchange is that the giving and receiving of the dollar is explicit evidence of the parties agreeing to the terms of the contract, not that the $1 makes sure the contract is not unconscionable.
I think misty is kind of sexy. Is that wrong? You're one sick, twisted bastard. Now Jessie of Team Rocket, on the other hand... oh Baby! But we both know she'd never leave James.
Sorry, but today is *my* birthday, so I give them to me. I have equipped them so they can rain flaming death across the entire world's surface. This will happen at just after the Farscape Season 2 premiere next friday unless you pay me [dramatic pause] ONE ... MILLION ... DOLLARS!
Actually it is smut. If you can read smut in Latin, by god*, you should be allowed to do so. * no pun intended