The extremely low probability quoted on the PDF bage about the vote is only a probability statement assuming a certain probability distribution for all Bush and Buchanan voters in the state. That model says that all individual likely to vote for Bush have the same, small probability of voting for Buchanan. Under that assumption, the chances of getting the Palm Beach result are as low as they quote. The real question is the appropriateness of that assumption.
In the hands of people who only took two semesters of statistics, this type of analysis is easily misused.
The article says that they are providing the means to return it in accordance with the contract. It does not say that you have the option of keeping it.
"Internet Appliance Network will terminate your charter membership and shut down the service as of midnight 11/15/00. Effective as of that date, you are no longer bound by the terms of the Member Agreement. We will send you a letter via U.S. mail within the next 7-10 business days that includes instructions for returning your Webplayer and a prepaid UPS shipping label, so you can return the device free of charge. Your Webplayer cannot be re-configured to work with another ISP."
Virgin did what Netconnect didn't do -- they wrote a contract which you have to sign before you can get the unit and start using the service. The contract says that they own the hardware and you just lease it. There are financial penalties (that decrease with duration from the inception of the contract) written in if you don't return the hardware when the agreement terminates.
I don't think that keeping and hacking the Virgin unit is much of an option unless someone is willing to pay the penalty which is on the order of a few hundred bucks.
But in terms of stability and quality, Win2k and IE 5.01 are awesome products.
Then how come IE 5.01 writes outside of it's window? How come trivial javascript crashes IE bringing down every open browser window with it? How come it's security is so pathetic?
If IE is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.
Japanese companies spend their money on competent staff.
American companies spend their money on support contracts and lawsuits/
Have you actually read an EULA? They won't even warrant that the media is going to be good for more than a year. You would have no more luck going up against Microsoft because Windows NT downtime cost you sales than you would going up against IBM and Red Hat. You have no one to sue if mass-market software misbehaves.
You claimed that you needed proof to believe in a God. I pointed out that not all true things have proof.
Your faith is in reason. Good for you. It is as much a faith position as a religious one.
I can point to (clearly subjective) experiences of people who have put their faith in God and have been transformed by the experience, but I can never prove anything about that God to you. That's why it is a faith position. It is completely orthagonal to reason. One can have faint and be anti-rational or have faith and be rational or not have faith and be anti-rational or not have faith and be rational.
The blind have many more options than just text consoles. There have been speech digitizers that work with Windows and convert the text on web pages and in menus to speech.
The GPL only requires that they provide the source to people that they distribute the code to. There is no requirement that they make it available to anyone who asks. And it also means they don't have to provide anything until the ship.
Me: There are some things which are true and yet have no proof.
Thou: Uh, like what? I'll assume that you mean 'evidence' when you say 'proof'.
Study the Godel Incompleteness Theorem. In any sufficiently expressive formal system, if the system is consistant (i.e. no false statements have proofs) then there exists statements which are true and which have no proof. See _Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Briad_ by Douglas Hofstadter.
That's the problem I have with most religious people: they're afraid of the truth, so they force themselves to believe a lie.
Just because *you* have trouble believing it dosn't make it a lie. That's why they call it "faith" and not "proof". There are some things which are true and yet have no proof.
Why is control of the DNS system and IP allocation a legitimate function of the US Government? Your article makes a case that the DoC can not use ICANN to delegate Internet rule setting. But, if this is not a legitimate role for the US Government, why can't they get out of this business?
Clearly, the government got into the business because they funded the computing experiment that grew to become the public Internet. But it seems to me that the DoC has been trying to get out of the responsibility of oversight for IP allocation and running the root servers. The process of forming ICANN was subject to the usual Federal rulemaking procedures and, while we may not like the result, it seems to have been done in a legal way.
if I go to the trouble of having a seperate page for 100%CSS1 browsers, it'd piss me off to have someone's "customized browsing experience" break my dhtml
There are professionals who can help you deal with the disappointment of not having total control over the experience of those who enter your site. In the long run, letting go of this need to dominate others will inprove your happiness and self-esteem.
They didn't describe them in detail in the article. They could have multiple mandibles or multiple joints. Plus, these creatures are tiny. Small creaturs usually have simple jaws if they have jaws at all.
How does an unfertilized egg reproduce?
See above. The egg has a diploid set of chromosomes, not the usual haplid set.
Why, if these were discovered six years ago, is this just being announced now?
Scientists usually like to study things for a while before announcing results. It probably took a while to determine that they were all female and were able to reproduce without males. Six years isn't too long to do a thorough job.
Why are they keeping a colony consisting of females? If they can reproduce on their own, what are males for?
There aren't any males. They are all females. Scary, eh?
Why does none of this make sense? Does anyone know any of these answers?
Nope, no one has a clue.
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is also stranger than we can imagine." Sorry, I don't know who said it.
Normally, an egg contains a haploid (half) set of chromosomes. The sperm provides the other half. In parthenogenesis, the egg contains a full (diploid) set of chromosomes and develops just as if it had been a fertilized egg. It means that all of the daughters are genetically identical to the mother except for random mutations.
Some legal documents require bizarrely nonstandard paper sizes which means you need to diddle your margins in Word
Which is why most legal offices still use WordPerfect. Note the file format that the DOJ has used. Yep, WP.
Also, I've heard that Word dosn't count the words in a brief the same way that WP (and the courts do). Something about not counting the words in footnotes which *do* count for legal brief lengths.
Wouldn't it be ironic if MS submitted an overly long brief because they made the lawyers use Word?
"Fair Use" applies only to copyright... because the software is "licensed" under original strict terms that you agreed with before you ever first used it, the concept of "fair use" is no longer applicable as you've already waived any rights you might have had under fair use doctrine.
Nice try. Book publishers tried to do the very same thing in the early part of this century. They printed notices that the book was licensed, not sold and attempted to control the price at which copies were sold to the public.
There was a landmark Supreme Court case (210 U.S. 339) which said that attempts to restrict the sale of a copy of a copyrighted work with a license which impermissably expanded the right of the copyright holder beyond those granted by the copyright statute.
Now, I'm not aware of any case which has tried to apply this SC precedent to software sales, but the legal theory still stands. The sale of a copy of software is still the sale of a copy. You have rights stemming from Federal Copyright Law. The license "agreement" can not take those away.
Does Slashdot store your password in plaintext, or is it hashed using a salt?
Think about it. How can/. email you your forgotten password if the passwords have been MD5ed?
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Why is that computer so stupid that every time Jean Luc Picard want's a cup of tea, he has to say "tea, earl grey, hot"? "Tea, earl grey" should default to hot. And, when the computer recognizes Jean Luc's voice, "tea" should default to "tea, earl grey" which defaults to "hot".
Dosn't anyone at Starfleet know anything about inheritance?
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The extremely low probability quoted on the PDF bage about the vote is only a probability statement assuming a certain probability distribution for all Bush and Buchanan voters in the state. That model says that all individual likely to vote for Bush have the same, small probability of voting for Buchanan. Under that assumption, the chances of getting the Palm Beach result are as low as they quote. The real question is the appropriateness of that assumption.
In the hands of people who only took two semesters of statistics, this type of analysis is easily misused.
Virgin did what Netconnect didn't do -- they wrote a contract which you have to sign before you can get the unit and start using the service. The contract says that they own the hardware and you just lease it. There are financial penalties (that decrease with duration from the inception of the contract) written in if you don't return the hardware when the agreement terminates.
I don't think that keeping and hacking the Virgin unit is much of an option unless someone is willing to pay the penalty which is on the order of a few hundred bucks.
But in terms of stability and quality, Win2k and IE 5.01 are awesome products.
Then how come IE 5.01 writes outside of it's window? How come trivial javascript crashes IE bringing down every open browser window with it? How come it's security is so pathetic?
If IE is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.
Japanese companies spend their money on competent staff.
American companies spend their money on support contracts and lawsuits/
Have you actually read an EULA? They won't even warrant that the media is going to be good for more than a year. You would have no more luck going up against Microsoft because Windows NT downtime cost you sales than you would going up against IBM and Red Hat. You have no one to sue if mass-market software misbehaves.
And do you not equate theoremhood with truth within the meaning assigned to the symbols in such a system?
You claimed that you needed proof to believe in a God. I pointed out that not all true things have proof.
Your faith is in reason. Good for you. It is as much a faith position as a religious one.
I can point to (clearly subjective) experiences of people who have put their faith in God and have been transformed by the experience, but I can never prove anything about that God to you. That's why it is a faith position. It is completely orthagonal to reason. One can have faint and be anti-rational or have faith and be rational or not have faith and be anti-rational or not have faith and be rational.
$100 per year prepaid. Netcom just turned off it's last shell accounts. Quite a few former Netcommies have switched to Panix.
The blind have many more options than just text consoles. There have been speech digitizers that work with Windows and convert the text on web pages and in menus to speech.
The GPL only requires that they provide the source to people that they distribute the code to. There is no requirement that they make it available to anyone who asks. And it also means they don't have to provide anything until the ship.
Me: There are some things which are true and yet have no proof.
Thou: Uh, like what? I'll assume that you mean 'evidence' when you say 'proof'.
Study the Godel Incompleteness Theorem. In any sufficiently expressive formal system, if the system is consistant (i.e. no false statements have proofs) then there exists statements which are true and which have no proof. See _Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Briad_ by Douglas Hofstadter.
That's the problem I have with most religious people: they're afraid of the truth, so they force themselves to believe a lie.
Just because *you* have trouble believing it dosn't make it a lie. That's why they call it "faith" and not "proof". There are some things which are true and yet have no proof.
Why is control of the DNS system and IP allocation a legitimate function of the US Government? Your article makes a case that the DoC can not use ICANN to delegate Internet rule setting. But, if this is not a legitimate role for the US Government, why can't they get out of this business?
Clearly, the government got into the business because they funded the computing experiment that grew to become the public Internet. But it seems to me that the DoC has been trying to get out of the responsibility of oversight for IP allocation and running the root servers. The process of forming ICANN was subject to the usual Federal rulemaking procedures and, while we may not like the result, it seems to have been done in a legal way.
if I go to the trouble of having a seperate page for 100%CSS1 browsers, it'd piss me off to have someone's "customized browsing experience" break my dhtml
There are professionals who can help you deal with the disappointment of not having total control over the experience of those who enter your site. In the long run, letting go of this need to dominate others will inprove your happiness and self-esteem.
How can jaws be complex?
They didn't describe them in detail in the article. They could have multiple mandibles or multiple joints. Plus, these creatures are tiny. Small creaturs usually have simple jaws if they have jaws at all.
How does an unfertilized egg reproduce?
See above. The egg has a diploid set of chromosomes, not the usual haplid set.
Why, if these were discovered six years ago, is this just being announced now?
Scientists usually like to study things for a while before announcing results. It probably took a while to determine that they were all female and were able to reproduce without males. Six years isn't too long to do a thorough job.
Why are they keeping a colony consisting of females? If they can reproduce on their own, what are males for?
There aren't any males. They are all females. Scary, eh?
Why does none of this make sense? Does anyone know any of these answers?
Nope, no one has a clue.
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is also stranger than we can imagine." Sorry, I don't know who said it.
Normally, an egg contains a haploid (half) set of chromosomes. The sperm provides the other half. In parthenogenesis, the egg contains a full (diploid) set of chromosomes and develops just as if it had been a fertilized egg. It means that all of the daughters are genetically identical to the mother except for random mutations.
One said I don't have permission to access that file and the other said file not found. I do hope I get to read it when he's finished.
Oh, I didn't mean to pick on the SA because it sucks a watt. I actually thought it sucked more like half that.
Oh, I actually thought the the SA sucked way more than that.
Some legal documents require bizarrely nonstandard paper sizes which means you need to diddle your margins in Word
Which is why most legal offices still use WordPerfect. Note the file format that the DOJ has used. Yep, WP.
Also, I've heard that Word dosn't count the words in a brief the same way that WP (and the courts do). Something about not counting the words in footnotes which *do* count for legal brief lengths.
Wouldn't it be ironic if MS submitted an overly long brief because they made the lawyers use Word?
"Fair Use" applies only to copyright... because the software is "licensed" under original strict terms that you agreed with before you ever first used it, the concept of "fair use" is no longer applicable as you've already waived any rights you might have had under fair use doctrine.
Nice try. Book publishers tried to do the very same thing in the early part of this century. They printed notices that the book was licensed, not sold and attempted to control the price at which copies were sold to the public.
There was a landmark Supreme Court case (210 U.S. 339) which said that attempts to restrict the sale of a copy of a copyrighted work with a license which impermissably expanded the right of the copyright holder beyond those granted by the copyright statute.
Now, I'm not aware of any case which has tried to apply this SC precedent to software sales, but the legal theory still stands. The sale of a copy of software is still the sale of a copy. You have rights stemming from Federal Copyright Law. The license "agreement" can not take those away.
Slime Mold Gets Slashdot Id
Earns +2 Karma bonus in record time.
Does Slashdot store your password in plaintext, or is it hashed using a salt?
/. email you your forgotten password if the passwords have been MD5ed?
Think about it. How can
Why is that computer so stupid that every time Jean Luc Picard want's a cup of tea, he has to say "tea, earl grey, hot"? "Tea, earl grey" should default to hot. And, when the computer recognizes Jean Luc's voice, "tea" should default to "tea, earl grey" which defaults to "hot".
Dosn't anyone at Starfleet know anything about inheritance?
I need me one of those Escheresque boxes with the mucked up perspective.
I mean they actually seem to listen to public opinion. Unlike, say, Verizon.