And yet it's apparently not great enough for you to be willing to financially support its creators or actors.
The actors and writers have already been paid for the work they put into the show. The only people you're supporting by buying it on DVD at this stage in the game is the distributor.
Interesting reading, but what does it have to do with the presence or absence of magnets in an SSD?:)
The OP commented that he was fine simply removing the magnets from hard drives, leaving them unusable (which isn't exactly true, because you can still read the information if it's on the platter and the platter hasn't been destroyed), and that this would continue to work until the trend of there not being magnets in hard drives (meaning SSD's) caught up with him. The person he replied to said that this clearly meant he didn't understand how hard drives work (which is true... magnetic storage drives can still be read even without the magnet, but wasn't what the OP was talking about). Thus my reply, pointing out that there's no magnets in an SSD.:)
I usually hang on to hard drives for at least a year after removing them from computers, in case there's some information I missed when copying my data over. Even then, until I need the space, I still have old hard drives. And when I am ready to recycle them, I pass them through DBAN before taking them to the computer recyclers. That last bit is theoretical, though... I haven't actually tossed a hard drive in almost 10 years now.
Not so long ago, it was like how he's describing it everywhere else in the world.
As with any new technology, the more densely populated areas are the first to get it. Here in Ottawa, Canada, we've had the cellular and wireless card readers for years, and they're pretty much everywhere. Hell, even my pizza delivery guy has a cellular credit card reader. But if I get more than 100km from the city core, the chances of finding a wireless card reader drop off significantly. When you get out into the sticks, the chances are virtually nil. They're expensive, and more rural areas don't move enough money to make it worth upgrading until the previous device dies.
Heck in some parts of the world they're still using the mechanical imprint devices that use carbon paper and hand-written prices.
And the client will probably warn you, if you are about to buy a game, which won't run on your platform.
That's what it does on Mac... assuming you can even see the title on a Mac. The website shows all platforms and lists what platforms each game runs on, but IIRC the Mac native client simply doesn't show the titles that don't run on Mac.
This may come as a shock, but GNU is maintained by the Free Software Foundation, so in some sense the entire point of GNU/Linux is to be free/libre.
Yeah, but there's nothing in that statement which precludes running proprietary software. Your Linux *is* free. If you want that medical database application which runs on it, expect to pay. There may be a free alternative to it, which may do what you're looking for, but there is absolutely nothing in the GPL that says GPL-licensed code can't be used to provide a platform on which to run proprietary code.
Stallman's rants about freedom aside, this is good for Linux. It will open Linux up to another potential market, one which is the biggest remaining block to Linux running full time on the desktop. And yes, Wine is an option, but with the amount of tweaking needed to run most titles, it's a pain in the butt and beyond the average desktop user.... the average desktop user just wants to be able to go to the software center, or whatever it's called on your distro of choice, install Steam, provide their login credentials, and game. Even something like PlayOnLinux isn't 100% reliable for all games, and you will run into weird performance quirks with some titles. If Valve can get it to run reliably, where I can point and click to pick which games I want to run, they'll make money on it.
No, but if two programmers trained at the same university and were taught by the same people, and happened to have similar coding styles, then it would still be a clean-room implementation.
There's only so many ways to achieve a specific goal in programming, and there's likely to be some stylistic similarities between different people who had similar background. Actually, I'm surprised it's only 9 similar lines, considering the size of the codebase.
I've given up on commercial beef. I will by free range from someone I know but rarely get the chance these days. How long before I go completely vegetarian?
There's plenty of good reasons to go vegetarian (and plenty of good counterarguments), but fear of BSE-contaminated beef isn't one of them. You're significantly more likely to find contaminated alfalfa than you are beef. We're talking about extremely low chances on either side of the equation, but still...
If you're really looking for an excuse to eat less meat, start with human evolution and its impact on digestion... 20,000 years ago we didn't eat meat every day... many of us didn't eat meat every week. And if you compare obesity rates in countries with high meat consumption against countries where chief staples are grains such as chick peas or rice, there's a very stark difference. there's other factors (sedentary lifestyle, for example), but there's still a strong correlation between eating too much meat and poor health, in part because the meat has significantly higher calorie density than vegetables but takes longer to break down, so you end up consuming more calories before you feel "full".
(and no, I'm not a vegetarian... but I also don't start jonesing if I go for a week without having a steak. I don't really care what you choose to eat, as it's your body. just that if you're really looking for an excuse to go vegetarian, then pick a real reason, not a hysterical reason that's not supported by the science.)
Assuming all of the hamburgers were infected... the point is they aren't (or at least, they think they aren't).
And yes, pedantic, I know, but considering how literal some other people on this site are, you just know somebody was going to come forward with a claim that you're absolutely full of it, because there aren't 5 deaths per year from CJD in California.
(and who knows, there may be, I haven't actually checked, and at least one person on an earlier thread has suggested that as many as 1/4 of cases of senile dementia are actually CJD).
They had ARM-based code to join domains and apply system policies in NT4... this isn't some new reinvention of the wheel like "WinFS" was, this is a porting of existing code to a different platform, one for which they already had working examples of code to compare against.
Quite aside from that, it's high level code. You do not need to write the algorithms to join an NT domain in assembly or machine code, you write it in C and compile it for the arch. Porting a Linux distro to ARM does not mean rewriting the code from the ground up, it means recompiling with different flags... why would it be any different for Windows?
You're reading it as: Seriously, it doesn't get much more clearly evil. This reading implies that it's the pinnacle of the state of being "clearly evil".
He's reading it as: Seriously, it doesn't get much more clearly evil. This reading implies that it is difficult to be more obviously "evil". Reading it this way leaves headroom for there to be more evil, but suggests that this is far enough beyond the line distinguishing evil from not evil that it doesn't make much of a difference in spotting it.
See the difference? It's a question of which is modifying which, and both readings are correct. Bad choice of words, perhaps, but having a big long argument and flamewar over two perfectly valid readings of the same sentence seems rather pointless and pedantic. Isn't the English language wonderful?
They didn't run out of time on it. They did what they've always done with what they see as "consumer" versions of their OS: they deliberately left out certain network- and enterprise-related functionality.
I actually had one of these: http://developer.novell.com/yes/56439.htm (mine was a PIII-800 with 256MB of RAM, but otherwise the same)... It never had problems with heat, and actually still works (though the battery is long-dead, and I don't feel like spending the $$ to buy a new one)
I know you're making an example for effect, but lightweight powerful laptops that don't overheat have existed for a while. It wasn't that we had other priorities, it was that the power requirements of modern processors was outpacing the capabilities of battery technology. You get 16h of battery life out of your Asus by using a 2nd battery (the keyboard dock is 90% battery), and by using a very low power processor. If you remove the keyboard dock, you only get about 6h of battery life, according to Asus.:)
Case in point, my current laptop is a Dell Vostro V130n... I have taken it apart to service the hard drive, and the battery itself is not much bigger than a CD jewel case (thinner by about 1mm, but wider in one direction by about 3cm, about the same volume displacement). This is enough to power a dual core processor with a 13.3" LCD, 2GB of RAM, and a spinny platter hard drive for almost 3h. 10 years ago, the same capabilities in a battery would have been 3 or 4 times as large, and the system it drove would not have been anywhere near as powerful.
Anyway what you have and what I have are two very different diseases that happen to share a name, sometimes telling one from the other is difficult so everyone owes it to themselves to explore all the options for treatment. That being said don't call my drugs dangerous and ineffective and I won't call your therapy hippie bullcrap ok?
Actually, I think they're similar diseases that neither of you fully understand (which is fair enough, because nobody really understands them)... I am not a psychologist, but I have been through severe depression with suicidal tendencies. My psych at the time put it best... therapy on its own will work, some of the time. Meds on their own will work, some of the time. For best results, you need to combine them.
What I found from experience was that SSRI's took the edge off my feelings. They didn't make them disappear, but they made them bearable so that I could work on what the real problem was. There was a neurochemical imbalance: my brain was not producing enough seratonin. But blocking the reuptake of that neurotransmitter, which is how most anti-depressants work, didn't do anything to address the issue that was causing my problems in the first place. What it *did* do was make it so that I could see the exit, but I still had to work on getting there. What I found when I reached that goal was that I didn't need the medications any more, and was able to stop taking the SSRI medication. It's now been 5 years since I stopped taking anti-depressants, and 3 years since I stopped seeing a psychologist on a regular basis, and I have not had a single relapse.
Now, I'm not saying that you don't need it. I'm not saying you'll necessarily reach a point where you don't need it... there could be something weird with the way your brain is wired, such that going off the meds is not an option. But I'm also not saying that the person for whom pure therapy works is full of it. Mental health, and how the psyche and physical brain interact, is something we're only just beginning to understand. We've barely scratched the surface, and what we're realizing is that it's easily the most complicated field of medicine that exists. In my case, there was an elephant in the room that I was afraid to address, and it is what was causing my depression. There may be a similar issue going on for the both of you, and I don't think either of you should discount what's working for the other.
In short, rich companies are not allowed to spend money to influence politicians (seriously illegal in Canada), in theory legislation is not for sale, and in practice, "lobbyists" giving financial contributions to politicians *is* legally bribery in Canada. (and can get the politician thrown out of office if the bribe exceeds $1000).
Proposing things to and supporting politicians with same views as you is not bribery. If they were bribing the police to bust you, then you would have a case. But it's not the same, and also, you are allowed to do the same.
Actually, in Canada it is bribery. Our Elections act is quite clear on that point. It's illegal for a candidate or party to accept funding from an entity who is not a citizen of the country (and unlike the US, corporations are not citizens). Additionally, there is a limit to how much an individual can give, per year, to a given candidate/party.
The Day That Would Live In Infamy was the Pearl Harbour attack, not D-Day. It's the day that brought the US into the war, not the day that the US, along with Britain, Australia, and Canada launched a major land invasion to secure a beachhead in northern France.
And no, I do get your point... Europe's liberation was a slow, hard-fought, 5-year long battle. It took a push from Spain (allies), Italy (captured), Russia (allies), and France (captured/allies), to say nothing of resistance fighters across most of the continent conducting raids and what would now be considered acts of terrorism in order to push the Nazis back into Germany, and ultimately force a surrender.
Somebody who writes a site to MSIE 4.0 or higher but isn't capable of having it render properly under Chrome or Firefox (and then has the gall to suggest I should download IE 4 or some other "modern" browser) isn't exactly the kind of person I'd take as an authority on intelligence distribution....
Besides which, if IQ is calibrated properly, then it will have a normal distribution. That's why they recalibrate IQ tests every few years. While there will be aberrations on either side of the bell curve, it will, by definition, follow a normal distribution. That's also why most reputable IQ tests give a percentile, rather than a numerical value. (and I work with somebody who's easily +3 standard deviations, so can attest to the "aberrations" on either side of the distribution)
Actually, I'd argue that since Canada Post is a crown corporation, and are funded by the public, any works they produce are owned by the public.
That being said, I'd also question the need for such a site in the first place, given that Canada Post actually has a very good database of postal codes available on their site, which is searchable by street name/number, city name, etc..
Here's the thing... here I was hoping to shoot it down with prior art, mentioning stuff like DikuMUD, and such.... then I checked the patent and realized that it was filed in 2009.
WoW had already been on the market for several years by that point....
Prohibited licenses are not issued, only given to people 'grandfathered' in to the licensing system. Once they die off, there will be no more prohibited class.
There won't be a "prohibited" class for civilian firearm ownership permit, but prohibited weapons are still restricted to military and paramilitary, and cannot be purchased even if you have a license for ownership.
Also, a PAL (for non-restricted weapons) is fairly easy to get. They basically just do a police records check and fingerprint check, in addition to writing the exam, and you get your license. It can be had in about a week.
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And yet it's apparently not great enough for you to be willing to financially support its creators or actors.
The actors and writers have already been paid for the work they put into the show. The only people you're supporting by buying it on DVD at this stage in the game is the distributor.
Interesting reading, but what does it have to do with the presence or absence of magnets in an SSD? :)
The OP commented that he was fine simply removing the magnets from hard drives, leaving them unusable (which isn't exactly true, because you can still read the information if it's on the platter and the platter hasn't been destroyed), and that this would continue to work until the trend of there not being magnets in hard drives (meaning SSD's) caught up with him. The person he replied to said that this clearly meant he didn't understand how hard drives work (which is true... magnetic storage drives can still be read even without the magnet, but wasn't what the OP was talking about). Thus my reply, pointing out that there's no magnets in an SSD. :)
I usually hang on to hard drives for at least a year after removing them from computers, in case there's some information I missed when copying my data over. Even then, until I need the space, I still have old hard drives. And when I am ready to recycle them, I pass them through DBAN before taking them to the computer recyclers. That last bit is theoretical, though... I haven't actually tossed a hard drive in almost 10 years now.
You obviously have no idea how a solid state drive works....
Not so long ago, it was like how he's describing it everywhere else in the world.
As with any new technology, the more densely populated areas are the first to get it. Here in Ottawa, Canada, we've had the cellular and wireless card readers for years, and they're pretty much everywhere. Hell, even my pizza delivery guy has a cellular credit card reader. But if I get more than 100km from the city core, the chances of finding a wireless card reader drop off significantly. When you get out into the sticks, the chances are virtually nil. They're expensive, and more rural areas don't move enough money to make it worth upgrading until the previous device dies.
Heck in some parts of the world they're still using the mechanical imprint devices that use carbon paper and hand-written prices.
And the client will probably warn you, if you are about to buy a game, which won't run on your platform.
That's what it does on Mac... assuming you can even see the title on a Mac. The website shows all platforms and lists what platforms each game runs on, but IIRC the Mac native client simply doesn't show the titles that don't run on Mac.
This may come as a shock, but GNU is maintained by the Free Software Foundation, so in some sense the entire point of GNU/Linux is to be free/libre.
Yeah, but there's nothing in that statement which precludes running proprietary software. Your Linux *is* free. If you want that medical database application which runs on it, expect to pay. There may be a free alternative to it, which may do what you're looking for, but there is absolutely nothing in the GPL that says GPL-licensed code can't be used to provide a platform on which to run proprietary code.
Stallman's rants about freedom aside, this is good for Linux. It will open Linux up to another potential market, one which is the biggest remaining block to Linux running full time on the desktop. And yes, Wine is an option, but with the amount of tweaking needed to run most titles, it's a pain in the butt and beyond the average desktop user.... the average desktop user just wants to be able to go to the software center, or whatever it's called on your distro of choice, install Steam, provide their login credentials, and game. Even something like PlayOnLinux isn't 100% reliable for all games, and you will run into weird performance quirks with some titles. If Valve can get it to run reliably, where I can point and click to pick which games I want to run, they'll make money on it.
No, but if two programmers trained at the same university and were taught by the same people, and happened to have similar coding styles, then it would still be a clean-room implementation.
There's only so many ways to achieve a specific goal in programming, and there's likely to be some stylistic similarities between different people who had similar background. Actually, I'm surprised it's only 9 similar lines, considering the size of the codebase.
Yes, and it only takes one person to crack the DRM, too.
I've given up on commercial beef. I will by free range from someone I know but rarely get the chance these days. How long before I go completely vegetarian?
There's plenty of good reasons to go vegetarian (and plenty of good counterarguments), but fear of BSE-contaminated beef isn't one of them. You're significantly more likely to find contaminated alfalfa than you are beef. We're talking about extremely low chances on either side of the equation, but still...
If you're really looking for an excuse to eat less meat, start with human evolution and its impact on digestion... 20,000 years ago we didn't eat meat every day... many of us didn't eat meat every week. And if you compare obesity rates in countries with high meat consumption against countries where chief staples are grains such as chick peas or rice, there's a very stark difference. there's other factors (sedentary lifestyle, for example), but there's still a strong correlation between eating too much meat and poor health, in part because the meat has significantly higher calorie density than vegetables but takes longer to break down, so you end up consuming more calories before you feel "full".
(and no, I'm not a vegetarian... but I also don't start jonesing if I go for a week without having a steak. I don't really care what you choose to eat, as it's your body. just that if you're really looking for an excuse to go vegetarian, then pick a real reason, not a hysterical reason that's not supported by the science.)
Assuming all of the hamburgers were infected... the point is they aren't (or at least, they think they aren't).
And yes, pedantic, I know, but considering how literal some other people on this site are, you just know somebody was going to come forward with a claim that you're absolutely full of it, because there aren't 5 deaths per year from CJD in California.
(and who knows, there may be, I haven't actually checked, and at least one person on an earlier thread has suggested that as many as 1/4 of cases of senile dementia are actually CJD).
Maybe they just performed 10 billion tests on the same person... if they had to draw blood for a test, I'd be pretty mad by the 10 billionth time...
They had ARM-based code to join domains and apply system policies in NT4... this isn't some new reinvention of the wheel like "WinFS" was, this is a porting of existing code to a different platform, one for which they already had working examples of code to compare against.
Quite aside from that, it's high level code. You do not need to write the algorithms to join an NT domain in assembly or machine code, you write it in C and compile it for the arch. Porting a Linux distro to ARM does not mean rewriting the code from the ground up, it means recompiling with different flags... why would it be any different for Windows?
You're reading it as: Seriously, it doesn't get much more clearly evil. This reading implies that it's the pinnacle of the state of being "clearly evil".
He's reading it as: Seriously, it doesn't get much more clearly evil. This reading implies that it is difficult to be more obviously "evil". Reading it this way leaves headroom for there to be more evil, but suggests that this is far enough beyond the line distinguishing evil from not evil that it doesn't make much of a difference in spotting it.
See the difference? It's a question of which is modifying which, and both readings are correct. Bad choice of words, perhaps, but having a big long argument and flamewar over two perfectly valid readings of the same sentence seems rather pointless and pedantic. Isn't the English language wonderful?
They didn't run out of time on it. They did what they've always done with what they see as "consumer" versions of their OS: they deliberately left out certain network- and enterprise-related functionality.
I actually had one of these: http://developer.novell.com/yes/56439.htm (mine was a PIII-800 with 256MB of RAM, but otherwise the same)... It never had problems with heat, and actually still works (though the battery is long-dead, and I don't feel like spending the $$ to buy a new one)
I know you're making an example for effect, but lightweight powerful laptops that don't overheat have existed for a while. It wasn't that we had other priorities, it was that the power requirements of modern processors was outpacing the capabilities of battery technology. You get 16h of battery life out of your Asus by using a 2nd battery (the keyboard dock is 90% battery), and by using a very low power processor. If you remove the keyboard dock, you only get about 6h of battery life, according to Asus. :)
Case in point, my current laptop is a Dell Vostro V130n... I have taken it apart to service the hard drive, and the battery itself is not much bigger than a CD jewel case (thinner by about 1mm, but wider in one direction by about 3cm, about the same volume displacement). This is enough to power a dual core processor with a 13.3" LCD, 2GB of RAM, and a spinny platter hard drive for almost 3h. 10 years ago, the same capabilities in a battery would have been 3 or 4 times as large, and the system it drove would not have been anywhere near as powerful.
Anyway what you have and what I have are two very different diseases that happen to share a name, sometimes telling one from the other is difficult so everyone owes it to themselves to explore all the options for treatment. That being said don't call my drugs dangerous and ineffective and I won't call your therapy hippie bullcrap ok?
Actually, I think they're similar diseases that neither of you fully understand (which is fair enough, because nobody really understands them)... I am not a psychologist, but I have been through severe depression with suicidal tendencies. My psych at the time put it best... therapy on its own will work, some of the time. Meds on their own will work, some of the time. For best results, you need to combine them.
What I found from experience was that SSRI's took the edge off my feelings. They didn't make them disappear, but they made them bearable so that I could work on what the real problem was. There was a neurochemical imbalance: my brain was not producing enough seratonin. But blocking the reuptake of that neurotransmitter, which is how most anti-depressants work, didn't do anything to address the issue that was causing my problems in the first place. What it *did* do was make it so that I could see the exit, but I still had to work on getting there. What I found when I reached that goal was that I didn't need the medications any more, and was able to stop taking the SSRI medication. It's now been 5 years since I stopped taking anti-depressants, and 3 years since I stopped seeing a psychologist on a regular basis, and I have not had a single relapse.
Now, I'm not saying that you don't need it. I'm not saying you'll necessarily reach a point where you don't need it... there could be something weird with the way your brain is wired, such that going off the meds is not an option. But I'm also not saying that the person for whom pure therapy works is full of it. Mental health, and how the psyche and physical brain interact, is something we're only just beginning to understand. We've barely scratched the surface, and what we're realizing is that it's easily the most complicated field of medicine that exists. In my case, there was an elephant in the room that I was afraid to address, and it is what was causing my depression. There may be a similar issue going on for the both of you, and I don't think either of you should discount what's working for the other.
Rather than recreating a post I made 5 minutes ago, I'll link to it:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2790469&cid=39706167
In short, rich companies are not allowed to spend money to influence politicians (seriously illegal in Canada), in theory legislation is not for sale, and in practice, "lobbyists" giving financial contributions to politicians *is* legally bribery in Canada. (and can get the politician thrown out of office if the bribe exceeds $1000).
Proposing things to and supporting politicians with same views as you is not bribery. If they were bribing the police to bust you, then you would have a case. But it's not the same, and also, you are allowed to do the same.
Actually, in Canada it is bribery. Our Elections act is quite clear on that point. It's illegal for a candidate or party to accept funding from an entity who is not a citizen of the country (and unlike the US, corporations are not citizens). Additionally, there is a limit to how much an individual can give, per year, to a given candidate/party.
Violating the elections act can get a candidate's election results invalidated, and carries significant fines, in the case of a corporation giving money to a candidate. Lest you think that they'll find some way to hide the funding, their finances must be submitted to the elections officer, there is a limit to how much can be spent on elections, and their financial returns are a matter of public record, and can be searched by anybody.
Can even do it scientifically, if you're using an fMRI....
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The Day That Would Live In Infamy was the Pearl Harbour attack, not D-Day. It's the day that brought the US into the war, not the day that the US, along with Britain, Australia, and Canada launched a major land invasion to secure a beachhead in northern France.
And no, I do get your point... Europe's liberation was a slow, hard-fought, 5-year long battle. It took a push from Spain (allies), Italy (captured), Russia (allies), and France (captured/allies), to say nothing of resistance fighters across most of the continent conducting raids and what would now be considered acts of terrorism in order to push the Nazis back into Germany, and ultimately force a surrender.
Somebody who writes a site to MSIE 4.0 or higher but isn't capable of having it render properly under Chrome or Firefox (and then has the gall to suggest I should download IE 4 or some other "modern" browser) isn't exactly the kind of person I'd take as an authority on intelligence distribution....
Besides which, if IQ is calibrated properly, then it will have a normal distribution. That's why they recalibrate IQ tests every few years. While there will be aberrations on either side of the bell curve, it will, by definition, follow a normal distribution. That's also why most reputable IQ tests give a percentile, rather than a numerical value. (and I work with somebody who's easily +3 standard deviations, so can attest to the "aberrations" on either side of the distribution)
Actually, I'd argue that since Canada Post is a crown corporation, and are funded by the public, any works they produce are owned by the public.
That being said, I'd also question the need for such a site in the first place, given that Canada Post actually has a very good database of postal codes available on their site, which is searchable by street name/number, city name, etc..
You mean like DikuMUD?
Here's the thing... here I was hoping to shoot it down with prior art, mentioning stuff like DikuMUD, and such.... then I checked the patent and realized that it was filed in 2009.
WoW had already been on the market for several years by that point....
Prohibited licenses are not issued, only given to people 'grandfathered' in to the licensing system. Once they die off, there will be no more prohibited class.
There won't be a "prohibited" class for civilian firearm ownership permit, but prohibited weapons are still restricted to military and paramilitary, and cannot be purchased even if you have a license for ownership.
Also, a PAL (for non-restricted weapons) is fairly easy to get. They basically just do a police records check and fingerprint check, in addition to writing the exam, and you get your license. It can be had in about a week.