Not being an expert here, could someone tell me the difference between a civil law and a criminal law? Is there any way for the file shares to be persued using criminal law?
I could search on the internet, but having an answer here would be useful to other readers of/.
Either file sharing is intrinsically legitimate or it's not. If it is, then there is no reason to impose this $5 tax, it it is not, then introducing any form of compensation won't make it right either.
I also wonder whether my original recording of ambient noise would allow me to join this club and get some money from it. Hey I'm a copyright holder too:D
I wonder whether this observation gives any more credibility to the theory that the center of the Earth might have a nuclear reactor. The following article describes the theory:
I understand why there are doing this, since a lot of people calling based on bad information is expensive. This is attributed to misunderstanding the usage of such devices and badly callibrated devices. Two alternatives to requiring people to register would be:
A certification indicating that the person has learned to use the device properly and understand what the reading means.
Ensuring that the detectors are properly callibrated and certified as being so, with requirements for the devices to be properly callibrated every x months.
The only way to check and see if your IP is being kept is by changing the protocol entirely or by checking the company's servers. I'm guessing that not too many companies would appreciate people routinely rooting around, and if something to check if an IP is stored were to be implemented, the protocol would have to be vastly overhauled and it could slow down the internet 80% or more because of the extra time needed to "check."
I doubt they will systematically check companies, but rather when something does turn up they have the law to use. From what I understand using an IP is fine, but associating with a specific user is not. A number of sites, such as Wikipedia use an IP address in lieu of a username, but when the user is logged in the username is used instead. I am sure this would still be tollerated, since the IP address is not explicitly tied to any one user.
I am getting to the point of relegating IE to the pile of: I'll do it when I'm bothered. Firefox, Safari, Opera and Konqueror are my primary test platforms. IE is left to the end, since I know I will have to fight with it. If Microsoft does any more crazy stuff, I will ensure I add 'note to IE8 users' and put the sort of text other sites have on Firefox and Safari usage, and then just not bother with more testing than I have to.
It doesn't really matter that it takes five minutes to open it with a screwdriver and switch the battery. The point is that people want to carry two or more batteries with them and be able to switch them when one goes dead, without requiring tools (or having to void the warrenty).
Not if you're flying. I thought I read somewhere that they would not allow a second laptop battery on planes.
The ideal solution is to have better battery life. Also, the 5 hour rating that Apple gave was apparently in full usage and not for sleeping - I have seen some non-Apple portables that are lucky to be able to sleep for five hours, even when new.
Not vista, but it would be helpful to buy a Mac pre-configured with bootcamp + Windows XP. I don't want it at home, but at work it would be quite nice. I could see small business customers loving it.
Sure, but why should that be Apple's responsibility? Apple is there to advertise and sell MacOS X. People buying Macs are for the moost part buying it for MacOS X. If some people want Windows presinstalled on the system, then they could always pay extra and have a shop do the work for them. Apple offering Windows as a 'Build To Order' option would likely cause confusion about their confidence in their own OS.
Apple shouldn't make it any more easier to use the competing OS than they already have. They aren't a generic computer seller and the more the can convince you to drink the cool-aid the better for them. Anyone who believes in their OS, whether it be Linux, Windows, BSD or Amiga, amongst others, are going to have the same attitude.
As to your gripes about Leopard, I am not sure how you are getting such a bad experience. I haven't rebooted for over a month and I use it daily, putting the system to sleep at night. The usual causes for exessive memory usage, on my computer, have been leaks in Firefox and when that happens I kill Firefox and relaunch it. Admitly one computer has gone done once in a while, and the kernel panic clearly points to an ATI driver issue.
It thought they had alrady established a weapon of fear? Between our media and homeland security, I am surprised anyone still feels safe. Propaganda is the best weapon of fear and you don't even need fancy technology for that;)
Does anyone know what address you would use to chat to a friend who has an ICQ or AIM account? 798221@icq.com and bob@aol.com sound reasonable, but anything a bit more concrete would be good.
Even trays have issues, though I mean the ones that imitate top-loaders where you have to put the disk onto the hub. I dislike the type because of exessive mechanical wear and it damages disks.
Slot loaders on the other hand don't appreciated library loaned disks, which have an extra layer of protective plastic along the top, where they'put the security strip in.
If they had done this earlier then HD-DVD would have probably won. Doing this now is just throwing money away. Without content it doesn't matter how cheap the player is.
It might be, but the again it might be a way of getting rid of stock. At this point they have nothing to lose.
Ironically, with other storage solutions about five years, or less, away you have to ask how long this victory will be. Included in the catalogue are the Chinese HD DVD format (it will get submarined in), and various forms of holographic storage.
Take plenty of bad photos of Ford cars and indicate that the photo is "property of Ford". They will then want to distance themselves from bad photos of their cars and find themselves in a bind.
Note: have not thought this through with a lawyer, so approach with your own risk:)
Because someone is likely to ask it, this does not yet build on MacOS X, even if you are willing to accept X11 as the interface. If anyone has any success it would be worth knowing.
Maybe the next x-prize should allocated to a "solution to effectively clean up space debris". The only catch is the beyond the prize money, who is going to pay for the investment, since it is not clear who would be paying for the service?
Do we really need to repeat "Died in a Blogging Accident" for nth time? I mean how many times do we need to state that someone "Died in a Blogging Accident"?
All the above are based on theories that have been shown to be consistant but none are trully "facts."
In fact taking that line of thinking one step further: why teach anything at all? It could be argued that anything we take as fact is in fact an intepretation of a given view and experience.
When I was at school a learned both evolution and religious studies. Science has its point of view of how we came about and it is valid in that context. In religious studies we looked at all religions, and learned about what they had to say and their origins. I believe both have their place, since it helps give people different view points to consider. Without exposure to either view point you can't even start debate or decide for yourself.
Funny how I just upgraded to a new computer that uses SATA 3.0Gb/s. If USB3 is faster than SATAII, then why not just use that for drives? Not that anyone ever really maxes out SATAII to begin with. So it's all kind of useless in the end.
The problem with SATA, IMHO, is that makes a shoddy external connector. There is no notion of hubs or even daisy-chaining. USB and Firewire both support hubs, whereas Firewire supports daisy-chaining. With SATA you need as many external SATA sockets on your computer as you have external SATA drives. If your main computer is a portable, then this is a poor solution.
A better question is why are people associating brightness (loss) with speed?
I would expect that the characteristics of the electrical/optical transceivers and modulation would set the speed, and the loss in the cable per unit length would limit how long it could be without some sort of repeaters.
Exactlty, since brightness is a measure of amplitude. The distance that could be travelled will utlimately depend on the initial brightness and the absorption by the cable. One advantage of optical over electrical, is that the former is not affected by most EM noise - (it is only effected by EM optical noise if there is no covering).
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Not being an expert here, could someone tell me the difference between a civil law and a criminal law? Is there any way for the file shares to be persued using criminal law?
/.
I could search on the internet, but having an answer here would be useful to other readers of
Either file sharing is intrinsically legitimate or it's not. If it is, then there is no reason to impose this $5 tax, it it is not, then introducing any form of compensation won't make it right either.
:D
I also wonder whether my original recording of ambient noise would allow me to join this club and get some money from it. Hey I'm a copyright holder too
I wonder whether this observation gives any more credibility to the theory that the center of the Earth might have a nuclear reactor. The following article describes the theory:
http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jan252002/126.pdf
The only way to check and see if your IP is being kept is by changing the protocol entirely or by checking the company's servers. I'm guessing that not too many companies would appreciate people routinely rooting around, and if something to check if an IP is stored were to be implemented, the protocol would have to be vastly overhauled and it could slow down the internet 80% or more because of the extra time needed to "check."
I doubt they will systematically check companies, but rather when something does turn up they have the law to use. From what I understand using an IP is fine, but associating with a specific user is not. A number of sites, such as Wikipedia use an IP address in lieu of a username, but when the user is logged in the username is used instead. I am sure this would still be tollerated, since the IP address is not explicitly tied to any one user.
This is the last straw....
Well, I was just wondering whether they know they had already been layed off a few years ago, but no one had the heart to tell them.
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I am getting to the point of relegating IE to the pile of: I'll do it when I'm bothered. Firefox, Safari, Opera and Konqueror are my primary test platforms. IE is left to the end, since I know I will have to fight with it. If Microsoft does any more crazy stuff, I will ensure I add 'note to IE8 users' and put the sort of text other sites have on Firefox and Safari usage, and then just not bother with more testing than I have to.
It doesn't really matter that it takes five minutes to open it with a screwdriver and switch the battery. The point is that people want to carry two or more batteries with them and be able to switch them when one goes dead, without requiring tools (or having to void the warrenty).
Not if you're flying. I thought I read somewhere that they would not allow a second laptop battery on planes.
The ideal solution is to have better battery life. Also, the 5 hour rating that Apple gave was apparently in full usage and not for sleeping - I have seen some non-Apple portables that are lucky to be able to sleep for five hours, even when new.
If you want big screens and fast clocks, I'd conjecture you're not the market segment the Air is aimed at. Have you considered a Macbook Pro?
And the 17" at that. If that is not big enough you could always convince them to develop the 30" portable, but that would be a tad ridiculous.
At least it means there won't be a "Who wants to be a millionaire" in WOW.
Instead there will be "Who wants t be a 2^31aire". I am not sure which is worse.
Not vista, but it would be helpful to buy a Mac pre-configured with bootcamp + Windows XP. I don't want it at home, but at work it would be quite nice. I could see small business customers loving it.
Sure, but why should that be Apple's responsibility? Apple is there to advertise and sell MacOS X. People buying Macs are for the moost part buying it for MacOS X. If some people want Windows presinstalled on the system, then they could always pay extra and have a shop do the work for them. Apple offering Windows as a 'Build To Order' option would likely cause confusion about their confidence in their own OS.
Apple shouldn't make it any more easier to use the competing OS than they already have. They aren't a generic computer seller and the more the can convince you to drink the cool-aid the better for them. Anyone who believes in their OS, whether it be Linux, Windows, BSD or Amiga, amongst others, are going to have the same attitude.
As to your gripes about Leopard, I am not sure how you are getting such a bad experience. I haven't rebooted for over a month and I use it daily, putting the system to sleep at night. The usual causes for exessive memory usage, on my computer, have been leaks in Firefox and when that happens I kill Firefox and relaunch it. Admitly one computer has gone done once in a while, and the kernel panic clearly points to an ATI driver issue.
It thought they had alrady established a weapon of fear? Between our media and homeland security, I am surprised anyone still feels safe. Propaganda is the best weapon of fear and you don't even need fancy technology for that ;)
Does anyone know what address you would use to chat to a friend who has an ICQ or AIM account? 798221@icq.com and bob@aol.com sound reasonable, but anything a bit more concrete would be good.
Even trays have issues, though I mean the ones that imitate top-loaders where you have to put the disk onto the hub. I dislike the type because of exessive mechanical wear and it damages disks.
Slot loaders on the other hand don't appreciated library loaned disks, which have an extra layer of protective plastic along the top, where they'put the security strip in.
Nowadays companies are not blindly eating whatever Gartner et al. feed them anymore.
Companies maybe not, but managers on the other hand...
If they had done this earlier then HD-DVD would have probably won. Doing this now is just throwing money away. Without content it doesn't matter how cheap the player is.
It might be, but the again it might be a way of getting rid of stock. At this point they have nothing to lose.
Ironically, with other storage solutions about five years, or less, away you have to ask how long this victory will be. Included in the catalogue are the Chinese HD DVD format (it will get submarined in), and various forms of holographic storage.
Just looked at the photos and was hoping for something of higher resolution or of higher details. Is Messenger going to get any closer to the planet?
Note: be sure to a link to the article to provide context for the assumption.
Take plenty of bad photos of Ford cars and indicate that the photo is "property of Ford". They will then want to distance themselves from bad photos of their cars and find themselves in a bind.
:)
Note: have not thought this through with a lawyer, so approach with your own risk
Because someone is likely to ask it, this does not yet build on MacOS X, even if you are willing to accept X11 as the interface. If anyone has any success it would be worth knowing.
Maybe the next x-prize should allocated to a "solution to effectively clean up space debris". The only catch is the beyond the prize money, who is going to pay for the investment, since it is not clear who would be paying for the service?
Do we really need to repeat "Died in a Blogging Accident" for nth time? I mean how many times do we need to state that someone "Died in a Blogging Accident"?
Anyhow, this was another xkcd comic that had its effect: http://xkcd.com/305/
All the above are based on theories that have been shown to be consistant but none are trully "facts."
In fact taking that line of thinking one step further: why teach anything at all? It could be argued that anything we take as fact is in fact an intepretation of a given view and experience.
When I was at school a learned both evolution and religious studies. Science has its point of view of how we came about and it is valid in that context. In religious studies we looked at all religions, and learned about what they had to say and their origins. I believe both have their place, since it helps give people different view points to consider. Without exposure to either view point you can't even start debate or decide for yourself.
Funny how I just upgraded to a new computer that uses SATA 3.0Gb/s. If USB3 is faster than SATAII, then why not just use that for drives? Not that anyone ever really maxes out SATAII to begin with. So it's all kind of useless in the end.
The problem with SATA, IMHO, is that makes a shoddy external connector. There is no notion of hubs or even daisy-chaining. USB and Firewire both support hubs, whereas Firewire supports daisy-chaining. With SATA you need as many external SATA sockets on your computer as you have external SATA drives. If your main computer is a portable, then this is a poor solution.
A better question is why are people associating brightness (loss) with speed?
I would expect that the characteristics of the electrical/optical transceivers and modulation would set the speed, and the loss in the cable per unit length would limit how long it could be without some sort of repeaters.
Exactlty, since brightness is a measure of amplitude. The distance that could be travelled will utlimately depend on the initial brightness and the absorption by the cable. One advantage of optical over electrical, is that the former is not affected by most EM noise - (it is only effected by EM optical noise if there is no covering).