The vast, vast majority of people would rightfully surmise that they'd look like a complete dork riding a Segway
I don't know. I saw Kevin Spacey riding a scooter in a teaser for an entertainment show interview, and he looked really cool swooping up to where the reporter was waiting for him.
Then, again, maybe he just looked cool because he's Kevin Spacey.
It seems to me that the whole case hinges on the claim that BSI is selling control of copyrighted material created by Mythic, and not selling newly created material that is based on Mythic-copyrighted expressions.
By their argument, the Ebay listings are a fair-use quotation used for illustrative purposes, and the transfer of control is no more than the implying that Mythic has only the right of first sale of the copyrighted material, much like a book.
The facts regarding the enforceability of the EULA indicate that BSI thinks they are anticompetitive and predatory in how they squash the newly formed free market for exchange of control of DAoC stuff. Unconscionable parts of contracts are voided all the time. BSI says that trying to use copyright to control the control of game items is the same as Barnes & Noble trying to prevent you from selling or giving a book to a friend.
Actually, Oracle requires data files to be owned by oracle/dba-group with 660 permissions. Data could be eliminated with a simple 'rm' for cooked files or 'dd' for raw files.
The more insidious threat is not gross erasure, but modification of the data, addition of triggers or other dbms level shenanigans that cracked SYSTEM user access is heir to.
All the rest of the replies are quick to spout off with the Gambler's Fallacy, but cosmic events such as asteroids slamming into the earth may be the result of some periodic phenomenon.
As it stands, the original post is also incorrect from my perspective, since you'd expect to see an event that happens every 1000 years or so to happen every 1000 years, not every 500 as they state.
It never fails to surprise me when someone infers a causal relationship between stock price and company survival.
One way to assess what a stock price represents is that it is the consensus of the investing public regarding what the current value of all future cash flows for the company in question will be.
Stated more simply as two questions: 1. how much do you think this company will net over your lifetime? and 2. how much are you willing to pay today in cash for the rights to receive a fraction of that total future net?
The multiplicative Pozni-like "loaves and fishes" effect of squandered venture capital led to the recent trend of tech companies being in a business other than producing technology, namely the production of securities and the paper they were printed on. Because of this loss of focus on actually making a product and a profit, these securities are no longer worth the paper they're printed on.
In the wake of this effect, you get people asserting that a stock price dropping to zero will make a company fail. In fact, most investors thinking that there will be no future stream of income, and there being a commensurate lack of buyers for the stock representing that income stream, is what causes the stock price to drop to zero.
Does anyone else think that McCready looks like the guy from Office Space?
Does anyone else think that the "wait 20 seconds" between hitting the "reply" link and the "submit" button is kind of a strange way to moderate the utility of responses, and unfairly penalizes fast typers?
I thought the quote was that getting it to work is 20% of the project and takes 80% of the time. The other 80% of the project is getting it to work right, and that also takes 80% of the time.
The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is responsible for the development of the most popular range of domestic and industrial robots. The marketing division defines a robot as "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!"
The (late) Robotics Correspondent of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as;
"a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes".
<notes hook in bait>
<hears trolling motor on boat floating above>
<ignores bait>
Good one.
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That's odd. I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, but I appear to be using a cell located about 1000 miles off the coast of Africa! What a great range on my phone! Thanks Sprint!
How biased can get you get with the title "Stop the Microsoft Bashing"? Did you notice that the news item in question is in fact about a software product which bogs down the processing of worm software? Did you notice that these worms only attack Microsoft operating systems? I think that the title is not so much "Microsoft bashing", but just a good summary of what the article is about.
I never really thought about myself as much of a superhero fan, but cast in this light, I have to re-evaluate my tastes.
Along these same lines, Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay deals with this same relationship of everyman to superhero through the lens of the WWII superhero comic book explosion. I really enjoyed this book. Sammy Clay and his cousin from Prague, Josef Kavalier, battle the evils of the world of publishing by writing and drawing thier own superhero: The Escapist.
The Escapist has the power to unlock any lock and escape from any shackles or trap. He's a symbol of every one who recognized that only they hold the key to thier own fulfillment and destiny. Josef's escape from Prague and the Holocaust and his travels around the world in search of himself form the keystone of this theme. He is always forced to rely on his own resources to acheive the goals he sets for himself and overcome the obstacles that life puts before him.
This is much in the same way as all the Enterprises have florished based on self-sufficiency of their crews and the designated superior skills of a few individuals. The ultimate superhero is the Enterprise herself. Even though the best minds available would declare "She canna take much more o' this!", the skills of the crew and the fortitude of the ship herself would rise above the norm and save the day.
We built our office in a swamp... and it fell over and sank in to the swamp. So we built another office on top of it. It fell over and sank in to the swamp too. So we build *another* office on top of that one, and it sank.
But then, we built **another** office on top of that one, and that's the office that we're standing in today.
The article says that the rocket launches at a 60 degree pitch, travels for a while at that attitude, then tips up to 90 degrees for the rest of the trip.
So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
Don't get me started on Star Wars' Hans Solo using "parsecs" as a measure of time.
I actually saw a reasonable explanation of that in a SW novel. Seems that there's a collection of black holes called 'Kessel' that makes a region of space impassable.
The quote (roughly) was "The Falcon is so fast it made the Kessel run in under 4 parsecs."
The explanation was that the Falcon was so fast that it could skirt in closer to the cluster of black holes than anyone else, thereby shortening the arc around that sphere of space more than anyone else had.
Sounds like creative backpedalling, but at least it's consistent backpedalling.
It all works together. In Pulp Fiction, Harvey Keitel plays Winston (?) Wolf, who does manage to clean up the situation (read: car with dead body & splattered brain matter) Jules & Vincent get into. I forget which came first, PoNR or PF. Keitel's characters served the same function, but I liked Mr. Wolf much better.
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I don't know. I saw Kevin Spacey riding a scooter in a teaser for an entertainment show interview, and he looked really cool swooping up to where the reporter was waiting for him.
Then, again, maybe he just looked cool because he's Kevin Spacey.
It seems to me that the whole case hinges on the claim that BSI is selling control of copyrighted material created by Mythic, and not selling newly created material that is based on Mythic-copyrighted expressions.
By their argument, the Ebay listings are a fair-use quotation used for illustrative purposes, and the transfer of control is no more than the implying that Mythic has only the right of first sale of the copyrighted material, much like a book.
The facts regarding the enforceability of the EULA indicate that BSI thinks they are anticompetitive and predatory in how they squash the newly formed free market for exchange of control of DAoC stuff. Unconscionable parts of contracts are voided all the time. BSI says that trying to use copyright to control the control of game items is the same as Barnes & Noble trying to prevent you from selling or giving a book to a friend.
A very interesting case.
But what about Sammy Jenkis?
Actually, Oracle requires data files to be owned by oracle/dba-group with 660 permissions. Data could be eliminated with a simple 'rm' for cooked files or 'dd' for raw files.
The more insidious threat is not gross erasure, but modification of the data, addition of triggers or other dbms level shenanigans that cracked SYSTEM user access is heir to.
So did anyone else write a quick 'n'-liner to verify in fact that the above hex does indeed say what the story says it says?
Oh. Just me?
I declare myself to be dead.
Mua-ha-ha! Now, if I just do that every 80 years or so, I'll be immortal! I can clean up on long term investments!
Seems like there was a story about this earlier...
Hmm.
Oh! Here it is:
Clockless Computing: The State Of The Art by timothy with 140 comments on 01-09-15 6:26
Love,
Ahem.
Too late on that 'books.com' suggestion. B&N already 0wnz it...
All the rest of the replies are quick to spout off with the Gambler's Fallacy, but cosmic events such as asteroids slamming into the earth may be the result of some periodic phenomenon.
As it stands, the original post is also incorrect from my perspective, since you'd expect to see an event that happens every 1000 years or so to happen every 1000 years, not every 500 as they state.
It never fails to surprise me when someone infers a causal relationship between stock price and company survival.
One way to assess what a stock price represents is that it is the consensus of the investing public regarding what the current value of all future cash flows for the company in question will be.
Stated more simply as two questions: 1. how much do you think this company will net over your lifetime? and 2. how much are you willing to pay today in cash for the rights to receive a fraction of that total future net?
The multiplicative Pozni-like "loaves and fishes" effect of squandered venture capital led to the recent trend of tech companies being in a business other than producing technology, namely the production of securities and the paper they were printed on. Because of this loss of focus on actually making a product and a profit, these securities are no longer worth the paper they're printed on.
In the wake of this effect, you get people asserting that a stock price dropping to zero will make a company fail. In fact, most investors thinking that there will be no future stream of income, and there being a commensurate lack of buyers for the stock representing that income stream, is what causes the stock price to drop to zero.
Does anyone else think that McCready looks like the guy from Office Space?
Does anyone else think that the "wait 20 seconds" between hitting the "reply" link and the "submit" button is kind of a strange way to moderate the utility of responses, and unfairly penalizes fast typers?
I thought the quote was that getting it to work is 20% of the project and takes 80% of the time. The other 80% of the project is getting it to work right, and that also takes 80% of the time.
The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is responsible for the development of the most popular range of domestic and industrial robots. The marketing division defines a robot as "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!"
The (late) Robotics Correspondent of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as;
"a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes".
<notes hook in bait>
<hears trolling motor on boat floating above>
<ignores bait>
Good one.
That's odd. I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, but I appear to be using a cell located about 1000 miles off the coast of Africa! What a great range on my phone! Thanks Sprint!
How biased can get you get with the title "Stop the Microsoft Bashing"? Did you notice that the news item in question is in fact about a software product which bogs down the processing of worm software? Did you notice that these worms only attack Microsoft operating systems? I think that the title is not so much "Microsoft bashing", but just a good summary of what the article is about.
Lighten up.
Along these same lines, Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay deals with this same relationship of everyman to superhero through the lens of the WWII superhero comic book explosion. I really enjoyed this book. Sammy Clay and his cousin from Prague, Josef Kavalier, battle the evils of the world of publishing by writing and drawing thier own superhero: The Escapist.
The Escapist has the power to unlock any lock and escape from any shackles or trap. He's a symbol of every one who recognized that only they hold the key to thier own fulfillment and destiny. Josef's escape from Prague and the Holocaust and his travels around the world in search of himself form the keystone of this theme. He is always forced to rely on his own resources to acheive the goals he sets for himself and overcome the obstacles that life puts before him.
This is much in the same way as all the Enterprises have florished based on self-sufficiency of their crews and the designated superior skills of a few individuals. The ultimate superhero is the Enterprise herself. Even though the best minds available would declare "She canna take much more o' this!", the skills of the crew and the fortitude of the ship herself would rise above the norm and save the day.
The license and the site name do leave behind a tingly ironic-licious feeling, though.
We built our office in a swamp... and it fell over and sank in to the swamp. So we built another office on top of it. It fell over and sank in to the swamp too. So we build *another* office on top of that one, and it sank.
But then, we built **another** office on top of that one, and that's the office that we're standing in today.
The article says that the rocket launches at a 60 degree pitch, travels for a while at that attitude, then tips up to 90 degrees for the rest of the trip.
So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
I actually saw a reasonable explanation of that in a SW novel. Seems that there's a collection of black holes called 'Kessel' that makes a region of space impassable.
The quote (roughly) was "The Falcon is so fast it made the Kessel run in under 4 parsecs."
The explanation was that the Falcon was so fast that it could skirt in closer to the cluster of black holes than anyone else, thereby shortening the arc around that sphere of space more than anyone else had.
Sounds like creative backpedalling, but at least it's consistent backpedalling.
It all works together. In Pulp Fiction, Harvey Keitel plays Winston (?) Wolf, who does manage to clean up the situation (read: car with dead body & splattered brain matter) Jules & Vincent get into. I forget which came first, PoNR or PF. Keitel's characters served the same function, but I liked Mr. Wolf much better.
I just miss Polly.
cheers.