Then complain to the judges. I expect a lot more people to realize that knives are not meant for stabbing others than to realize that prizes offered in a TV commercial might not actually be being offered just because they're too expensive. If the US requires a disclaimer in the first case, it definitely requires one in the second.
As to your point (3), YOU are supporting frivolous advertising.
Yes, he shouldn't get the jet, but Pepsi shouldn't be allowed to blatantly advertise stuff like this either. I don't think the `average reasonable' person would know whether it's legal to own a Harrier jet or not. Also the idea that someone offering a $23 million jet for $700,000 is a clear indication that it's a joke is ridiculous. Firstly, the avg person does _not_ know that a Harrier is worth $23 million, maybe he thinks it's $2 million. Where do we draw the line? This judgement just says that it's fine for corporate America to put out whatever false ads they want, and nobody can do a damn thing about it.
I don't see where you get the idea that the guy actually believed he would get the jet, anyway. Maybe he was calling Pepsi's bluff. Every time I see one of these overblown ads on TV I get the urge to do it, but I can't be bothered to get off my ass and collect the money etc to actually file a lawsuit.
It is only for linux non-free distributions. I don't think there are any for-profit (or any other than the original) distribs of the *BSD's, though. Is it illegal to make one?
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So, you've used the regular command-line rpm tool to install GTK recently? And it went smoothly the first time? Sure.
Well, the gnome page specifies exactly what order to install your rpms in.
Actually, SCSI drives tend to be quite a bit faster than IDE drives in their media transfer rate and average seek times. Also, note that the top-end scsi drives now spin at 10Krpm, while IDE is only now getting to 7200. With ATA/66, the interface speed isn't actually all that different.
There is also the point that SCSI can generally queue commands to multiple devices, while ATA is just getting into that.
The people who keep bringing up this argument don't realize that civil disobedience works only when it is widely publicized, i.e., you not only pirate MSWindows, you put it up on an ftp site, take out ads in the local papers, and are prepared to go to court, say what you believe and rot in jail for it if necessary.
Gandhi spent years of his life in prison because of his beliefs. Comparing him with software pirates is ridiculous.
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So, unless you REALLY enjoy 20 megabyte downlaods and the screams of other slashdotters, who you've robbed all that bandwidth from, it makes a LOT of sense to go to 2.3.0 if you want to play with the technology under development.
If you don't even know how to deal with such a simple conflict in a patch... The only reason to change to 2.3.0 is the kewl feeling that a version number of 2.3.* gives. But I think I'll wait for 2.3.1.
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It's not how its always been. The patch from 2.0.21 to 2.1.0 was 37843 lines.
The test of a theory is not the reproducibility of its results, but whether its predictions can be observed in the real world, and are different from the examples from which it was constructed. The test of _experiments_ is that they be reproducible.
I think you meant that entropy is lower. Higher entropy == lower information content. That's why the second law of thermodynamics says that the entropy of the universe keeps going up:)
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Those are plain damages. Punitive damages are supposed to be punishment.
Then complain to the judges. I expect a lot more people to realize that knives are not meant for stabbing others than to realize that prizes offered in a TV commercial might not actually be being offered just because they're too expensive. If the US requires a disclaimer in the first case, it definitely requires one in the second.
As to your point (3), YOU are supporting frivolous advertising.
Yes, he shouldn't get the jet, but Pepsi shouldn't be allowed to blatantly advertise stuff like this either. I don't think the `average reasonable' person would know whether it's legal to own a Harrier jet or not. Also the idea that someone offering a $23 million jet for $700,000 is a clear indication that it's a joke is ridiculous. Firstly, the avg person does _not_ know that a Harrier is worth $23 million, maybe he thinks it's $2 million. Where do we draw the line? This judgement just says that it's fine for corporate America to put out whatever false ads they want, and nobody can do a damn thing about it.
I don't see where you get the idea that the guy actually believed he would get the jet, anyway. Maybe he was calling Pepsi's bluff. Every time I see one of these overblown ads on TV I get the urge to do it, but I can't be bothered to get off my ass and collect the money etc to actually file a lawsuit.
My university dept actually does have the ladies room password-protected, sort of. It's an extremely weak 3-digit password, though.
Only one nit: you've confused bits and bytes. mp3 records generally at 128k_bits_per second etc, and the CD is approx 1400 kbits/sec.
It is only for linux non-free distributions. I don't think there are any for-profit (or any other than the original) distribs of the *BSD's, though. Is it illegal to make one?
Well, the gnome page specifies exactly what order to install your rpms in.
Besides, did you try rpm -U *?
Actually, SCSI drives tend to be quite a bit
faster than IDE drives in their media transfer rate and average seek times. Also, note that the top-end scsi drives now spin at 10Krpm, while IDE is only now getting to 7200. With ATA/66, the interface speed isn't actually all that different.
There is also the point that SCSI can generally queue commands to multiple devices, while ATA is just getting into that.
The people who keep bringing up this argument don't realize that civil disobedience works only when it is widely publicized, i.e., you not only pirate MSWindows, you put it up on an ftp site, take out ads in the local papers, and are prepared to go to court, say what you believe and rot in jail for it if necessary.
Gandhi spent years of his life in prison because of his beliefs. Comparing him with software pirates is ridiculous.
If you don't even know how to deal with such a simple conflict in a patch... The only reason to change to 2.3.0 is the kewl feeling that a version number of 2.3.* gives. But I think I'll wait for 2.3.1.
It's not how its always been. The patch from
2.0.21 to 2.1.0 was 37843 lines.
linux/kernel/testing/pre-patch-2.3.1-1.gz is out.
Only the version number has changed from 2.2.8 to 2.3.0.
The test of a theory is not the reproducibility of its results, but whether its predictions can be observed in the real world, and are different from the examples from which it was constructed. The test of _experiments_ is that they be reproducible.
Actually, the compiler is about 3M on my system.
Throwing in the C library and headers makes it
another 10M.
I don't know about SCSI, but the kernel doesn't
in general need/want to know about loadable modules.
I have several installed w/o touching my kernel.
I spy drivers written by Inito corp themselves.
If they don't work, it's a reflection on the
authors, not the linux kernel
I think you meant that entropy is lower. Higher entropy == lower information content. That's why the second law of thermodynamics says that the entropy of the universe keeps going up :)