Why does he have to comply? rm -rf / the server and do your time pal.
"Do your time"? Don't you know that the FBI routinely EXECUTES people who fail to comply with court-issued subpoenas?
I mean, this kook alleged that it was true, therefore it must be...
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Yes, because Sony was *so* off base with the PS2...
Well, you certainly can't say they knocked one out of the park with it. If the PS2 had been a better console, the Xbox would not have been able to gain a foothood in the market.
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Actually, the opposite is probably more true -- if you are NOT a professional, you should ground yourself with a static strap.
Someone who works with electronic guts for a living is more likely to understand the risks of static discharge and ground themselves manually before going in and poking at stuff.
Researchers from the University of Oklahoma recently found that two-thirds of school fights were instigated by regular video game players, but in the study of 607 students only four fights were started by children who had never played such games.
Aaaaaand what percentage of the student body plays video games regularly? That's an important statistic, and it's missing. If more than 2/3 of the class plays video games, for example, it would actually indicate that gamers are LESS likely to instigate fights than non-gamers.
Other studies showed that violent games would not cause serious problems in healthy families, but could do so in families where children were left alone for many hours.
Real all about it in the latest issue of the academic journal, Duh.
and distancing herself from her husband's "moral" issues, in preparation for the 2008 election?
Hell, that worked so well for Gore in 2000.
Eight years of unprecendented prosperity, and the Democratic Party runs a guy who tries to DISTANCE himself from the previous administration? A guy whose wife was a leading member of the PMRC, and whose running mate is one of the most enthusiastic censors in the Senate? Why, with a strategy like that the Democrats should have won in a landslide! No social liberal could resist such a ticket.
(Let's not discuss whether Gore actually eked out a win the election or not. Everything there is to say about THAT has already been said, 'k?)
"She's right and actually has a solution to lessening violence, but we want our video games!"
She's NOT right, and her "solution" solves NOTHING.
Kids don't grow up to become prostitute-murdering psychopaths because they played a videogame that "taught them it was cool." Give children a little bit of credit here.
That is why most the the requirements documents I see are incomplete and open to interpretation.
Only most? All human languages are intrinsically imprecise and open to interpretation. If a requirements doc is so fixed and precise that it's basically written in a strict form of pseudocode to start with, turning that into something a machine can reproduce consistently is fairly trivial; anything more, and you really need a person who speaks both human and machine language (or some higher-level proxy to it) to act as a translater.
If people want to watch TV shows so bad on the go, why haven't pocket TVs been more popular?
Because pocket TV's have typically been limited to over-the-air VHF reception, and anyone who's ever owned a set of tabbit-ear TV antennae can tell you how hard it is to get a good signal even from a stationary device. Nevermind zooming across town on a city bus.
There is a nascent market for portable video players -- witness the marketing campaign for the PSP, the variety of battery-powered DVD players, toys such as VideoNow, etc.
The market will never be as large as the one for portable audio players, but it will be significant. I fully expect an "iPod video" to follow on the heels of the iPod photo in a year or two. It's simply the logical progression. (And obviously, it will use Quicktime's implementation of MPEG-4 over XviD.)
And like the iPod photo, Apple will not force you to buy features you don't want; audio-only iPod models will be around forever.
I expect that out of my college education I should have at least earned the right to have a professor take the time out of their busy schedule to check over my paper for me.
If the professor is teaching a writing seminar, sure. Otherwise, he or she ought to be focusing on the merits of the ideas in your paper, not the grammatical constructs used to present them.
I wouldn't expect the professor (or the teaching assistants) in my Psychology 101 course to have an expert knowledge grammar in addition to their primary field, and I hope you wouldn't either. If you haven't developed a mastery of written English by the time you arrive at college, and I'll acknowledge that most students don't, universities generally have classes or workshops dedicated specifically to that subject. I don't see the benefit of asking lecturers in the general curriculum to double up and act as grammaticians as well.
It's hard to make money as a retail computer repair technician
The reason it's hard is that if you know what you're doing and are worth $50/hr, you're going to get undercut by the kid down the street who charges $15/hr and doesn't know WHAT the hell he's doing.
As long as consumers lack the abilities to distinguish between competent and incompetent computer technicians, this problem will always exist.
Am I the only one who thinks it a bit much when applications software costs more than the OS?
Not at all. The horizontal market for an OS is much wider than the one for a particular application, after all. Not everybody needs an image manipulation suite, but everybody does need an OS.
Assuming development costs are the same for an OS and a pro-grade application, the app vendor will have fewer potential customers to sell their product to than the OS vendor, and therefore will have to charge more for each copy.
But he has of course been wrongly accused of doing something illegal. That's slanderous, and illegal in itself.
Oh, hush. You're not a lawyer, stop pretending to give legal advice.
What's the first thing a plaintiff's attorney does when filing a suit? Submits paperwork to the court alleging that the defendant(s) have done something illegal. (Or even before that, maybe they send a Cease & Desist order alleging the same thing directly to the defendants.)
How come we don't hear of plaintiff's attorneys being hauled into court in droves on Slander charges?
If the university KNEW that BitTorrenting WAS legal and still told him it wasn't, AND if the student had suffered actual damages, then MAYBE there would be a case for defamation here. But as far as I can tell, they don't and he hasn't so there isn't.
I saw somebody with a PSP on the train the other day, and what really surprised me about it was its SIZE. Meaning, the thing is huge. Like, Atari Lynx huge. Like, four-iPod-minis-next-to-each-other huge.
It won't fit in your pocket.
Has Sony, in their zeal to put a large screen on their handheld (and I'll admit, the screen is pretty sweet-looking), missed the point that portable devices should be, well, portable?
The Nintendo DS seems to suffer from this same problem -- it's easily twice the size of a Gamebody Advance SP, which means it's half as portable. How much more size expansion will the "handheld" market tolerate?
If I were the judge, and I noticed that one of the parties in the case were actually forging evidence, I would rain fire and brimstone on them!
Isn't that basically what happened? And then Microsoft's attorneys used the judge's palpable displeasure as 'proof' that he was biased against them from the start?
And then the Bush administration took office and prosecutors were told to retreat?
Yes, the extra ten minutes you need to spend going through config dialogs every time you upgrade to a larger hard drive (and how often does one do that? About once a year? Once every two years?) is more than enough justification to subject your system drive to more "wear and tear" every day.
Disappointed. I assumed an article on "advanced" system building would include a lot more work with a soldering iron and tin snips.
Yeah, but in a book about regexes, you have to study the index VERY CAREFULLY to determine whether there are any typos or not.
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I would cheerfully pay an extra ten cents (or so) per song and put up with the longer download times if I had the option to get iTMS stuff encoded with either FLAC or the "Apple Lossless Format."
Apple would be fools NOT to offer a format that uses 300% the bandwidth of their current offering, yet only brings in a 10% revenue premium!
What if the label's affiliated music publisher instead sent you a cease-and-desist letter,
What if the WHAT?
There are very few cases of symbiotic affiliations between record labels and music publishers. In fact, they are often in antagonistic positions to each other, since one represents the interests of the songwriters themselves, and the other the interests of the middlemen who promote and distribute the recordings.
Hey, it could happen.
If it could, how come it hasn't happened already? If we're reaching the point where more of the set of possible music is already written than not, why are songwriting copyright suits so few and far between?
Your combinatorial model of musical composition is highly flawed, and as someone with a degree in the study of Music I feel qualified to say that.
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This will not work.
In order to deliver "IP Logs", you have to demonstrate that YOU PEE LOGS.
That kind of surgery isn't cheap.
Why does he have to comply? rm -rf / the server and do your time pal.
"Do your time"? Don't you know that the FBI routinely EXECUTES people who fail to comply with court-issued subpoenas?
I mean, this kook alleged that it was true, therefore it must be...
Yes, because Sony was *so* off base with the PS2...
Well, you certainly can't say they knocked one out of the park with it. If the PS2 had been a better console, the Xbox would not have been able to gain a foothood in the market.
Actually, the opposite is probably more true -- if you are NOT a professional, you should ground yourself with a static strap.
Someone who works with electronic guts for a living is more likely to understand the risks of static discharge and ground themselves manually before going in and poking at stuff.
I've played a bit of the GTA games, and from what I've seen they seem to include a lot of running around town.
Shouldn't Sen. Clinton be lauding the games, then, for their obvious influence in getting kids to get out and get some exercise?
Researchers from the University of Oklahoma recently found that two-thirds of school fights were instigated by regular video game players, but in the study of 607 students only four fights were started by children who had never played such games.
Aaaaaand what percentage of the student body plays video games regularly? That's an important statistic, and it's missing. If more than 2/3 of the class plays video games, for example, it would actually indicate that gamers are LESS likely to instigate fights than non-gamers.
Other studies showed that violent games would not cause serious problems in healthy families, but could do so in families where children were left alone for many hours.
Real all about it in the latest issue of the academic journal, Duh.
and distancing herself from her husband's "moral" issues, in preparation for the 2008 election?
Hell, that worked so well for Gore in 2000.
Eight years of unprecendented prosperity, and the Democratic Party runs a guy who tries to DISTANCE himself from the previous administration? A guy whose wife was a leading member of the PMRC, and whose running mate is one of the most enthusiastic censors in the Senate? Why, with a strategy like that the Democrats should have won in a landslide! No social liberal could resist such a ticket.
(Let's not discuss whether Gore actually eked out a win the election or not. Everything there is to say about THAT has already been said, 'k?)
"She's right and actually has a solution to lessening violence, but we want our video games!"
She's NOT right, and her "solution" solves NOTHING.
Kids don't grow up to become prostitute-murdering psychopaths because they played a videogame that "taught them it was cool." Give children a little bit of credit here.
That is why most the the requirements documents I see are incomplete and open to interpretation.
Only most? All human languages are intrinsically imprecise and open to interpretation. If a requirements doc is so fixed and precise that it's basically written in a strict form of pseudocode to start with, turning that into something a machine can reproduce consistently is fairly trivial; anything more, and you really need a person who speaks both human and machine language (or some higher-level proxy to it) to act as a translater.
Update For for the dupe. Not going well. Appreciate all the hate mail. Really encourages improvement.
I fed this text into Metafor and it core dumped on me!
If people want to watch TV shows so bad on the go, why haven't pocket TVs been more popular?
Because pocket TV's have typically been limited to over-the-air VHF reception, and anyone who's ever owned a set of tabbit-ear TV antennae can tell you how hard it is to get a good signal even from a stationary device. Nevermind zooming across town on a city bus.
There is a nascent market for portable video players -- witness the marketing campaign for the PSP, the variety of battery-powered DVD players, toys such as VideoNow, etc.
The market will never be as large as the one for portable audio players, but it will be significant. I fully expect an "iPod video" to follow on the heels of the iPod photo in a year or two. It's simply the logical progression. (And obviously, it will use Quicktime's implementation of MPEG-4 over XviD.)
And like the iPod photo, Apple will not force you to buy features you don't want; audio-only iPod models will be around forever.
I expect that out of my college education I should have at least earned the right to have a professor take the time out of their busy schedule to check over my paper for me.
If the professor is teaching a writing seminar, sure. Otherwise, he or she ought to be focusing on the merits of the ideas in your paper, not the grammatical constructs used to present them.
I wouldn't expect the professor (or the teaching assistants) in my Psychology 101 course to have an expert knowledge grammar in addition to their primary field, and I hope you wouldn't either. If you haven't developed a mastery of written English by the time you arrive at college, and I'll acknowledge that most students don't, universities generally have classes or workshops dedicated specifically to that subject. I don't see the benefit of asking lecturers in the general curriculum to double up and act as grammaticians as well.
It's hard to make money as a retail computer repair technician
The reason it's hard is that if you know what you're doing and are worth $50/hr, you're going to get undercut by the kid down the street who charges $15/hr and doesn't know WHAT the hell he's doing.
As long as consumers lack the abilities to distinguish between competent and incompetent computer technicians, this problem will always exist.
Am I the only one who thinks it a bit much when applications software costs more than the OS?
Not at all. The horizontal market for an OS is much wider than the one for a particular application, after all. Not everybody needs an image manipulation suite, but everybody does need an OS.
Assuming development costs are the same for an OS and a pro-grade application, the app vendor will have fewer potential customers to sell their product to than the OS vendor, and therefore will have to charge more for each copy.
But he has of course been wrongly accused of doing something illegal. That's slanderous, and illegal in itself.
Oh, hush. You're not a lawyer, stop pretending to give legal advice.
What's the first thing a plaintiff's attorney does when filing a suit? Submits paperwork to the court alleging that the defendant(s) have done something illegal. (Or even before that, maybe they send a Cease & Desist order alleging the same thing directly to the defendants.)
How come we don't hear of plaintiff's attorneys being hauled into court in droves on Slander charges?
If the university KNEW that BitTorrenting WAS legal and still told him it wasn't, AND if the student had suffered actual damages, then MAYBE there would be a case for defamation here. But as far as I can tell, they don't and he hasn't so there isn't.
IIRC the use of the term "Swap" is incorrect in the Linux world too.
So is using the term "core" to refer to system memory, but I don't think anyone minds that.
But what if I had to tell her, "well now we have to remove everything on your computer to resize your paritions"?
I would chide you for relying on Microsoft's bundled utilities for managing partitions. They're unnecessarily inflexible.
PartitionMagic has been capable of "on-the-fly" partition resizing for ten years now.
I saw somebody with a PSP on the train the other day, and what really surprised me about it was its SIZE. Meaning, the thing is huge. Like, Atari Lynx huge. Like, four-iPod-minis-next-to-each-other huge.
It won't fit in your pocket.
Has Sony, in their zeal to put a large screen on their handheld (and I'll admit, the screen is pretty sweet-looking), missed the point that portable devices should be, well, portable?
The Nintendo DS seems to suffer from this same problem -- it's easily twice the size of a Gamebody Advance SP, which means it's half as portable. How much more size expansion will the "handheld" market tolerate?
You can do that from windows explorer, and you could before IE was "part of the os," so that's a windows core function, not an IE function.
I may be wrong, but since the IE integration into Windows, don't "Windows Explorer" and "Internet Explorer" use the same APIs?
Regretably that's not actually safe at all.
Indeed.
Closing the IE browser window does little to inactivate the underpinnings which are incorporated into the OS itself.
IEXPLORE.EXE is just a "shell". The IE "kernel" is still always present.
If I were the judge, and I noticed that one of the parties in the case were actually forging evidence, I would rain fire and brimstone on them!
Isn't that basically what happened? And then Microsoft's attorneys used the judge's palpable displeasure as 'proof' that he was biased against them from the start?
And then the Bush administration took office and prosecutors were told to retreat?
Yes, the extra ten minutes you need to spend going through config dialogs every time you upgrade to a larger hard drive (and how often does one do that? About once a year? Once every two years?) is more than enough justification to subject your system drive to more "wear and tear" every day.
Disappointed. I assumed an article on "advanced" system building would include a lot more work with a soldering iron and tin snips.
2. the index has a lot of typos.
Yeah, but in a book about regexes, you have to study the index VERY CAREFULLY to determine whether there are any typos or not.
I would cheerfully pay an extra ten cents (or so) per song and put up with the longer download times if I had the option to get iTMS stuff encoded with either FLAC or the "Apple Lossless Format."
Apple would be fools NOT to offer a format that uses 300% the bandwidth of their current offering, yet only brings in a 10% revenue premium!
What if the label's affiliated music publisher instead sent you a cease-and-desist letter,
What if the WHAT?
There are very few cases of symbiotic affiliations between record labels and music publishers. In fact, they are often in antagonistic positions to each other, since one represents the interests of the songwriters themselves, and the other the interests of the middlemen who promote and distribute the recordings.
Hey, it could happen.
If it could, how come it hasn't happened already? If we're reaching the point where more of the set of possible music is already written than not, why are songwriting copyright suits so few and far between?
Your combinatorial model of musical composition is highly flawed, and as someone with a degree in the study of Music I feel qualified to say that.