Plus as some cartoons are over the age over 18 like the Simpsons for example. They're 20 years old as a point of fact.
It's been over 20 years since the characters of Bart and Lisa Simpson were conceived, yes, but the characters are still canonically depicted to be ages 10 and 8, respectively.
Heck, Nabokov wrote Lolita over 50 years ago. Does that mean that fans of "lolita" erotica are now into "mature" women? No, because the titular character remains perenially twelve.
if the school is fronting most of the money, don't get macs. They cost way too much.
This is really not an issue. Apple has always offered substantial discounts for education; a school district willing to place an order for hundreds or even thousands of MacBooks will easily get a price comparable to any other notebook manufacturer's.
On the other hand, now that the fonts require more complex spline sets and fill patterns to create, the processor controlling the printer is going to have to work harder, which means more electricity will be drawn, which means the coal-burning power plant will have to stay open an hour longer...
I recently read that New York City's entitlements policy, bloated "public service" sector, fiscal irresponsibility and system of governance were key in bringing on the bankruptcy of the 70s.
While I'm sure all those things were factors to some extent, one important factor you don't mention is the exodus to the suburbs that affected all American cities from the 1950s through the 1970s. The tax base for New York city fell drastically within the span of one generation, but there were still just as many streets to clean, just as many buildings to put out fires in...
History is replete with examples of people fighting on after being shot. Some with minor wounds, others with horrific, fatal wounds who fought on as long as they could.
History is also replete with examples of people who stop fighting when the battle is lost. There'd be no concept of "prisoners of war" if there weren't.
The truth is somewhere in the middle. Some combatants will fight to the death, others won't. This variety of responses is generally not reflected in game AI.
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I Personally doubt these methods are as ineffective as everyone likes to portray them.
Oh! Well, if "gordo3000" doubts that torture is ineffective, let's torture away!
The article's title should read: "RIAA Violating a Court Order in California".
I must have missed the part where the allegations made by Ms. Borodkin, that the record companies used information obtained via the court order to contact students, were proven to be true.
that 1GB is a myth. It's just precaching all sorts of things in case you use them so that they become available faster. Should your computer actually need to use the ram for something, Vista will dump out the precached parts to allow it.
Memory used for nonessential data caching should be reported as available, then.
If Vista isn't honest about the amount of memory it requires, why should I entrust my system to it?
Five keystrokes, about 500ms, and way faster than navigating to it with the mouse. And similarly for launching most of the apps I use.
Most of the apps I use are either in my Startup group so they're always open, or I've already set up keyboard shortcuts for them. E.g. if I found that I needed to open Notepad frequenty, I'd set up Ctrl-Alt-N to open it for me.
In any case, I find it interesting that based on the examples you gave, you may not have been able to find your share '\\herbert' if you had searched for h-e instead of \-\-h-e. Is that the case?
Previously you had all sorts of different arcade systems, first they were game specific hardware, then you had "systems" per manufacturer (Sega System 16 etc.), and today everyone just builts their arcade games around standard PC hardware, some are even running Windows.
And arcades are dying a prolonged, painful death. (Netcraft confirms it.)
PCs are PCs and consoles are consoles. If hybridization didn't succeed for the Odyssey^2, Commodore 64GS, Coleco ADAM, Atari XEGS, Amiga CDTV, CDi, Sega TeraDrive, Amstrad Mega PC, FM TOWNS Marty, and 3DO -- why would it succeed now?
Using the exact same argument as its parent, applied on the flip side of the developer relationship (cost, rather than revenue) should have merited an Insightful mod.
Except the parent poster intentionally tweaked the numbers to try to make the grandparent look foolish.
The grandparent's assertion was that for $100K, it should be possible to develop an iPhone app of any complexity, given the practical limits of the device. The parent's sarcastic job offer did not rebut this assertion, but rather argued a strawman that for $100K it should be possible to develop more than 8 iPhone apps of any complexity. Or, that for about $12K is should be possible to develop a single iPhone app.
When I was growing up, I learned to play Street Fighter without the high-punch button. Why? Because every damn machine in the world has a broken high punch button.
The familiar Street Fighter six-button configuration was itself a design compromise made because of the abuse arcade cabinets suffer.
The original release of Street Fighter 1 had two big pneumatic buttons, one for punch and one for kick, and the type of move executed would depend on the velocity with which the player mashed the button. Guess how long those buttons lasted before being destroyed by some overzealous teenager.
Of course you can define a subset of x86 code which is 'safe'. The difficulty comes in defining one which is both safe and still powerful enough for useful work.
Safe instructions: NOP* Potentially unsafe instructions: all the rest
(* may be unsafe if used in conjunction with potentially unsafe instructions)
one would think apple would have learned from their past mistake of a less closed platform overtaking them and nearly sending the company down the drain
Huh? If anything, the original IBM PC was more closed than the Apple II...
x86 code runs natively on 90% of the processors out there.
Among desktop PCs, maybe. But have you heard that they've started putting the web on devices such as cellular phones and set-top boxes? You're not going to find a lot of x86 CPUs in those.
Of course, the way to do it is to define what instruction sequences are safe and allow only those. I assume that's what they are doing and 'modules may not contain certain instruction sequences' is just the one-line summary.
Doesn't change the fact that there's no practical and all-encompassing way of whitelisting "safe x86 code" nor blacklisting "dangerous x86 code".
You've definately come to the right place here at slashdot, given that you do not seem to understand the difference between nudity and sex;-)
See the story a few down from here, where British ISPs are censoring an old Scorpions album cover because it contains a photograph of a nude prepubescent girl. (Hope nobody tells them about Blind Faith.)
Really, is it any less absurd to say that simple child nudity is child pornography than it is to say that a sexually explicit drawing of fictional child cartoon characters is child pornography?
We seem to differ in our use of terminology. When you say "MIDI keyboard", you mean "MIDI keyboard controller only" -- a device that simply converts key presses, knob twiddles, etc. into a stream of MIDI messages. When I say it, I mean a device which does that, but also incorporates hardware that can convert those events into audible sound. It's a category that includes synthesizers, digital pianos, arranger workstations, etc. etc...
You'd be hard-pressed to find a controller-only device at Walmart, or one that goes for $4000 and doesn't include some form of tone generator.
Seriously, Ode to Joy done in MIDI? Are you trying to scare your children away from Beethoven?
"MIDI" is a protocol for defining musical events and there is no correlation between its use and audio fidelity.
You can buy a MIDI keyboard at a professional music gear shop for $4,000, or you can buy a MIDI keyboard at Walmart for $99. As you can imagine, the difference in sound quality between these two models will be profound -- but they're both still MIDI.
He should get an attorney, but there's nothing wrong with asking Slashdot first. A good lawyer will happily charge you $250 an hour or more to teach you about very basic stuff, but that's a waste of money and time.
Asking Slashdot is ALSO a waste of time, but at least it's less expensive.
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Plus as some cartoons are over the age over 18 like the Simpsons for example. They're 20 years old as a point of fact.
It's been over 20 years since the characters of Bart and Lisa Simpson were conceived, yes, but the characters are still canonically depicted to be ages 10 and 8, respectively.
Heck, Nabokov wrote Lolita over 50 years ago. Does that mean that fans of "lolita" erotica are now into "mature" women? No, because the titular character remains perenially twelve.
this guy has come back with "you should have notified me earlier of abnormal usage on my phone lines".
The customer equipment that got compromised was a goddamn PBX. He should have been watching it himself for signs of abnormal usage.
if the school is fronting most of the money, don't get macs. They cost way too much.
This is really not an issue. Apple has always offered substantial discounts for education; a school district willing to place an order for hundreds or even thousands of MacBooks will easily get a price comparable to any other notebook manufacturer's.
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
Not much else to say on the subject. If you're using my taxes to purchase those laptops, you don't get to decide what content they can access.
Right, if you happen to be Congress.
If you're a school administrator establishing a computer access policy, the First Amendment has dick-all to do with the boundaries you may set.
On the other hand, now that the fonts require more complex spline sets and fill patterns to create, the processor controlling the printer is going to have to work harder, which means more electricity will be drawn, which means the coal-burning power plant will have to stay open an hour longer...
Just imagine how many electrons could be saved if people used this font in their browser.
I still use a CRT display, you insensitive clod!
The more black, the better, because the electron gun can be shut off for those few nanoseconds it takes to color a pixel.
I recently read that New York City's entitlements policy, bloated "public service" sector, fiscal irresponsibility and system of governance were key in bringing on the bankruptcy of the 70s.
While I'm sure all those things were factors to some extent, one important factor you don't mention is the exodus to the suburbs that affected all American cities from the 1950s through the 1970s. The tax base for New York city fell drastically within the span of one generation, but there were still just as many streets to clean, just as many buildings to put out fires in...
History is replete with examples of people fighting on after being shot. Some with minor wounds, others with horrific, fatal wounds who fought on as long as they could.
History is also replete with examples of people who stop fighting when the battle is lost. There'd be no concept of "prisoners of war" if there weren't.
The truth is somewhere in the middle. Some combatants will fight to the death, others won't. This variety of responses is generally not reflected in game AI.
I Personally doubt these methods are as ineffective as everyone likes to portray them.
Oh! Well, if "gordo3000" doubts that torture is ineffective, let's torture away!
The article's title should read: "RIAA Violating a Court Order in California".
I must have missed the part where the allegations made by Ms. Borodkin, that the record companies used information obtained via the court order to contact students, were proven to be true.
that 1GB is a myth. It's just precaching all sorts of things in case you use them so that they become available faster. Should your computer actually need to use the ram for something, Vista will dump out the precached parts to allow it.
Memory used for nonessential data caching should be reported as available, then.
If Vista isn't honest about the amount of memory it requires, why should I entrust my system to it?
Five keystrokes, about 500ms, and way faster than navigating to it with the mouse. And similarly for launching most of the apps I use.
Most of the apps I use are either in my Startup group so they're always open, or I've already set up keyboard shortcuts for them. E.g. if I found that I needed to open Notepad frequenty, I'd set up Ctrl-Alt-N to open it for me.
In any case, I find it interesting that based on the examples you gave, you may not have been able to find your share '\\herbert' if you had searched for h-e instead of \-\-h-e. Is that the case?
In the US on the other hand they put the stuff we actually EAT into the pot.
As I understand it, the primary biofuel crop in the United States is dent corn rather than sweet corn.
It is not the stuff we eat. It is the stuff our food eats before its trip to the slaughterhouse.
Previously you had all sorts of different arcade systems, first they were game specific hardware, then you had "systems" per manufacturer (Sega System 16 etc.), and today everyone just builts their arcade games around standard PC hardware, some are even running Windows.
And arcades are dying a prolonged, painful death. (Netcraft confirms it.)
PCs are PCs and consoles are consoles. If hybridization didn't succeed for the Odyssey^2, Commodore 64GS, Coleco ADAM, Atari XEGS, Amiga CDTV, CDi, Sega TeraDrive, Amstrad Mega PC, FM TOWNS Marty, and 3DO -- why would it succeed now?
Using the exact same argument as its parent, applied on the flip side of the developer relationship (cost, rather than revenue) should have merited an Insightful mod.
Except the parent poster intentionally tweaked the numbers to try to make the grandparent look foolish.
The grandparent's assertion was that for $100K, it should be possible to develop an iPhone app of any complexity, given the practical limits of the device. The parent's sarcastic job offer did not rebut this assertion, but rather argued a strawman that for $100K it should be possible to develop more than 8 iPhone apps of any complexity. Or, that for about $12K is should be possible to develop a single iPhone app.
When I was growing up, I learned to play Street Fighter without the high-punch button. Why? Because every damn machine in the world has a broken high punch button.
The familiar Street Fighter six-button configuration was itself a design compromise made because of the abuse arcade cabinets suffer.
The original release of Street Fighter 1 had two big pneumatic buttons, one for punch and one for kick, and the type of move executed would depend on the velocity with which the player mashed the button. Guess how long those buttons lasted before being destroyed by some overzealous teenager.
Of course you can define a subset of x86 code which is 'safe'. The difficulty comes in defining one which is both safe and still powerful enough for useful work.
Safe instructions: NOP*
Potentially unsafe instructions: all the rest
(* may be unsafe if used in conjunction with potentially unsafe instructions)
one would think apple would have learned from their past mistake of a less closed platform overtaking them and nearly sending the company down the drain
Huh? If anything, the original IBM PC was more closed than the Apple II...
From an engineering standpoint: There is no reason for software to break, and yet it does, a lot of the time.
Nonsense. Software, like any other engineered system, will break when subjected to forces in excess of what it was designed to tolerate.
Would you argue that a building must NEVER fall down? I hope not.
x86 code runs natively on 90% of the processors out there.
Among desktop PCs, maybe. But have you heard that they've started putting the web on devices such as cellular phones and set-top boxes? You're not going to find a lot of x86 CPUs in those.
Of course, the way to do it is to define what instruction sequences are safe and allow only those. I assume that's what they are doing and 'modules may not contain certain instruction sequences' is just the one-line summary.
Doesn't change the fact that there's no practical and all-encompassing way of whitelisting "safe x86 code" nor blacklisting "dangerous x86 code".
You've definately come to the right place here at slashdot, given that you do not seem to understand the difference between nudity and sex;-)
See the story a few down from here, where British ISPs are censoring an old Scorpions album cover because it contains a photograph of a nude prepubescent girl. (Hope nobody tells them about Blind Faith.)
Really, is it any less absurd to say that simple child nudity is child pornography than it is to say that a sexually explicit drawing of fictional child cartoon characters is child pornography?
We seem to differ in our use of terminology. When you say "MIDI keyboard", you mean "MIDI keyboard controller only" -- a device that simply converts key presses, knob twiddles, etc. into a stream of MIDI messages. When I say it, I mean a device which does that, but also incorporates hardware that can convert those events into audible sound. It's a category that includes synthesizers, digital pianos, arranger workstations, etc. etc...
You'd be hard-pressed to find a controller-only device at Walmart, or one that goes for $4000 and doesn't include some form of tone generator.
Seriously, Ode to Joy done in MIDI? Are you trying to scare your children away from Beethoven?
"MIDI" is a protocol for defining musical events and there is no correlation between its use and audio fidelity.
You can buy a MIDI keyboard at a professional music gear shop for $4,000, or you can buy a MIDI keyboard at Walmart for $99. As you can imagine, the difference in sound quality between these two models will be profound -- but they're both still MIDI.
He should get an attorney, but there's nothing wrong with asking Slashdot first. A good lawyer will happily charge you $250 an hour or more to teach you about very basic stuff, but that's a waste of money and time.
Asking Slashdot is ALSO a waste of time, but at least it's less expensive.