It's got a field that says "I am a robot" checked off by default. A human should obviously see that and uncheck it.
What have you got against sentient robots taking part in discussion (you insensitive clod)? Or are we...er...they forced to lie about their true identity?
In order for something to constitute theft, somebody has to be permanently deprived of property. Not profits, not the possibility of profits. When somebody's deprived of profits, that's not theft, that's copyright infringement.
That's not necessarily true. Many, if not all, states have laws concerning theft of services. I'm not saying that copyright infringement is or is not theft, but I get really annoyed when people keep repeating the incorrect statement that theft must involve loss of physical property.
I don't think the original poster is arguing that theft of service is any different than theft of property, since in both cases there's a limited resource, and unauthorized usage prevents the owner from using the resource, whether it's physical property, electricity, bandwidth, or their employees' labor. Personal, non-commercial copyright infringement doesn't deplete any limited resource of the owner.
The term "piracy" has been misused on individuals. An individual may be guilty of theft, like a shoplifter, but it's not piracy. Someone that takes an item without paying for it is very different than a rogue company selling unauthorized copies of another company's product.
But nothing was even taken! With shoplifting, the store's owner has one fewer of the product to sell. When an individual makes an unauthorized copy, what was taken? The potential sale? But potential sales are lost for many reasons, like choosing a different source for music, or listening to music one already has a copy of. The closest analogy I can think of is someone watching a drive-in movie from outside the fence, rather than paying to be inside it. The person outside the fence doesn't cost the business anything.
Apple controls the hardware, so they can be sure everything runs smoothly on it. That's what you get for running Mac OS X on unsupported hardware. Oh, wait....
But looking at just gas costs are not a realistic way of measuring your own costs.
Even in your cost calculation, you didn't include the 5 hours of sitting behind the wheel, having to concentrate on driving. I love riding the city bus during rush hour, watching all the dense traffic I would have to deal with if I were driving.
When there is nothing to produce except for more laws/regulations, meaningless, useless, obvious patents and lawsuits, and also the greenback, at this point you have to ask yourself a question: how is this economy, that borrows so much from the rest of the world and then buys the products from the rest of the world going to pay the freaking debt?
By encouraging the rest of the world to share our delusion, with force if necessary.
Hell, we've had previews even before computers. For example, the outside cover of a book giving a preview of its entire contents, or the filename giving a summary of its contents.
I really enjoyed Dave Agans' Debugging Rules, a book that presents a general, solid debugging process. One of the best points is to first be sure you can reliably trigger the bug, so that once you think you've fixed it, you can then do what triggered it before and verify that it does not still occur.
cars are pretty expensive, unless there is a huge supply of broken cars i cant see this panning out.
I thought the point of using car parts is that they are cheap, easily available, and run on 12 volts (so the device can run without A/C, and be charged by another vehicle).
[The new LED lights don't melt the snow.] The old lights produce enough heat to melt all the snow. Snow in Portland is rare, so it's not that big of a deal. In NY, it's quite the opposite.
Simple: install heaters whose wattage is the difference between the old and new lights.
Assuming the line voltage is run through a full wave bridge rectifier, there would be a 120 Hz flicker, imperceptible to most people.
The issue isn't just direct flicker perception; secondary effects like what a moving object looks like can make flicker of 120 Hz visible. Under normal light, moving objects leave a blur, not a path of distinct afterimages.
"(FTD) patients present changes in personality and behaviour. They find it difficult to interact with people, they don't pick up on social cues, they lack empathy, they make bad judgements."
That sounds almost like a textbook description of Asperger's Syndrome. Hmmmm....
I've run into this problem when there's dust on the disk when it's recorded. The laser etches the dust rather than the media, resulting in a disk that's got a small blank section.
You may have had that problem with dusty media, but the explanation sounds suspect. The laser beam is focused to a point inside the disc, not at the surface; at the surface, it's wide and dust simply reduces its intensity at the focused point (diagram). Looks like BD discs have much less tolerance of dust, due to the data layer being so close to the surface.
at work some users say "Well I never leave it on at night because I know that it makes the computer die quicker" and some people say "Well I never turn it off because I want it to last longer." I think the truth is that modern hardware really can handle both philosophies [...]
This is a little-known advance in modern computers, their multi-faceted philosophical tolerance. We humans could learn from them.
Would looking at the image your brain is generating at the same time you are generating it create a feedback loop much like holding a microphone too close to a speaker?
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The shop was described as one 'of the most dirty and unsanitary-looking food-service places I have seen.'
Maybe this guy was a "bubble boy" who had lived in cleanrooms all his life, and this was the first food shop he had seen since stepping outside that world? After all, he properly qualifies it with "one of the most" and "I have seen". That says nothing of its absolute nature.
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What have you got against sentient robots taking part in discussion (you insensitive clod)? Or are we...er...they forced to lie about their true identity?
I don't think the original poster is arguing that theft of service is any different than theft of property, since in both cases there's a limited resource, and unauthorized usage prevents the owner from using the resource, whether it's physical property, electricity, bandwidth, or their employees' labor. Personal, non-commercial copyright infringement doesn't deplete any limited resource of the owner.
But nothing was even taken! With shoplifting, the store's owner has one fewer of the product to sell. When an individual makes an unauthorized copy, what was taken? The potential sale? But potential sales are lost for many reasons, like choosing a different source for music, or listening to music one already has a copy of. The closest analogy I can think of is someone watching a drive-in movie from outside the fence, rather than paying to be inside it. The person outside the fence doesn't cost the business anything.
Apple controls the hardware, so they can be sure everything runs smoothly on it. That's what you get for running Mac OS X on unsupported hardware. Oh, wait....
Yet another misuse of the term "brick".
Even in your cost calculation, you didn't include the 5 hours of sitting behind the wheel, having to concentrate on driving. I love riding the city bus during rush hour, watching all the dense traffic I would have to deal with if I were driving.
By encouraging the rest of the world to share our delusion, with force if necessary.
Hell, we've had previews even before computers. For example, the outside cover of a book giving a preview of its entire contents, or the filename giving a summary of its contents.
I think the plaintiff had better clean up her Sherman Anti-Trust Act violations first.
Come on man, just visit the website and see for yourself. Er, oh...
I really enjoyed Dave Agans' Debugging Rules, a book that presents a general, solid debugging process. One of the best points is to first be sure you can reliably trigger the bug, so that once you think you've fixed it, you can then do what triggered it before and verify that it does not still occur.
Funny, I thought there were two.
I thought the point of using car parts is that they are cheap, easily available, and run on 12 volts (so the device can run without A/C, and be charged by another vehicle).
HIV Tester: You have HIV.
Simple: install heaters whose wattage is the difference between the old and new lights.
The issue isn't just direct flicker perception; secondary effects like what a moving object looks like can make flicker of 120 Hz visible. Under normal light, moving objects leave a blur, not a path of distinct afterimages.
"438@@/arcCHK" is my mother's maiden name, you insensitive clod!
You're being sarcastic, right?
Actually, I think the irony is the name "Justice Department".
You may have had that problem with dusty media, but the explanation sounds suspect. The laser beam is focused to a point inside the disc, not at the surface; at the surface, it's wide and dust simply reduces its intensity at the focused point (diagram). Looks like BD discs have much less tolerance of dust, due to the data layer being so close to the surface.
This is a little-known advance in modern computers, their multi-faceted philosophical tolerance. We humans could learn from them.
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Exactly. Once we've sent a probe into one, retrieved samples, and have it return, then we will have proof.
Maybe this guy was a "bubble boy" who had lived in cleanrooms all his life, and this was the first food shop he had seen since stepping outside that world? After all, he properly qualifies it with "one of the most" and "I have seen". That says nothing of its absolute nature.
So that's why my portable FM radio has two detachable antennas, four ethernet ports that don't seem to do anything, and flashable firmware!