Network Performance Daily retracted last week's interview with Professor Christopher Yoo from Vanderbilt University Law School on his opposition to net-neutrality policies. The new article is a clearer, more subdued interview.
What the hell? I RBFA and the second was totally different. Like the "pawns" comment from Microsoft, I think I see a pattern:
Write what you believe
Wait for criticism
Claim original was grossly incorrect
Write new article that says whatever will please readers, and delete original
A 32-megajoule version is due to be tested in June. A 64-megajoule version is anticipated to extend the range of naval gunfire (currently about 16 nautical miles for a 8-inch naval gun) to more than 256 nautical miles by the year 2048.
It sounds like a programmer summarized that article, helpfully rounding all values to a power of two.
"You could get just about as high an average seek if you partitioned up a 3.5" 15K drive and only kept data on the inner partition."
Wouldn't it be better to put the partition at the outer edge of the disk, where you get higher data rates and more data per cylinder (and thus less head movement to get from beginning to end of the partition)?
I might possibly be pushed more towards apparent annoyance by this non-commital language. Let's start with the unqualified version, then add the qualifiers one by one:
...that prevents such mishaps... (good, a solution!)
...that helps prevent such mishaps... (so they will still happen, they'll just be reduced)
...that might help prevent such mishaps... (so it might not even do anything?)
I hate to be technical, but the GPL only covers derivitive works, not mere use/listening of something under its license; it's not an end-user license, even though I often encounter GPL programs which erroneously require me to agree to the GPL before I can even run the program.
That's over TWO MINUTES more recording per disc! Think of all you can do with two minutes: longer can't-skip intro, menu transitions that take longer to finish, extra credits at the end of the movie. The possibilities are endless, and poor Blu-Ray can't do that.
If only they had read DHMO Research Division's Facts About Dihydrogen Monoxide, they would have known the dangers posed by this unrestricted substance. Ban DHMO now!
"An example, Me and my band is making an album and for one of our songs we bring a radio into the recording booth and just record one song directly from air and put it on our album without paying royalties to the creators of that song, that is theft."
That's copyright infringement, not theft. Both are illegal, but this doesn't make them equivalent.
It's not because of some magical superiorty science that normal people need either, it's mostly because multiplying by 10 is a lot easier than multiplying by [...] 16 [...]
That's it; hand over your programmer badge and quietly log off this site.
But... isn't it only illegal for cops (or other law enforcement) to set someone up? Contrary to what they believe, the MAFIAA (MPAA+RIAA) are not an arm of law enforcement.
OMG, that means that the sun might have exploded or burned out already, and we won't know for EIGHT MINUTES!!! Remember the opening for Terminator? That could be about to happen in 8 minutes!
"That's interesting, he explains, because given that light travels at a finite speed -- 300,000 km a second -- the light emitted from the star cluster he and Kalirai saw was emitted one billion years ago. That means the cluster as it appeared to them two months ago was the way it looked one billion years ago. In other words, they were looking one billion years back in time."
It's even more interesting when you consider other ways that we "see" the past, for example a footprint in the sand. In this "light", everything around us is a reflection of the past, so were "seeing" things as far back as history goes. Some of these things go unnoticed due to them being part of our assumptions about reality itself.
How do you verify that the serial number is a) a valid one for that product model, and b) the one for the item for sale (and not copied from another auction)? Legit sellers could post photos of the back of the device with the serial number visible, but this would still allow many kinds of deception.
Power supply filter capacitors are generally added in excess so that there is plenty of margin. Losing one will reduce this margin for that area of the board, kind of like overclocking where you increase the chance of error. When you crushed the capacitor, you probably also shorted its terminals together, and when you cleaned it up, you probably un-shorted them again.
Yep, I've had a couple of CRT monitors that failed simply due to aging power supply capacitors. Replaced them and it was up and working again. Quite a chore to disassemble the thing, but I hate wasting an otherwise perfectly usable monitor.
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There, I corrected that for you.
What the hell? I RBFA and the second was totally different. Like the "pawns" comment from Microsoft, I think I see a pattern:
If it kills 99.9999% of the virus, would the same conclusion apply? If so, is there anything that kills 100% of any virus, guaranteed?
It sounds like a programmer summarized that article, helpfully rounding all values to a power of two.
"You could get just about as high an average seek if you partitioned up a 3.5" 15K drive and only kept data on the inner partition."
Wouldn't it be better to put the partition at the outer edge of the disk, where you get higher data rates and more data per cylinder (and thus less head movement to get from beginning to end of the partition)?
...with reversed polarity, that is.
And if you're a woman who gets a job in IT, did you get it because you're good at it or simply because you're female?
"...that might help prevent such mishaps..."
I might possibly be pushed more towards apparent annoyance by this non-commital language. Let's start with the unqualified version, then add the qualifiers one by one:
...that prevents such mishaps... (good, a solution!)
...that helps prevent such mishaps... (so they will still happen, they'll just be reduced)
...that might help prevent such mishaps... (so it might not even do anything?)
"Why are financial institutions allowed to provide your private financial records to another private organization?"
Probably because you authorized them to do it by agreeing to their terms. Take your business elsewhere (assuming any offer privacy).
Yeah but with all those bold-faced phrases and implied wrong-doing, it's fun to read!
I hate to be technical, but the GPL only covers derivitive works, not mere use/listening of something under its license; it's not an end-user license, even though I often encounter GPL programs which erroneously require me to agree to the GPL before I can even run the program.
That's over TWO MINUTES more recording per disc! Think of all you can do with two minutes: longer can't-skip intro, menu transitions that take longer to finish, extra credits at the end of the movie. The possibilities are endless, and poor Blu-Ray can't do that.
If only they had read DHMO Research Division's Facts About Dihydrogen Monoxide, they would have known the dangers posed by this unrestricted substance. Ban DHMO now!
"An example, Me and my band is making an album and for one of our songs we bring a radio into the recording booth and just record one song directly from air and put it on our album without paying royalties to the creators of that song, that is theft."
That's copyright infringement, not theft. Both are illegal, but this doesn't make them equivalent.
"Outright theft is when someones work is stolen and passed off as your own FOR PROFIT."
Outright theft is when something is taken. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the original songs are still available for download on the web.
And then they throw climate in too:
"the magazine cites 'worsening nuclear [and] climate threats.
(unless they are referring to climate changes that cause social tension, that then causes nuclear war)
That's it; hand over your programmer badge and quietly log off this site.
The more important question, what is the chair repair market without Steve Ballmer?
"I read that Apple TV works without DRM, well the DVI signal to the TV/monitor is not encrypted. How does that fit into this picture?"
DRM doesn't affect image scaling at all.
But... isn't it only illegal for cops (or other law enforcement) to set someone up? Contrary to what they believe, the MAFIAA (MPAA+RIAA) are not an arm of law enforcement.
OMG, that means that the sun might have exploded or burned out already, and we won't know for EIGHT MINUTES!!! Remember the opening for Terminator? That could be about to happen in 8 minutes!
It's even more interesting when you consider other ways that we "see" the past, for example a footprint in the sand. In this "light", everything around us is a reflection of the past, so were "seeing" things as far back as history goes. Some of these things go unnoticed due to them being part of our assumptions about reality itself.
How do you verify that the serial number is a) a valid one for that product model, and b) the one for the item for sale (and not copied from another auction)? Legit sellers could post photos of the back of the device with the serial number visible, but this would still allow many kinds of deception.
Power supply filter capacitors are generally added in excess so that there is plenty of margin. Losing one will reduce this margin for that area of the board, kind of like overclocking where you increase the chance of error. When you crushed the capacitor, you probably also shorted its terminals together, and when you cleaned it up, you probably un-shorted them again.
Yep, I've had a couple of CRT monitors that failed simply due to aging power supply capacitors. Replaced them and it was up and working again. Quite a chore to disassemble the thing, but I hate wasting an otherwise perfectly usable monitor.