The Huns wore silk to protect themselves in battle. There were no bullets back then, just arrows and blades. While the arrows could still penetrate the flesh, they often did not cut through the silk which made it easier to remove the arrows and stem the bleeding. BTW, like tee-shirts, silk is imprintable -- "We're on the run, we're lotta fun, we are the Huns!"
Yes, that's actually true! They also wore silk scarves to prevent neck chops, because "there can be only Huns!"
My personal opinion is that this is a face-saving law. The new law is 99.9% inapplicable in practice. There is just no way thousands of people can go through the court system every month as is the government's plan. Plus people are *very* likely to put up a good fight, like they have done everywhere. There are no possible settlement.
As I understand it, the plan is to use the same expedited process as for parking or speeding tickets, which has little trouble dealing with thousands of violations each month. In that regard, IP logs might be admitted in the same way as photographic evidence from speed-trap cameras.
check marks on a piece of paper, that can then be scanned optically, is no more complicated than voting should ever get.
It's even easier than that. You have paper ballots, each bearing a single name. You choose one, put it in the provided envelope and then drop it in the (transparent) ballot box. Counting is done manually, with ballots being opened by one person, read aloud by another and checked by a third. Two independent tallies are simultaneously made, each with one person counting and one monitoring. In larger precints, the ballots may be split among multiple counting tables. All is done in public, anyone can attend.
The only piece of technology involved is the mechanical counter on the ballot box. What need is there for more?
Having scanned the papers, I think I understand the underlying motivation for his creation: he doesn't intend to replace real numbers, where infinity is a limit, but to improve on IEEE floats, where + and - are actual numbers and you indeed have 1.0f / 0.0f == 1.#INF. The problem is that good ol' NaN is not mathematically consistent. A lot of library functions will spit out NaNs when used outside their domains, but NaN's properties do not match the conditions that bring it into play. He has a dislike for the fact that NaN != NaN, which is useful to us to detect an error condition, but has no mathematical justification beyond conventions set out in the IEEE 754 standard.
Of course, presenting division by zero as an unsolvable problem for computer scientists is unfortunate hyperbole, and teaching students to work with his structure in regular coursework is misguided: it belongs in an abstract algebra course. But conceptually, while his idea probably won't cause revolution in computer engineering, it isn't complete nonsense either.
Considering how Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia are all located to the West of Italy, with Morocco itself facing Spain, I honestly don't think they can or should be called Middle Eastern nations.
Some people needs to review their geography a tiny little bit.
Actually, I'm thinking "used games". This is a nice way for tham to make used games less attractive, since the original purchaser will already have consumed any "credit" that came bundled with the game (and we're not talking about a MMO subscription here). Instead you'll have to go back to Sony and pay them before the game becomes usable. Pure genius.
1) Make money off the initial sale. 2) Make money off the used game market. 3) Profit!
Ummm.... if it's $85/month, it isn't really "free," is it?
If it means I am not billed by the minute, as all calls are otherwise (including local calls), that may be a very attractive offer. And as others have pointed out, you are not just paying for phone service.
It has to explained out all over again every time an article of that type gets posted: phase velocity can exceed the speed of light in a vacuum, group velocity cannot.
I think you've nailed it right on the head. On the gamedev.net forums, I see kids coming in almost every day who aspire to write an MMORPG right now. Many give up when you try to guide them through their first step because they can't immediately manage results on par with the games they usually play.
Yesterday, we heard that the bill could be rejected. Now we know it has been rejected. I think the topic is important enough not to be relegated to a Slashback update.
Your second point is entirely correct. I too would have preferred if software patents actually got banned EU-wide.
I wonder what's going to stop **AA from shutting down the login servers. Sure, there might not be trackers to shut down, but a network is no good if nobody can join it. How do you expect to find out who your "peers" are otherwise?
Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
Secondly, does anyone really need live TV via their laptop - it would seem using installed lcd displays is a whole lot easier.
Well, if they are going to give you internet access in the first place, that way they save on the lcd display. The question now is, if all you want is 'plain' internet access, are they going to charge you extra for the live TV 'service' anyway?
Look at the install docs agains and figure it out.
It would help a lot if the install docs mentioned the global name 'wx' not to mention its meaning...wxPython changed its architecture in version 2.5, dropping the wx prefix. Check the migration guide. Boa Constructor apparently relies on an older version, install it.
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The Huns wore silk to protect themselves in battle. There were no bullets back then, just arrows and blades. While the arrows could still penetrate the flesh, they often did not cut through the silk which made it easier to remove the arrows and stem the bleeding. BTW, like tee-shirts, silk is imprintable -- "We're on the run, we're lotta fun, we are the Huns!"
Yes, that's actually true! They also wore silk scarves to prevent neck chops, because "there can be only Huns!"
My personal opinion is that this is a face-saving law. The new law is 99.9% inapplicable in practice. There is just no way thousands of people can go through the court system every month as is the government's plan. Plus people are *very* likely to put up a good fight, like they have done everywhere. There are no possible settlement.
As I understand it, the plan is to use the same expedited process as for parking or speeding tickets, which has little trouble dealing with thousands of violations each month. In that regard, IP logs might be admitted in the same way as photographic evidence from speed-trap cameras.
It's even easier than that. You have paper ballots, each bearing a single name. You choose one, put it in the provided envelope and then drop it in the (transparent) ballot box. Counting is done manually, with ballots being opened by one person, read aloud by another and checked by a third. Two independent tallies are simultaneously made, each with one person counting and one monitoring. In larger precints, the ballots may be split among multiple counting tables. All is done in public, anyone can attend.
The only piece of technology involved is the mechanical counter on the ballot box. What need is there for more?
Grr. I meant +infinity and -infinity.
Having scanned the papers, I think I understand the underlying motivation for his creation: he doesn't intend to replace real numbers, where infinity is a limit, but to improve on IEEE floats, where + and - are actual numbers and you indeed have 1.0f / 0.0f == 1.#INF. The problem is that good ol' NaN is not mathematically consistent. A lot of library functions will spit out NaNs when used outside their domains, but NaN's properties do not match the conditions that bring it into play. He has a dislike for the fact that NaN != NaN, which is useful to us to detect an error condition, but has no mathematical justification beyond conventions set out in the IEEE 754 standard. Of course, presenting division by zero as an unsolvable problem for computer scientists is unfortunate hyperbole, and teaching students to work with his structure in regular coursework is misguided: it belongs in an abstract algebra course. But conceptually, while his idea probably won't cause revolution in computer engineering, it isn't complete nonsense either.
Well, it's an excellent opportunity to learn.
Considering how Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia are all located to the West of Italy, with Morocco itself facing Spain, I honestly don't think they can or should be called Middle Eastern nations. Some people needs to review their geography a tiny little bit.
Actually, I'm thinking "used games". This is a nice way for tham to make used games less attractive, since the original purchaser will already have consumed any "credit" that came bundled with the game (and we're not talking about a MMO subscription here). Instead you'll have to go back to Sony and pay them before the game becomes usable. Pure genius.
1) Make money off the initial sale.
2) Make money off the used game market.
3) Profit!
If it means I am not billed by the minute, as all calls are otherwise (including local calls), that may be a very attractive offer. And as others have pointed out, you are not just paying for phone service.
It has to explained out all over again every time an article of that type gets posted: phase velocity can exceed the speed of light in a vacuum, group velocity cannot.
I think you've nailed it right on the head. On the gamedev.net forums, I see kids coming in almost every day who aspire to write an MMORPG right now. Many give up when you try to guide them through their first step because they can't immediately manage results on par with the games they usually play.
It's not "legally" vs. "illegally", but, say, "legally" vs. "medically".
It's not really a duplicate post.
Yesterday, we heard that the bill could be rejected. Now we know it has been rejected. I think the topic is important enough not to be relegated to a Slashback update.
Your second point is entirely correct. I too would have preferred if software patents actually got banned EU-wide.
I wonder what's going to stop **AA from shutting down the login servers. Sure, there might not be trackers to shut down, but a network is no good if nobody can join it. How do you expect to find out who your "peers" are otherwise?
Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
Well, if they are going to give you internet access in the first place, that way they save on the lcd display. The question now is, if all you want is 'plain' internet access, are they going to charge you extra for the live TV 'service' anyway?
* Caller ID Falsification Service
* Caller ID Spoofing Firm Gets Death Threats
I'm sure people can be fooled into answering calls apparently originating from their own phone number...
It's obviously a flux capacitor.
Can a crypto-geek sum up the consequences for all of us dummies? Thanks.
Obvious question: what fraction of Intel's chip manufactures is actually located in the USA?
Nope, I received one today.
It would help a lot if the install docs mentioned the global name 'wx' not to mention its meaning... wxPython changed its architecture in version 2.5, dropping the wx prefix. Check the migration guide. Boa Constructor apparently relies on an older version, install it.