It seems like if this is upheld not only would it mean that one can not delete files from one's PC but that there would be other issues at stake.
For example, I know that in many network environments at colleges and universities its common that every time a computer is rebooted its changed back to a default image to remove any spy ware, viruses, or just programs that users may have installed on the computers while they were using the computer.
Additionally, this would mean that if I format and reinstall my registry is cleared... so that could become a DMCA violation.
Editing a registry entry is not copyright circumvention, nor is reinstalling or restoring to an image. If they want to limit the number of coupons that someone prints out they can tie the coupons to the individual's real name verified by a credit card and require an account log-in. It might turn some people off to the service, but it is a much better way then using the registry to assign a unique identifier to individuals. If they decide not to do this because they want to distribute more coupons that is risk they take due to doing business in an unsecured manner.
I won't buy the game because of multiplayer. Having humans take 10 min turns is fine it allows one to do something else while playing the game like study or work on a paper. They could also add in a simultanous turn option where everyone takes their turn at once (as in buildings, movement, etc doesn't happen until everyone clicks on the end of turn button) that way one wouldn't wait long to take a turn. The other option is PEM (play by e-mail) that causes games that last for months (7-8) but large amounts of strat as one can take very long turns if one so desires.
"their office suite cannot be matched by anything available for Linux n stability, user-friendliness, and many other factors."
Sure it can have you ever tried Star Office. It is stable, fast, and user-friendly. It is so user friendly that it has an option to look like it is running on Mac, Windows, or Linux so that if you are switching OS you can still feel like you are in the OS you are most familiar with when you need to get some serious work done and don't feel like menu hunting.
I'm supprised that your TI-83 withstood being run over. I had a TI-86 and it fell from a table that was around 1m high and the fall caused the LCD screen to need to be replaced.
Humm, be in a very large country that is very cold most of the year. And then of course you have to do with Quebec a large part of the country that wants to break away from the rest of it (but the country refuses to let them -- some freedon) and also a country where it is legal to hunt whales. No I'm not bashing Canada, I'm trying to be funny... sorry if I offended anyone.
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Thanks, this is quite helpful I will have to alert all of my friends. I goto a school in Southwest FL and we use Bess and all of its anoying options (there are a bunch of different levels of filtering) it blocks practically everything including/. (Bboards are bad) and there has been many a case when I desired to show an article to a teacher (many of the articles have revelevence to my Law class).
Although I'm not a biologist, I would assume that the aging process would slow down severly simply because aging is a low chemical trick and chemical reactions occur slower at lower temperatures and therefore at a tem of say 3C (for saftey so one wouldn't become too cold) one's chemical reactions would slow down by a great factor (espically because most of one's reactions are catazlyzed by enzymes that are temperature dependant and they would not function properly at such a low temperature)... Since we really don't have a clue how memory works I'm not going to venture a guess, other then if one was to go to sleep prior to being frozen one would probably not know the difference (if you take a two hour nap or a twenty hour doze after a long hacking run and don't look at an alarm clock or outside and feel exactly the same degree of tiredness afterwards do you know how long you slept, no you do not. I see no reason why freezing would be any different although one might have to wake up every (amount of years that is = to one of normal body functiong) or so to eat (and exercise 1/virtual week) something so one didn't starve to death or have their muscles atropy. I'd love to beta test this, but it still appears to be in the alpha stages.
Nick
I just like having the source and knowing that it is there on my computer, the only binaries that I have ever downloaded were compilers and things not released in source.
I got the statistic mainly from personal observation, and a paper read at Church 2 Sundays ago. Not the most reliable sources I know, but statistics are statistics and can be easily manupliated by anyone.
Nick
Yes, we are talking about childred as young as 12 or 13. And, 12 is the average reported age then males begin to be sexually active in the U.S. whereas the age for girls is 13. If they are sexually active I doubt looking at pr0n is going to scar them, but rather it might give them some new and different ideas. Yes, this might be shocking to those of you in who have been living in the real world for some time, but as a 17 year old this is the absoulte truth. People have sex eariler then age 12 too, and they don't completly understand it (due to our prudish sex education in this country), but it happens more then you might like to think...
Nick
This article is interesting, but seems to have some one glaring problem. It talks about shipments of licenses, does that mean that those of us who download Linux (and the license) are excluded from their cacluation? Perhaps they should have used installed licenses instead. Other then that and their incorrect prediction that Linux will only grow a few slightly instead of continuing at its current rapid pace it is a useful article. Espically when your trying to convince Old Pointy Hair to switch to a real operating system.
Why do we need this HOW-TO black holes are a good thing, no one has ever gone into one we should be making HOW-TOs about black hole exploration or HOW-TO-Live-In-Black-Holes, and we espically need a HOW-TO-Run-Linux-In-Black-Holes, as time slows down toward the inside of a black hole and not enough research has gone to how to use Linux in a timeless enviroment. -Nick
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It seems like if this is upheld not only would it mean that one can not delete files from one's PC but that there would be other issues at stake.
For example, I know that in many network environments at colleges and universities its common that every time a computer is rebooted its changed back to a default image to remove any spy ware, viruses, or just programs that users may have installed on the computers while they were using the computer.
Additionally, this would mean that if I format and reinstall my registry is cleared... so that could become a DMCA violation.
Editing a registry entry is not copyright circumvention, nor is reinstalling or restoring to an image. If they want to limit the number of coupons that someone prints out they can tie the coupons to the individual's real name verified by a credit card and require an account log-in. It might turn some people off to the service, but it is a much better way then using the registry to assign a unique identifier to individuals. If they decide not to do this because they want to distribute more coupons that is risk they take due to doing business in an unsecured manner.
I won't buy the game because of multiplayer. Having humans take 10 min turns is fine it allows one to do something else while playing the game like study or work on a paper. They could also add in a simultanous turn option where everyone takes their turn at once (as in buildings, movement, etc doesn't happen until everyone clicks on the end of turn button) that way one wouldn't wait long to take a turn. The other option is PEM (play by e-mail) that causes games that last for months (7-8) but large amounts of strat as one can take very long turns if one so desires.
"their office suite cannot be matched by anything available for Linux n stability, user-friendliness, and many other factors."
Sure it can have you ever tried Star Office. It is stable, fast, and user-friendly. It is so user friendly that it has an option to look like it is running on Mac, Windows, or Linux so that if you are switching OS you can still feel like you are in the OS you are most familiar with when you need to get some serious work done and don't feel like menu hunting.
a_1242
Actually it was "A penny saved is two pennies earned". (Due to smart investment practices). It has been dumbed down for stupid people to understand.
I'm supprised that your TI-83 withstood being run over. I had a TI-86 and it fell from a table that was around 1m high and the fall caused the LCD screen to need to be replaced.
Humm, be in a very large country that is very cold most of the year. And then of course you have to do with Quebec a large part of the country that wants to break away from the rest of it (but the country refuses to let them -- some freedon) and also a country where it is legal to hunt whales. No I'm not bashing Canada, I'm trying to be funny... sorry if I offended anyone.
Nibs
Thanks, this is quite helpful I will have to alert all of my friends. I goto a school in Southwest FL and we use Bess and all of its anoying options (there are a bunch of different levels of filtering) it blocks practically everything including /. (Bboards are bad) and there has been many a case when I desired to show an article to a teacher (many of the articles have revelevence to my Law class).
Although I'm not a biologist, I would assume that the aging process would slow down severly simply because aging is a low chemical trick and chemical reactions occur slower at lower temperatures and therefore at a tem of say 3C (for saftey so one wouldn't become too cold) one's chemical reactions would slow down by a great factor (espically because most of one's reactions are catazlyzed by enzymes that are temperature dependant and they would not function properly at such a low temperature)... Since we really don't have a clue how memory works I'm not going to venture a guess, other then if one was to go to sleep prior to being frozen one would probably not know the difference (if you take a two hour nap or a twenty hour doze after a long hacking run and don't look at an alarm clock or outside and feel exactly the same degree of tiredness afterwards do you know how long you slept, no you do not. I see no reason why freezing would be any different although one might have to wake up every (amount of years that is = to one of normal body functiong) or so to eat (and exercise 1/virtual week) something so one didn't starve to death or have their muscles atropy. I'd love to beta test this, but it still appears to be in the alpha stages.
Nick
I just like having the source and knowing that it is there on my computer, the only binaries that I have ever downloaded were compilers and things not released in source.
I got the statistic mainly from personal observation, and a paper read at Church 2 Sundays ago. Not the most reliable sources I know, but statistics are statistics and can be easily manupliated by anyone.
Nick
Yes, we are talking about childred as young as 12 or 13. And, 12 is the average reported age then males begin to be sexually active in the U.S. whereas the age for girls is 13. If they are sexually active I doubt looking at pr0n is going to scar them, but rather it might give them some new and different ideas. Yes, this might be shocking to those of you in who have been living in the real world for some time, but as a 17 year old this is the absoulte truth. People have sex eariler then age 12 too, and they don't completly understand it (due to our prudish sex education in this country), but it happens more then you might like to think...
Nick
This article is interesting, but seems to have some one glaring problem. It talks about shipments of licenses, does that mean that those of us who download Linux (and the license) are excluded from their cacluation? Perhaps they should have used installed licenses instead. Other then that and their incorrect prediction that Linux will only grow a few slightly instead of continuing at its current rapid pace it is a useful article. Espically when your trying to convince Old Pointy Hair to switch to a real operating system.
Why do we need this HOW-TO black holes are a good thing, no one has ever gone into one we should be making HOW-TOs about black hole exploration or HOW-TO-Live-In-Black-Holes, and we espically need a HOW-TO-Run-Linux-In-Black-Holes, as time slows down toward the inside of a black hole and not enough research has gone to how to use Linux in a timeless enviroment.
-Nick