At least I think he wrote it, Google is failing me. His more serious contributions are swamping the results. The story was about a kid in a bad family raised by a "loving" robot and society's refusal to accept that. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Essentially, yes. National Geographic's piece had this quote:
"Basically, it was a Y2K problem, where some software didn't roll over the calendar date correctly," said A'Hearn. The spacecraft's fault-protection software (ironically enough) would have misread any date after August 11, 2013, he said, triggering an endless series of computer reboots aboard Deep Impact.
As far as I can tell the significance of that date is that it is approximately 2^32 tenths of a second into the millennium.
Considering the costs and difficulties of sending extra mass along, maybe use another module instead of a counterweight. The crew can EVA between them or there could even be a connecting tube. If you use a rigid connector instead of tethers it will be easier to spin up and down. You can use an electric motor to spin up and maintain speed and possibly recapture the energy with a dynamo when spinning down.
Back to the point, they (?used to?) make drafting stools that are much more comfortable than a typical utilitarian bar stool. In my experience they almost all had backs, most had cushioned seats, and some of them had arm rests.
The headline is referring to the article which says that, independent of other sources of rising sea levels, thermal expansion is already underway and won't reverse easily.
US emissions have fallen due to the recession and to the increased use of natural gas at the expense of coal. The former won't last, hopefully, but if the latter trend sticks it would be good.
'Our statistical methodology seems almost calculated to obscure just how far our country is falling behind many other industrialized nations in broadband availability, adoption, speed and price.'
I don't actually know a thing about it, but given the processes and 'inputs' that go into these things, it probably was, in fact, calculated to do just that: paint a rosy picture.
It seems that the first response to the parent (which claims that PCBs are made of silicon) has cost this post some points. You know that/. isn't what it once was when people don't know the difference between a chip and a PCB... Sad day.
I'm not ready to say that the FCC _should_ do this, but it would be interesting. It would be cool if you could use some sort of universal id and use whichever network was currently present or was the best one to use (signal strength, price, TOS, etc). A good handset would handle it automatically according to your preferences.
Please excuse the hubris of the next paragraph.
Just for the heck of it, should such a market come to pass in this or any other country, and should someone get the idea to create a device that automatically negotiates (whether passively or interactively) a contract with a provider, this post is prior art on any patent describing such a device.
Or, the router could come with default DHCP settings, but you couldn't change those until you held down a button while logging in to the interface... at which point it would require you to create credentials before it would proceed. Sounds complicated, and it is a little bit so, but the default would work with most setups and the manufacturers have already tried button-triggered setup for wireless.
Heck, just make it default to denying login to the admin panel over wireless. Make them plug in with ethernet OR hold down the button and etc.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that a practical assessment of the competing software products should be made and there is no place for emotions in such an assessment. The problem with dismissing so-called political, or even ideological, arguments is that there is often (some would say always) much more to a particular software package than the software itself.
You have to evaluate the whole package for a particular use, and if you are setting broad government policy you must consider many other implications.
I'm not going to present any arguments for FOSS here, but I do think that governments really should consider making it a component of their policy.
(Interestingly enough you can prove that this is true in the general case of government spending, assuming only that a capitalist economy outperforms a government based one - but no one cares, not when it comes to their job! Something to remember whenever a congress-critter talks about the jobs they have brought to the state...)
What if they brought jobs to their state be reducing or removing pre-existing government intervention, huh? Hah, didn't think about that, did you? OK, I admin it it's not common, but still... it could happen!
And the works of shakespeare themselves might appeal to more people if someone did a decent modern-english translation of them.
Shakespeare didn't write in prose, he wrote in (mostly) blank verse. The words are everything. Translating them into modern English would leave you with some decent stories with good character development (if translated well) but that is all. Most people have at least as much difficulty, at first, with the sheer flexibility and volume of metaphor and imagery of his language as they do with its antiquity. Of course, they tend to both add up together. The reason I mention this is that a little time spent with a well-annotated play will get most people into the swing of things enough to enjoy the plays more than suffer from them. From that point, the ratio will improve rapidly. By the second play, or so, it's all good.
Everytime my partner and I encountered a little problem and one of us had an idea, he had to explain it to the other, which took at least 3 times as long as just typing it out, which in almost every case made the idea perfectly clear.
That doesn't really add up. If typing the solution was usually sufficient to explain it, then how was it that explaining would take three times as long? I mean you just type, point at the screen.... maybe grunt a little.
Maybe it was convincing each other took that three times as long as typing the solution, but that would be perfectly acceptable.
DRM is a reality and to deny this is to be simply ignorant of current trends in media playback software/hardware stacks.
True. It is also a reality that DRM will always be broken. It only takes one copy to be broken and put on the network. But that still leaves the person who bought a DVD or Blu-Ray or whatever with media that will be a hassle to deal with. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it will be brilliant and completely stay out of the user's way. I doubt it. Regardless, that pirated, DRM-free, copy will still be out there floating on the net. If you can't stop people from breaking it and putting it on the net, way hassle your regular customers?
Here is a speech that Cory Doctorow gave at Microsoft a while back. It goes into more detail and generally presents the argument better.
I don't say that content owners shouldn't be allowed to put DRM (of the non-rootkit variety) on their media, I just think they would be better off persuing other business strategies.
Or this one. It's free and has several rule sets, lots of prebuilt maps and user-built maps. It's written in Java, you can play with whoever is logged in (usually 100 or so, atm) or with bots or with both. The interface is pretty good, although the server goes down from time to time. In fact, it's probably going to get hosed if people here are that interested in it. Don't forget to donate!
3. It's a game. The fact of the matter is, virtual items are not dealt with via modern law. In the future, they very well might be, but presently, as far as the law is concerned, there is no scam, no theft, no anything. Go before a judge complaining about your loss of a few million ISK while saying, 'actual real cash value' and you'd be laughed out of court.
IANAL, but the law is subtler than you think. Quite apart from what legislation exists, or even what precedent exists, judges will use their discretion. I don't know how good a chance a plaintiff would have of showing that a fraud was perpetrated, but I really don't think it would be open and shut.
People sometimes think of the law in terms of the rules to a board game. It's not like that. It covers things like intent and indirect damage in addition to the clear-cut technicalities.
I'm not saying this guy would lose in court, just that if someone brought a suit alleging 130K in fraud, then I don't think they would be laughed out. As long as they resisted the urge to cosplay it.
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At least I think he wrote it, Google is failing me. His more serious contributions are swamping the results. The story was about a kid in a bad family raised by a "loving" robot and society's refusal to accept that. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Upton Sinclair. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Essentially, yes. National Geographic's piece had this quote:
As far as I can tell the significance of that date is that it is approximately 2^32 tenths of a second into the millennium.
Considering the costs and difficulties of sending extra mass along, maybe use another module instead of a counterweight. The crew can EVA between them or there could even be a connecting tube. If you use a rigid connector instead of tethers it will be easier to spin up and down. You can use an electric motor to spin up and maintain speed and possibly recapture the energy with a dynamo when spinning down.
Classic PA comic. The only time a webcomic has caused me to change my behavior (AFAIK).
Back to the point, they (?used to?) make drafting stools that are much more comfortable than a typical utilitarian bar stool. In my experience they almost all had backs, most had cushioned seats, and some of them had arm rests.
Backs and arms? Are you sure it was a stool?
His father was nominally Texan by virtue of using a Houston hotel as his official residence. W, however, spent most of his adult life in Texas.
The headline is referring to the article which says that, independent of other sources of rising sea levels, thermal expansion is already underway and won't reverse easily.
US emissions have fallen due to the recession and to the increased use of natural gas at the expense of coal. The former won't last, hopefully, but if the latter trend sticks it would be good.
The fact that it is not clear to you, in particular, what the code does is fairly unimportant.
In fact, it is not as you guess - it will override existing inline styles.
And finally, why would you bother building an argument on such an arbitrary supposition?
s/check-it-out dept./spell-check-it dept./
I don't actually know a thing about it, but given the processes and 'inputs' that go into these things, it probably was, in fact, calculated to do just that: paint a rosy picture.
It seems that the first response to the parent (which claims that PCBs are made of silicon) has cost this post some points. You know that /. isn't what it once was when people don't know the difference between a chip and a PCB ... Sad day.
That was their method of studying the plastic, not producing it.
I'm not ready to say that the FCC _should_ do this, but it would be interesting. It would be cool if you could use some sort of universal id and use whichever network was currently present or was the best one to use (signal strength, price, TOS, etc). A good handset would handle it automatically according to your preferences.
Please excuse the hubris of the next paragraph.
Just for the heck of it, should such a market come to pass in this or any other country, and should someone get the idea to create a device that automatically negotiates (whether passively or interactively) a contract with a provider, this post is prior art on any patent describing such a device.
Or, the router could come with default DHCP settings, but you couldn't change those until you held down a button while logging in to the interface ... at which point it would require you to create credentials before it would proceed. Sounds complicated, and it is a little bit so, but the default would work with most setups and the manufacturers have already tried button-triggered setup for wireless.
Heck, just make it default to denying login to the admin panel over wireless. Make them plug in with ethernet OR hold down the button and etc.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that a practical assessment of the competing software products should be made and there is no place for emotions in such an assessment. The problem with dismissing so-called political, or even ideological, arguments is that there is often (some would say always) much more to a particular software package than the software itself.
You have to evaluate the whole package for a particular use, and if you are setting broad government policy you must consider many other implications.
I'm not going to present any arguments for FOSS here, but I do think that governments really should consider making it a component of their policy.
Followed by:
The submitter is saying that the claims and counter claims are of partisanship and bias not of climate change itself. Yeesh.
What if they brought jobs to their state be reducing or removing pre-existing government intervention, huh? Hah, didn't think about that, did you? OK, I admin it it's not common, but still
Shakespeare didn't write in prose, he wrote in (mostly) blank verse. The words are everything. Translating them into modern English would leave you with some decent stories with good character development (if translated well) but that is all. Most people have at least as much difficulty, at first, with the sheer flexibility and volume of metaphor and imagery of his language as they do with its antiquity. Of course, they tend to both add up together. The reason I mention this is that a little time spent with a well-annotated play will get most people into the swing of things enough to enjoy the plays more than suffer from them. From that point, the ratio will improve rapidly. By the second play, or so, it's all good.
That doesn't really add up. If typing the solution was usually sufficient to explain it, then how was it that explaining would take three times as long? I mean you just type, point at the screen
Maybe it was convincing each other took that three times as long as typing the solution, but that would be perfectly acceptable.
True. It is also a reality that DRM will always be broken. It only takes one copy to be broken and put on the network. But that still leaves the person who bought a DVD or Blu-Ray or whatever with media that will be a hassle to deal with. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it will be brilliant and completely stay out of the user's way. I doubt it. Regardless, that pirated, DRM-free, copy will still be out there floating on the net. If you can't stop people from breaking it and putting it on the net, way hassle your regular customers?
Here is a speech that Cory Doctorow gave at Microsoft a while back. It goes into more detail and generally presents the argument better.
I don't say that content owners shouldn't be allowed to put DRM (of the non-rootkit variety) on their media, I just think they would be better off persuing other business strategies.
Or this one. It's free and has several rule sets, lots of prebuilt maps and user-built maps. It's written in Java, you can play with whoever is logged in (usually 100 or so, atm) or with bots or with both. The interface is pretty good, although the server goes down from time to time. In fact, it's probably going to get hosed if people here are that interested in it. Don't forget to donate!
IANAL, but the law is subtler than you think. Quite apart from what legislation exists, or even what precedent exists, judges will use their discretion. I don't know how good a chance a plaintiff would have of showing that a fraud was perpetrated, but I really don't think it would be open and shut.
People sometimes think of the law in terms of the rules to a board game. It's not like that. It covers things like intent and indirect damage in addition to the clear-cut technicalities.
I'm not saying this guy would lose in court, just that if someone brought a suit alleging 130K in fraud, then I don't think they would be laughed out. As long as they resisted the urge to cosplay it.
Define 'qualified'.
How are they to be selected? By whom?