I'm absolutely, 100%, positively sure about this. So is every review of the movie I can find online.
They didn't have USD because they don't use money in the future...remember when they first arrive on earth? They need money?
Scotty traded the guy the formula for transparent aluminum. It was a *plexiglass* factory. It's even mentioned in the movie (I forget by who) that it will take years just to figure out how to synthesize... and they needed their plexiglass *immediately*.
Where does it say you cannot LOOK at code and learn from it? Derivative does not mean 'inspired by' or 'made with knowledge gained from'.. it means you took significant enough portions of the original code and added to it.
But you can LOOK at it to see how the API works all you want.
I think you are a bit confused.
If he's doing his own OS, it's not beneficial to use the linux source *anyway*. All he's doing is implementing syscalls.. which simply means making the functionst in his own OS take the same args as the linux ones, in laymans terms. Ripping the guts out of the kernel routines in linux would be almost useless.
WINE for christ's sake. But easier, because you don't have to reverse-engineer the APIs.
All they have to do is implement the proper syscalls, which are documented in the linux source code. They don't even need source to do this.
What do you mean 'without looking at the original source'. Anyone is free to look at the linux kernel source, for any reason.
ANd learn what syscalls are...
I would imagine both would happen.
I think you are correct; if you are the one providing the internet gateway you could be viewed as providing a network service.
on the other hand, if everyone just has some antennas, using 802.11b, nobody is actually 'providing' anything....
Having worked at a company designing and building the devices you use to deploy such networks...
This isn't about Internet. You missed the point.
It's about setting up neighborhood networks, so neighbors can communicate without paying anyone.
At some point, this can grow so different neighborhoods can talk to each other, over whatever means are available.
At some point, this can turn into an internet. In fact, tha'ts how the interent worked in the first place....
non-connected sites still used IP addresses, assigned to them to be unique to their organization, so they could someday hook up to others.
So.. first. I'm not talking about building 'free internet' for people.. just neighborhood networks.
So you get a bunch of networks.. people doing whatever. Then you get some networks hooking up with other networks over whatever is convenient. Then you need some kind of unique routable addressing scheme... like IP.....
The way the internet USED to work was, if you were building a network, you would use IP, and you would get your address space assigned, regardless of whether you were hooked up to another site or not. The reason for the unique addresses was so that you could join to another network if you wanted someday. The Internet is the result of this practice. Now it's all perverted.
So what we really need to do is start again. And we can do it, with ipv6.
I agree with all your points but the last. Or at least, with regards to microsoft, I disagree.
Although you are technically 'purchasing' software right now.. it becomes outdated quickly as everyone moves to whatever microsoft tells them is next. This means yearly upgrades, expensive, even though you 'purchased' the previou software. Microsoft has done this to get poeple used to think this is 'normal'. Now they come along and offer to rent software instead.. which, at this moment, is cheaper than upgrading every year with outright purchases. Why buy when it's outdated every year anyway? A car or a house, you can keep for 10 years, or a lifetime, respectively.
You can't do that with Microsoft software. (I say microsoft..becuase you certainly COULD do this with some software)
Absolute zero is -273.15C (or is it.16)
or 0K There is no such thing as 'degrees kelvin'; the proper way to say it is 'zero kelvins'.
And this discovery has absolutely nothing to do with superconductivity; only that they were trying to produce a superconductor when they discovered it was magnetic. This is not an advancement in superconductivity. They didn't produce a superconductor. That's obvious even without reading the article...
Also, you are correct about superconductors.. but... the reason microprocessors work is because they are full of SEMIconductors... transistors... you HAVE to have resistance.. you can't build logic with pure superconductors.
They traded the forumla for transparent aluminum to the guy in exchange for the plexiglass they needed; they didn't have any money.
Even with the molecular structure, it would have taken years to figure out how to make it.
What do you find hilarious? How do you feel they should be named? Who should name them, if not the discoverer?
Buckyballs is a nickname; the compound is 'buckminsterfullerene'.. a fitting name, given the molecule's resemblence to Buckminster Fuller's domes.
And why do you think bad things happen? Even though we're 'trying' to do the right thing? What they are TRYING to do is experiment - test their hypothesis. It's okay to be wrong.. that's the whole point of the scientific method. Real scientists never, ever expect to be right all the time; you experiment so you can further your research, whether it's to cut-off a certain avenue of thinking with certainty, or try to open up a new one.
I think I recall that we used something akin to a war-measures act, allowing us to suspend normal process, to pass the act.
I don't know about the court system; I don't think so. I don't believe our court system is quite as convoluted as the US system (doesn't need to be, we have 10x less people)
Tax matters go through the normal court system.
I do recall on story (somewhat of an urban legend, but it's true) of a man who refused to pay taxes, for various reasons. Basically, he took a copy of the Constitution of Canada, and the British North-America Act (BNA Act) to court with him every time he was taken to court by Revenue Canada. Every year, for something like 5 or 6 or so years, they would sieze his stuff, arrest him, and have him in court for tax evasion. He would come out with his copy of hte BNA act and something else, and then Revenue Canada would drop the charges because they were not prepared to defend themselves against this. After several years of this.. the judge finally told Revenue Candada that if they brought the man to court again, and simply dropped the charges, he would have them for harassment.
eBay has been one of the bright spots of the internet. As a NYSE listed company, you'd expect more to be done about helping customers.
Yes, if things make sense, they should do them.. but only if it will sustain their business. A small fraction of transactions are fraudulent, and an even smaller number of those actually result in people not using the service anymore. Hardly worth the money to add 'extra services' to the company do deal with fraud.. especially when they are not a party to it! Ebay's service is to hook alleged buyers & sellers together, that's all. They do not make any guarantees.
that they would actually provide for this kind of service with Paypal (though I know it's increasingly common).
In the case of paypal.. paypal is the one taking the cc payment.. not the pereson you are using paypal to send money to. As long as the money paypal took is valid.. the transaction should be valid as far as the credit company is concerned.
I'd imagine paypal could dispute the fact that it's fraud as well. Paypal charged your credit card to deposit to your account. Nothing fraudulent about that whatsoever.
Ebay is very clear about what they do and do not do; about the role they play.
IT is not their responsbility to ensure that you get your product. They make this VERY clear. It is up to the Buyer and Seller individually to sort out mutually acceptable terms. Ebay is just facilitating the auction.
Ebay is NOT responsible for fixing the problem. Ebay did not vouch for the users. Ebay did not guarantee you anything, and Ebay did not take your money.
As for the 'swindling' part.. you could do that *anyway*, even without ebay. Oh wait.. people DO do that in real life.
As for credit card numbers.. ebay DOES ask for credit card numbers from sellers. So they can pay Ebay for it's services.
As for identification, drivers licenses, etc, why should ebay bother with all that effort? They aren't liable.
People are thinking this needs to be E-bay's problem to solve. It just ain't so. That's typical of today's society... 'someone solve my problems for me'.
Look how many valid transactions are on ebay. How many dollars worth of commerce. What percentage of those are fraudulent? Anyone? I'm willing to bet it's extremely small.
I just fail to see how anyone can expect ebay to take care of it. It's very, very clear that ebay is merely factilitating the auction, for a fee from the seller. Everything else, including payment and product delivery, is between buyer and seller directly, unless they chose otherwise. There are plenty of escrow services available for a fee already. Ebay does not need ot make it 'mandatory'.
The actual text of the Income Tax Act actually stipulates that payment of Income Tax is on a 'voluntary' basis.
WHta they don't do, of course, is define what 'voluntary' means.
It appears the normal interpretation means 'you are suppoed to file your taxes on your own.. if you don't, we'll do it for you'. ie: voluntary. I think that's wrong, though.
Secondly.. the Income Tax Act never received Royal Assent.. yet somehow it's considered law. To become law, a bill MUST have royal assent (signed by the Gov' General, ie: the Queen)
Thirdly.. the income tax act was supposd to be a temporary measure.
Sorry. I forgot the US system is a bit different.
You have 'merchants' or whoever that then deal with the end-user businesses.... you have an extra tier of service.
Canada, we don't.. the 'merchant' is the business/client, and the other end is a bank. Period.
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that you watch the movie again.
I'm absolutely, 100%, positively sure about this. So is every review of the movie I can find online.
They didn't have USD because they don't use money in the future...remember when they first arrive on earth? They need money?
Scotty traded the guy the formula for transparent aluminum. It was a *plexiglass* factory. It's even mentioned in the movie (I forget by who) that it will take years just to figure out how to synthesize... and they needed their plexiglass *immediately*.
Didn't know that. Cool.
Where does it say you cannot LOOK at code and learn from it? Derivative does not mean 'inspired by' or 'made with knowledge gained from'.. it means you took significant enough portions of the original code and added to it.
But you can LOOK at it to see how the API works all you want.
I think you are a bit confused.
If he's doing his own OS, it's not beneficial to use the linux source *anyway*. All he's doing is implementing syscalls.. which simply means making the functionst in his own OS take the same args as the linux ones, in laymans terms. Ripping the guts out of the kernel routines in linux would be almost useless.
What's an mbps? mile-bit-per-second?
The convention is to specify transmission speeds in bits per second... btw. 8Mbps means 8 million bits per second, precisely.
I don't see it.
Having everything on one line is a technical utopia...
but I'd rather see everything over one network.
You see.. even if everything comes in over one line for $100/mo.. how is that different from $30/mo for a phone line, and $50/mo for DSL?
Also.. what do you mean 'long distance'. Long distance service is not relveant... you get that with any phone line.
WINE for christ's sake. But easier, because you don't have to reverse-engineer the APIs.
All they have to do is implement the proper syscalls, which are documented in the linux source code. They don't even need source to do this.
What do you mean 'without looking at the original source'. Anyone is free to look at the linux kernel source, for any reason.
ANd learn what syscalls are...
I would imagine both would happen.
I think you are correct; if you are the one providing the internet gateway you could be viewed as providing a network service.
on the other hand, if everyone just has some antennas, using 802.11b, nobody is actually 'providing' anything....
Hmmmm.
Having worked at a company designing and building the devices you use to deploy such networks...
This isn't about Internet. You missed the point.
It's about setting up neighborhood networks, so neighbors can communicate without paying anyone.
At some point, this can grow so different neighborhoods can talk to each other, over whatever means are available.
At some point, this can turn into an internet. In fact, tha'ts how the interent worked in the first place....
non-connected sites still used IP addresses, assigned to them to be unique to their organization, so they could someday hook up to others.
So.. first. I'm not talking about building 'free internet' for people.. just neighborhood networks.
So you get a bunch of networks.. people doing whatever. Then you get some networks hooking up with other networks over whatever is convenient. Then you need some kind of unique routable addressing scheme... like IP.....
The way the internet USED to work was, if you were building a network, you would use IP, and you would get your address space assigned, regardless of whether you were hooked up to another site or not. The reason for the unique addresses was so that you could join to another network if you wanted someday. The Internet is the result of this practice. Now it's all perverted.
So what we really need to do is start again. And we can do it, with ipv6.
I agree with all your points but the last. Or at least, with regards to microsoft, I disagree.
.becuase you certainly COULD do this with some software)
Although you are technically 'purchasing' software right now.. it becomes outdated quickly as everyone moves to whatever microsoft tells them is next. This means yearly upgrades, expensive, even though you 'purchased' the previou software. Microsoft has done this to get poeple used to think this is 'normal'. Now they come along and offer to rent software instead.. which, at this moment, is cheaper than upgrading every year with outright purchases. Why buy when it's outdated every year anyway? A car or a house, you can keep for 10 years, or a lifetime, respectively.
You can't do that with Microsoft software. (I say microsoft.
To add 'under *exactly* one atmosphere' of pressure, or 101.325 kpa ( I think )
Right so.. just so I understand.. you are saying that 200 degrees is a higher temperature than 255 degrees.. correct?
Absolute zero is -273.15C (or is it .16)
or 0K There is no such thing as 'degrees kelvin'; the proper way to say it is 'zero kelvins'.
And this discovery has absolutely nothing to do with superconductivity; only that they were trying to produce a superconductor when they discovered it was magnetic. This is not an advancement in superconductivity. They didn't produce a superconductor. That's obvious even without reading the article...
Also, you are correct about superconductors.. but... the reason microprocessors work is because they are full of SEMIconductors... transistors... you HAVE to have resistance.. you can't build logic with pure superconductors.
They traded the forumla for transparent aluminum to the guy in exchange for the plexiglass they needed; they didn't have any money.
Even with the molecular structure, it would have taken years to figure out how to make it.
What do you find hilarious? How do you feel they should be named? Who should name them, if not the discoverer?
Buckyballs is a nickname; the compound is 'buckminsterfullerene'.. a fitting name, given the molecule's resemblence to Buckminster Fuller's domes.
And why do you think bad things happen? Even though we're 'trying' to do the right thing? What they are TRYING to do is experiment - test their hypothesis. It's okay to be wrong.. that's the whole point of the scientific method. Real scientists never, ever expect to be right all the time; you experiment so you can further your research, whether it's to cut-off a certain avenue of thinking with certainty, or try to open up a new one.
I think I recall that we used something akin to a war-measures act, allowing us to suspend normal process, to pass the act.
I don't know about the court system; I don't think so. I don't believe our court system is quite as convoluted as the US system (doesn't need to be, we have 10x less people)
Tax matters go through the normal court system.
I do recall on story (somewhat of an urban legend, but it's true) of a man who refused to pay taxes, for various reasons. Basically, he took a copy of the Constitution of Canada, and the British North-America Act (BNA Act) to court with him every time he was taken to court by Revenue Canada. Every year, for something like 5 or 6 or so years, they would sieze his stuff, arrest him, and have him in court for tax evasion. He would come out with his copy of hte BNA act and something else, and then Revenue Canada would drop the charges because they were not prepared to defend themselves against this. After several years of this.. the judge finally told Revenue Candada that if they brought the man to court again, and simply dropped the charges, he would have them for harassment.
Makes good sense.
eBay has been one of the bright spots of the internet. As a NYSE listed company, you'd expect more to be done about helping customers.
Yes, if things make sense, they should do them.. but only if it will sustain their business. A small fraction of transactions are fraudulent, and an even smaller number of those actually result in people not using the service anymore. Hardly worth the money to add 'extra services' to the company do deal with fraud.. especially when they are not a party to it! Ebay's service is to hook alleged buyers & sellers together, that's all. They do not make any guarantees.
that they would actually provide for this kind of service with Paypal (though I know it's increasingly common).
In the case of paypal.. paypal is the one taking the cc payment.. not the pereson you are using paypal to send money to. As long as the money paypal took is valid.. the transaction should be valid as far as the credit company is concerned.
I'd imagine paypal could dispute the fact that it's fraud as well. Paypal charged your credit card to deposit to your account. Nothing fraudulent about that whatsoever.
Ebay is very clear about what they do and do not do; about the role they play.
IT is not their responsbility to ensure that you get your product. They make this VERY clear. It is up to the Buyer and Seller individually to sort out mutually acceptable terms. Ebay is just facilitating the auction.
Ebay is NOT responsible for fixing the problem. Ebay did not vouch for the users. Ebay did not guarantee you anything, and Ebay did not take your money.
As for the 'swindling' part.. you could do that *anyway*, even without ebay. Oh wait.. people DO do that in real life.
As for credit card numbers.. ebay DOES ask for credit card numbers from sellers. So they can pay Ebay for it's services.
As for identification, drivers licenses, etc, why should ebay bother with all that effort? They aren't liable.
People are thinking this needs to be E-bay's problem to solve. It just ain't so. That's typical of today's society... 'someone solve my problems for me'.
Look how many valid transactions are on ebay. How many dollars worth of commerce. What percentage of those are fraudulent? Anyone? I'm willing to bet it's extremely small.
I just fail to see how anyone can expect ebay to take care of it. It's very, very clear that ebay is merely factilitating the auction, for a fee from the seller. Everything else, including payment and product delivery, is between buyer and seller directly, unless they chose otherwise. There are plenty of escrow services available for a fee already. Ebay does not need ot make it 'mandatory'.
The actual text of the Income Tax Act actually stipulates that payment of Income Tax is on a 'voluntary' basis.
WHta they don't do, of course, is define what 'voluntary' means.
It appears the normal interpretation means 'you are suppoed to file your taxes on your own.. if you don't, we'll do it for you'. ie: voluntary. I think that's wrong, though.
Secondly.. the Income Tax Act never received Royal Assent.. yet somehow it's considered law. To become law, a bill MUST have royal assent (signed by the Gov' General, ie: the Queen)
Thirdly.. the income tax act was supposd to be a temporary measure.
Hmm. Perhaps I misunderstood it all then.
Sorry. I forgot the US system is a bit different.
You have 'merchants' or whoever that then deal with the end-user businesses.... you have an extra tier of service.
Canada, we don't.. the 'merchant' is the business/client, and the other end is a bank. Period.
It's not about the cards. It's about the system.
This system would cost many billions of dollars to implement, and would give no real gain.
Income-tax in Canada is also 'voluntary'.