Uh, OK, sure. I really can't say much about your constitutionality argument (hadn't tried to read it for that particular argument) but it is often in the eye of the beholder. Arguments on what is and isn't constitutional can easily get pretty contrived, stretching things to not mean that it meant, or to mean what it didn't.
Frankly, I wouldn't want to live in a USA without OSHA. Yes, they are overzealous at times but when it comes to life and livelyhood, employers often don't give a shit on basic safety and otherwise there's nothing the employees can do. There's not much a "free" market can do.
There are MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets), and the company MUST maintain an MSDS on every hazardous chemical they use, and provide access to them on all chemicals you will be exposed to. The company is not allowed to penalize you for demanding the MSDS. I think the company can't penalize you for following the safe procedures, but in practice I guess that's not enforced.
I think the article said that SCO is not in compliance with the terms of GPL. Under GPL, noncompliance means no licence. Also, even if GPL is found to be unenforcible, the copyright falls back to the licensor.
The interface IMO doesn't need to look gel-pretty like XP, it just needs to make sense and not force the user to take unnecessary steps to use it.
For instance, commonly used functions that nearly everyone uses shouldn't be on a page that requires three or more clicks to get to, and the arrangement must make sense. Saving the settings chosen the previous time(s) around is great too, that way it takes no extra effort for the user to tune their own defaults.
Requiring a user to edit a text file deep in the computer's file system to change settings on a GUI program is a no-no. Using a text file to store settings is a great idea, but don't force users to leave the GUI to change those settings. Even more of a no-no is requiring a recompile to change basic settings.
What figures are there? I haven't seen anything to suggest a given price other than estimates from pundits.
I'll pundit a bit myself, I can imagine the PSP being at or below what the PS2 costs right now. Heck, one can buy a new PSOne with a 4.5" monitor that docks with it for $150, although it's not portable.
If the thing is more than $200 I can't see a worthwhile market to be gained. I'd expect it to do far better than N-Gage, and be a much better game system, but that that doesn't say much.
The cost of game development is pretty much paid for by just rebaking existing PS1 games to the tiny UMDs.
OK, so this person wants to but 200 DVDs on a 1+TB RAID. That could fit, provided you average 5GB per DVD.
What does a 1TB RAID cost, and how much does it compare in cost to a 300-400 DVD Sony changer? I'm thinking the changer might cost half as much. I imagine it is quieter too.
One thing that people do forget is that many a law curtailing liberty and privacy to give law enforcement have come before congress, under many a presidential administration, and many times they were thrown back.
The only reason PATRIOT passed this time is that Congress and yes, America, was cowed into it by fear.
I honestly doubt that any other person or party would have done anything different, heck, PATRIOT was passed practically unanimously, meaning that both major parties and probably many of the independents / other parties signed on.
Everything I've heard (admittedly hearsay) said that Intel switched was going for VLIW because the vendors didn't want a hybrid chip with 64 bit hacks on a 32 bit hack on a 16 bit hack of an instruction set, so they set out to make a pure 64 bit CPU. And I don't blame Intel for not wanting to make a pure RISC ISA because it's been done before.
Intel supposedly could have had Yamhill technology in PIII but no hardware vendor wanted to bother with it.
My impression is that the 60's were much more restless than now.
I won't downplay what is happening now, what we have now doesn't have the component of forcing people to serve the military in fighting a war they disagree with.
IMO, the only way for an effective civil war is for people within the services start breaking at all ranks. Other than that, the people that are against war, also need to take up some serious armaments which would be a contradiction in protesting for peace.
I guess nobody noticed that over the XMAS holidays a plan to attack the US via plane hijackings was thwarted.
Given that the details are super secret, so it could have been just a confidence improving spoof. I don't remember any evidence being produced to the public that there was a threat on any of the planes that were grounded.
I don't see how TIA or PATRIOT are needed. The events of 9/11 happened because of broad agency incompetence at handling the power they already had at the time, not because of a supposed lack of power. I fear giving more power to the incompetent.
One thing to point out is that the daily newspaper in my area only charges $13 a month. I'd expect internet newspapers to charge less than that because it cuts down their paper costs.
If I have to pay more, I'll just stick to paper. No sense in paying a company charging more to use less paper.
Allowing neighbourhood radio station, will detoriate the quality on frequencies that ClearChannel has control over.
CC WILL fight it. They will use such quack claims that you repeated despite the fact that they hold no water.
If there were a "frequency fight", 5W radio stations are simply overpowered by 50,000W transmitters.
It is in the best interests of the small guys to have frequencies that don't conflict with existing users, and I think the FCC would set those frequencies for said reasons.
my "American Beauty" DVD died of DVD Ro. Think Warner Brothers is going to replace it?
Do you mean DVD rot?
WAMO, Warner's media replication plant, has a history of shody manufacturing, definitely to the early DVD days, I think maybe even going back to the Laserdisc days.
Even on single-layer DVDs, bit-for-bit copying can't happen on consumer DVD writing drives for CSS protected DVDs. You need an "authoring" drive and "authoring" media in order to be able to write the CSS keys.
An aside, how would anyone know this? Most ICs seem to go dead in less than a decade now.
And why to people still cling to the mutli-decade and even century extimates on how long CD-Rs and DVD-Rs last? None of these technologies have been around on the consumer level for more than half a decade or so.
I don't think would set a good precident for H to just take them down on an editorial at the first sign of legal trouble because that shows how easily H buckles to pressure, attracting other maggots to pressure them. To me, that would undermine H's credibility. If H didn't put up that page then much of the gaming world might not have known about how far down the con game goes.
And no, I don't think Infinium has jack for credibility either.
Yeah, it is all pretty retarded. Come on, we have to deal with half a minute of remote-locked FBI video warnings, what the heck does this new seal do any differently?
If this really is common, then the small towns that have this have no business complaining that all their children are leaving to go to the cities, that's practically pushing them there. It's pretty easy to see, if the town's cops harrasing you, you head toward brighter lights.
I've never had this sort of problem though, and I've never heard about it from others. While I live in the midwest, it's not like rural Texas or anything.
(however I think that business model is pretty old; Con-men have been around for years!)
That's exactly what it is. The "new economy" people tried to shoo off the concerns of "old economy" people by calling them outdated. "Business model?" shoo! "revenue?" shoo! In the end, it was something like a pyramid scheme.
What happened was much like the online DVD retailers, many of them bled themselves dry by trying to undercut each other, then ultimately themselves by selling too close to actual cost or even below cost, so it was a race to see who can get bankrupted last. Bargain hunters jumped on loss-leading promotional coupons in droves, but they never did form an ounce of customer loyalty like the coupon issuers probably expected. Attracting this type of customer is bad because price differences as low as 1% made or broke deals with some people.
After a while, investors started demanding profitability and started cutting off the cash flow to the "new economy" flushing toilets.
I also wish there were a law in the U.S. that for every dollar spent on the military, a dollar had to be spent on education.
Then all the soldiers would have very large brains and be incredibly intelligent with telekinetic and telepathic powers that would dominate the world by "thinking" brainshread of their opponents within 500 yards.
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Uh, OK, sure. I really can't say much about your constitutionality argument (hadn't tried to read it for that particular argument) but it is often in the eye of the beholder. Arguments on what is and isn't constitutional can easily get pretty contrived, stretching things to not mean that it meant, or to mean what it didn't.
Frankly, I wouldn't want to live in a USA without OSHA. Yes, they are overzealous at times but when it comes to life and livelyhood, employers often don't give a shit on basic safety and otherwise there's nothing the employees can do. There's not much a "free" market can do.
I agree.
There are MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets), and the company MUST maintain an MSDS on every hazardous chemical they use, and provide access to them on all chemicals you will be exposed to. The company is not allowed to penalize you for demanding the MSDS. I think the company can't penalize you for following the safe procedures, but in practice I guess that's not enforced.
My understanding:
I think the article said that SCO is not in compliance with the terms of GPL. Under GPL, noncompliance means no licence. Also, even if GPL is found to be unenforcible, the copyright falls back to the licensor.
The interface IMO doesn't need to look gel-pretty like XP, it just needs to make sense and not force the user to take unnecessary steps to use it.
For instance, commonly used functions that nearly everyone uses shouldn't be on a page that requires three or more clicks to get to, and the arrangement must make sense. Saving the settings chosen the previous time(s) around is great too, that way it takes no extra effort for the user to tune their own defaults.
Requiring a user to edit a text file deep in the computer's file system to change settings on a GUI program is a no-no. Using a text file to store settings is a great idea, but don't force users to leave the GUI to change those settings. Even more of a no-no is requiring a recompile to change basic settings.
In short, don't frustrate users.
What figures are there? I haven't seen anything to suggest a given price other than estimates from pundits.
I'll pundit a bit myself, I can imagine the PSP being at or below what the PS2 costs right now. Heck, one can buy a new PSOne with a 4.5" monitor that docks with it for $150, although it's not portable.
If the thing is more than $200 I can't see a worthwhile market to be gained. I'd expect it to do far better than N-Gage, and be a much better game system, but that that doesn't say much.
The cost of game development is pretty much paid for by just rebaking existing PS1 games to the tiny UMDs.
OK, so this person wants to but 200 DVDs on a 1+TB RAID. That could fit, provided you average 5GB per DVD.
What does a 1TB RAID cost, and how much does it compare in cost to a 300-400 DVD Sony changer? I'm thinking the changer might cost half as much. I imagine it is quieter too.
One thing that people do forget is that many a law curtailing liberty and privacy to give law enforcement have come before congress, under many a presidential administration, and many times they were thrown back.
The only reason PATRIOT passed this time is that Congress and yes, America, was cowed into it by fear.
I honestly doubt that any other person or party would have done anything different, heck, PATRIOT was passed practically unanimously, meaning that both major parties and probably many of the independents / other parties signed on.
Everything I've heard (admittedly hearsay) said that Intel switched was going for VLIW because the vendors didn't want a hybrid chip with 64 bit hacks on a 32 bit hack on a 16 bit hack of an instruction set, so they set out to make a pure 64 bit CPU. And I don't blame Intel for not wanting to make a pure RISC ISA because it's been done before.
Intel supposedly could have had Yamhill technology in PIII but no hardware vendor wanted to bother with it.
There can probably be some sort of 'bot detection?
If the same IP is showing a suspicious number of "not helpfuls" then it could be flagged.
My impression is that the 60's were much more restless than now.
I won't downplay what is happening now, what we have now doesn't have the component of forcing people to serve the military in fighting a war they disagree with.
IMO, the only way for an effective civil war is for people within the services start breaking at all ranks. Other than that, the people that are against war, also need to take up some serious armaments which would be a contradiction in protesting for peace.
I guess nobody noticed that over the XMAS holidays a plan to attack the US via plane hijackings was thwarted.
Given that the details are super secret, so it could have been just a confidence improving spoof. I don't remember any evidence being produced to the public that there was a threat on any of the planes that were grounded.
I don't see how TIA or PATRIOT are needed. The events of 9/11 happened because of broad agency incompetence at handling the power they already had at the time, not because of a supposed lack of power. I fear giving more power to the incompetent.
One thing to point out is that the daily newspaper in my area only charges $13 a month. I'd expect internet newspapers to charge less than that because it cuts down their paper costs.
If I have to pay more, I'll just stick to paper. No sense in paying a company charging more to use less paper.
Somehow, I suspect they serve a completely different market.
(the latter you don't even have a choice on, since no non-pressed DVD format includes a writeable CSS ring).
Actually, IIRC, DVD-Authoring media has it. You pay $10 a disc for it, and you have to buy DVD-Authoring drives to write them.
It's not unlike denying a driver's licence to people that have a history of driving illegally.
Breaking the law, however stupid the law is, still brings penalties.
Allowing neighbourhood radio station, will detoriate the quality on frequencies that ClearChannel has control over.
CC WILL fight it. They will use such quack claims that you repeated despite the fact that they hold no water.
If there were a "frequency fight", 5W radio stations are simply overpowered by 50,000W transmitters.
It is in the best interests of the small guys to have frequencies that don't conflict with existing users, and I think the FCC would set those frequencies for said reasons.
I'd love to see how 5+ MHz signals in power lines translates to changes in the audio frequency bands.
my "American Beauty" DVD died of DVD Ro. Think Warner Brothers is going to replace it?
Do you mean DVD rot?
WAMO, Warner's media replication plant, has a history of shody manufacturing, definitely to the early DVD days, I think maybe even going back to the Laserdisc days.
Even on single-layer DVDs, bit-for-bit copying can't happen on consumer DVD writing drives for CSS protected DVDs. You need an "authoring" drive and "authoring" media in order to be able to write the CSS keys.
Properly stored compact flash cards last decades,
An aside, how would anyone know this? Most ICs seem to go dead in less than a decade now.
And why to people still cling to the mutli-decade and even century extimates on how long CD-Rs and DVD-Rs last? None of these technologies have been around on the consumer level for more than half a decade or so.
I don't think would set a good precident for H to just take them down on an editorial at the first sign of legal trouble because that shows how easily H buckles to pressure, attracting other maggots to pressure them. To me, that would undermine H's credibility. If H didn't put up that page then much of the gaming world might not have known about how far down the con game goes.
And no, I don't think Infinium has jack for credibility either.
Yeah, it is all pretty retarded. Come on, we have to deal with half a minute of remote-locked FBI video warnings, what the heck does this new seal do any differently?
If this really is common, then the small towns that have this have no business complaining that all their children are leaving to go to the cities, that's practically pushing them there. It's pretty easy to see, if the town's cops harrasing you, you head toward brighter lights.
I've never had this sort of problem though, and I've never heard about it from others. While I live in the midwest, it's not like rural Texas or anything.
(however I think that business model is pretty old; Con-men have been around for years!)
That's exactly what it is. The "new economy" people tried to shoo off the concerns of "old economy" people by calling them outdated. "Business model?" shoo! "revenue?" shoo! In the end, it was something like a pyramid scheme.
What happened was much like the online DVD retailers, many of them bled themselves dry by trying to undercut each other, then ultimately themselves by selling too close to actual cost or even below cost, so it was a race to see who can get bankrupted last. Bargain hunters jumped on loss-leading promotional coupons in droves, but they never did form an ounce of customer loyalty like the coupon issuers probably expected. Attracting this type of customer is bad because price differences as low as 1% made or broke deals with some people.
After a while, investors started demanding profitability and started cutting off the cash flow to the "new economy" flushing toilets.
I also wish there were a law in the U.S. that for every dollar spent on the military, a dollar had to be spent on education.
Then all the soldiers would have very large brains and be incredibly intelligent with telekinetic and telepathic powers that would dominate the world by "thinking" brainshread of their opponents within 500 yards.
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