The HD is not banned as it's not modified. The mods to system are. Of course you can buy an unmodded system and play. They aren't banning "you" they're banning your modded system.
MS is basically saying that if you want to mod your system then go ahead. But if you want to play on LIVE then you need an unmodded system to do it with. If you want to save some money you can transfer your HD to the unmodded system when you want to play with the rest of the world. With the price of the XBox dropping it is less cost prohibitive now to do that.
"Humans learn best when it's trial and error, through discovery and at their own pace"
How quickly people forget there are 24 hours in the day and 2 days on the weekend and only 50-60 minutes in a given class. The teacher's job is to present the material that needs to be learned. It's up to the student to learn it on their own time by doing homework and reading the text. Teacher's can aid the learning process by directing students but they cannot make a student learn anything.
And all methods work given the right students. Everybody learns in a different way. A teacher cannot teach the same lesson 30 different ways. They have to pick a method and everyone in the class has to deal with it. Ultimately the student does the real learning, not in the classroom, but on their own time.
Kids these days can't even sit through a 2 hour movie in a theater without talking or using their cell phone. And yet we want to pretend that entertaining them will solve discipline problems in the classroom. So $100M budgets don't make up for lack of discipline either.
My theory of education as I prepare to be a teacher is to stick the standards in the classroom and have plenty of extra credit (not applied unless you otherwise pass the class) for students to have fun applying what they're getting out of the class. As a math teacher it's possible to use Pokemon, D&D, Fantasy Football, Science, Programming, Cooking, etc as extra credit assignments. Things which interest individual students. And also extra credit for struggling students so they can catch up and be rewarded for their efforts.
This way students understand that if they don't put in the effort to learn the "fun" will be out of reach. You can't play on the field if you don't practice or even know how to play. You can blame the teacher for not being "fun" enough but ultimately the student is responsible for their own work ethic.
For the vast majority of use cases, large data sets can be made logically small with indexes or physically small with hashes.
If you're dealing with massive data you're probably not dealing with complex relationships. E-Mail servers associate data with only one index: the e-mail address. Google only associates content with keywords. E-mail servers logically and physically separate email folders. Google logically and physically separates the datasets for various keywords. So by the time you hit it, it knows instantly where to look for what you want. You don't have a whole complex system of relationships between the data. It looks at the keywords , finds the predetermined results for each and combines the results.
In the example of inbox's no user has to look at another user's inbox so the first step is to simply find the current user's mail.
I typically use MD5 since it's very good at evenly distributing information. For example stock symbols are heavily weighted to common letters so there are lots of stock symbols that start with "s". But, if you MD5 the stock symbol you get an even distribution based on the first two hash characters to put the historical data into 256 tables. You could also just put it all in one massive table and use the first two characters in their own column with an index. The advantage of using multiple tables is that it's easier to later split the tables onto multiple physical systems.
So MD5 the Facebook user ID. Use the first four characters to pick the database server. Use the next four characters to pick the table and then select from there. By the time you're even referencing the table you're down to a handful of accounts sharing one table. Searching the User's email is then trivial as the dataset is small.
Another example of MD5 awesomeness is finding a URL and associated data very quickly (useful for DMOZ data). In MySQL varchars can be up to 255 characters while URLs with various parameters can be any length so you could try to index the TEXT field OR you simply hash the URL and when you want to look up a URL you search for the easily indexed hash.
Working with large sets of data is only a problem if you don't devise ways to break up the data. If Facebook needs to search all the user's email for various stuff then they can run a script that goes through every table in every database. They don't have to run a single query which would take forever. With distinct sets of data you can quickly start getting results to verify your code is accurate and start digging through the results while the script continues to run.
According to http://www.sahkoautot.fi/eng:faq#toc3, lithium batteries will last for about 125,000 miles. What nobody wants to talk about is the price of replacing them. They just want to talk about how "cheap" it is to charge them. Articles just assume that by the time you need to replace them, surely cheaper and better batteries will be available. I've heard estimates of about $10,000 for replacing the batteries in an electric vehicle. So that's 8 cents per mile times 30 miles per gallon that conventional engines get for the same size vehicle which is $2.40. So pretty much zero savings.
My Versa gets around 36mpg which bumps the cost per gallon of the electric up to $2.88 which is about 30 cents more than fuel in my area. And that doesn't include the cost of electricity needed to charge the batteries.
Electric cars simply cannot beat the economics of a small commuter car. Until they get the price and performance of rechargeable batteries well below the cost of regular gas there's no financial incentive to buy an electric car. They need to do far better than 8 cents per mile for electric. I'm not going to spend $20,000+ on a car just to have electric when I'm saving no money per mile and could have spent $10,000 less on standard car AND saved money on getting where I want to go.
The sensors simply send a signal into the "brain." The "brain" consistently reacts by creating a reaction signal based on the input signal. That reaction signal is then used to determine which input signal was used. The "brain" is just used as a layer between the sensors and the motors. It's like using MD5 strings to control a device. The sensors encrypt data as MD5 and then the MD5 string is used rather than the raw sensor data.
The value of this is in figuring out how we can poke the brain and interpret it's response. If I know that the brain is creating a certain signal when a person moves their arm then I can artificially generate that signal to get a person to move their arm.
took millions of years. Nobody with eyeballs doubts that things change over time. What we're finding out finally is just how long it actually takes for things to change.
I'm going to assume you're trying to be funny. There's nothing more efficient than taking machine readable information, transforming it into human readable information, transferring the data as bytes, and then converting it back to machine readable information. By the time a message hits the wire there's zero reason a human needs to be able to read it without some processing.
If you want highly efficient transfer of data you only need the size in bytes of the message in 4 bytes or less fixed and the message type as your header as 4 bytes or less fixed. The other side can then figure it out from there.
You can do XML over TCP/IP and UDP as it's just bytes to the network. But hey, with all this bandwidth and processing power, why not just waste it with unnecessary bulk added to network communication?
I highly recommend the Versa if you're looking for cheap and fuel efficient. The EPA estimate is 31mpg, I get around 39mpg with a 50 mile commute to and from work. I got the 2009 base model ($9990) which is manual, no AC and no radio. I live in Phoenix so yes, I considered the AC thing. Installing a radio yourself is cheaper than having the factory do it. With only three months of unbearable heat I just drove in the mornings and evenings with the window down. It's only during the day that it really sucks to drive. The rest of the year I can drive all day long and not miss AC.
I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure the significantly improved MPG is due to not having to power a compressor for the AC. It's certainly not because of my driving style.
was that working in IT sucks. The lead character found happiness by quitting the field entirely. The other characters stayed in the field because "it's a job." Office Space brought sympathy to the career field. Not glory.
The cult classic that actually glorified being a geek was "Hackers."
That's exactly what lead to my termination a few months ago. Perception is everything. When the unemployment insurance person called to ask me why I thought my manager didn't like me I rattled off a couple reasons and referred him to the two page document I had included with my UI application detailing the abuse and hypocrisy. At some point he said "well that's just your perception." I tried to remain calm and told him "perception is the only reason I got fired. There is nothing in my termination agreement about actual work." It was very clear I was being held to a higher standard than every other employee including the manager who fired me.
Reality is hard so people are lazy and just pretend that their perception is "close enough."
So yes, your immediate supervisor needs to like you. No one else matters and only their perception of you matters.
So no matter what job you get focus on your resume. Because if your manager doesn't appreciate you, you can highlight your work on your resume and the next company will not be so blind to your value.
This is why when I got fired from my last company I yelled at the manager who had the nerve to fire me for BS reasons and I have no intention of ever working for a corporation again. I refused to be escorted out and took my sweet time leaving. I went to every coworker individually and said my goodbyes. He accused me of not being at work on a couple days where subversion logs prove that in fact I was there. He had no idea what I was working on when he himself assigned me to the tasks. Grade A Jerk. Nothing in the termination agreement had anything to do with actual work I did.
As a young but experienced developer I have one goal and one goal only: do things that you can highlight on a resume. If your jerk of a boss doesn't recognize that work while you're working for him the next company will see it clearly highlighted for them and you'll easily be employed somewhere else where you have a better chance of being appreciated.
You can't hurt real talent. You can only displace it to another company. There is no shortage of work for developers even in this economy.
I got fired a couple months ago from a corporate company doing development. The idiot manager who fired me put in the signed document of reasons I was fired two days of me not being there. Turns out I was there. Both days. Subversion logs prove it. He also lied about doing reviews with me. The whole document had zero to do with results. Seeing as how I met all my deadlines and helped other employees out it's hard to lie about that.
It all boils down to whether or not your immediate supervisor likes you. Mine was an idiot who couldn't meet deadlines for a development cycle and methodology he himself implemented. So he needed someone to blame. When he fired me I yelled at him for a good 15 minutes. I've never talked to anyone I've worked for like that in my life. When he tried to say he was going to escort me out of the office I yelled at him some more. I demanded access to my computer, cleared out everything and when he tried to give me lip for having access to personal accounts I yelled at him some more. I saw him on Facebook that morning. I said goodbye to everyone and walked out on my own.
I absolutely refuse to play games with people. I am not going to work for a company where I can't just do my job and be appreciated. If some jerk wants to fire me because he's got problems that's not on me. I ended up with a new job about 2 months later.
There is a theory that in a normal brain stimulus passes through various areas of the brain including the areas which allow us to process the stimulus which can either stop the process there or pass it on to the "caveman" brain of "fight or flight." The reactionary area of the brain.
In some people who are "hot headed" stimulus goes straight to the reactionary center of the brain. In level headed or easy going people, much of the stimulus is dealt with prior to getting to the reactionary part of the brain. If someone says something mean, rather than reacting, the person simply thinks about it and lets it go.
So it would make sense that with proper technology you could see whether or not input is being processed in the conscious brain or just being passed through to be reacted upon quickly.
The other part of that theory is that some people start out level headed and at some point start being more reactionary until the brain just skips right to reactionary for everything. Regardless of why some people are highly reactionary, there are techiques used to help a person become more level headed.
The brain isn't permanenty wired. It can adjust based on various things. If you lose one sense, other senses can become stronger. People who have had part of their brain damaged can end up with other areas of the brain taking over.
So even if it were possible to see that someone doesn't think things through prior to reacting, it would be an opportunity to work with them to try to rewire their brain. Not to pre-emptively toss them in prison.
Because you'll never get recognized in a corporate environment. It doesn't matter if the GPL portion is 1 line out of a million written by paid developers, all those millions of lines have to be made available because they were so "blessed" with your greatness for a tiny portion of the project. There are no shortage of non-viraly licensed projects out there that I don't need your GPL version.
There are a ridiculous number of GPL projects that are essentially trying to copyright "hello world." And an even more absurd number of GPL projects out there that just simply don't work. You can't throw trash out there, expect everyone else to fix it for you and then demand credit for "your work."
If you license your code in away that doesn't muck with how I can license my code then I'll be happy to take a look, fix it, and if it's apparent you made a real effort to get your project to work, I'll give you credit.
Taxes are not evenly distributed. Ignoring the fact that the coupons were paid for by corporations, not tax money, if they were subsidized by taxes I'd only be paying a small portion of the $40 through taxes.
File sharing is a misnomer. When dealing with copyrighted works it's bootlegging. Not sharing.
Fair Use (maybe) qualifies if you're actually sharing with a few friends. You can copy a few pages but not the whole book. You can loan a copy to a few of your friends but not the whole world.
You can complain about the law all you want but the lawyer is dealing with the existing law and absurd applications of "Fair Use" are just going to demonstrate the inability to come up with a legitimate reason why bootlegging on the internet is A-OK while bootlegging on a street corner is not and never has been. Which is going to result in a lot of lost cases and further development of DRM schemes.
If bootleggers would give it up, consumers would have a lot less trouble taking advantage of Fair Use to protect their digital goods. But because bootleggers aren't giving up and fighting windmills trying to justify themselves, media companies have to protect their digital goods instead.
As long as the new version is just as efficient then there's not really an issue. Not everyone likes to play the MHZ card to justify bloated, inefficient code.
Removing the functionality or crippiling it is as stupid as requiring training wheels on all bikes because some people fall down and hurt themselves.
In the 80's a PG rating was equivelent to a PG-13/R rating today. I remember thinking if Airplane was PG then what would an R rated movie be like. Then I picked up Taxi Driver. An 80's movie rated R. The guy goes to a porn flick.
So there you go. In the 80's, an R rating was reserved for blurred out porn and graphic violence.
Boobies got you a PG.
So it's only been the last 10-20 years that nudity has become rated on the same level as violence.
At least according to government standards. That helps reduce the safety standards which reduces the weight and cost of the vehicle.
So driving a three wheeled electric car around gives you more stability (and keeps out the elements) than a 2 wheeled motorcycle but you're still never going to win in a crash. Unless you consider not dying a win for you. It is possible that in minor crashes you'll walk away.
Changing the network configuration hasn't required a reboot since Windows desktop OSes merged with NT. Windows 2000 didn't require a reboot just to change the network settings.
Most software also doesn't require a reboot either.
Even OS X requires a reboot when you install system updates.
Unless you can restart the OS without restarting the computer every OS is going to require occasional reboots when major changes are made to the OS.
I have Windows XP on a Dual Core Athlon 64bit processor and it boots in under a minute. Most of the boot time for a system is spent loading up all kinds of user software and drivers.
If you want to be social the take hands on classes or join a club.
In most classrooms your job is to sit there and listen. Not to interact with other students. For those types of classes there's no reason to be required to waste time and gas driving to school. You can sit and listen anywhere.
Also if you want to have a job before you get out of college (a very good idea) you can't afford to be in a classroom from 9-5 or you're SOL for getting a decent job. My last two years of school I took on-line courses only and held down a full time job. That wouldn't be possible if I had to actually go to class.
By the time I got out of college I already had a good job in my field.
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The HD is not banned as it's not modified. The mods to system are. Of course you can buy an unmodded system and play. They aren't banning "you" they're banning your modded system.
MS is basically saying that if you want to mod your system then go ahead. But if you want to play on LIVE then you need an unmodded system to do it with. If you want to save some money you can transfer your HD to the unmodded system when you want to play with the rest of the world. With the price of the XBox dropping it is less cost prohibitive now to do that.
"Humans learn best when it's trial and error, through discovery and at their own pace"
How quickly people forget there are 24 hours in the day and 2 days on the weekend and only 50-60 minutes in a given class. The teacher's job is to present the material that needs to be learned. It's up to the student to learn it on their own time by doing homework and reading the text. Teacher's can aid the learning process by directing students but they cannot make a student learn anything.
And all methods work given the right students. Everybody learns in a different way. A teacher cannot teach the same lesson 30 different ways. They have to pick a method and everyone in the class has to deal with it. Ultimately the student does the real learning, not in the classroom, but on their own time.
Kids these days can't even sit through a 2 hour movie in a theater without talking or using their cell phone. And yet we want to pretend that entertaining them will solve discipline problems in the classroom. So $100M budgets don't make up for lack of discipline either.
My theory of education as I prepare to be a teacher is to stick the standards in the classroom and have plenty of extra credit (not applied unless you otherwise pass the class) for students to have fun applying what they're getting out of the class. As a math teacher it's possible to use Pokemon, D&D, Fantasy Football, Science, Programming, Cooking, etc as extra credit assignments. Things which interest individual students. And also extra credit for struggling students so they can catch up and be rewarded for their efforts.
This way students understand that if they don't put in the effort to learn the "fun" will be out of reach. You can't play on the field if you don't practice or even know how to play. You can blame the teacher for not being "fun" enough but ultimately the student is responsible for their own work ethic.
For the vast majority of use cases, large data sets can be made logically small with indexes or physically small with hashes.
If you're dealing with massive data you're probably not dealing with complex relationships. E-Mail servers associate data with only one index: the e-mail address. Google only associates content with keywords. E-mail servers logically and physically separate email folders. Google logically and physically separates the datasets for various keywords. So by the time you hit it, it knows instantly where to look for what you want. You don't have a whole complex system of relationships between the data. It looks at the keywords , finds the predetermined results for each and combines the results.
In the example of inbox's no user has to look at another user's inbox so the first step is to simply find the current user's mail.
I typically use MD5 since it's very good at evenly distributing information. For example stock symbols are heavily weighted to common letters so there are lots of stock symbols that start with "s". But, if you MD5 the stock symbol you get an even distribution based on the first two hash characters to put the historical data into 256 tables. You could also just put it all in one massive table and use the first two characters in their own column with an index. The advantage of using multiple tables is that it's easier to later split the tables onto multiple physical systems.
So MD5 the Facebook user ID. Use the first four characters to pick the database server. Use the next four characters to pick the table and then select from there. By the time you're even referencing the table you're down to a handful of accounts sharing one table. Searching the User's email is then trivial as the dataset is small.
Another example of MD5 awesomeness is finding a URL and associated data very quickly (useful for DMOZ data). In MySQL varchars can be up to 255 characters while URLs with various parameters can be any length so you could try to index the TEXT field OR you simply hash the URL and when you want to look up a URL you search for the easily indexed hash.
Working with large sets of data is only a problem if you don't devise ways to break up the data. If Facebook needs to search all the user's email for various stuff then they can run a script that goes through every table in every database. They don't have to run a single query which would take forever. With distinct sets of data you can quickly start getting results to verify your code is accurate and start digging through the results while the script continues to run.
Any abortion except in the case where the mother has to chose their life or the baby's is an elective procedure and as such is not a health issue.
If the government wants to pay for non-health related (aka elective) surgeries then they should cover boob jobs as well.
If people want to cut up their perfectly healthy bodies in an unsafe manner because the government won't pay for it then that's their own stupidity.
According to http://www.sahkoautot.fi/eng:faq#toc3, lithium batteries will last for about 125,000 miles. What nobody wants to talk about is the price of replacing them. They just want to talk about how "cheap" it is to charge them. Articles just assume that by the time you need to replace them, surely cheaper and better batteries will be available. I've heard estimates of about $10,000 for replacing the batteries in an electric vehicle. So that's 8 cents per mile times 30 miles per gallon that conventional engines get for the same size vehicle which is $2.40. So pretty much zero savings.
My Versa gets around 36mpg which bumps the cost per gallon of the electric up to $2.88 which is about 30 cents more than fuel in my area. And that doesn't include the cost of electricity needed to charge the batteries.
Electric cars simply cannot beat the economics of a small commuter car. Until they get the price and performance of rechargeable batteries well below the cost of regular gas there's no financial incentive to buy an electric car. They need to do far better than 8 cents per mile for electric. I'm not going to spend $20,000+ on a car just to have electric when I'm saving no money per mile and could have spent $10,000 less on standard car AND saved money on getting where I want to go.
The sensors simply send a signal into the "brain." The "brain" consistently reacts by creating a reaction signal based on the input signal. That reaction signal is then used to determine which input signal was used. The "brain" is just used as a layer between the sensors and the motors. It's like using MD5 strings to control a device. The sensors encrypt data as MD5 and then the MD5 string is used rather than the raw sensor data.
The value of this is in figuring out how we can poke the brain and interpret it's response. If I know that the brain is creating a certain signal when a person moves their arm then I can artificially generate that signal to get a person to move their arm.
took millions of years. Nobody with eyeballs doubts that things change over time. What we're finding out finally is just how long it actually takes for things to change.
I'm going to assume you're trying to be funny. There's nothing more efficient than taking machine readable information, transforming it into human readable information, transferring the data as bytes, and then converting it back to machine readable information. By the time a message hits the wire there's zero reason a human needs to be able to read it without some processing.
If you want highly efficient transfer of data you only need the size in bytes of the message in 4 bytes or less fixed and the message type as your header as 4 bytes or less fixed. The other side can then figure it out from there.
You can do XML over TCP/IP and UDP as it's just bytes to the network. But hey, with all this bandwidth and processing power, why not just waste it with unnecessary bulk added to network communication?
I highly recommend the Versa if you're looking for cheap and fuel efficient. The EPA estimate is 31mpg, I get around 39mpg with a 50 mile commute to and from work. I got the 2009 base model ($9990) which is manual, no AC and no radio. I live in Phoenix so yes, I considered the AC thing. Installing a radio yourself is cheaper than having the factory do it. With only three months of unbearable heat I just drove in the mornings and evenings with the window down. It's only during the day that it really sucks to drive. The rest of the year I can drive all day long and not miss AC.
I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure the significantly improved MPG is due to not having to power a compressor for the AC. It's certainly not because of my driving style.
was that working in IT sucks. The lead character found happiness by quitting the field entirely. The other characters stayed in the field because "it's a job." Office Space brought sympathy to the career field. Not glory.
The cult classic that actually glorified being a geek was "Hackers."
That's exactly what lead to my termination a few months ago. Perception is everything. When the unemployment insurance person called to ask me why I thought my manager didn't like me I rattled off a couple reasons and referred him to the two page document I had included with my UI application detailing the abuse and hypocrisy. At some point he said "well that's just your perception." I tried to remain calm and told him "perception is the only reason I got fired. There is nothing in my termination agreement about actual work." It was very clear I was being held to a higher standard than every other employee including the manager who fired me.
Reality is hard so people are lazy and just pretend that their perception is "close enough."
So yes, your immediate supervisor needs to like you. No one else matters and only their perception of you matters.
So no matter what job you get focus on your resume. Because if your manager doesn't appreciate you, you can highlight your work on your resume and the next company will not be so blind to your value.
This is why when I got fired from my last company I yelled at the manager who had the nerve to fire me for BS reasons and I have no intention of ever working for a corporation again. I refused to be escorted out and took my sweet time leaving. I went to every coworker individually and said my goodbyes. He accused me of not being at work on a couple days where subversion logs prove that in fact I was there. He had no idea what I was working on when he himself assigned me to the tasks. Grade A Jerk. Nothing in the termination agreement had anything to do with actual work I did.
As a young but experienced developer I have one goal and one goal only: do things that you can highlight on a resume. If your jerk of a boss doesn't recognize that work while you're working for him the next company will see it clearly highlighted for them and you'll easily be employed somewhere else where you have a better chance of being appreciated.
You can't hurt real talent. You can only displace it to another company. There is no shortage of work for developers even in this economy.
I got fired a couple months ago from a corporate company doing development. The idiot manager who fired me put in the signed document of reasons I was fired two days of me not being there. Turns out I was there. Both days. Subversion logs prove it. He also lied about doing reviews with me. The whole document had zero to do with results. Seeing as how I met all my deadlines and helped other employees out it's hard to lie about that.
It all boils down to whether or not your immediate supervisor likes you. Mine was an idiot who couldn't meet deadlines for a development cycle and methodology he himself implemented. So he needed someone to blame. When he fired me I yelled at him for a good 15 minutes. I've never talked to anyone I've worked for like that in my life. When he tried to say he was going to escort me out of the office I yelled at him some more. I demanded access to my computer, cleared out everything and when he tried to give me lip for having access to personal accounts I yelled at him some more. I saw him on Facebook that morning. I said goodbye to everyone and walked out on my own.
I absolutely refuse to play games with people. I am not going to work for a company where I can't just do my job and be appreciated. If some jerk wants to fire me because he's got problems that's not on me. I ended up with a new job about 2 months later.
There is a theory that in a normal brain stimulus passes through various areas of the brain including the areas which allow us to process the stimulus which can either stop the process there or pass it on to the "caveman" brain of "fight or flight." The reactionary area of the brain.
In some people who are "hot headed" stimulus goes straight to the reactionary center of the brain. In level headed or easy going people, much of the stimulus is dealt with prior to getting to the reactionary part of the brain. If someone says something mean, rather than reacting, the person simply thinks about it and lets it go.
So it would make sense that with proper technology you could see whether or not input is being processed in the conscious brain or just being passed through to be reacted upon quickly.
The other part of that theory is that some people start out level headed and at some point start being more reactionary until the brain just skips right to reactionary for everything. Regardless of why some people are highly reactionary, there are techiques used to help a person become more level headed.
The brain isn't permanenty wired. It can adjust based on various things. If you lose one sense, other senses can become stronger. People who have had part of their brain damaged can end up with other areas of the brain taking over.
So even if it were possible to see that someone doesn't think things through prior to reacting, it would be an opportunity to work with them to try to rewire their brain. Not to pre-emptively toss them in prison.
Because you'll never get recognized in a corporate environment. It doesn't matter if the GPL portion is 1 line out of a million written by paid developers, all those millions of lines have to be made available because they were so "blessed" with your greatness for a tiny portion of the project. There are no shortage of non-viraly licensed projects out there that I don't need your GPL version.
There are a ridiculous number of GPL projects that are essentially trying to copyright "hello world." And an even more absurd number of GPL projects out there that just simply don't work. You can't throw trash out there, expect everyone else to fix it for you and then demand credit for "your work."
If you license your code in away that doesn't muck with how I can license my code then I'll be happy to take a look, fix it, and if it's apparent you made a real effort to get your project to work, I'll give you credit.
Taxes are not evenly distributed. Ignoring the fact that the coupons were paid for by corporations, not tax money, if they were subsidized by taxes I'd only be paying a small portion of the $40 through taxes.
The government is footing the bill for the patent fees. The consumer then pays the actual cost of the device.
File sharing is a misnomer. When dealing with copyrighted works it's bootlegging. Not sharing.
Fair Use (maybe) qualifies if you're actually sharing with a few friends. You can copy a few pages but not the whole book. You can loan a copy to a few of your friends but not the whole world.
You can complain about the law all you want but the lawyer is dealing with the existing law and absurd applications of "Fair Use" are just going to demonstrate the inability to come up with a legitimate reason why bootlegging on the internet is A-OK while bootlegging on a street corner is not and never has been. Which is going to result in a lot of lost cases and further development of DRM schemes.
If bootleggers would give it up, consumers would have a lot less trouble taking advantage of Fair Use to protect their digital goods. But because bootleggers aren't giving up and fighting windmills trying to justify themselves, media companies have to protect their digital goods instead.
As long as the new version is just as efficient then there's not really an issue. Not everyone likes to play the MHZ card to justify bloated, inefficient code.
Removing the functionality or crippiling it is as stupid as requiring training wheels on all bikes because some people fall down and hurt themselves.
shaking into the camera for a good few seconds.
In the 80's a PG rating was equivelent to a PG-13/R rating today. I remember thinking if Airplane was PG then what would an R rated movie be like. Then I picked up Taxi Driver. An 80's movie rated R. The guy goes to a porn flick.
So there you go. In the 80's, an R rating was reserved for blurred out porn and graphic violence.
Boobies got you a PG.
So it's only been the last 10-20 years that nudity has become rated on the same level as violence.
At least according to government standards. That helps reduce the safety standards which reduces the weight and cost of the vehicle.
So driving a three wheeled electric car around gives you more stability (and keeps out the elements) than a 2 wheeled motorcycle but you're still never going to win in a crash. Unless you consider not dying a win for you. It is possible that in minor crashes you'll walk away.
Changing the network configuration hasn't required a reboot since Windows desktop OSes merged with NT. Windows 2000 didn't require a reboot just to change the network settings.
Most software also doesn't require a reboot either.
Even OS X requires a reboot when you install system updates.
Unless you can restart the OS without restarting the computer every OS is going to require occasional reboots when major changes are made to the OS.
I have Windows XP on a Dual Core Athlon 64bit processor and it boots in under a minute. Most of the boot time for a system is spent loading up all kinds of user software and drivers.
If you want to be social the take hands on classes or join a club.
In most classrooms your job is to sit there and listen. Not to interact with other students. For those types of classes there's no reason to be required to waste time and gas driving to school. You can sit and listen anywhere.
Also if you want to have a job before you get out of college (a very good idea) you can't afford to be in a classroom from 9-5 or you're SOL for getting a decent job. My last two years of school I took on-line courses only and held down a full time job. That wouldn't be possible if I had to actually go to class.
By the time I got out of college I already had a good job in my field.