Damn those electrons for unionizing and threatening to strike if they didn't get a raise. Can't we get some protons or neutrons to cross the picket line and get the job done cheap?
Funny you should mention that... the vaccine for whooping cough does not prevent the spread of whooping cough, it simply allows the immune system to destroy the toxin it produces that attacks the lungs, so you don't whoop. Everyone skipping the vaccine for this one in hopes of the "herd" protecting them is in for a nasty surprise.
you always have the option to not buy something if you dont agree to the terms
I'll remember that when the store arrests me for ripping open boxes of software to read the terms before I buy it.
These days I'd probably even have to put the CD in my computer before I get to see the license agreement. Almost nothing ships with printed manuals anymore.
The idea is that you merge together overexposed photos (which show all the darker details) and underexposed photos (that only show the brightest details) to come up with a picture that has all of the details in it.
Anyone can tear the hardware apart and see what chips they are using and even, with an electron microscope, reverse-engineer a custom chip. But without the drivers and/or documentation there is no value in the hardware alone.
If I was going to go through the work to reverse engineer their chips with all that equipment and make a clone of their hardware, reverse engineering their driver and firmware from the binary blob would be child's play.
If I went broke buying the microscope, then I'd just do a string replace for Broadcom against the driver and just release it.
The way you are free from Oracle's whatever is insuring that data managing functionality is as bound as possible to the data management engine
And then checking all the constraints again in the application so that the user gets told that they need to select a thingamabobber, not DATA ERROR E0152 NON-NULL CONSTRAINT VIOLATED
abstracts out the SQL syntax for you in a nice manner (say, ARel in the Rails 3.0 framework is quite nice)
In the end it still boils down to SQL, and while I think SQL is pretty damn good and getting better, it's never going to become not a pain in the ass for certain complex operations. Some databases like postgresql work around it with extensions (such as postgresql's SELECT DISTINCT ON (...) which made questions like "Give me a list of every customer and the date and amount of their most recent purchase" trivial to answer in a single query before WINDOW became part of the standard, and even now it's easier to understand than the WINDOW syntax, at least as long as you know it's a postgresql special)
I wonder if they considered that some people don't drink because they have a life-threatening illness that requires that they take medications that would react with the alcohol? In other words, some portion of the teetotalers are dying because they're already sick, not because they're teetotalers.
The point that much of the data examined comes from older labs where they have not gone and looked for possible causes in variations also seems to be a strong one
Yeah, from here the first step would be to set up experiments to see if the variation in decay rates really exists, followed by experiments to determine the patten in variation. From there, we can decide whether we think the sun is involved or not, and if so whether neutrinos have anything to do with it.
Google Maps (with maps for all turns) is my weapon of choice. My first experience with a GPS began when it told me to drive to the starting red arrow that wasn't on the screen and because I was "driving" it wouldn't allow me to use the touch screen to look for it.
if you try to disable, remove, or relocate the device.
What device?
You have some kind of paperwork showing you put some sort of device on my car, I dunno, like a warrant or something? No? Well, then I guess you must have my car confused with someone else's because there was never any sort of device on my car.
is intimately familiar with the best way to get there
The problem is that "intimately familiar" doesn't mean the same to everyone. Have you ever tried to get directions from someone who hasn't got a clue what streets are named, only that they turn left at the corner with the green gas station, then right at the tree that looks kind of like their grandpa?
The only thing more infuriating is the person who lists every intersection you go straight through. "Next you'll come to Crystal Falls Drive." "So I turn right there?" "No, you keep going straight. After that will be Babbling Brook" ad nauseam.
Good directions are the ones that tell you how far you'll drive and which way you'll turn on what street, including a warning if it's some fucktarded road design like 5-way intersections where there are two different ways to turn left. Better when they happen to mention "oh by the way there's no stop sign for this intersection" Even better when they tell you "if you hit ____ you've gone too far".
I'll give you one thing though: at least even the worst people usually manage to be able to tell you what side of the road they're on.
"The new agreement keeps the per-performance rate structure but reduces the rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board for 2009 and 2010 by about 16 percent and establishes rates for 2011-2015. This year's rate is $0.0015 per streamed recording, moving up to $0.0025 in 2015. The CRB rates were $0.0018 for 2009 and $0.0019 for 2010."
You can look up the CRB and SoundExchange elsewhere (like soundexchange.com).
The "New World Order" that the *IAA seeks is one where everything is assumed to be copyrighted (by them). If you want to distribute something, it must have their approval (probably to the tune of $thousands + $hundreds per minute of media for "analysis" to ensure it's not infringing). Sounds farfetched? RIAA's Sound Exchange is already THE government-mandated recipient of all royalties for music played on "internet radio". Even if the song wasn't written, performed, or recorded by anyone associated with the RIAA.
if you want to run games from Value you have to use their distro
OR... you use Valve's linker daemon (which will almost certainly be necessary in order to implement DRM) which links the games against the versions of the libraries Steam maintains, regardless of the libraries installed or not installed on whatever distribution that user is running.
Slashdot Mirror
Products get cheaper, people get more expensive
Damn those electrons for unionizing and threatening to strike if they didn't get a raise. Can't we get some protons or neutrons to cross the picket line and get the job done cheap?
Or take whooping cough
Funny you should mention that... the vaccine for whooping cough does not prevent the spread of whooping cough, it simply allows the immune system to destroy the toxin it produces that attacks the lungs, so you don't whoop. Everyone skipping the vaccine for this one in hopes of the "herd" protecting them is in for a nasty surprise.
The dinosaurs didn't have this choice
The Space Velociraptors of Alpha Centauri will be none too pleased to hear about that.
you always have the option to not buy something if you dont agree to the terms
I'll remember that when the store arrests me for ripping open boxes of software to read the terms before I buy it.
These days I'd probably even have to put the CD in my computer before I get to see the license agreement. Almost nothing ships with printed manuals anymore.
The wikipedia article is pretty good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging#Example
The idea is that you merge together overexposed photos (which show all the darker details) and underexposed photos (that only show the brightest details) to come up with a picture that has all of the details in it.
Anyone can tear the hardware apart and see what chips they are using and even, with an electron microscope, reverse-engineer a custom chip. But without the drivers and/or documentation there is no value in the hardware alone.
If I was going to go through the work to reverse engineer their chips with all that equipment and make a clone of their hardware, reverse engineering their driver and firmware from the binary blob would be child's play.
If I went broke buying the microscope, then I'd just do a string replace for Broadcom against the driver and just release it.
The way you are free from Oracle's whatever is insuring that data managing functionality is as bound as possible to the data management engine
And then checking all the constraints again in the application so that the user gets told that they need to select a thingamabobber, not DATA ERROR E0152 NON-NULL CONSTRAINT VIOLATED
Just because you are legally permitted to travel at up to 30mph on a street, doesn't mean it's safe to do so.
Just because I'm legally required to go no faster than 40mph on the six lane divided road near my house doesn't mean that it's not safe to do so.
legal costs include the cost of the lawyers' time, unlike the USA.
Here in the USA, you can be awarded lawyers' fees above the actual award for the suit.
You mean there will be half as much ass kicking in this one?
There'll be exactly as much, but it'll be half-assed kicking.
abstracts out the SQL syntax for you in a nice manner (say, ARel in the Rails 3.0 framework is quite nice)
In the end it still boils down to SQL, and while I think SQL is pretty damn good and getting better, it's never going to become not a pain in the ass for certain complex operations. Some databases like postgresql work around it with extensions (such as postgresql's SELECT DISTINCT ON (...) which made questions like "Give me a list of every customer and the date and amount of their most recent purchase" trivial to answer in a single query before WINDOW became part of the standard, and even now it's easier to understand than the WINDOW syntax, at least as long as you know it's a postgresql special)
"News" has nothing to do with it. In English, verb plurality is determined by the subject, not the object.
The issue is whether or not "Next Media" is plural or not.
I wonder if they considered that some people don't drink because they have a life-threatening illness that requires that they take medications that would react with the alcohol? In other words, some portion of the teetotalers are dying because they're already sick, not because they're teetotalers.
The point that much of the data examined comes from older labs where they have not gone and looked for possible causes in variations also seems to be a strong one
Yeah, from here the first step would be to set up experiments to see if the variation in decay rates really exists, followed by experiments to determine the patten in variation. From there, we can decide whether we think the sun is involved or not, and if so whether neutrinos have anything to do with it.
Google Maps (with maps for all turns) is my weapon of choice. My first experience with a GPS began when it told me to drive to the starting red arrow that wasn't on the screen and because I was "driving" it wouldn't allow me to use the touch screen to look for it.
if you try to disable, remove, or relocate the device.
What device?
You have some kind of paperwork showing you put some sort of device on my car, I dunno, like a warrant or something? No? Well, then I guess you must have my car confused with someone else's because there was never any sort of device on my car.
is intimately familiar with the best way to get there
The problem is that "intimately familiar" doesn't mean the same to everyone. Have you ever tried to get directions from someone who hasn't got a clue what streets are named, only that they turn left at the corner with the green gas station, then right at the tree that looks kind of like their grandpa?
The only thing more infuriating is the person who lists every intersection you go straight through. "Next you'll come to Crystal Falls Drive." "So I turn right there?" "No, you keep going straight. After that will be Babbling Brook" ad nauseam.
Good directions are the ones that tell you how far you'll drive and which way you'll turn on what street, including a warning if it's some fucktarded road design like 5-way intersections where there are two different ways to turn left. Better when they happen to mention "oh by the way there's no stop sign for this intersection" Even better when they tell you "if you hit ____ you've gone too far".
I'll give you one thing though: at least even the worst people usually manage to be able to tell you what side of the road they're on.
What happens if it ever stops broadcasting?
Slashdot reports it.
Or does the accused not get a chance to speak for themselves in your little crazy world?
Did Clinton have sexual relations with that woman?
The accused can speak for themselves all they want in our "crazy little world." We then choose whether or not we believe them.
Here's a slice of the mandatory and automatic internet radio royalty fight, from the point of view of a broadcaster:
http://somafm.com/crb/
More recent stuff from the same guy is
http://somafm.com/blogs/rusty/labels/IREA.html
You can look up the CRB and SoundExchange elsewhere (like soundexchange.com).
To me, because YouTube is such a blatant/careless repeat-offender of being a haven for copyrighted content, they should be fined or shut down
I just slipped a rip of Avatar under your doormat and reported you. Enjoy your $200000 fine.
The "New World Order" that the *IAA seeks is one where everything is assumed to be copyrighted (by them). If you want to distribute something, it must have their approval (probably to the tune of $thousands + $hundreds per minute of media for "analysis" to ensure it's not infringing). Sounds farfetched? RIAA's Sound Exchange is already THE government-mandated recipient of all royalties for music played on "internet radio". Even if the song wasn't written, performed, or recorded by anyone associated with the RIAA.
Whenever you have to adjust something, you adjust your life
Good luck with that.
if you want to run games from Value you have to use their distro
OR... you use Valve's linker daemon (which will almost certainly be necessary in order to implement DRM) which links the games against the versions of the libraries Steam maintains, regardless of the libraries installed or not installed on whatever distribution that user is running.
If they're not on a debianlike, they don't have dpkg :P
That said, .deb files are actually ar archives, they could extract it with ar x somepackage.deb and just about every distribution should have ar