Do they not open the damn files as they come down? If only for a cursory glance to confirm.
I don't. I have a system for my downloads: 90% of the time, I queue the download a long time in advance of when I'm going to want it. My downloads happen on a VM running on my file server. The torrent client downloads the file to the VM's local disk, where it stays for my preset seeding period. Only when it's finished seeding does it get copied onto a share on the file server and become easy for me to access. I check it for validity then, and if it's a fake/corrupt I redownload as a priority job and get the files directly from the VM if I need them, but usually I don't bother.
From what I read in TPB's discussion forums, it seems to be quite common for a release of a movie that comes out before the official DVD release to have at least a few seconds of the sound taken from a Russian copy of the soundtrack.
Agreed. If you sort by seeders, you probably get something more like 1% "fake". But if you just randomly download material, it's probably higher (though 50% seems high, even for random downloading.)
Dunno. Try sorting by uploaded time, download the most recent 10 uploads. My guess is you'll probably hit a lot more than 5 fakes if you do that (some of them get deleted, but I guess some survive the cut).
Not as much as you'd think. My experience is that the fakes are often genuine copies of something entirely different, and often have as many as 200 seeds and 500-1000 downloaders. I think some people release fakes in order to trick people into seeding their content for them.
Do you really think wikipedia will be around in 100 years?
I'm betting it fades into obscurity in 25 years.
Seriously? No. Maybe it will no longer be used for its original purpose (although I would guess it will, perhaps not quite as much as today though) but in 100 years time it will start to have been of interest to historians. An immense documentary collection of how early Internet pioneers thought, starting from when the Internet was just becoming mainstream and progressing through to the era of ubiquity. It will be a goldmine.
So, again, if the reference requirement is met, there is NO NEED for a notability requirement - is there?
The two are effectively the same thing - in WP jargon, notable is basically defined as having been written about by independent reliable sources. There are some shortcuts that effectively say "these are the kinds of things we expect such sources to exist about anyway, so no need to actually find them", but it all basically boils down to availability of sources.
As a starting point, liability disclaimers are likely to be construed narrowly (and therefore) as not applying to negligence conduct - at least in the absence of clear and express language to this effect. [...] It may not be possible to effectively disclaim a supplier's liability for gross negligence, irrespective of the language used.
This case looks like gross negligence to me, and so the supplier is likely to be responsible for any damages caused by that negligence, regardless of what the contract states.
This is not legal advice; consult a lawyer who is an expert on contracts in your local jurisdiction if you want to rely on it.
The best thing to do, to avoid unforeseen consequences, is to call the fire marshal and inquire as to who is actually responsible if there is a situation like yours (the installer or the building owner).
Neither, I suspect. The most likely candidate would be the tenant. If they have permission from the owner to perform the installation work, that permission is likely to specify that they are responsible for ensuring all safety rules are followed. If they don't have permission, then while technically it would be the owner's responsibility, the owner could then sue them for performing unauthorized modifications to his property and reclaim any damages that were in consequence of that.
IANAL, nor am I an expert in this kind of law, but have seen enough of the law to know it normally works like this...
Another way of reading it: It will be the first time that Microsoft's main consumer OS is not Intel-only. Windows XP only supported Intel platforms (x86, x86-64, itanium), as did Windows ME before it; although Windows NT supported DEC alpha, PPC and MIPS platforms, it wasn't a consumer system at the time. Once Microsoft realised they intended to make it into a consumer system (during the development of Windows 2000) they dropped this capability like a stone.
You can, literally, buy a brand new Intel machine today and run DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 on it, unmodified, without emulation.
Theoretically, yes. Realistically, no. That new machine will not have proper hardware support for those operating systems: its sound card and network card will not be supported by either OS. Windows will probably not be able to use its keyboard or mouse (assuming it is USB based as I have seen increasingly recently). Graphics will be limited to VGA mode (either 640x480x16 colours or 320x240x256 colours) under Windows or any graphical DOS programs, because you won't be able to get a driver for it. Large quantities of software that used to be common under DOS will fail. Anything written using Turbo Pascal or the later Borland Pascal, for example, will fail to start, throwing up a division by zero error message.
It's also theoretically possible to run an old ARM OS on a modern ARM device. These people have made the OS designed for the original Acorn Archimedes (the first computer to use an ARM processor) work on ARM Cortex A8 devices. The major problem is device driver support for modern systems.
I don't recall, but I wonder if after the introduction and immense popularity of the Palm Pilot series of devices led people to speculate "the end of the PC as we know it?"
I wasn't paying a lot of attention back then, but I doubt it. The thing about Palms is, you can't really use them effectively without a PC to sync them to. Because, as I recall from the ones I owned, their storage is SRAM based and is prone to disappear if the battery is left discharged for too long.
If we look at science fiction, we all remember Star Trek and how seamlessly the characters used their PADDs to write reports, read, work, and transfer data. What the show never showed was exactly how characters did so with such a tiny screen. Mainly because no one has really thought of a good system of input.
How about, you know, grabbing a stylus and writing on it? I know from experience that a 7" pad is more than large enough to write notes on in most circumstances. OK, so handwriting recognition software isn't exactly working yet, but given current advances in other tasks that have long been assumed to require strong AI (translation, speech recognition, etc) but are yielding to statistical methods, I don't suspect it'll be long before somebody (probably google) cracks it.
Most people do not need windows at home on their pc.
Most people don't need home PCs, just a web browsing tablet.
While I sort-of agree, it's probably worth pointing out that an entry level PC + monitor can be purchased for around £250, and is perfectly adequate for almost everyone. An android tablet that doesn't have horrible problems[1] generally costs at least £300.
[1]: There are plenty of android tablets available for less than this figure, yes, but having spent a while over the last few days considering buying one, I'd have to recommend against it for most users. There are serious user-reported issues with almost all of these tablets, with each one generally suffering one or more of the following:
- Horribly short battery life - Lack of multitouch screen (which makes Android much harder to use) - Inability to use Android Marketplace, just a connection to a vendor-specific substitute which usually has far fewer apps, and is frequently not translated to English but must be used in Chinese. - Direct import from China, meaning no legal remedy if the device fails and the vendor decides not to refund you. - Screen that requires large amounts of pressure to register a touch, making the device very difficult to use - Inability to access popular web sites, with systems such as BBC iPlayer frequently cited (this apparently requires Android 2.2 to work, but most cheap devices only have Android 2.1 or even earlier).
"[G]etting ready to go over the major ins and outs of the Linux terminal and GUI" (to quote TFS) doesn't sound like an "Introduction to Programming under UNIX" class; it sounds very much like a "Using UNIX" class. As such, I agree with the OP. My university had no such class; we pretty much all came from a DOS, Amiga or Windows 3 background, and were dumped at a bash shell with a couple of leaflets on how to use the most important packages installed on the system (core bash commands, elm, trn), and that was it. We coped. As the environments we have now are much easier to use than those systems were, I *really* don't see any need for such a class.
What we *did* have was a class a little later on (towards the end of the first year) that introduced the philosophy of shell programming: how to string together small utilities, the usefulness of sed and awk, ending with a brief intro to Perl. Much better: most of us had gotten used to actually using the system by ourselves, and the valuable teaching time was spent on the things that are important, rather than the things that are incidental.
I think the problem with Alien3 was that its director decided he wanted to try to recapture the feel of the original movie, rather than build on what made Aliens great. I wonder whether you've seen this? It's the first draft of the script for Alien3, and was totally different. The feel was much more like Aliens (especially as vg xrcg obgu Uvpxf naq Arjg nyvir engure guna xvyyvat gurz bss va gur gvzr tnc orgjrra gur svyzf [spoiler for the actual Alien3 film]). Some people reckon it would have made a much better film.
The MINIMUM vertical screen res needs to be 768. There are too many websites and applications to where anything smaller than that causes overlap and scrolling.
The android web browser is very good at scaling content to fit what would ordinarily need 1024x768 or higher into much lower resolutions (I tried 800x480, and the results are reasonable). And no android application is going to be written to need a 768 pixel tall screen, because devices that could run such an application are extremely rare (this is the only one I've ever seen, although I assume there are others).
The problem you had is you were presumably using a netbook with an operating system that was designed for more traditional systems. Get an operating system that's intended for use on low resolution displays and you won't have as much trouble.
No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) [...]
The firmware supplied with the device and free updates supplied with the service are "articles [...] provided without charge under the terms of the warranty" and you can therefore be required to use them. Using your own firmware can invalidate the warranty.
No. The judge will have to consider it as a standard intra-EU extradition, although he may consider the likely behaviour of the Swedish in response to a US extradition request, therefore we will see a UK judge interpreting the Swedish law to see what will happen.
I *suspect* that this won't work. Sweden, as part of the EU, has the same human rights laws as the UK, including the prohibition against extradition to face execution or torture. As such, the judge will have to assume that the Swedish would not extradite him to the US if they felt such behaviour was likely, and dismiss this line of defence. Nice try, though.
I take it you're not from the UK. Over here, "my client is likely to be executed" is the standard first line of defence against an extradition request. If you can make it sound halfway believable it's practically guaranteed to work. Also high up on the list are other standard human rights, e.g. "my client will be denied a fair trial". Our judges are quite astoundingly liberal and concerned by the rights of those before them in comparison to many other countries, and certainly in comparison to our politicians...
So what? If you don't like closed content, just don't use it!
Widespread deployment of systems that allow closed content are likely to encourage content providers who are releasing content using current unprotected or insecure systems to switch to a more secure closed system. This reduces the utility of open source software, which almost universally is unable to take advantage of this kind of system due to protection measures that typically require signed trusted code. Hence, it is something that should be discouraged.
That said, boycotting closed media is likely to be just as effective as boycotting hardware that supports it; probably more so, as it is somewhat more direct.
Stylus input "tablets" have been around for over a decade - and they've mostly died off.
Which could mean anything. Possibilities:
1. Most of these tablets were based on hardware that was not advanced enough for real applications that most people wanted. They made great personal organizers, but not enough people wanted that for the market to take off. 2. People were afraid of losing their stylus, and bothered by how expensive the replacements were (I remember seeing prices of like £20 for a piece of moulded plastic...). This can be solved by the realisation that you can use just about anything with a (non-sharp) point as a stylus. 3. People were bothered by the idea of having to learn a new input style.
The fact is, those of us who did use these tablets were mostly happy with them. They weren't hard to use, as people commonly complained, and losing your stylus wasn't ever really a problem. So why have they failed? At a guess, it is just because they were on the market at the wrong time, before the hardware was mature enough to do the stuff people want to do. And Apple were there, watching until that was no longer the case, and launched the iPad at just the right time. That's always been Apple's true strength: judging what the market wants and when it wants it.
I don't think it's actually ambiguous. I can't see a correct way of parsing it like you did (the only way I get to your interpretation results in an unterminated phrase that begins "the botnet, dubbed Kneber" but doesn't ever get a verb and is therefore invalid), but I can see how it can result in a backtrack, which is somewhat confusing.
The problem is, we use commas for two different syntactic purposes: to introduce a subordinate clause, and to introduce a parenthetical clause. It's use for both here. Illustrating by using '/' for parenthetical commas and '+' for the subordinate comma:
The botnet / dubbed "Kneber" by Alex Cox + principal research analyst at NetWitness / was behind a campaign of fake Christmas e-mails waged two weeks ago against government workers.
This is probably a good reason to prefer parentheses over commas for parenthetical phrases, but for some reason I've never really understood this tends to be discouraged in formal writing. Rewriting the sentence using this punctuation style, it's perfectly clear:
The botnet (dubbed "Kneber" by Alex Cox, principal research analyst at NetWitness) was behind a campaign of fake Christmas e-mails waged two weeks ago against government workers.
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Do they not open the damn files as they come down? If only for a cursory glance to confirm.
I don't. I have a system for my downloads: 90% of the time, I queue the download a long time in advance of when I'm going to want it. My downloads happen on a VM running on my file server. The torrent client downloads the file to the VM's local disk, where it stays for my preset seeding period. Only when it's finished seeding does it get copied onto a share on the file server and become easy for me to access. I check it for validity then, and if it's a fake/corrupt I redownload as a priority job and get the files directly from the VM if I need them, but usually I don't bother.
From what I read in TPB's discussion forums, it seems to be quite common for a release of a movie that comes out before the official DVD release to have at least a few seconds of the sound taken from a Russian copy of the soundtrack.
Just sayin'
Agreed. If you sort by seeders, you probably get something more like 1% "fake". But if you just randomly download material, it's probably higher (though 50% seems high, even for random downloading.)
Dunno. Try sorting by uploaded time, download the most recent 10 uploads. My guess is you'll probably hit a lot more than 5 fakes if you do that (some of them get deleted, but I guess some survive the cut).
checking the number of seeders/leechers helps
Not as much as you'd think. My experience is that the fakes are often genuine copies of something entirely different, and often have as many as 200 seeds and 500-1000 downloaders. I think some people release fakes in order to trick people into seeding their content for them.
Do you really think wikipedia will be around in 100 years?
I'm betting it fades into obscurity in 25 years.
Seriously? No. Maybe it will no longer be used for its original purpose (although I would guess it will, perhaps not quite as much as today though) but in 100 years time it will start to have been of interest to historians. An immense documentary collection of how early Internet pioneers thought, starting from when the Internet was just becoming mainstream and progressing through to the era of ubiquity. It will be a goldmine.
So, again, if the reference requirement is met, there is NO NEED for a notability requirement - is there?
The two are effectively the same thing - in WP jargon, notable is basically defined as having been written about by independent reliable sources. There are some shortcuts that effectively say "these are the kinds of things we expect such sources to exist about anyway, so no need to actually find them", but it all basically boils down to availability of sources.
As for lack of service, pretty much every ISP's contracts state that there is no guarantee on uptime
Note that what a contract says and what a court will decide it means are two different things. See any textbook concerning contract disclaimers and neglicence claims (e.g. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aGCYmYX4cZ8C&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=enforceability+of+us+contract+terms+limiting+liability&source=bl&ots=cW2rVzfFV5&sig=s0lK1frWbFowZsBe9QSieekD5lU&hl=en&ei=YQA4TZPuOoKyhAf-koXICg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false which says:
This case looks like gross negligence to me, and so the supplier is likely to be responsible for any damages caused by that negligence, regardless of what the contract states.
This is not legal advice; consult a lawyer who is an expert on contracts in your local jurisdiction if you want to rely on it.
The best thing to do, to avoid unforeseen consequences, is to call the fire marshal and inquire as to who is actually responsible if there is a situation like yours (the installer or the building owner).
Neither, I suspect. The most likely candidate would be the tenant. If they have permission from the owner to perform the installation work, that permission is likely to specify that they are responsible for ensuring all safety rules are followed. If they don't have permission, then while technically it would be the owner's responsibility, the owner could then sue them for performing unauthorized modifications to his property and reclaim any damages that were in consequence of that.
IANAL, nor am I an expert in this kind of law, but have seen enough of the law to know it normally works like this...
Another way of reading it: It will be the first time that Microsoft's main consumer OS is not Intel-only. Windows XP only supported Intel platforms (x86, x86-64, itanium), as did Windows ME before it; although Windows NT supported DEC alpha, PPC and MIPS platforms, it wasn't a consumer system at the time. Once Microsoft realised they intended to make it into a consumer system (during the development of Windows 2000) they dropped this capability like a stone.
You can, literally, buy a brand new Intel machine today and run DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 on it, unmodified, without emulation.
Theoretically, yes. Realistically, no. That new machine will not have proper hardware support for those operating systems: its sound card and network card will not be supported by either OS. Windows will probably not be able to use its keyboard or mouse (assuming it is USB based as I have seen increasingly recently). Graphics will be limited to VGA mode (either 640x480x16 colours or 320x240x256 colours) under Windows or any graphical DOS programs, because you won't be able to get a driver for it. Large quantities of software that used to be common under DOS will fail. Anything written using Turbo Pascal or the later Borland Pascal, for example, will fail to start, throwing up a division by zero error message.
It's also theoretically possible to run an old ARM OS on a modern ARM device. These people have made the OS designed for the original Acorn Archimedes (the first computer to use an ARM processor) work on ARM Cortex A8 devices. The major problem is device driver support for modern systems.
I don't recall, but I wonder if after the introduction and immense popularity of the Palm Pilot series of devices led people to speculate "the end of the PC as we know it?"
I wasn't paying a lot of attention back then, but I doubt it. The thing about Palms is, you can't really use them effectively without a PC to sync them to. Because, as I recall from the ones I owned, their storage is SRAM based and is prone to disappear if the battery is left discharged for too long.
If we look at science fiction, we all remember Star Trek and how seamlessly the characters used their PADDs to write reports, read, work, and transfer data. What the show never showed was exactly how characters did so with such a tiny screen. Mainly because no one has really thought of a good system of input.
How about, you know, grabbing a stylus and writing on it? I know from experience that a 7" pad is more than large enough to write notes on in most circumstances. OK, so handwriting recognition software isn't exactly working yet, but given current advances in other tasks that have long been assumed to require strong AI (translation, speech recognition, etc) but are yielding to statistical methods, I don't suspect it'll be long before somebody (probably google) cracks it.
Most people do not need windows at home on their pc.
Most people don't need home PCs, just a web browsing tablet.
While I sort-of agree, it's probably worth pointing out that an entry level PC + monitor can be purchased for around £250, and is perfectly adequate for almost everyone. An android tablet that doesn't have horrible problems[1] generally costs at least £300.
[1]: There are plenty of android tablets available for less than this figure, yes, but having spent a while over the last few days considering buying one, I'd have to recommend against it for most users. There are serious user-reported issues with almost all of these tablets, with each one generally suffering one or more of the following:
- Horribly short battery life
- Lack of multitouch screen (which makes Android much harder to use)
- Inability to use Android Marketplace, just a connection to a vendor-specific substitute which usually has far fewer apps, and is frequently not translated to English but must be used in Chinese.
- Direct import from China, meaning no legal remedy if the device fails and the vendor decides not to refund you.
- Screen that requires large amounts of pressure to register a touch, making the device very difficult to use
- Inability to access popular web sites, with systems such as BBC iPlayer frequently cited (this apparently requires Android 2.2 to work, but most cheap devices only have Android 2.1 or even earlier).
"[G]etting ready to go over the major ins and outs of the Linux terminal and GUI" (to quote TFS) doesn't sound like an "Introduction to Programming under UNIX" class; it sounds very much like a "Using UNIX" class. As such, I agree with the OP. My university had no such class; we pretty much all came from a DOS, Amiga or Windows 3 background, and were dumped at a bash shell with a couple of leaflets on how to use the most important packages installed on the system (core bash commands, elm, trn), and that was it. We coped. As the environments we have now are much easier to use than those systems were, I *really* don't see any need for such a class.
What we *did* have was a class a little later on (towards the end of the first year) that introduced the philosophy of shell programming: how to string together small utilities, the usefulness of sed and awk, ending with a brief intro to Perl. Much better: most of us had gotten used to actually using the system by ourselves, and the valuable teaching time was spent on the things that are important, rather than the things that are incidental.
Alien 3 was dull though
I think the problem with Alien3 was that its director decided he wanted to try to recapture the feel of the original movie, rather than build on what made Aliens great. I wonder whether you've seen this? It's the first draft of the script for Alien3, and was totally different. The feel was much more like Aliens (especially as vg xrcg obgu Uvpxf naq Arjg nyvir engure guna xvyyvat gurz bss va gur gvzr tnc orgjrra gur svyzf [spoiler for the actual Alien3 film]). Some people reckon it would have made a much better film.
The MINIMUM vertical screen res needs to be 768. There are too many websites and applications to where anything smaller than that causes overlap and scrolling.
The android web browser is very good at scaling content to fit what would ordinarily need 1024x768 or higher into much lower resolutions (I tried 800x480, and the results are reasonable). And no android application is going to be written to need a 768 pixel tall screen, because devices that could run such an application are extremely rare (this is the only one I've ever seen, although I assume there are others).
The problem you had is you were presumably using a netbook with an operating system that was designed for more traditional systems. Get an operating system that's intended for use on low resolution displays and you won't have as much trouble.
No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) [...]
The firmware supplied with the device and free updates supplied with the service are "articles [...] provided without charge under the terms of the warranty" and you can therefore be required to use them. Using your own firmware can invalidate the warranty.
Remember kids - Reality has no second life. What is done is done. And experience is gained.
Great. How long before I can level up?
The approved abbreviation for metric ton, or tonne, is "t".
Approved by whom? The SI standard would be Mg (1 megagram = 1000 kilograms).
No. The judge will have to consider it as a standard intra-EU extradition, although he may consider the likely behaviour of the Swedish in response to a US extradition request, therefore we will see a UK judge interpreting the Swedish law to see what will happen.
I *suspect* that this won't work. Sweden, as part of the EU, has the same human rights laws as the UK, including the prohibition against extradition to face execution or torture. As such, the judge will have to assume that the Swedish would not extradite him to the US if they felt such behaviour was likely, and dismiss this line of defence. Nice try, though.
I take it you're not from the UK. Over here, "my client is likely to be executed" is the standard first line of defence against an extradition request. If you can make it sound halfway believable it's practically guaranteed to work. Also high up on the list are other standard human rights, e.g. "my client will be denied a fair trial". Our judges are quite astoundingly liberal and concerned by the rights of those before them in comparison to many other countries, and certainly in comparison to our politicians...
So what? If you don't like closed content, just don't use it!
Widespread deployment of systems that allow closed content are likely to encourage content providers who are releasing content using current unprotected or insecure systems to switch to a more secure closed system. This reduces the utility of open source software, which almost universally is unable to take advantage of this kind of system due to protection measures that typically require signed trusted code. Hence, it is something that should be discouraged.
That said, boycotting closed media is likely to be just as effective as boycotting hardware that supports it; probably more so, as it is somewhat more direct.
Stylus input "tablets" have been around for over a decade - and they've mostly died off.
Which could mean anything. Possibilities:
1. Most of these tablets were based on hardware that was not advanced enough for real applications that most people wanted. They made great personal organizers, but not enough people wanted that for the market to take off.
2. People were afraid of losing their stylus, and bothered by how expensive the replacements were (I remember seeing prices of like £20 for a piece of moulded plastic...). This can be solved by the realisation that you can use just about anything with a (non-sharp) point as a stylus.
3. People were bothered by the idea of having to learn a new input style.
The fact is, those of us who did use these tablets were mostly happy with them. They weren't hard to use, as people commonly complained, and losing your stylus wasn't ever really a problem. So why have they failed? At a guess, it is just because they were on the market at the wrong time, before the hardware was mature enough to do the stuff people want to do. And Apple were there, watching until that was no longer the case, and launched the iPad at just the right time. That's always been Apple's true strength: judging what the market wants and when it wants it.
That's when the crippling bug surfaced. It seems the USB3 ports on the Intel DH67BL don't want to work.
This is hardly surprising. The board's only certified to comply with the USB2 specification.
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-026528.htm
I don't think it's actually ambiguous. I can't see a correct way of parsing it like you did (the only way I get to your interpretation results in an unterminated phrase that begins "the botnet, dubbed Kneber" but doesn't ever get a verb and is therefore invalid), but I can see how it can result in a backtrack, which is somewhat confusing.
The problem is, we use commas for two different syntactic purposes: to introduce a subordinate clause, and to introduce a parenthetical clause. It's use for both here. Illustrating by using '/' for parenthetical commas and '+' for the subordinate comma:
The botnet / dubbed "Kneber" by Alex Cox + principal research analyst at NetWitness / was behind a campaign of fake Christmas e-mails waged two weeks ago against government workers.
This is probably a good reason to prefer parentheses over commas for parenthetical phrases, but for some reason I've never really understood this tends to be discouraged in formal writing. Rewriting the sentence using this punctuation style, it's perfectly clear:
The botnet (dubbed "Kneber" by Alex Cox, principal research analyst at NetWitness) was behind a campaign of fake Christmas e-mails waged two weeks ago against government workers.