I don't know why everyone is saying the movie had better acting. Big name actors like Patrick Stewart and Dean Stockwell != better acting. Personally, I thought the acting in the mini-series much better portrayed the muted and controled emotions that I got from the book then the over-the-top melodramatic preformance of the people in the movie. I thought the mini-series was better in every respect than the movie. And though the mini-series did leave out some important info, they somehow did it in a way that didn't affect the sotry line. Not having read the book for a couple years, I didn't even notice the discrepencies until the second time I watched it.
This is to say that your freedoms are real and exist until someone takes them away.
Please show me where in my post I said that the rights are either not real or don't exist. All I said was that we have no natural, or unalienable rights. The fact that the rights can be taken away shows that they are given to us and are not unalienable.
In particular, the BOR does not *give* you any rights, but outlines that the Government has no power to restrict your freedoms in those areas specified.
Again, the fact that saying that the government may not take away those rights is necessary at all just further demonstrates my point. My deciding not to take away those rights, the government is giving them to us. There is no difference. If we naturally had those rights, the BOR would be saying that the government can't take away those rights, and would be redundant anyway.
Maybe, just maybe, the fact that I created something gives me the right to dictate the terms of distribution.
No one naturally has any rights. All the rights that we have are given to us my the people in power. That is why we have to have a Bill of Rights. If we naturally had those rights, then a Bill of Rights would be redundant and unnessecary.
The real question is not whether or not ideas are naturally owned by either who came up with the idea, or the entire human race, but rather who should we give the ownership to in order to help the survival of the society. And this is a question that should be answered by a systematic study of the question through the science of sociology (which I realize isn't much of a science at this point in its development), and not by passioniate arguments that stem from almost religiously held beliefs on both sides.
You can't wall them off from the other players, because one of my favorite aspects about LAN partys is the ability to trash-talk to the other people there. That is one of the main reasons I rarely play games over the internet, but I very often play games with people in my dorm.
HavenCo fully complies with content restrictions on a jurisdiction by jurisdiction basis, and does not allow content illegal in a given
country to be hosted on servers at HavenCo facilities within that specific country.
If they are hosting in Sealand, then serving MP3s, which a Napster-like service wouldn't do anyway, wouldn't be illegal because Seland has no IP laws.
I kind of think that would work well as a video game or RPG, but not very well as a non-interactive TV show. Action oriented things are usually best when they are interactive.
The UFP was started in the year 2161. Whether or not Starfleet was started is another matter. The ship would only have an NCC designation if it was a Starfleet ship. Just like I can have a ship with an American registry that doesn't have a USS designation.
I've heard a lot about this supposed crippling done by Apple to their DVD-R from people on Slashdot, and yet I've never seen any links or other evidence to back it up. Someone in a thread earlier said that the drive was crippled to only be able to record 60 minutes. This isn't a "crippling" of the drive. It's just the fact that 60 minutes is 4.7 GBs of MPEG2 video, and the DVD-R drive can't make double layered DVDs. If that is the only reason you are calling the DVD-R drive crippled, then I suggest you stop spreading FUD.
You won't be able to play DVDs in Classic because the DVD player makes direct hardware calls to disable things like screenshotting, and to tell the video card to start decoding the DVD. Classic does not, and will not support this.
No they didn't have to reverse engineer their BIOS. IBM always had the source to their BIOS open for anyone to read, but it was still copyrighted. What Compaq had to do was get some engineers who had never seen the BIOS code to "clean room clone" it. This is not the same thing as reverse engineering.
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"Forward" and "Back" symbols might very well have no meaning to an intelligence that grew up ambidextrous.
Or they might be backwards if the majority of the population was left-handed instead of right-handed.
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what base do you presume using to transmit these numerals? Remember, whichever one you pick means making an assumption about how many fingers/arms/tentacles the receiving species will have.
You don't need any base to transmit prime numbers. Just transmit 2 pulses, then 3, then 5, then 7, then 11. 11 pulses is still the same number of pulses if you represent it as 11(base 10), B(base 12-infinity), or 1011(base 2).
Pi would have to be represented in some base, unless there is some way to represent irrational numbers as discrete pulses or something. However, I think the problem could be solved by sending it in several bases. The ones I would suggest would be 2 and 12. 2 because the third law of logic makes it a desireable base to do logical type things in, and 12 because using 12 as a base makes numbers much easier to factor. These are the two most logical bases to use IMO. You could also include derivative bases such as 16, or 60 if you feel it is necessary for clarification.
And what about the virus thing. If all of a sudden there are new files on your hard drive, don't run them. You can't remotely execute this way (of course, if someone was really dumb, and shared commonly used executables, I guess you could replace them).
Or they share out their WINDOWS or WINNT directory. This is how the 911 worm spread. It just copied itself to the Startup directories (forgot the full paths).
The fact that someone left his computer in its default configuration is sure as hell not permission.
File sharing is NOT on by default. You have to explicitly turn it on. If you want to turn it on for a specified group of people, have a password. Leaving world access is an open invitation.
If you take stuff without permission it's theft, even if the person didn't know he/she possessed the item. It's theft even if all you do is copy the papers on the desk.
Copying papers on a desk is not theft. It may be espionage if it was without permission. But again, putting world read rights on something is giving permission.
Even leaving something in the house is a crime. Littering, if nothing else.
Littering only applies to a publicly owned place, such as a park or sidewalk. And leaving something in a house with permission is not a crime. Giving world write rights to something is giving permission.
Well, there is a conjecture that a large, extinction level asteroid hits the earth approx. every 26 million years. This conjecture stems from the fact that a large number of species go extinct with that interval. Both the Permian and the Triassic extinctions fit into that pattern. Fortunately its been 13 million years since the last major extinction, and therefore we have quite a while to wait.
Anything to support the idea that it's always been going the same 24 hour spin?
Actually I read somewhere that the Earth is slowing down on average a second every 80 years or so. That would make it a 22 hour day at the time of the dinosaurs.
The fact is that musicians do get back money for what they DO, copying and distributing music is not something that musicians do. That is something that record labels do. Since distributing music over Napster, etc. is not something that either the record companies or the musicians are doing, there is no reason why either of them should get paid for it. Musicians get paid when they play music. They get paid when they play at live shows, and that is where most of their money comes from anyway.
Who says USB speakers have to be crappy? Its not like 12Mb/sec is too slow for quality audio. Besides, there are some relatively good speakers out for USB. Check out the Harmon Kardon stick speakers. Those combined with their iSub makes one of the best computer sound systems I've heard.
If you are going to use a MD recorder to do that, you have to get a Japanese model, because all the American models will only record from an analog stream I believe.
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I don't know why everyone is saying the movie had better acting. Big name actors like Patrick Stewart and Dean Stockwell != better acting. Personally, I thought the acting in the mini-series much better portrayed the muted and controled emotions that I got from the book then the over-the-top melodramatic preformance of the people in the movie. I thought the mini-series was better in every respect than the movie. And though the mini-series did leave out some important info, they somehow did it in a way that didn't affect the sotry line. Not having read the book for a couple years, I didn't even notice the discrepencies until the second time I watched it.
And George Bush Sr. never had to apologize for saying that he thought atheists shouldn't be considered citizens or be allowed to vote.
Please show me where in my post I said that the rights are either not real or don't exist. All I said was that we have no natural, or unalienable rights. The fact that the rights can be taken away shows that they are given to us and are not unalienable.
In particular, the BOR does not *give* you any rights, but outlines that the Government has no power to restrict your freedoms in those areas specified.
Again, the fact that saying that the government may not take away those rights is necessary at all just further demonstrates my point. My deciding not to take away those rights, the government is giving them to us. There is no difference. If we naturally had those rights, the BOR would be saying that the government can't take away those rights, and would be redundant anyway.
No one naturally has any rights. All the rights that we have are given to us my the people in power. That is why we have to have a Bill of Rights. If we naturally had those rights, then a Bill of Rights would be redundant and unnessecary.
The real question is not whether or not ideas are naturally owned by either who came up with the idea, or the entire human race, but rather who should we give the ownership to in order to help the survival of the society. And this is a question that should be answered by a systematic study of the question through the science of sociology (which I realize isn't much of a science at this point in its development), and not by passioniate arguments that stem from almost religiously held beliefs on both sides.
You can't wall them off from the other players, because one of my favorite aspects about LAN partys is the ability to trash-talk to the other people there. That is one of the main reasons I rarely play games over the internet, but I very often play games with people in my dorm.
HavenCo fully complies with content restrictions on a jurisdiction by jurisdiction basis, and does not allow content illegal in a given country to be hosted on servers at HavenCo facilities within that specific country.
If they are hosting in Sealand, then serving MP3s, which a Napster-like service wouldn't do anyway, wouldn't be illegal because Seland has no IP laws.
My favorite has always been 4 though. After that came 2, then 6, then 3.
Well, 3 and 7 weren't really that bad, and I'm not sure 8 qualifies as good either.
I kind of think that would work well as a video game or RPG, but not very well as a non-interactive TV show. Action oriented things are usually best when they are interactive.
The UFP was started in the year 2161. Whether or not Starfleet was started is another matter. The ship would only have an NCC designation if it was a Starfleet ship. Just like I can have a ship with an American registry that doesn't have a USS designation.
I've heard a lot about this supposed crippling done by Apple to their DVD-R from people on Slashdot, and yet I've never seen any links or other evidence to back it up. Someone in a thread earlier said that the drive was crippled to only be able to record 60 minutes. This isn't a "crippling" of the drive. It's just the fact that 60 minutes is 4.7 GBs of MPEG2 video, and the DVD-R drive can't make double layered DVDs. If that is the only reason you are calling the DVD-R drive crippled, then I suggest you stop spreading FUD.
You won't be able to play DVDs in Classic because the DVD player makes direct hardware calls to disable things like screenshotting, and to tell the video card to start decoding the DVD. Classic does not, and will not support this.
No they didn't have to reverse engineer their BIOS. IBM always had the source to their BIOS open for anyone to read, but it was still copyrighted. What Compaq had to do was get some engineers who had never seen the BIOS code to "clean room clone" it. This is not the same thing as reverse engineering.
Or they might be backwards if the majority of the population was left-handed instead of right-handed.
You don't need any base to transmit prime numbers. Just transmit 2 pulses, then 3, then 5, then 7, then 11. 11 pulses is still the same number of pulses if you represent it as 11(base 10), B(base 12-infinity), or 1011(base 2).
Pi would have to be represented in some base, unless there is some way to represent irrational numbers as discrete pulses or something. However, I think the problem could be solved by sending it in several bases. The ones I would suggest would be 2 and 12. 2 because the third law of logic makes it a desireable base to do logical type things in, and 12 because using 12 as a base makes numbers much easier to factor. These are the two most logical bases to use IMO. You could also include derivative bases such as 16, or 60 if you feel it is necessary for clarification.
LCDs change the polarity of the light passing through them when as charge is applied, maybe something related could be the answer.
Or they share out their WINDOWS or WINNT directory. This is how the 911 worm spread. It just copied itself to the Startup directories (forgot the full paths).
Neither do HTTP servers, so is viewing a web page without an invitation from the webmaster a crime?
File sharing is NOT on by default. You have to explicitly turn it on. If you want to turn it on for a specified group of people, have a password. Leaving world access is an open invitation.
If you take stuff without permission it's theft, even if the person didn't know he/she possessed the item. It's theft even if all you do is copy the papers on the desk.
Copying papers on a desk is not theft. It may be espionage if it was without permission. But again, putting world read rights on something is giving permission.
Even leaving something in the house is a crime. Littering, if nothing else. Littering only applies to a publicly owned place, such as a park or sidewalk. And leaving something in a house with permission is not a crime. Giving world write rights to something is giving permission.
Its AppleShare, not AppleTalk that shares files, and it has never come default on.
Well, there is a conjecture that a large, extinction level asteroid hits the earth approx. every 26 million years. This conjecture stems from the fact that a large number of species go extinct with that interval. Both the Permian and the Triassic extinctions fit into that pattern. Fortunately its been 13 million years since the last major extinction, and therefore we have quite a while to wait.
Actually I read somewhere that the Earth is slowing down on average a second every 80 years or so. That would make it a 22 hour day at the time of the dinosaurs.
The fact is that musicians do get back money for what they DO, copying and distributing music is not something that musicians do. That is something that record labels do. Since distributing music over Napster, etc. is not something that either the record companies or the musicians are doing, there is no reason why either of them should get paid for it. Musicians get paid when they play music. They get paid when they play at live shows, and that is where most of their money comes from anyway.
Who says USB speakers have to be crappy? Its not like 12Mb/sec is too slow for quality audio. Besides, there are some relatively good speakers out for USB. Check out the Harmon Kardon stick speakers. Those combined with their iSub makes one of the best computer sound systems I've heard.
If you are going to use a MD recorder to do that, you have to get a Japanese model, because all the American models will only record from an analog stream I believe.