I may be completely misunderstanding you as I have absolutely no gambling experience, but are you saying that the odds are set (or changed) *after* people place their bets? If so, isn't that fraud? If not, how do they know beforehand how much people will bet on each horse?
But good stories are almost always about interesting people in interesting situations.
Bullshit. In sci-fi, good stories are almost exclusively *not* about interesting people. They are about interesting ideas. It is the idea that is the main character and all the other character's development aren't even considered. Don't believe me? Go back and read some *real* sci-fi, from the masters like Clarke and Asimov. Please tell me where the character development is in the Foundation trilogy, Childhood's End, or 2001.
The rest of his thesis is a naive, too. The original Dune series was five books long. That was the series. The four new books, and up to six more [dunenovels.com], are the serialization of the Dune universe akin to what's happened with Star Wars and Star Trek novels. They're novels which can't be taken too seriously.
You do realize that these books are based almost exclusively on Frank Herbert's notes and plot outlines, don't you? In that sense they are much more like Unfinished Tales and the History of Middle Earth series by Christopher Tolkien than like Star Wars or Star Trek. They should be taken quite seriously, although not as seriously as the original six novels. These are essentially Frank Herbert's unfinished works finished by his son.
Does OS X access the Mac ROMS directly or does it go through Darwin?
There is *NO* Mac ROM!!! This has been repeated over and over again on Slashdot, and yet still people don't get it. There hasn't been a Mac ROM since the first iMac came out. They all use Open Firmware to boot.
My whole point in making the post was to argue against the idiots who are claiming that EULAs take rights away, which is ridiculous.
There are two possibilities, either you've bought the software, or you've licensed it. If you've bought it, then there is no license agreement, and therefore EULAs don't apply. If they don't apply, they can't take away any rights. If you've licensed it, you have no intrinsic rights to use the software, and therefore there are no rights to take away. I wasn't trying to comment on which one of these actually happens in real life.
But, if you've actually bought the software, like most of the slashbots around here seem to think, why the fuck are you all worried and talking about EULAs? THEY DON'T APPLY!!!! If you aren't licensing the software, there can be no license agreement!!!
The reason why they designed it that way is because, unlike what the article says, Classic apps *won't* follow symlinks. So they where faced with either making aliases incompatible with Unix apps, or incompatible with Classic apps. Considering that when OS X was deployed, the vast majority of users were still using tons of Classic apps, it was a good design decision.
<I>No magic required. If you buy a car then you're allowed to drive it. If you buy a painting then you're allowed to look at it. If you buy a CD then you're allowed to play it. If you buy a book you're allowed to read it. If you buy software you are allowed to use it. Where do you get the need for magic from?</I> <P> The problem is you *haven't* bought the software, you've licensed it. Thats the whole point of the EULA. Because of that, you have no right to use the software unless you follow the terms of the license.
Who the fuck modded this tripe as informative? Its completely and utterly wrong.
The GPL *is* a EULA. EULA stands for End User License Agreement. That is exactly what the GPL is. It defines the agreement between the copyright owner and the end user.
Secondly, EULAs don't take away rights, they add them. Commercial EULAs may not give as many rights as the GPL does, but they still give rights over and above what you had before you agree. This is because before you agree, you have *no* rights. Remember, you have not bought the software you've licensed it, so normal copyright uses don't apply. As for fair use rights, they can't take that away anyway. In short, all license agreements give rights, if nothing other than the right to use the software in a certain way.
A 10-track disc costs $10, and under the Betamax precedent, you can copy it to whatever writable medium is popular at any time.
The Betamax case says absolutely nothing about media-shifting, only time-shifting. Now if you had mentioned the Diamond case, you might have a point. Please, get your facts straight when you want to talk about the legality of an issue like this one.
I may be totally off on this, but most DDOS attacks comes from a few machines. If the attack is well planned and the software well programmed, I guess they insert random source ip in each packet, but the chances are that they only use a few.
First of all, DDoS attacks use many computers, thats why they are called *Distributed* Denial of Service attacks. Secondly, most DDoS attacks are a form of attack known as a smurf attack. In a smurf attack, the attacker can multiply its effective bandwidth by pinging a vulnerable network and having every computer on that network reply. The attack also forges the source IP. The pinged network then sends their replies to the source IP that was forged. The IP that was forged is the real target. In this way, the real attackers IP is never sent to the target. It also means there are many computers responding for each attacking computer. When you multiply this by many zombie attackers, it presents a very formidable packet storm.
If the universe began at the big bang, about 15 billion years ago, it would be about 30 billion light years across, no?
No, if the universe is 15 billion years old, it could only be 15 billion light years across. Otherwise, two points that are the furthest distance apart from each other at all times during those 15 billion years would be traveling at 2c relative to each other.
The OS X VM allocates space in approx. 80 MB chunks. Because of that, if you have 256 MBs or more of RAM it will rarely allocate more space, and so doesn't really fragment. Its located in/private/var/vm. In OS X, the entire file tree except the/Volumes/ directory is on one filesystem.
Wait, do you live in a PAL region? Because in PAL DVDs, either PCM or MP2 audio is required, and AC3 is only optional on top of that. In NTSC land, MP2 and AC3 are switched.
The amendment says "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused..." so, if the US government has the right to try you, you have the right to a speedy trial.
Well I don't know what weird ass kind of DVDs you get, but all the ones I've ever seen only had AC3 audio. They may have had 3 or 4 different audio tracks, but they were all AC3. Just what titles do you have that have PCM on them?
It is apparently possible to put the swap on its own partition by fiddling with rc, but it is kind of pointless. The OS X swap file is dynamically allocated, so most of the time, the rest of that swap partition will be sitting there useless. It does prevent swap fragmentation, but with more than 256 MBs of RAM, this really isn't an issue.
With a journaling filesystem, it may become more of an issue. It would still be a performance vs. disk space trade off though.
1 bit?! Just wait a goddamn minute! Are you telling me that at any given time, the audio track for an SA-CD has only two possible volumes, on and off? Please tell me thats a typo.
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I may be completely misunderstanding you as I have absolutely no gambling experience, but are you saying that the odds are set (or changed) *after* people place their bets? If so, isn't that fraud? If not, how do they know beforehand how much people will bet on each horse?
His father? Is his father Poul Anderson? Thats the only famous sci-fi Anderson I could think of.
Bullshit. In sci-fi, good stories are almost exclusively *not* about interesting people. They are about interesting ideas. It is the idea that is the main character and all the other character's development aren't even considered. Don't believe me? Go back and read some *real* sci-fi, from the masters like Clarke and Asimov. Please tell me where the character development is in the Foundation trilogy, Childhood's End, or 2001.
You do realize that these books are based almost exclusively on Frank Herbert's notes and plot outlines, don't you? In that sense they are much more like Unfinished Tales and the History of Middle Earth series by Christopher Tolkien than like Star Wars or Star Trek. They should be taken quite seriously, although not as seriously as the original six novels. These are essentially Frank Herbert's unfinished works finished by his son.
There is *NO* Mac ROM!!! This has been repeated over and over again on Slashdot, and yet still people don't get it. There hasn't been a Mac ROM since the first iMac came out. They all use Open Firmware to boot.
There are two possibilities, either you've bought the software, or you've licensed it. If you've bought it, then there is no license agreement, and therefore EULAs don't apply. If they don't apply, they can't take away any rights. If you've licensed it, you have no intrinsic rights to use the software, and therefore there are no rights to take away. I wasn't trying to comment on which one of these actually happens in real life.
But, if you've actually bought the software, like most of the slashbots around here seem to think, why the fuck are you all worried and talking about EULAs? THEY DON'T APPLY!!!! If you aren't licensing the software, there can be no license agreement!!!
The reason why they designed it that way is because, unlike what the article says, Classic apps *won't* follow symlinks. So they where faced with either making aliases incompatible with Unix apps, or incompatible with Classic apps. Considering that when OS X was deployed, the vast majority of users were still using tons of Classic apps, it was a good design decision.
<I>No magic required. If you buy a car then you're allowed to drive it. If you buy a painting then you're allowed to look at it. If you buy a CD then you're allowed to play it. If you buy a book you're allowed to read it. If you buy software you are allowed to use it. Where do you get the need for magic from?</I>
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The problem is you *haven't* bought the software, you've licensed it. Thats the whole point of the EULA. Because of that, you have no right to use the software unless you follow the terms of the license.
The GPL *is* a EULA. EULA stands for End User License Agreement. That is exactly what the GPL is. It defines the agreement between the copyright owner and the end user.
Secondly, EULAs don't take away rights, they add them. Commercial EULAs may not give as many rights as the GPL does, but they still give rights over and above what you had before you agree. This is because before you agree, you have *no* rights. Remember, you have not bought the software you've licensed it, so normal copyright uses don't apply. As for fair use rights, they can't take that away anyway. In short, all license agreements give rights, if nothing other than the right to use the software in a certain way.
Rocky's Boots!! Now there's a game I loved as a kid. Of course, I didn't know at the time that it was teaching me digital logic...
The Betamax case says absolutely nothing about media-shifting, only time-shifting. Now if you had mentioned the Diamond case, you might have a point. Please, get your facts straight when you want to talk about the legality of an issue like this one.
DVD-R media isn't that expensive. You can get them for $0.90 a disc.
Creation Science is another good example of this pattern!
First of all, DDoS attacks use many computers, thats why they are called *Distributed* Denial of Service attacks. Secondly, most DDoS attacks are a form of attack known as a smurf attack. In a smurf attack, the attacker can multiply its effective bandwidth by pinging a vulnerable network and having every computer on that network reply. The attack also forges the source IP. The pinged network then sends their replies to the source IP that was forged. The IP that was forged is the real target. In this way, the real attackers IP is never sent to the target. It also means there are many computers responding for each attacking computer. When you multiply this by many zombie attackers, it presents a very formidable packet storm.
If you are in the military, the drinking age is 18 on base. Its still 21 if you go off base though.
Neither, they are exactly one Planck length.
No, if the universe is 15 billion years old, it could only be 15 billion light years across. Otherwise, two points that are the furthest distance apart from each other at all times during those 15 billion years would be traveling at 2c relative to each other.
Wow! Annotated by Garnder! I'm definitely going to have to get that.
The OS X VM allocates space in approx. 80 MB chunks. Because of that, if you have 256 MBs or more of RAM it will rarely allocate more space, and so doesn't really fragment. Its located in /private/var/vm. In OS X, the entire file tree except the /Volumes/ directory is on one filesystem.
Wait, do you live in a PAL region? Because in PAL DVDs, either PCM or MP2 audio is required, and AC3 is only optional on top of that. In NTSC land, MP2 and AC3 are switched.
The amendment says "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused..." so, if the US government has the right to try you, you have the right to a speedy trial.
Well I don't know what weird ass kind of DVDs you get, but all the ones I've ever seen only had AC3 audio. They may have had 3 or 4 different audio tracks, but they were all AC3. Just what titles do you have that have PCM on them?
With a journaling filesystem, it may become more of an issue. It would still be a performance vs. disk space trade off though.
OS X isn't like Linux in that respect. The swap file resides on the main partition.
1 bit?! Just wait a goddamn minute! Are you telling me that at any given time, the audio track for an SA-CD has only two possible volumes, on and off? Please tell me thats a typo.