There isn't really any talk needed in handing over a check and taking pizza. But I have one friend in particular that gets very nervous on the phone, but can do all right face-to-face. The story about the stutterer under your comment enforces my point too.
This would actually be handy for friends of mine that have severe social anxiety, or if you have crazy directions for pizza or your home, or if you want to get a lot of stuff and not have to have it parroted back to you, then repeat it back, and risk them forgetting to do no aregano or whatever.
No, that's stupid. It's a calculator, it doesn't need to fucking have a GUI and USB mouse support and fry my bacon and toast my bread, it needs to do calculations quickly and efficiently. What do I need 64MB of RAM for? Games? Database software? That's stupid. I have a GBASP and if I want to take notes to put into MySQL I have a legal pad.
Apple authorized hardware [decoding] via CD burning (and subsequent re-ripping). This is *authorized* copying. Anything else, then, is unauthorized copying isn't it?
There's a legal issue wherein, if a clause in a license doesn't jive with the laws of the land, that clause becomes null and void. If the Indian Copyright Act of 1957 and the IT Act of 2002 say that it's legal to take out encryption (or other encumberances) so as to remove imposed restrictions, then that part of the license is illegal. It's the same idea as, if Apple put in a clause in the ITMS EULA that said Apple has the right to kill you if you agree to the EULA, and then they come and kill you, they're going to be held on a murder charge, and the EULA defense is thrown out the window because it was arbitrarily abridging rights that the government had deemed inalienable. Perhaps the right to decode data streams is not 'inalienable,' but it's something the government has okayed and so any of Apple's whining can't stop it.
No. Again, if I put in a EULA that accepting the terms of the contract grants me rights to kill you, that doesn't mean that I can kill you. If I took that to my Murder 1 trial, the judge would tell me the contract was null and void because it permitted something that's illegal. Likewise if a EULA (or contract) says that I give up my right to sue the author in case the program shoots me in the face (somehow), that's unenforceable if one can show intent/lack of good faith/whatever. You know those signs that are at pools sometimes? "Management is not responsible for unsupervised children on the premises" and such? Well, they are. If there's a bunch of management-owned rusty bear traps by the pool and a kid falls into them and gets tetanus, his parents probably have a case against the management and if the management simply says that he posted a sign saying he's not responsible for unsupervised children, he will get laughed out of court. Likewise, if I post a sign that says "not responsible for you getting shot in the face by me," and then I shoot you in the face, I can't say that you'd agreed, even if I had a signature or verbal acceptance of those terms.
HD-DVD will be coming out in 2005-2006, and HDTV is already being broadcast. Besides that, there exists Blu-Ray HD-DVD recorders (professional and consumer-grade both) already.
Do you trust Google to treat your confidential data more seriously than their own survival? Why should you? Ashcroft or the FBI can ask google to hand over any ("terrorism related") information they like, and Google has to comply. It *has* to comply, whether they want to or not.
If you don't trust Google to break the law, then presumably you don't trust any company. This is an argument that's based on the foundation of all email services abiding by US law, not one specific to Gmail. I'm not entirely sure you realize this.
I cant get thru one day at work without someone parroting some viewpoint not of their own making becuase some show said something about a topic. [...] I never saw the images from 9/11 until weeks afterward.
Uh, you don't read Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone? The New York Times or Chicago Sun-Times or any fucking newspaper in the country? 9/11 was the biggest news story we've had since the election, and you couldn't turn around without seeing it on newspapers, magazines, or hearing about it on the radio. You just seem like a naive guy who wants to proclaim that you're better than the unwashed masses who are amused by television shows (such as Donald Trump's "The Apprentice") portrayed strictly as entertainment. And many are entertained, and many are informed.
I hate TV becuase I consider it to be a tool of government and corporate control and I dont want to be affected.
Newsflash: Slashdot is owned by OSDN, a publicly-owned corporation. Winamp is owned by AOLTW. Your computer parts, your bedsheets, your iPod... Who are you rebelling against, and why?
Apparently so. I am mistaken because of what I remembered from the lab map posters around campus (in Wallace, the JEB, inside the E-P, elsewhere.) Go Vandals, I guess.
The mentioned line is my signature and didn't mean anything in the context of the comment. It's a quote from the Paul McCartney song "Helter Skelter," off of the Beatles' White Album.
Heh, seriously... half the time when I see people using laptops in class, they're watching Family Guy or playing poker online. (PartyPoker seems to be the favorite)
My institute, the University of Idaho, made #33, but there's only wireless access in the Commons (like the student union, except more full of offices), the library, and the Administration buildings. Though to be fair there's a bunch of classes in the Admin. The cooler part is that there's IBM laptops available for checkout that are all wireless internet-enabled at both the library and the commons, available in two-hour blocks, with wireless printer access too--makes it easy to get a burger and print off the chemistry pre-lab before you have to go do it, heh.
If you look at the top ten results, all of those mentioned work on Windows foremost and in the case of Opera and Mozilla/Firefox, Linux and other unix-like OSes as well. (I don't know that Opera runs on Mac OS, but Mozilla and/or Firefox do.) Mac OS IE isn't being developed anymore (MS basically said that Safari handles browsing on that platform now), and Unix IE is also not being developed any more. Besides that, listing Mac or UNIX-exclusive browsers in the top 10 would be dumb for a search of "browser", if only because both platforms make up 10% or less combined of the Internet-browsing community. "mac browser" shows IE for Mac in the top 3, plus the Mozilla Mac browser.
Tort reform isn't going to stop stupid lawsuits, and it isn't going to stop lawyers from pursuing money from businesses, be it through lawsuits with merit or none.
I dunno, a court could find that the disclaimer doesn't mean anything. I can post a sign saying that I'm not responsible for you getting murdered in my house, and if my son takes a gun of mine and shoots you in the face, I'm going to be found criminally negligent.
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Uh, really now. Find me a court citation for that, with case number and all.
I'm pretty sure that's from a movie and has no real basis.
There isn't really any talk needed in handing over a check and taking pizza. But I have one friend in particular that gets very nervous on the phone, but can do all right face-to-face. The story about the stutterer under your comment enforces my point too.
This would actually be handy for friends of mine that have severe social anxiety, or if you have crazy directions for pizza or your home, or if you want to get a lot of stuff and not have to have it parroted back to you, then repeat it back, and risk them forgetting to do no aregano or whatever.
No, that's stupid. It's a calculator, it doesn't need to fucking have a GUI and USB mouse support and fry my bacon and toast my bread, it needs to do calculations quickly and efficiently. What do I need 64MB of RAM for? Games? Database software? That's stupid. I have a GBASP and if I want to take notes to put into MySQL I have a legal pad.
adom rocks.
Apple authorized hardware [decoding] via CD burning (and subsequent re-ripping). This is *authorized* copying. Anything else, then, is unauthorized copying isn't it?
There's a legal issue wherein, if a clause in a license doesn't jive with the laws of the land, that clause becomes null and void. If the Indian Copyright Act of 1957 and the IT Act of 2002 say that it's legal to take out encryption (or other encumberances) so as to remove imposed restrictions, then that part of the license is illegal. It's the same idea as, if Apple put in a clause in the ITMS EULA that said Apple has the right to kill you if you agree to the EULA, and then they come and kill you, they're going to be held on a murder charge, and the EULA defense is thrown out the window because it was arbitrarily abridging rights that the government had deemed inalienable. Perhaps the right to decode data streams is not 'inalienable,' but it's something the government has okayed and so any of Apple's whining can't stop it.
No. Again, if I put in a EULA that accepting the terms of the contract grants me rights to kill you, that doesn't mean that I can kill you. If I took that to my Murder 1 trial, the judge would tell me the contract was null and void because it permitted something that's illegal. Likewise if a EULA (or contract) says that I give up my right to sue the author in case the program shoots me in the face (somehow), that's unenforceable if one can show intent/lack of good faith/whatever. You know those signs that are at pools sometimes? "Management is not responsible for unsupervised children on the premises" and such? Well, they are. If there's a bunch of management-owned rusty bear traps by the pool and a kid falls into them and gets tetanus, his parents probably have a case against the management and if the management simply says that he posted a sign saying he's not responsible for unsupervised children, he will get laughed out of court. Likewise, if I post a sign that says "not responsible for you getting shot in the face by me," and then I shoot you in the face, I can't say that you'd agreed, even if I had a signature or verbal acceptance of those terms.
HD-DVD will be coming out in 2005-2006, and HDTV is already being broadcast. Besides that, there exists Blu-Ray HD-DVD recorders (professional and consumer-grade both) already.
Sorry, this too:
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/donations/index.html: //www.freebsd.org/donations/wantlist.html/ www.freebsd.org/donations/donors.html
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Have you mentioned how frequently Microsoft Windows security advisories come out vs. FreeBSD advisories?
Do you trust Google to treat your confidential data more seriously than their own survival? Why should you? Ashcroft or the FBI can ask google to hand over any ("terrorism related") information they like, and Google has to comply. It *has* to comply, whether they want to or not.
If you don't trust Google to break the law, then presumably you don't trust any company. This is an argument that's based on the foundation of all email services abiding by US law, not one specific to Gmail. I'm not entirely sure you realize this.
I cant get thru one day at work without someone parroting some viewpoint not of their own making becuase some show said something about a topic. [...] I never saw the images from 9/11 until weeks afterward.
Uh, you don't read Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone? The New York Times or Chicago Sun-Times or any fucking newspaper in the country? 9/11 was the biggest news story we've had since the election, and you couldn't turn around without seeing it on newspapers, magazines, or hearing about it on the radio. You just seem like a naive guy who wants to proclaim that you're better than the unwashed masses who are amused by television shows (such as Donald Trump's "The Apprentice") portrayed strictly as entertainment. And many are entertained, and many are informed.
I hate TV becuase I consider it to be a tool of government and corporate control and I dont want to be affected.
Newsflash: Slashdot is owned by OSDN, a publicly-owned corporation. Winamp is owned by AOLTW. Your computer parts, your bedsheets, your iPod... Who are you rebelling against, and why?
Do I ... know you?
Apparently so. I am mistaken because of what I remembered from the lab map posters around campus (in Wallace, the JEB, inside the E-P, elsewhere.) Go Vandals, I guess.
Hmm. All right, fair enough... I have been misled by outdated IT information. You probably know how lacking the CS dept. is here.
The mentioned line is my signature and didn't mean anything in the context of the comment. It's a quote from the Paul McCartney song "Helter Skelter," off of the Beatles' White Album.
Heh, seriously... half the time when I see people using laptops in class, they're watching Family Guy or playing poker online. (PartyPoker seems to be the favorite)
My institute, the University of Idaho, made #33, but there's only wireless access in the Commons (like the student union, except more full of offices), the library, and the Administration buildings. Though to be fair there's a bunch of classes in the Admin. The cooler part is that there's IBM laptops available for checkout that are all wireless internet-enabled at both the library and the commons, available in two-hour blocks, with wireless printer access too--makes it easy to get a burger and print off the chemistry pre-lab before you have to go do it, heh.
If you look at the top ten results, all of those mentioned work on Windows foremost and in the case of Opera and Mozilla/Firefox, Linux and other unix-like OSes as well. (I don't know that Opera runs on Mac OS, but Mozilla and/or Firefox do.) Mac OS IE isn't being developed anymore (MS basically said that Safari handles browsing on that platform now), and Unix IE is also not being developed any more. Besides that, listing Mac or UNIX-exclusive browsers in the top 10 would be dumb for a search of "browser", if only because both platforms make up 10% or less combined of the Internet-browsing community. "mac browser" shows IE for Mac in the top 3, plus the Mozilla Mac browser.
What's fishy about it? If you don't have Windows you can't get IE, and if you have Windows you have IE already...
Same way one would clean mercury, I'd fancy... with a brush and pan.
I think he was listing, in the second phrase.
Tort reform isn't going to stop stupid lawsuits, and it isn't going to stop lawyers from pursuing money from businesses, be it through lawsuits with merit or none.
I dunno, a court could find that the disclaimer doesn't mean anything. I can post a sign saying that I'm not responsible for you getting murdered in my house, and if my son takes a gun of mine and shoots you in the face, I'm going to be found criminally negligent.
How many companies these days are willing to drop money into some technology that may not turn a profit for many years?"
Apparently Toyota. Also, Microsoft's Home and Entertainment division lost, what, $34 billion in the past few years?...
"...I don't think Peter Jackson would argue that he was slighted"
Also, considering that FOTR won cinematography.