It is Clearwire that has a vested interest in this delay. They are attempting to roll out WiMax service to compete with the broadband 4G service Verizon is planning to offer on the freed up analog frequencies.
And guess which company one of the executives on Obama's DTV transition team works for? That's right, Clearwire...
The reason is not the fact that he might have survived the radiation and heat effects, but rather that the movie depicted him being hurled half a mile through the air and landing on the ground unhurt.
In java I can create two objects which point to each other, but with nothing else pointing to each object, and that memory will be lost for ever, but the garbage collector won't free them because it works by counting references. That is absolutely not true. Any objects that are not reachable from the root set are not considered alive and are free for garbage collection.
Look here for some more info on the garbage collector in Java (also applies to C#'s generational GC as well).
As was mentioned in another poster's comment elsewhere, violating the state's copyright by making a derivitive work does not then allow a 3rd party to violate both your copyright on the derivitive work or the state's original copyright (assuming works of a State can be copyright in the first place).
Exactly right. The bouncer had no authority to confiscate the ID in the first place. She was stealing it from the owner. Now if a bouncer does steal the a fake ID from you, you probably don't want to call the cops because they won't look so favorably upon you having the ID in the first place. You're pretty much between a rock and a hard place.
Therefore it looks like we have three crimes here. One by the owner of the fake ID, and two by the bouncer.
The owner committed a crime when she created and tried to use a fake ID to buy alcohol.
The bouncer committed her first crime by stealing the owner's ID. She then committed a second crime by violating the owner's copyright to the fake ID when she posted it online.
Now perhaps NY State law deputizes employees of an establishment that serves alcohol to confiscate any fake IDs. If that's the case, then the bouncer only committed the one crime, copyright infringment.
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Nobody seems to have thought of the fact that the laptop might have been stolen from the original owner by the ebay seller. It seems to me if the seller has no problem ripping people off on ebay, he would have no problem stealing a laptop from somebody in a coffee shop or robbing it from their house.
The buyer goes on a big vigilante streak, how do we know he's even targeting the correct guy? I'm waiting for the follow-up story in a month that says the original owner is sueing the buyer because the laptop was stolen from him by the seller.
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Here's a very useful code completion mapping I use. It lets you just hit Tab in insert mode to perform the completion instead of having to do Ctrl-N or whatever. Still lets you insert regular tabs too. Just stick it in your.vimrc file.
function InsertTabWrapper()
let col = col('.') - 1
if !col || getline('.')[col - 1] !~ '\k'
return "\<tab>"
else
return "\<c-p>"
endif endfunction
Maybe the faster than light speed drive accelerates all mass that is connected to it equally. This would make more sense in my mind because the entire starship moves instead of the incredible forces that would be exerted on the structure itself from the engine nacelles.
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Wow, I thought I had searched that whole dialog box for a way to do it and I hadn't seen that. That is a much easier way.
The method I outlined will give you the old preferences dialog, which looks like it might have access to a few additional features.
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With version 8.0, Opera has "improved" the interface by dumbing it down to the least common denominator. They've eliminated the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) by default and added really annoying close tab buttons on each and every tab. The lack of MDI means you can not resize a tab within the browser window.
To fix these shortcomings and make Opera behave as it did in version 7.x, you need to go to the hidden "Advanced Preferences". After 30 minutes of searching, the only way I could access this dialog was by clicking the link located at Operawatch.
Slashdot will not let me post the appropriate link correctly, but it is "opera:/button/Show%20Preferences,100,,,top10". If that does not work properly, add the following to your standard_toolbar.ini file: Button9, "Show preferences"="Show preferences, 100, , , "top10""
Eventually you should get a new button on your toolbar (you may have to go to Customize Toolbar to manually add it to a toolbar you have displayed), which you will have to click to access the Advanced Preferences. Once you are in the dialog, go to Windows and select Advanced Opera Workspace.
I love how the first paragraph on http://fairtax.org/ is a logically fallacy:
Everyone agrees the current Federal income tax system is broken. Patching up the existing code is pointless. It's time for a fresh approach, a fair approach.
Oh everyone agrees! Of course they all do! Sheesh, just reading that put me off from perusing the rest of their propaganda because I assume that logical fallacies abound.
I don't get this. Why leave off the return address on the envelope? The IRS knows anyway. You have to put it on the form, and anyone who cared enough to copy your return address from the envelope could simply open up the envelope and get it that way. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that something addressed the IRS will most likely have your name, SSN and address on the inside!
"Microsoft boss Bill Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after a traffic violation (details of which have been lost over time)."
Jeez, I screwed that one up. Those 2 million VWs only encircle 1/12 of the Earth. The proper calculations are:
Where:
x = Number of VW Beetles to encircle the Earth 12 times
y = Number of A380s stacked to the Moon
1.6m * x = 40,075,160 m * 12 x = 480,901,920m / 1.6m x = 300,563,700 VW Beetles to encircle the Earth 12 times
24.1m * y = 384,500,000m y = 384,500,000m / 24.1m y = 15,954,357 A380s stacked to reach the Moon
Therefore, you get these ratios:
x : y = 18.8389729 VW-Twelve-Earth-Circles to A380-Moon-Heights
y : x = 0.05308145 A380-Moon-Heights to VW-Twelve-Earth-Circles
How many volkswagon beatles lined up side by side would be needed to encircle the Earth 12 times as is needed to match the height of stacked A380 planes from here to the moon?
You must not have seen the other article where they gave this number.
Where:
x = Number of VW Beetles to encircle the Earth 12 times
y = Number of A380s stacked to the Moon
1.6m * x * 12 = 40,075,160 m x = 40,075,160m / 19.2m x = 2,087,248 VW Beetles to encircle the Earth 12 times
24.1m * y = 384,500,000m y = 384,500,000m / 24.1m y = 15,954,357 A380s stacked to reach the Moon
Therefore, you get these ratios:
x : y = 0.1308262 VW-Twelve-Earth-Circles to A380-Moon-Heights
y : x = 7.6437287 A380-Moon-Heights to VW-Twelve-Earth-Circles
I don't get why he is doing this. He could work for the next 129 days instead, and then use just a portion of the amount of money he earns to bribe the theater owner to let him in the back door to get the first seat. Sheesh, what a waste.
Given that we have this picture, the probability that it does indeed depict a meteor hitting the earth is much much greater than just the probability that anyone could possibly capture such an event on film.
Not a bad idea. I like it! It does get tough because floating point numbers are often non-deterministic when you are dealing with computers.
You might goto line 1.9999 when you meant to goto line 2. But hey, that's one of the prices you should be willing to pay for living on the bleeding edge of line numbering technology.
Also note that cars without power steering tend to have larger steering wheels which give the driver more leverage when he's cranking the wheel at low speeds. I've got a '73 VW Type 2 bus that has a giant steering wheel that makes it relatively easy to turn even without power steering.
Great site huh? Nice anonymous comment there buddy. Check out this link where an Engadget editor submits his story without disclosing his connection to Engadget.
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It is Clearwire that has a vested interest in this delay. They are attempting to roll out WiMax service to compete with the broadband 4G service Verizon is planning to offer on the freed up analog frequencies.
And guess which company one of the executives on Obama's DTV transition team works for? That's right, Clearwire...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/4g-war-conflict-of-interests-loom-behind-possible-dtv-delay.ars
The reason is not the fact that he might have survived the radiation and heat effects, but rather that the movie depicted him being hurled half a mile through the air and landing on the ground unhurt.
Look here for some more info on the garbage collector in Java (also applies to C#'s generational GC as well).
As was mentioned in another poster's comment elsewhere, violating the state's copyright by making a derivitive work does not then allow a 3rd party to violate both your copyright on the derivitive work or the state's original copyright (assuming works of a State can be copyright in the first place).
Exactly right. The bouncer had no authority to confiscate the ID in the first place. She was stealing it from the owner. Now if a bouncer does steal the a fake ID from you, you probably don't want to call the cops because they won't look so favorably upon you having the ID in the first place. You're pretty much between a rock and a hard place.
Therefore it looks like we have three crimes here. One by the owner of the fake ID, and two by the bouncer.
The owner committed a crime when she created and tried to use a fake ID to buy alcohol.
The bouncer committed her first crime by stealing the owner's ID. She then committed a second crime by violating the owner's copyright to the fake ID when she posted it online.
Now perhaps NY State law deputizes employees of an establishment that serves alcohol to confiscate any fake IDs. If that's the case, then the bouncer only committed the one crime, copyright infringment.
Nobody seems to have thought of the fact that the laptop might have been stolen from the original owner by the ebay seller. It seems to me if the seller has no problem ripping people off on ebay, he would have no problem stealing a laptop from somebody in a coffee shop or robbing it from their house.
The buyer goes on a big vigilante streak, how do we know he's even targeting the correct guy? I'm waiting for the follow-up story in a month that says the original owner is sueing the buyer because the laptop was stolen from him by the seller.
Maybe the faster than light speed drive accelerates all mass that is connected to it equally. This would make more sense in my mind because the entire starship moves instead of the incredible forces that would be exerted on the structure itself from the engine nacelles.
Wow, I thought I had searched that whole dialog box for a way to do it and I hadn't seen that. That is a much easier way.
The method I outlined will give you the old preferences dialog, which looks like it might have access to a few additional features.
With version 8.0, Opera has "improved" the interface by dumbing it down to the least common denominator. They've eliminated the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) by default and added really annoying close tab buttons on each and every tab. The lack of MDI means you can not resize a tab within the browser window.
To fix these shortcomings and make Opera behave as it did in version 7.x, you need to go to the hidden "Advanced Preferences". After 30 minutes of searching, the only way I could access this dialog was by clicking the link located at Operawatch.
Slashdot will not let me post the appropriate link correctly, but it is "opera:/button/Show%20Preferences,100,,,top10". If that does not work properly, add the following to your standard_toolbar.ini file: Button9, "Show preferences"="Show preferences, 100, , , "top10""
Eventually you should get a new button on your toolbar (you may have to go to Customize Toolbar to manually add it to a toolbar you have displayed), which you will have to click to access the Advanced Preferences. Once you are in the dialog, go to Windows and select Advanced Opera Workspace.
Oh everyone agrees! Of course they all do! Sheesh, just reading that put me off from perusing the rest of their propaganda because I assume that logical fallacies abound.
I don't get this. Why leave off the return address on the envelope? The IRS knows anyway. You have to put it on the form, and anyone who cared enough to copy your return address from the envelope could simply open up the envelope and get it that way. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that something addressed the IRS will most likely have your name, SSN and address on the inside!
Just FYI, the HP48GX is a calculator, not a printer.
Ignorance of "Time Cube" indicts you stupid and evil. Explain the "Time Cube". Do you like being Stupid? "Our Cube" corners Liars!
Will this new processor work with current 915P and 925 chipset motherboards?
"Microsoft boss Bill Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after a traffic violation (details of which have been lost over time)."
From this article on The Smoking Gun.
Jeez, I screwed that one up. Those 2 million VWs only encircle 1/12 of the Earth. The proper calculations are:
Where:
x = Number of VW Beetles to encircle the Earth 12 times
y = Number of A380s stacked to the Moon
1.6m * x = 40,075,160 m * 12
x = 480,901,920m / 1.6m
x = 300,563,700 VW Beetles to encircle the Earth 12 times
24.1m * y = 384,500,000m
y = 384,500,000m / 24.1m
y = 15,954,357 A380s stacked to reach the Moon
Therefore, you get these ratios:
x : y = 18.8389729 VW-Twelve-Earth-Circles to A380-Moon-Heights
y : x = 0.05308145 A380-Moon-Heights to VW-Twelve-Earth-Circles
How many volkswagon beatles lined up side by side would be needed to encircle the Earth 12 times as is needed to match the height of stacked A380 planes from here to the moon?
You must not have seen the other article where they gave this number.
Assumptions:
VW Beetle width = 1.6 meters
A380 Height (Tail) = 24.1 meters
Average Moon distance = 384,500,000 meters
Circumference of Earth = 40,075,160 meters
Where:
x = Number of VW Beetles to encircle the Earth 12 times
y = Number of A380s stacked to the Moon
1.6m * x * 12 = 40,075,160 m
x = 40,075,160m / 19.2m
x = 2,087,248 VW Beetles to encircle the Earth 12 times
24.1m * y = 384,500,000m
y = 384,500,000m / 24.1m
y = 15,954,357 A380s stacked to reach the Moon
Therefore, you get these ratios:
x : y = 0.1308262 VW-Twelve-Earth-Circles to A380-Moon-Heights
y : x = 7.6437287 A380-Moon-Heights to VW-Twelve-Earth-Circles
I don't get why he is doing this. He could work for the next 129 days instead, and then use just a portion of the amount of money he earns to bribe the theater owner to let him in the back door to get the first seat. Sheesh, what a waste.
Given that we have this picture, the probability that it does indeed depict a meteor hitting the earth is much much greater than just the probability that anyone could possibly capture such an event on film.
Well, the chances are one in one if that's what the image actually depicts. Just because something is improbable, doesn't mean it can't happen.
Not a bad idea. I like it! It does get tough because floating point numbers are often non-deterministic when you are dealing with computers.
You might goto line 1.9999 when you meant to goto line 2. But hey, that's one of the prices you should be willing to pay for living on the bleeding edge of line numbering technology.
That was a perfectly cromulent response!
Also note that cars without power steering tend to have larger steering wheels which give the driver more leverage when he's cranking the wheel at low speeds. I've got a '73 VW Type 2 bus that has a giant steering wheel that makes it relatively easy to turn even without power steering.
Great site huh? Nice anonymous comment there buddy. Check out this link where an Engadget editor submits his story without disclosing his connection to Engadget.