Whereas I happen to know four people who have settled lawsuits with the RIAA and no one who has won the lottery. One of the four was among the first and made national news (ended up raising thousands of dollars through donations on his website to cover the settlement). The other three were part of a batch of lawsuits targetted at college students.
As far as I know, none of them has any interest in ever purchasing music again. They might have stopped downloading/sharing music, but they also discourage everyone they know from buying CDs.
I'd say the RIAA made a huge mistake suing students with large social circles at expensive private schools. These are students with a large potential income after graduation who would likely buy a reasonable amount of music. If you sue one person out of fifty in a fraternity, for example, each member only has to refrain from $100 of music purchases for it to be a net loss for the RIAA. Sure, they got the $5000 right away, but they'll end up losing far more than that in future lost business.
I have not used the DS, so I can't compare, but the PSP does have a sleep mode. You just hit the power button and it goes into sleep mode. When you hit the power button again, you'll be right where you left off. To actually shut the PSP off you have to hold the button for at least a second.
Before, if you ran two virtual machines on a dual-processor box you would have to pay for two 2-processor licenses. Now if each virtual machine runs on a single processor of the dual-processor box, you only have to pay for two 1-processor licenses. So this would save you money. Even if those two virtual machines were running on both processes, it would cost you the same amount, not more. The only way this costs you more money is if you create more virtual processors than physical processors.
Perhaps you didn't realize the toolbars in IE can be moved around. I can make IE6 look pretty much the same as the one in that review. I assume Microsoft will have it default to the same setup as IE6. Office has moveable toolbars as well, so I don't see the inconsistency that you are complaining about.
Except that the word "remix" was used by the BBC to describe the competition. The only difference between the Slashdot headline and the BBC one is that Slashdot removed the quotes around "remix".
The summary has the article's claim backwards. The article itself uses one source's figure of 16% to say that at least those 16% of computer users don't have to deal with viruses.
This isn't being done on the Matrix Online servers. Radio Free Zion is a fan-run server that is streaming music and other features. If your interconnection can't handle it, you wouldn't use it (and listen to the normal in-game music or run winamp in the background).
The way I understood the court's opinion was that it was only unconstitutional because the school district went out of their way to put these stickers in books. The judge made sure to point out that he was making a very narrow ruling on this specific situation. His determination was that the school district was representing a particular side of the issue when it decided to put the stickers in the textbooks. The decision wasn't so much about the content of the stickers, but rather the reason why they were put in (they were done in order to satisfy religious parents who didn't want their children to believe the theory of evolution).
By default it tells you this is a security risk and should only be allowed for trusted sources. I've seen the technique used for a streaming audio station where it opens a page containing details about the programming for the day, current song, etc. in the main window of WMP. Obviously it would be a bad idea to allow every file to do this without prompting you, but some users are just too clueless to realize that.
Bulky monsters? It doesn't take much thickness to have two PCMCIA slots. Looking at my laptop (IBM T40), the total thickness of the two slots is still thinner than the space required for an ethernet jack. The only laptops that I've seen that are noticeably thinner are ones that don't have optical disc drives or ethernet ports (use wireless or some sort of external connector).
In this case, local means you are logged in as a user already. It does not mean you are physically at the machine. This kind of exploit is why Remote User Exploits are actually a serious issue even though they might not give you root access directly. All you have to do is combine an exploit that gives you user-level permissions with a Local Root Exploit to get root access.
This is Wal-Mart we're talking about... I'm sure their employees don't really care that much about keeping customers honest. This is the kind of store that lets college students purchase home entertainment centers for their dorm rooms and return them every 90 days under their "no questions asked" return policy. Losing a little here and there to the dishonest customers might be worthwhile if you can get the honest ones to spend enough money there.
This is the kind of thing that NX breaks. One notable situation is that Java,.NET, and anything else that dynamically generates code will break if not properly coded. My understanding is that you have to specifically request that a data page be executable. In an OS that uses the NX bit normal data pages will be marked as not executable. I recall seeing something from Microsoft telling developers how to fix their software so this wouldn't be an issue when they updated the OS to use the NX bit (XP SP2, I believe).
There are numbers besides the Torino scale. The press doesn't use them because they're not as easy to explain. A value of 4 on the Torino scale explicitly means that the public should not be at all concerned or even really aware of the possible impact. It is meant to attract the attention of other astronomers so that more measurements can be done.
As far as a measure of progress, here's a simple one. At 100% progress the probability of impact is either 100% or 0%. Intermediate progress is the width of the window in which the impact might occur. If this window narrows to such a point that it does not include the earth, you get a 0% probability. If the earth is bigger than the entire window, you get a 100% probability. Anything else means there is more work to be done. The rate at which the window narrows will depend on the orbit of the asteroid, but that would give you a rough idea of when you'd be 100% sure.
If you are really curious, the locations and time of every observation that contributes to this is available online. It's interesting to note that more observations were done today than any other day. This is a direct result of the object being identified as an object of interest on the Torino scale.
According to NASA: "2004 MN4 was discovered on 19 June 2004 by Roy Tucker, David Tholen and Fabrizio Bernardi of the NASA-funded University of Hawaii Asteroid Survey (UHAS), from Kitt Peak, Arizona, and observed over two nights. On 18 December, the object was rediscovered from Australia by Gordon Garradd of the Siding Spring Survey, another NASA-funded NEA survey. Further observations from around the globe over the next several days allowed the Minor Planet Center to confirm the connection to the June discovery, at which point the possibility of impact in 2029 was realized by the automatic SENTRY system of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office."
I don't see anything there about this asteroid being known about in 1997. The year of discovery is where the name 2004 MN4 comes from. If we knew about it in 1997, that would essentially be the same thing as discovering it, which would mean it would have 1997 in its name.
Best Buy and CompUSA both tend not to sell software for professional use (server operating systems, graphics design, etc). Fry's, on the other hand, does sell it, at least the one closest to my house. I assume most people who purchase it do so online or through some sort of corporate license. I can't really imagine Best Buy stocking a program that costs $649 (Adobe online store price) in any significant quantity, let alone the full suite for $1229.
What you might find at a consumer oriented store is Photoshop Elements, which is $99. This version is targeted at home users that want something to edit their digital photos.
When this project was described to me as a possible project for undergrad research (I'm a student at RPI), it sounded like the initial research was going to use data from chat rooms and message boards. The focus was on pattern detection based on knowing that particular people sent messages at particular times. The content of those messages is not part of the project (IRC data, for example, would just be time stamps and names, not the full logs). The idea is that the CIA can easily monitor when communication is happening, but not necessarily what is being said. I haven't begun working on the project yet, so the above is just my vague understanding of what we're going to do this spring and summer.
In the state of Texas, the age is actually 18 (unless you graduate from high school before you turn 18). I don't think the police generally get involved with older drop outs unless they do something else to enter the court system.
The Albersons where I live (near Dallas) asks you if you have the card or not. If you have one they'll swipe yours. If you don't they'll swipe one that they have at each checkout lane. You get all the same discounts, except for ones that rely on tracking longterm use (spend x a month and get a coupon type deals). I know that's not the normal policy, but the store owners decided they didn't like the way the national chain treated customers so they run their store differently.
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J# sounds a lot like the second option. It is sort of like coding in Java but using the.Net framework. It's not really intended for anybody to start new projects with, but instead as a stepping stone between Java and C#.
My school (RPI) has a deal with IBM for students' laptops. There is a three year warranty on them that covers just about anything imaginable. You could throw your laptop across the room and then tear it apart and they'd replace it free of charge (I know because someone I know did just that). I think there might be some issues with replacing the screen, but in my experience it's basically a no-questions-asked sort of thing.
I've seen a few people type well over 100 wpm. Having seen them, I consider myself to be a fairly slow typer at 60-70 wpm (partially because I generally type a bit faster for the online typing tests when I'm just copying text, not considering what I'm actually writing).
By the way, that TypingPal test is incredibly evil. They skip the space at the end of the line, so typing one there counts as an error (to get it "right" you have to run the last word of a line into the first word of the next line, which then causes me to leave out the space between the first and second words of a line). A good typer isn't paying attention to the current location of the cursor, but is reading ahead as much as possible, making the problem much worse. This might just be carelessness, but it seems like they are trying to lower your score to encourage you to buy their product.
As far as being in college, it is sometimes useful to register to vote where you go to school. If your home state is somewhere that is heavily supportive of a particular candidate and your college is in a state that is largely undecided, you'd be better off voting in your school's state.
Politicians might claim that this is illegal, but the courts have said otherwise. In New York, for example, you only need to be living there 30 days before an election to vote (as long as you don't vote anywhere else).
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Whereas I happen to know four people who have settled lawsuits with the RIAA and no one who has won the lottery. One of the four was among the first and made national news (ended up raising thousands of dollars through donations on his website to cover the settlement). The other three were part of a batch of lawsuits targetted at college students.
As far as I know, none of them has any interest in ever purchasing music again. They might have stopped downloading/sharing music, but they also discourage everyone they know from buying CDs.
I'd say the RIAA made a huge mistake suing students with large social circles at expensive private schools. These are students with a large potential income after graduation who would likely buy a reasonable amount of music. If you sue one person out of fifty in a fraternity, for example, each member only has to refrain from $100 of music purchases for it to be a net loss for the RIAA. Sure, they got the $5000 right away, but they'll end up losing far more than that in future lost business.
I have not used the DS, so I can't compare, but the PSP does have a sleep mode. You just hit the power button and it goes into sleep mode. When you hit the power button again, you'll be right where you left off. To actually shut the PSP off you have to hold the button for at least a second.
Before, if you ran two virtual machines on a dual-processor box you would have to pay for two 2-processor licenses. Now if each virtual machine runs on a single processor of the dual-processor box, you only have to pay for two 1-processor licenses. So this would save you money. Even if those two virtual machines were running on both processes, it would cost you the same amount, not more. The only way this costs you more money is if you create more virtual processors than physical processors.
Perhaps you didn't realize the toolbars in IE can be moved around. I can make IE6 look pretty much the same as the one in that review. I assume Microsoft will have it default to the same setup as IE6. Office has moveable toolbars as well, so I don't see the inconsistency that you are complaining about.
Except that the word "remix" was used by the BBC to describe the competition. The only difference between the Slashdot headline and the BBC one is that Slashdot removed the quotes around "remix".
The summary has the article's claim backwards. The article itself uses one source's figure of 16% to say that at least those 16% of computer users don't have to deal with viruses.
This isn't being done on the Matrix Online servers. Radio Free Zion is a fan-run server that is streaming music and other features. If your interconnection can't handle it, you wouldn't use it (and listen to the normal in-game music or run winamp in the background).
The way I understood the court's opinion was that it was only unconstitutional because the school district went out of their way to put these stickers in books. The judge made sure to point out that he was making a very narrow ruling on this specific situation. His determination was that the school district was representing a particular side of the issue when it decided to put the stickers in the textbooks. The decision wasn't so much about the content of the stickers, but rather the reason why they were put in (they were done in order to satisfy religious parents who didn't want their children to believe the theory of evolution).
By default it tells you this is a security risk and should only be allowed for trusted sources. I've seen the technique used for a streaming audio station where it opens a page containing details about the programming for the day, current song, etc. in the main window of WMP. Obviously it would be a bad idea to allow every file to do this without prompting you, but some users are just too clueless to realize that.
Bulky monsters? It doesn't take much thickness to have two PCMCIA slots. Looking at my laptop (IBM T40), the total thickness of the two slots is still thinner than the space required for an ethernet jack. The only laptops that I've seen that are noticeably thinner are ones that don't have optical disc drives or ethernet ports (use wireless or some sort of external connector).
In this case, local means you are logged in as a user already. It does not mean you are physically at the machine. This kind of exploit is why Remote User Exploits are actually a serious issue even though they might not give you root access directly. All you have to do is combine an exploit that gives you user-level permissions with a Local Root Exploit to get root access.
This is Wal-Mart we're talking about... I'm sure their employees don't really care that much about keeping customers honest. This is the kind of store that lets college students purchase home entertainment centers for their dorm rooms and return them every 90 days under their "no questions asked" return policy. Losing a little here and there to the dishonest customers might be worthwhile if you can get the honest ones to spend enough money there.
You'll pay for the line as a separate thing. So SBC gets money from you to maintain the line, while your VoIP provider bills you for their service.
This is the kind of thing that NX breaks. One notable situation is that Java, .NET, and anything else that dynamically generates code will break if not properly coded. My understanding is that you have to specifically request that a data page be executable. In an OS that uses the NX bit normal data pages will be marked as not executable. I recall seeing something from Microsoft telling developers how to fix their software so this wouldn't be an issue when they updated the OS to use the NX bit (XP SP2, I believe).
There are numbers besides the Torino scale. The press doesn't use them because they're not as easy to explain. A value of 4 on the Torino scale explicitly means that the public should not be at all concerned or even really aware of the possible impact. It is meant to attract the attention of other astronomers so that more measurements can be done.
As far as a measure of progress, here's a simple one. At 100% progress the probability of impact is either 100% or 0%. Intermediate progress is the width of the window in which the impact might occur. If this window narrows to such a point that it does not include the earth, you get a 0% probability. If the earth is bigger than the entire window, you get a 100% probability. Anything else means there is more work to be done. The rate at which the window narrows will depend on the orbit of the asteroid, but that would give you a rough idea of when you'd be 100% sure.
If you are really curious, the locations and time of every observation that contributes to this is available online. It's interesting to note that more observations were done today than any other day. This is a direct result of the object being identified as an object of interest on the Torino scale.
According to NASA: "2004 MN4 was discovered on 19 June 2004 by Roy Tucker, David Tholen and Fabrizio Bernardi of the NASA-funded University of Hawaii Asteroid Survey (UHAS), from Kitt Peak, Arizona, and observed over two nights. On 18 December, the object was rediscovered from Australia by Gordon Garradd of the Siding Spring Survey, another NASA-funded NEA survey. Further observations from around the globe over the next several days allowed the Minor Planet Center to confirm the connection to the June discovery, at which point the possibility of impact in 2029 was realized by the automatic SENTRY system of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office."
I don't see anything there about this asteroid being known about in 1997. The year of discovery is where the name 2004 MN4 comes from. If we knew about it in 1997, that would essentially be the same thing as discovering it, which would mean it would have 1997 in its name.
Best Buy and CompUSA both tend not to sell software for professional use (server operating systems, graphics design, etc). Fry's, on the other hand, does sell it, at least the one closest to my house. I assume most people who purchase it do so online or through some sort of corporate license. I can't really imagine Best Buy stocking a program that costs $649 (Adobe online store price) in any significant quantity, let alone the full suite for $1229.
What you might find at a consumer oriented store is Photoshop Elements, which is $99. This version is targeted at home users that want something to edit their digital photos.
When this project was described to me as a possible project for undergrad research (I'm a student at RPI), it sounded like the initial research was going to use data from chat rooms and message boards. The focus was on pattern detection based on knowing that particular people sent messages at particular times. The content of those messages is not part of the project (IRC data, for example, would just be time stamps and names, not the full logs). The idea is that the CIA can easily monitor when communication is happening, but not necessarily what is being said. I haven't begun working on the project yet, so the above is just my vague understanding of what we're going to do this spring and summer.
In the state of Texas, the age is actually 18 (unless you graduate from high school before you turn 18). I don't think the police generally get involved with older drop outs unless they do something else to enter the court system.
The Albersons where I live (near Dallas) asks you if you have the card or not. If you have one they'll swipe yours. If you don't they'll swipe one that they have at each checkout lane. You get all the same discounts, except for ones that rely on tracking longterm use (spend x a month and get a coupon type deals). I know that's not the normal policy, but the store owners decided they didn't like the way the national chain treated customers so they run their store differently.
J# sounds a lot like the second option. It is sort of like coding in Java but using the .Net framework. It's not really intended for anybody to start new projects with, but instead as a stepping stone between Java and C#.
My school (RPI) has a deal with IBM for students' laptops. There is a three year warranty on them that covers just about anything imaginable. You could throw your laptop across the room and then tear it apart and they'd replace it free of charge (I know because someone I know did just that). I think there might be some issues with replacing the screen, but in my experience it's basically a no-questions-asked sort of thing.
Or you could just get a mirror...
I've seen a few people type well over 100 wpm. Having seen them, I consider myself to be a fairly slow typer at 60-70 wpm (partially because I generally type a bit faster for the online typing tests when I'm just copying text, not considering what I'm actually writing).
By the way, that TypingPal test is incredibly evil. They skip the space at the end of the line, so typing one there counts as an error (to get it "right" you have to run the last word of a line into the first word of the next line, which then causes me to leave out the space between the first and second words of a line). A good typer isn't paying attention to the current location of the cursor, but is reading ahead as much as possible, making the problem much worse. This might just be carelessness, but it seems like they are trying to lower your score to encourage you to buy their product.
As far as being in college, it is sometimes useful to register to vote where you go to school. If your home state is somewhere that is heavily supportive of a particular candidate and your college is in a state that is largely undecided, you'd be better off voting in your school's state.
Politicians might claim that this is illegal, but the courts have said otherwise. In New York, for example, you only need to be living there 30 days before an election to vote (as long as you don't vote anywhere else).