The problem with that "sure fire" method to win is multi winners. Often On the big jackpots they end up split. So even if I had 107 million dollars to buy all the combos I'm still making a wager that I'm the only winner. Not really, in buying up every combo, you have also bought all the match all except 1,2,etc combos, too. Each of these payout an exact amount regardless of other winners.
Taking the MegaMillions for an example, jackpot is match 5 plus 1 of 46. By covering every combo, you also have 45 tickets matching 5+0 each paying an additional $250,000, adding an additional $11.25M, and so on for each of the remaining payout matches.
Ghost is actually very good. Saved me a lot of time and effort. Do you know of an open source solution that's as good or better (needs all the features found in Norton Ghost)? Yeah, dd (using just about any LiveCD):^)
Are you asking for bug fixes in a Linux kernel from 6 years ago? Nope, And Linus wouldn't give release them anyway. But I don't hear anyone yelling at about that..... Actually, there are still fixes released for old kernels. According to kernel.org:
The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.35.3 2007-09-23 22:05 UTC
2.4 kernel was released in January of 2001, over 6 years ago. Just because Linus isn't maintaining the old kernel himself, doesn't mean there aren't fixes for it released.
All Yang has to do is say "I was misinformed" and "I was not directly involved". This is a non-story. Or Yahoo could use the Telco defense: "The Bush Administration told us it was illegal to disclose that to Congress."
Interesting that you work for Seagate, but don't know that the ES.2 achieves over 100 MB/s on the outer edge, and over 50 MB/s on the inner. (According to StorageReview, anyway.) Where in his post did he mention a specific drive at all? His post was referring expectations of "modern drives" and was non-manufacturer specific.
If it comes with an install CD with all of the necessary drivers included... awesome!
Actually something I liked from the Compaq SmartStart. You would start your installation with the Compaq CD, tell it which OS, it would create a small drivers partition and manage the installation process setting up the hardware drivers.
If you order a Dell PowerEdge Server (X950 series) without an OS, the server comes pre-loaded with this functionality. Or you can wipe the RAID setup and re-configure it boot off the CD and perform this. It supports Windows, and several favors of Linux (RHEL, SuSE), and possibly some Unix (IIRC). In fact, the pre-install program actually uses Linux to do this.
I'm similarly amused by the lack of Mac OS X 1-9; or alternatively, the lack of Mac OS I-IX.
I look forward however to Mac OS X 11, or will it be Mac OS XI 11?
You would be incorrect. Macintosh operating system versions 1 thru 7 were designated as "System (version)"
With version 8, came the "Mac OS 8" moniker and has continued through versions 9 and 10 (which uses the roman numeral for ten, X).
In regards to whether P -> Q, remember that the framers, were considering the security of the free state from internal forces, in addition to external ones. In order to be able to overthrow a tyrannical government, the citizens would have to be armed to do so. The militia was not intended to protect the country from foreign invaders as much as protecting the freedoms of the citizens from the government. In that regard I believe that P -> Q should be true more now than ever before.
I think that most people fail to realize that that sentence structure is a conditional.
if (a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state) {
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; } In your conditional, you are asking if a well-regulated militia is necessary to have the security of a free state, instead of whether the security of a free state is necessary which is how I parse that section.
Actually, I think that its more like this:
P: the security of the free state is necessary Q: a well regulated militia. R: the right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Then it could be rewritten as: (using modus ponens)
If you remove one of the license options, how is that "making it Free"? Less choice == more freedom? I'm using the FSF definition of Free. I thought that was apparent, my apologies.
The crux of the matter is whether dual-licensed BSD and GPL code means the code must remain dual-licensed (BSD && GPL) or whether you can choose to throw away one of the licenses and ignore its terms and conditions (BSD || GPL). It must be (BSD || GPL) because otherwise, it would be the same as GPL, since it is the more restrictive of the 2 licenses. If it were (BSD && GPL) and a closed-source entity used or modified the code then the GPL would still be in affect too and they would have to release their code and license it (BSD && GPL).
It seems to me that the BSD people are attempting to say that a dual-licensed BSD-GPL code must remain either BSD-GPL or BSD only. Therefore a closed-source entity taking their code and closing it is good. But a Free Source entity taking their code and making it Free is bad?
Also, even if he is wrong, he is not putting a gun to your head and making you follow his way. No, instead he creates a viral license and forces you to follow his way. Wrong, it is only viral in the sense that if you choose to modify or copy GPL code into your software, and *choose* to distribute, then you have to release your code too.
Create a new work that doesn't reuse GPL code and you can release it under any license you want.
"IBM's iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired "
It's kinda odd picking Missouri for the project name.. aka.. the "Show Me" state. I'd imagine that's way it was picked. Besides, Microsoft can't use the codename "Project New York" for everything!
Possibly, but there is a fundamental difference in the situations. The user requested the data from Google, so there ISP fees apply for the bandwidth. How so? I have never, ever requested Google's Ads when I'm looking at a website, yet I'm inundated with them at every turn. In a fundamental way, push ads are no different than spamming, but, for some reason, they are considered more "acceptable" to the populous. Yes, you requested the ads when you chose to visit the website containing them. The owner of the website wanted the Google Ads on her site and therefore you get them because she wanted you to receive the ads. Its not like the googlebots are hacking sites and inserting ads into pages as they are spidering. If you don't want to see Google ads, you can frequent sites that do not have them.
With email, you receive spam regardless of asking for it.
Privacy? Most Americans will give up their privacy for a discount card at the supermarket. Nothing stops one from putting fake data on it. The stores don't verify your info with your Driver's License or other data, at least that ones here in my area.
Someone issued your public/private key combo, and probably required your identity when they provided it to you. That someone knows your private key. Not necessarily. The voting machine can generate the key pair, and sign it with its own certificate. Then it gives you the private key in a printout. The machine doesn't need to know who's voting at it, just that it is some voter.
As it has been mentioned before in many threads, anytime the ability is given to verify your vote at a later time opens the ability for fraud as well. Examples include a candidate (or supporter) offers cash for every verifiable vote, or an employer requiring proof to keep ones job.
I think the best solution I've heard is that the voting machine does nothing more than prompt for votes and then print the ballot in clear text with the selections marked showing the votes placed that the voter can verify visually before placing in a separate scanner, similar to the punch card scanners. If the voter does not put the printed vote in the scanner then it is not counted and the printed ballot is retained by the scanner so there is still a paper trail for recounts. Certainly the voting machines could keep a tally but it would not be offical.
No system can be perfect, as too much depends on the people running the polling place for it to be.
I'm betting that within 6 to 9 months Apple will either buy out or break their 2-year exclusivity contract with AT&T. I'm sure the penalties will be high if they do break it, but it will probably be more than made up for in sales. I think the much more likely scenario is that Gen2 iPhone comes out for use with other provider(s). Other providers will probably be much more willing to play ball after the hoopla generated by the initial version. The advantage for Apple is that everyone that wanted to go to the next model would have to buy a new model has previous threads have mentioned the current iPhone is locked to AT&T for 5 years.
Of course, it does require a special chip on a motherboard made specifically by Apple to boot up or install. How is that not DRM? Are you sure about that?
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Taking the MegaMillions for an example, jackpot is match 5 plus 1 of 46. By covering every combo, you also have 45 tickets matching 5+0 each paying an additional $250,000, adding an additional $11.25M, and so on for each of the remaining payout matches.
Has always worked for me when ghost hasn't. YMMV.
The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.35.3 2007-09-23 22:05 UTC
2.4 kernel was released in January of 2001, over 6 years ago. Just because Linus isn't maintaining the old kernel himself, doesn't mean there aren't fixes for it released.
And what happens when the president vetoes it? Congress can overrule a veto by 2/3 majority.
Actually something I liked from the Compaq SmartStart. You would start your installation with the Compaq CD, tell it which OS, it would create a small drivers partition and manage the installation process setting up the hardware drivers.
If you order a Dell PowerEdge Server (X950 series) without an OS, the server comes pre-loaded with this functionality. Or you can wipe the RAID setup and re-configure it boot off the CD and perform this. It supports Windows, and several favors of Linux (RHEL, SuSE), and possibly some Unix (IIRC). In fact, the pre-install program actually uses Linux to do this.You would be incorrect. Macintosh operating system versions 1 thru 7 were designated as "System (version)"
With version 8, came the "Mac OS 8" moniker and has continued through versions 9 and 10 (which uses the roman numeral for ten, X).
Mac historyIn regards to whether P -> Q, remember that the framers, were considering the security of the free state from internal forces, in addition to external ones. In order to be able to overthrow a tyrannical government, the citizens would have to be armed to do so. The militia was not intended to protect the country from foreign invaders as much as protecting the freedoms of the citizens from the government. In that regard I believe that P -> Q should be true more now than ever before.
if (a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state) {
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed;
} In your conditional, you are asking if a well-regulated militia is necessary to have the security of a free state, instead of whether the security of a free state is necessary which is how I parse that section.
Actually, I think that its more like this:
P: the security of the free state is necessary
Q: a well regulated militia.
R: the right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Then it could be rewritten as: (using modus ponens)
If P, then Q.
If Q, then R.
P.
Therefore R.
It seems to me that the BSD people are attempting to say that a dual-licensed BSD-GPL code must remain either BSD-GPL or BSD only. Therefore a closed-source entity taking their code and closing it is good. But a Free Source entity taking their code and making it Free is bad?
Create a new work that doesn't reuse GPL code and you can release it under any license you want.
It's kinda odd picking Missouri for the project name
With email, you receive spam regardless of asking for it.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos -- Homer Simpson
As it has been mentioned before in many threads, anytime the ability is given to verify your vote at a later time opens the ability for fraud as well. Examples include a candidate (or supporter) offers cash for every verifiable vote, or an employer requiring proof to keep ones job.
I think the best solution I've heard is that the voting machine does nothing more than prompt for votes and then print the ballot in clear text with the selections marked showing the votes placed that the voter can verify visually before placing in a separate scanner, similar to the punch card scanners. If the voter does not put the printed vote in the scanner then it is not counted and the printed ballot is retained by the scanner so there is still a paper trail for recounts. Certainly the voting machines could keep a tally but it would not be offical.
No system can be perfect, as too much depends on the people running the polling place for it to be.