For some commentary on this case by a real lawyer who has some idea of what he's talking about, see this Volokh Conspiracy posting. Note, for example, that he points out why this is far from decided, and some interesting complexities in the case because it took place at a border crossing.
It is not based on.NET. It is a completely new codebase. There are no OS checks in the binaries except to see if specific resources are available on the platform or need to be provided by the plugin.
He suddenly resigned today in response to criticism of some of his statements at Davos recently. Statements which probably never heard about if you read so-called "papers of record" or what his network (CNN). Coupled with Dan Rather's implosion last autumn, I'd say keeping the White House Press Corps free of any right-wing influence is pretty small in comparison.
Thre are also registered domain names that resolve to 127.0.0.1. They aren't as obviously phoney. By using one, I figure I'm hurting no one but the person who's sending me crap.
Unstable people like Socrates, Martin Luther, Ghandi fought like hell for their beliefs. We remember them preciesly because they did not waver against the winds of change. nstable people like Socrates, Martin Luther, Ghandi fought like hell for their beliefs. We remember them preciesly because they did not waver against the winds of change.
You also need to add people like Mao, Lenin, Hitler, Torquemada, Atilla, Genghis Khan, and the like to your list. Just because a person "fought like hell for their beliefs" does not justify their beliefs.
TECO was better, and it worked just fine on a 110 baud teletype, when that was the state of the art terminal.
I'm only trolling a little, and defintitely off topic, but at what point to we abandon interfaces and programs designed for teletypes and 24x80 "glass TTYs"? Or at least stop worshiping them?
Could you provide the specifics, or at least a flight number? Because except for a Hubble service mission and the final Columbia flight, there hasn't been a non-ISS shuttle mission this century.
I've noticed that the most vehement objections to this scheme seems to not be that it is a case of government sponsored social engineering, but that it will supplant an existing scheme of government sponsered social enginnering that the objectors prefer.
Trying to force people to drive in the way I want them to drive-- good. Trying to get the maximum use out of existing infrastructure -- bad.
My parents love the HOV lanes during their annual visits here-- they zip right along in their rental car between here and the airport while everyone else in the other two lanes are dead stopped. (Those posters talking about "4 lanes" have obviously never been to the Seattle area, and are thinking all freeways are like those in Chicago, Los Angeles or Dallas.)
Seeing how I've been paying for those extra lanes but denied their use for the past decade, I'm interested to see what comes of this. Based on my experience with watching this state's legislature in action (or should I say in inaction?), this will probably be the last we hear of this sort of use of ebay in the context of pricing traffic congestion relief, at least from the Left Coast Washington.
You obviously do not understand eBay's proxy bidding system.
Speaking as someone who both buys and sells, the poster completely understands the system. But what is left out is that if there is more than one "sniper", the one with the highest total bid wins. So you still had better put in a rationally valued bid.
What the sniping strategy does is prevent the nibblers from slowly raising your price, because there is no cost for bidding as long as you aren't the high bidder. For any particular item, it doesn't warn competitors of interest, but with a commodity (such as this), you can be fairly certain that the losers will probably be bidding at least that amount for the next available item.
Every bidding system can be analyzed as a game system, and every system has both its advantages and flaws. Usually the people who criticize the ebay style system are the ones who don't like the "sniping" because they haven't or are unwilling or are unable to figure out the proper gaming strategy. They suggest another system they tout as being better, which of course is one the with which they are most familiar, or which they believe would confer upon themselves an advantage. But they will probably still lose out, because they have loser attitute.
The first paragraph is completely and totally wrong. First,Amtrak owns track in the "Northeastern Corridor" between Washington City and Boston. This is the highspeed, overhead electrified service.
Also, railroads can operate private passenger services, but choose not to because it's just not profitable on most routes. That's why Amtrak gets gov't subsidies for the long haul routes out west. When originally created in the 1970s, railroads didn't have to turn over their passenger service to Amtrak. The Denver and Rio Grande Western was the largest to opt out and last to join. Another such was the Rock Island, if memory serves correctly.
As for freight service-- Amtrak specialized in Express Services, again especially in the northeast. It has its own specially designed boxcars, called "Materials Handling Cars", just for that purpose. They're easy to spot in the train, as they don't have any windows.
Eben Moglen mentioned in his presentation that he has never once had to go to court to defend GPL'ed software.
And why is that a good thing? Wouldn't it be better to win a few test cases in order to build a firm legal foundation? At least in the US, precedent is very important in legal proceedings. The alternative is that once it does end up in court, and GPL'ed software loses, all GPL software becomes vulnerable.
Also, a lot of companies don't like legal gray areas, because uncertainty makes planning difficult, and so avoid them as if they are poison.
It's been the Common Law (for those nations based upon the English traditions) for several centuries that a boundary voluntarily agreed to supercedes the written definition. That's why its considered so important to well mark the boundaries. In the case of governments, usually there is a commision established by both parties which supervise the surveying and placing of markers, and then maintaining them. It's also not unsual for the commissions to play fast and loose- the various jogs in the Tennessee-Kentucky border, for example, are there because locally influential landowners managed to get themselves on the "proper" side of the border. Some of the various jogs in New England boundaries probably have the same source.
You don't need a GPS to find boundaries that don't go where you think they should, any sufficiently detailed map will do. Such maps will also show that any border defined as a line of latitude or longitude won't follow that line exactly. (The curvature of the earth doesn't help, either.) Many of the surveys were in remote areas with too much to survey and too little time to do it right, so like most other government work, "good enough" was substituted. They also relied on a sound engineering principal-- without a systematic problem (like misaligned transits) all the mistakes tend to cancel each other out.
One reason the US went to the uniform Meridians and Base Lines of the General Land Surveys of the West was to avoid the problems such as in the article. By not basing it on local geography, there would be few problems when the geography (read rivers) changed.
For historic information about the borders of the US and its states, see "Boundaries of the United States and the Several States" USGS Professional Paper #909 by F.K.van Zandt.
1) There used to be channels 70 through 83, but they were reallocated years ago.
2) The frequencies for channels 14-19 (or 20?) can be used for non-television purposes. Most stations in those channels were grandfathered into continued existence, while a few new ones have come into existence if the channel was so allocated in the original UHF allocation.
3) Up to at least the late 1980s, (I haven't paid attention since) the FCC maintained a list of channel allocations per city. If you wanted to start a new station, you'd get a channel off that list. As those channels got used up, the FCC would allocate new channels higher up as needed, which is why you rarely see channels above 49 except in places like the Bay Area, LA, Chicago or New York. Most cities without a VHF station had channels in the pattern 16, 22, 28, 34, 40, 46. The same was true for places like Chicago-- 14, 20, 26, 32, 38, 44. The even spacing was to try and prevent interference.
Considering how much bandwidth a single UHF channel uses up, and how few stations there actually are in those channels, it's probably a good idea.
For all the folks who think that a color scheme is superior to printed numerals-- is there a standard color scheme used on all foreign notes? (Besided the already mentioned Monopoly money scheme).
Does green always mean 20, and blue 10 and purple 333? Aren't you in danger of thinking your blue euro note is the same as that blue yen note? Should the UN establish a commision to standarized monetary colorization and force all signatory nations into compliance?
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Actually, this is more of a troll, and a good one, too.
I had much more of a problem with the fact that a dime is physically smaller than a nickel or even a penny, but is worth more.
Back in the bad ole days when coins were made of metals with real value, the value of the silver in a dime exceeded the value of the base metals and copper in the lesser valued coins. (Although ten dimes did not weigh the same as silver dollar.) Similiarly, a gold five dollar coin was much smaller than a silver dollar. The double eagle, the $20 gold, was about the same size, reflecting the idea of 1:20 gold to silver.
Then 'Forever War'. One word: Battlesuits. Certainly the special effects technology is up to showing them... but *you can't see the actor's face* in a battlesuit.
I'd prefer that these sorts of scifi adaptions be done with animation. That way they can be true to the vision of the author without the compromises imposed by such things as having your star hidden for half the film. Since most of the films these days seem to consist of CGI, why not just go all the way, and replace the actors, too.
(And good animation, not some anime crap where everything is static but lips synced to Japanese. Think Pixar or even Disney cel.)
You are supposed to make money providing "service"-- meaning, make sure the code is just crappy enough that most users have to keep paying you for what is supposedly "free." This is the flaw with Open Source-- there's a perverse incentive against writing code which so good that the user can actually use it by themself.
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Depends on how fast those assets depreciate, and the long-term maintenance costs.
For some commentary on this case by a real lawyer who has some idea of what he's talking about, see this Volokh Conspiracy posting. Note, for example, that he points out why this is far from decided, and some interesting complexities in the case because it took place at a border crossing.
Of course, if it was Open Source, and used the GPLv3 license, then everything would be okay.
It is not based on .NET. It is a completely new codebase. There are no OS checks in the binaries except to see if specific resources are available on the platform or need to be provided by the plugin.
He suddenly resigned today in response to criticism of some of his statements at Davos recently. Statements which probably never heard about if you read so-called "papers of record" or what his network (CNN). Coupled with Dan Rather's implosion last autumn, I'd say keeping the White House Press Corps free of any right-wing influence is pretty small in comparison.
Thre are also registered domain names that resolve to 127.0.0.1. They aren't as obviously phoney. By using one, I figure I'm hurting no one but the person who's sending me crap.
Chihuahuas and yorkies are doglets.
You also need to add people like Mao, Lenin, Hitler, Torquemada, Atilla, Genghis Khan, and the like to your list. Just because a person "fought like hell for their beliefs" does not justify their beliefs.
One man's hero is history's next great evil.
TECO was better, and it worked just fine on a 110 baud teletype, when that was the state of the art terminal.
I'm only trolling a little, and defintitely off topic, but at what point to we abandon interfaces and programs designed for teletypes and 24x80 "glass TTYs"? Or at least stop worshiping them?
Could you provide the specifics, or at least a flight number? Because except for a Hubble service mission and the final Columbia flight, there hasn't been a non-ISS shuttle mission this century.
I've noticed that the most vehement objections to this scheme seems to not be that it is a case of government sponsored social engineering, but that it will supplant an existing scheme of government sponsered social enginnering that the objectors prefer.
Trying to force people to drive in the way I want them to drive-- good. Trying to get the maximum use out of existing infrastructure -- bad.
My parents love the HOV lanes during their annual visits here-- they zip right along in their rental car between here and the airport while everyone else in the other two lanes are dead stopped. (Those posters talking about "4 lanes" have obviously never been to the Seattle area, and are thinking all freeways are like those in Chicago, Los Angeles or Dallas.)
Seeing how I've been paying for those extra lanes but denied their use for the past decade, I'm interested to see what comes of this. Based on my experience with watching this state's legislature in action (or should I say in inaction?), this will probably be the last we hear of this sort of use of ebay in the context of pricing traffic congestion relief, at least from the Left Coast Washington.
You obviously do not understand eBay's proxy bidding system.
Speaking as someone who both buys and sells, the poster completely understands the system. But what is left out is that if there is more than one "sniper", the one with the highest total bid wins. So you still had better put in a rationally valued bid.
What the sniping strategy does is prevent the nibblers from slowly raising your price, because there is no cost for bidding as long as you aren't the high bidder. For any particular item, it doesn't warn competitors of interest, but with a commodity (such as this), you can be fairly certain that the losers will probably be bidding at least that amount for the next available item.
Every bidding system can be analyzed as a game system, and every system has both its advantages and flaws. Usually the people who criticize the ebay style system are the ones who don't like the "sniping" because they haven't or are unwilling or are unable to figure out the proper gaming strategy. They suggest another system they tout as being better, which of course is one the with which they are most familiar, or which they believe would confer upon themselves an advantage. But they will probably still lose out, because they have loser attitute.
The first paragraph is completely and totally wrong. First,Amtrak owns track in the "Northeastern Corridor" between Washington City and Boston. This is the highspeed, overhead electrified service.
Also, railroads can operate private passenger services, but choose not to because it's just not profitable on most routes. That's why Amtrak gets gov't subsidies for the long haul routes out west. When originally created in the 1970s, railroads didn't have to turn over their passenger service to Amtrak. The Denver and Rio Grande Western was the largest to opt out and last to join. Another such was the Rock Island, if memory serves correctly.
As for freight service-- Amtrak specialized in Express Services, again especially in the northeast. It has its own specially designed boxcars, called "Materials Handling Cars", just for that purpose. They're easy to spot in the train, as they don't have any windows.
Eben Moglen mentioned in his presentation that he has never once had to go to court to defend GPL'ed software.
And why is that a good thing? Wouldn't it be better to win a few test cases in order to build a firm legal foundation? At least in the US, precedent is very important in legal proceedings. The alternative is that once it does end up in court, and GPL'ed software loses, all GPL software becomes vulnerable.
Also, a lot of companies don't like legal gray areas, because uncertainty makes planning difficult, and so avoid them as if they are poison.
It's been the Common Law (for those nations based upon the English traditions) for several centuries that a boundary voluntarily agreed to supercedes the written definition. That's why its considered so important to well mark the boundaries. In the case of governments, usually there is a commision established by both parties which supervise the surveying and placing of markers, and then maintaining them. It's also not unsual for the commissions to play fast and loose- the various jogs in the Tennessee-Kentucky border, for example, are there because locally influential landowners managed to get themselves on the "proper" side of the border. Some of the various jogs in New England boundaries probably have the same source.
You don't need a GPS to find boundaries that don't go where you think they should, any sufficiently detailed map will do. Such maps will also show that any border defined as a line of latitude or longitude won't follow that line exactly. (The curvature of the earth doesn't help, either.) Many of the surveys were in remote areas with too much to survey and too little time to do it right, so like most other government work, "good enough" was substituted. They also relied on a sound engineering principal-- without a systematic problem (like misaligned transits) all the mistakes tend to cancel each other out.
One reason the US went to the uniform Meridians and Base Lines of the General Land Surveys of the West was to avoid the problems such as in the article. By not basing it on local geography, there would be few problems when the geography (read rivers) changed.
For historic information about the borders of the US and its states, see "Boundaries of the United States and the Several States" USGS Professional Paper #909 by F.K.van Zandt.
1) There used to be channels 70 through 83, but they were reallocated years ago.
2) The frequencies for channels 14-19 (or 20?) can be used for non-television purposes. Most stations in those channels were grandfathered into continued existence, while a few new ones have come into existence if the channel was so allocated in the original UHF allocation.
3) Up to at least the late 1980s, (I haven't paid attention since) the FCC maintained a list of channel allocations per city. If you wanted to start a new station, you'd get a channel off that list. As those channels got used up, the FCC would allocate new channels higher up as needed, which is why you rarely see channels above 49 except in places like the Bay Area, LA, Chicago or New York. Most cities without a VHF station had channels in the pattern 16, 22, 28, 34, 40, 46. The same was true for places like Chicago-- 14, 20, 26, 32, 38, 44. The even spacing was to try and prevent interference.
Considering how much bandwidth a single UHF channel uses up, and how few stations there actually are in those channels, it's probably a good idea.
Does green always mean 20, and blue 10 and purple 333? Aren't you in danger of thinking your blue euro note is the same as that blue yen note? Should the UN establish a commision to standarized monetary colorization and force all signatory nations into compliance?
Looks like we need to add a new moderation class- paranoid.
Actually, this is more of a troll, and a good one, too.
I had much more of a problem with the fact that a dime is physically smaller than a nickel or even a penny, but is worth more.
Back in the bad ole days when coins were made of metals with real value, the value of the silver in a dime exceeded the value of the base metals and copper in the lesser valued coins. (Although ten dimes did not weigh the same as silver dollar.) Similiarly, a gold five dollar coin was much smaller than a silver dollar. The double eagle, the $20 gold, was about the same size, reflecting the idea of 1:20 gold to silver.
So that's why you can use flash photography to defeat the bezerk robots.
Then 'Forever War'. One word: Battlesuits. Certainly the special effects technology is up to showing them... but *you can't see the actor's face* in a battlesuit.
I'd prefer that these sorts of scifi adaptions be done with animation. That way they can be true to the vision of the author without the compromises imposed by such things as having your star hidden for half the film. Since most of the films these days seem to consist of CGI, why not just go all the way, and replace the actors, too.
(And good animation, not some anime crap where everything is static but lips synced to Japanese. Think Pixar or even Disney cel.)
You are supposed to make money providing "service"-- meaning, make sure the code is just crappy enough that most users have to keep paying you for what is supposedly "free." This is the flaw with Open Source-- there's a perverse incentive against writing code which so good that the user can actually use it by themself.
I suspect that if Apple would release a 5 button mouse, and you'd still whine about the number of buttons on the mouse.
Oh,yeah. To avoid the DCMA I'm going to move to a country with rules like those about "Canadian Content," which govern what I can see and hear.