You grammatically incorrect Anonymous Coward. Granted, I should have written my comment as a question, but I'm glad I did, so I learned something. Obviously, the distinction seems not to be clear with ISDN for example, so it seems it was somewhat justified. Big thanks to those who took the time to clear this up.
Media in general has a way of obscuring the vocab surrounding computing in order to promote company interests (MSNBC's definition of `hacker'), or to provide the clueless Joe Blow with a language he can understand (DSL/ISDN modems). The bad thing is when those who should know better start to adapt this distorted vocabulary.
In a wholly digital environment such as DSL or ISDN, there is no need to modulate and demodulate the signal from digital to analogue and vice versa. Instead, the protocols need only be adapted. Hence, we call this device a terminal adaptor, not modem.
With the current prices of cell phones its probably cheaper to pay someone minimum wage to sit there and watch it. Plus with a camera that means someone has to be watching or at least recording it.
Well, I do assume the setup would be something along the lines of a dial-up alert to the cellphone, which can then be verified by examining the input from the cam. IIRC there was a couple of guys who did that and exposed their landlord breaking and entering, although the pics were blurry as hell
Cell phones are not that expensive if you get a good deal. Besides, they have other uses as well. Anyway, doesn't everybody have one already these days?
And even so, the story doesn't really qualifies as news, as Microsloth has had this passage in their TOS for ages. At first I thought it was strange too, but if you think about it, there are rather sensible reasons behind it. Microslut wants to avoid witty lawsuits claiming that they, by storing messages, e-mails and the like on their servers, are violating property rights. Anyone with a brain should realize that such a lawsuit would be idiotic, but why not mark your territory in advance. After all, we all know some judges aren't exactly up-to-date or even remotely reasonable as soon as something pertains to technology.
Um, maybe you're correct, but I've always understood inertia to mean objects resting, moving, or traveling in a straight line and all that jazz. Whereas momentum had to do with the amount of force behind whatever is moving. Ah, whatever.
Inertia is the tendency of a body to, unless affected by another force, keep its same velocity (rate of change of position over change in time).
Momentum is the force excerted by an object times the mass of the object.
Newton said (and we all trust Newton) that as an object A excerts a force F on an object B, object B excerts an equal and opposite force on A.
The clever fellow also said that the force excerted by an object is the mass of the object times the acceleration (change in velocity over time, i.e. change in change in position over time over time).
To change the motion of the earth, it would take huge forces, since the earth A) is quite heavy and B) moves at a rather blinding speed and therefore has a huge momentum. This is not unrelated to the inertia, so actually both would fit in the original post.
Disclaimer: I slept through a lot of my physics lessons. Don't tell.
/.../they'll probably get away with a 'may cause problems in some CDROM drives' sticker/.../
True story: I got a couple of CDs (this was before i got fed up with the harebrained acts of the copyfighters out there and refused to have anything to do with them) here in Europe, specifically, Destination Goa.
On the inner clear plastic, there is a tiny (1.5x1 mm) logo among the serial numbers and whatnot reading IFPI.
I pop this in my CD-RW (Memorex) - No media present. Beautiful. Apparently, this CD (and a couple of others, all with the IFPI logo, I might add for the sake of outruling errors).
It didn't turn out to be that much of a problem as i could rip it from another computer (DVD drive, no name brand) in the network here at home.
IANAL, but this is extremely legal. I doubt that selling CDs that don't work in players designed for the purpose or CD players, regardless of whether they have the ability to write/rewrite, that don't play CDs is legal at all though.
I e-mailed the constitutional representative of consumer related questions in my area to find out if there was anything I could do. She said she would look into the matter. That was about a year ago, speaking of government employees not reading their mail.
It's not a new thing for people to desire to drive both cars and motorcycles on the same roads, and really, is it so strange?
In a perfect world, portability would really be just that, but, just in case anyone missed the news, it is not. However, building layers to translate this into that is not close enough to the core of things. The end result will always be analogous to Babelfish translations in quality.
Instead, would it not be better to get developers on all levels engaged in projects to move to more portable programming solutions, including Java, and to take the steps with those environments to make them serve up to the needs of the gaming industry?
I am no expert on the subject, but these are my thoughts. I would like to hear counterarguments and/or other thoughts on the subject.
Wouldn't that depend on which country the company is established in? Of course, Microsloth has offices in virtually every country in the world except Sealand, so it's not that much of an issue.
On a related note, did anyone hear how the UK clothing company named microsoft (lower-case `m' on logos) against which Microsoft filed a suit (no pun intended) performed in court?
With all due respect, most posters seem to oversee one major point, and while this may be because the point may not be a legal point, it is still an important point to make from a democratic point of view. Point:
Most comments were about how institutions may deny gov't funding, thus avoiding restrictions. However, there is no way for anyone who would like to have a telephone and lives in a taxed area (if indeed this is how the system works) to avoid the taking of money by the government.
If money is to be taken from the individuals, it is absolutely against the principles of democracy to use such taxation as a bait to censor information in poor institutions.
Whether or not this has anything to do with the US Constitution is an entirely different question, since the Constitution was not written with democracy - as most of us think of it today - in mind.
Yet again we see the need for some sort of international agreement between countries much like those regulating the basic principles of copyright laws in most countries. However, before such agreements can be made, there needs to be a change in the ethnocentric and self-righteous attidudes of countries and corporations that we see today.
Clearly, the Internet does not belong to a single country, nor does it exist in some kind of spooky metaphysical parallel dimension. Legislation needs to mature in their understanding of technology and take the drama out of the reasoning. The Internet is a part of the infrastructure of the world, and should be dealt with as such.
The company or agency who builds a road is not held responsible when criminals choose that road when escaping from a bank robbery, neither should server maintainers and other service providers be prosecuted for how their services are used.
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You grammatically incorrect Anonymous Coward. Granted, I should have written my comment as a question, but I'm glad I did, so I learned something. Obviously, the distinction seems not to be clear with ISDN for example, so it seems it was somewhat justified. Big thanks to those who took the time to clear this up.
Media in general has a way of obscuring the vocab surrounding computing in order to promote company interests (MSNBC's definition of `hacker'), or to provide the clueless Joe Blow with a language he can understand (DSL/ISDN modems). The bad thing is when those who should know better start to adapt this distorted vocabulary.
In a wholly digital environment such as DSL or ISDN, there is no need to modulate and demodulate the signal from digital to analogue and vice versa. Instead, the protocols need only be adapted. Hence, we call this device a terminal adaptor, not modem.
The only bad thing is that Quake makes for about as good a spectator sport as curling.
/.../almost breaking their back carrying their 19" monitor/.../
21", thank you.
Ah, monitor envy... isn't it great!
With the current prices of cell phones its probably cheaper to pay someone minimum wage to sit there and watch it. Plus with a camera that means someone has to be watching or at least recording it.
Well, I do assume the setup would be something along the lines of a dial-up alert to the cellphone, which can then be verified by examining the input from the cam. IIRC there was a couple of guys who did that and exposed their landlord breaking and entering, although the pics were blurry as hell
Cell phones are not that expensive if you get a good deal. Besides, they have other uses as well. Anyway, doesn't everybody have one already these days?
And even so, the story doesn't really qualifies as news, as Microsloth has had this passage in their TOS for ages. At first I thought it was strange too, but if you think about it, there are rather sensible reasons behind it. Microslut wants to avoid witty lawsuits claiming that they, by storing messages, e-mails and the like on their servers, are violating property rights. Anyone with a brain should realize that such a lawsuit would be idiotic, but why not mark your territory in advance. After all, we all know some judges aren't exactly up-to-date or even remotely reasonable as soon as something pertains to technology.
Um, maybe you're correct, but I've always understood inertia to mean objects resting, moving, or traveling in a straight line and all that jazz. Whereas momentum had to do with the amount of force behind whatever is moving. Ah, whatever.
Inertia is the tendency of a body to, unless affected by another force, keep its same velocity (rate of change of position over change in time).
Momentum is the force excerted by an object times the mass of the object.
Newton said (and we all trust Newton) that as an object A excerts a force F on an object B, object B excerts an equal and opposite force on A.
The clever fellow also said that the force excerted by an object is the mass of the object times the acceleration (change in velocity over time, i.e. change in change in position over time over time).
To change the motion of the earth, it would take huge forces, since the earth A) is quite heavy and B) moves at a rather blinding speed and therefore has a huge momentum. This is not unrelated to the inertia, so actually both would fit in the original post.
Disclaimer: I slept through a lot of my physics lessons. Don't tell.
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True story: I got a couple of CDs (this was before i got fed up with the harebrained acts of the copyfighters out there and refused to have anything to do with them) here in Europe, specifically, Destination Goa.
On the inner clear plastic, there is a tiny (1.5x1 mm) logo among the serial numbers and whatnot reading IFPI.
I pop this in my CD-RW (Memorex) - No media present. Beautiful. Apparently, this CD (and a couple of others, all with the IFPI logo, I might add for the sake of outruling errors).
It didn't turn out to be that much of a problem as i could rip it from another computer (DVD drive, no name brand) in the network here at home.
IANAL, but this is extremely legal. I doubt that selling CDs that don't work in players designed for the purpose or CD players, regardless of whether they have the ability to write/rewrite, that don't play CDs is legal at all though.
I e-mailed the constitutional representative of consumer related questions in my area to find out if there was anything I could do. She said she would look into the matter. That was about a year ago, speaking of government employees not reading their mail.
In a perfect world, portability would really be just that, but, just in case anyone missed the news, it is not. However, building layers to translate this into that is not close enough to the core of things. The end result will always be analogous to Babelfish translations in quality.
Instead, would it not be better to get developers on all levels engaged in projects to move to more portable programming solutions, including Java, and to take the steps with those environments to make them serve up to the needs of the gaming industry?
I am no expert on the subject, but these are my thoughts. I would like to hear counterarguments and/or other thoughts on the subject.
On a related note, did anyone hear how the UK clothing company named microsoft (lower-case `m' on logos) against which Microsoft filed a suit (no pun intended) performed in court?
Most comments were about how institutions may deny gov't funding, thus avoiding restrictions. However, there is no way for anyone who would like to have a telephone and lives in a taxed area (if indeed this is how the system works) to avoid the taking of money by the government.
If money is to be taken from the individuals, it is absolutely against the principles of democracy to use such taxation as a bait to censor information in poor institutions.
Whether or not this has anything to do with the US Constitution is an entirely different question, since the Constitution was not written with democracy - as most of us think of it today - in mind.
Clearly, the Internet does not belong to a single country, nor does it exist in some kind of spooky metaphysical parallel dimension. Legislation needs to mature in their understanding of technology and take the drama out of the reasoning. The Internet is a part of the infrastructure of the world, and should be dealt with as such.
The company or agency who builds a road is not held responsible when criminals choose that road when escaping from a bank robbery, neither should server maintainers and other service providers be prosecuted for how their services are used.