The RIAA doesn't want to try a case in court where someone has thousands of songs and they get thousands x $500 in statutory damages. Because it will certainly go to Supreme Court and be overturned under due process (criminal like punishment with a civil standard of proof).
You do know that coal is made of tons of carbon and typicaly some impurities right? For instance to make iron into steel you add carbon, which has for a very very long time been done by adding coal and letting the impurities bubble to the top.
What he unsucessfully tried to point out is that the population of our prisons in the US is higher than Australia's population of people. So even if you consider them all prisoners we still have them beat.
"The[sic] can get their 2 billion back from Sun that way."
No. Consider a shell company with no assets even when you take into account its employees, good will, IP, etc. Now consider that some lawsuit comes up and they sue you for a million dollars. If you subsequently buy them for what they are now worth, one million dollars. How does this purchase change the fact that you lost a million dollars? If earlier the potential for a lawsuit by Sun against Microsoft was not realized by the market but Microsoft fully saw it, then Microsoft would net 2 billion by purchasing Sun. It doesn't work after the fact.
What?? To represent 10 you do need 10 digits... unless you have somehow figured out some magic trick none of us here on slashdot know about to somehow represent more than 10 things in 01 digits.
"Yet at the same time, the automobile accidents are something we try to reduce." Wait a minute. If you wanted to try and reduce automobile accidents as much as you are suggesting we reduce the deaths from fallout from this thing... well you would ban the automobile. Bam, 0 automobile accidents. There is a problem with this logic. Yes, you no longer have as many automobile accidents. You also no longer have the infrastructure which has played a huge role in all sorts of tangential aspects of human life. Likewise with this nuclear technology there would be many changes. For instance, we would be a hell of a lot closer to being able to spread out humanity to more than one little planet. All it takes is one big asteroid and the entire human race is gone; hmm entire human race, 1-10 people--I just can't decide.
Yes but the competition for the contract for the next xbox's proc was so steep that they are banking on paying for all that research in the future in the mac market with rediculously overpriced units which we all know apple users are willing to buy. Afterall, the dual G5 does do a gausian blur in photoshop much faster than the G4. Imagine a G6!!111 It will make your images blur so fast you will think you are drinking a zima (after all, we are talking about a mac user).
Umm, the original xbox runs a modified Windows kernel. Just one example of it's reliance on it: on a modded xbox you can directly copy the contents of a DVD meant for an xbox onto the harddrive, and then you can launch the game from there and the game has no clue it is being launched from a harddrive and not a disk. This is because it isn't handling the DVD accesses itself, it's just asking the OS to load some file.
Microsoft can garuntee that it will buy x amount of these processors for this thing over the course of its life. Apple can garuntee that it can buy y amount of these processors and constantly stop buying as much as they move up to higher and higher specs as time passes. Now the kicker, Microsoft's x is bigger than Apple's y. Much bigger.
It might seem like a good thing, but in reality hyperthreading is marketed primarily towards average desktop users. Their apps are by and large single threaded.
Or, and this is a big or, degree granting undergraduate institutions don't give a flying shit about competing with ITT Tech. If they were they wouldn't have math classes mandatory in the curriculum, they would just use that time to have everyone memorize yet more vendor specific arcanum. Universities instead are focused on giving you an understanding of the 'why' and 'how' of this stuff, not the arbitrary 'what' of "Cisco uses aqua colored cables for this and orange for that."
If it takes off the music companies will want more money for their catalogs. So your whole premise is that the introductory price will never rise (and I'm not talking about inflation).
Then personally from your point of view it would bolster what you seek in a reputation and not hinder it. So that's not "some libel [you] wouldnt complain about;" it's a lie you wouldn't complain about.
It is hard to judge which has the most vulnerabilities when one OS has 10x the user base. If they both had equal amounts of vulnerabilities the OS with more users would exude more vulnerabilities. It isn't exactly a linear correlation however (you can't just divide the amount of vulnerabilities published for windows by the number of users and do the same for mac to get a good estimate...). Now granted I think OSX is probably more secure, but I can't back that up.
That 7.1 seconds isn't a valid figure. You will waste far more than 7 seconds posting on slashdot to explain why other people have been posting to slashdot under your moniker.
Hi. I'm just writing to inform you that in the English language it is generally considered appropriate to acknowledge the difference between the word "what" and the word "when." They really are quite different.
"and that it would be more available in China than in the U.S...."
It's not more available in China than the US. To use your "China couldn't feed itself" analogy that is like saying that while "China couldn't feed itself" it still consumed more food than the US did in 1955 and therefore food was "more availble in China than in the US." Also you conviently forget that the internet in China is not the same as the internet in the US. The US has more restrictions on it than a lot of other places, but certainly not more than China.
Yeah I don't see how WWF lost to WWF when MCI (Microwave Communications Inc.) and MCI (Motor Coach Industries/Inc./Something) were forced to coexist. Ever see a bus with MCI on the front? That's not an ad for long distance service.
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The RIAA doesn't want to try a case in court where someone has thousands of songs and they get thousands x $500 in statutory damages. Because it will certainly go to Supreme Court and be overturned under due process (criminal like punishment with a civil standard of proof).
Hello. There is a thing called statutory damages.
You do know that coal is made of tons of carbon and typicaly some impurities right? For instance to make iron into steel you add carbon, which has for a very very long time been done by adding coal and letting the impurities bubble to the top.
And it was a Wired article, so they try to make it sound like a Neal Stephenson novel. It probably was heavily embellished.
What he unsucessfully tried to point out is that the population of our prisons in the US is higher than Australia's population of people. So even if you consider them all prisoners we still have them beat.
Umm, sorry to put a slight damper on your sarcasm, but they do. Some of them charge like $2 a minute for that... insane.
"The[sic] can get their 2 billion back from Sun that way."
No. Consider a shell company with no assets even when you take into account its employees, good will, IP, etc. Now consider that some lawsuit comes up and they sue you for a million dollars. If you subsequently buy them for what they are now worth, one million dollars. How does this purchase change the fact that you lost a million dollars? If earlier the potential for a lawsuit by Sun against Microsoft was not realized by the market but Microsoft fully saw it, then Microsoft would net 2 billion by purchasing Sun. It doesn't work after the fact.
What?? To represent 10 you do need 10 digits... unless you have somehow figured out some magic trick none of us here on slashdot know about to somehow represent more than 10 things in 01 digits.
"Yet at the same time, the automobile accidents are something we try to reduce." Wait a minute. If you wanted to try and reduce automobile accidents as much as you are suggesting we reduce the deaths from fallout from this thing... well you would ban the automobile. Bam, 0 automobile accidents. There is a problem with this logic. Yes, you no longer have as many automobile accidents. You also no longer have the infrastructure which has played a huge role in all sorts of tangential aspects of human life. Likewise with this nuclear technology there would be many changes. For instance, we would be a hell of a lot closer to being able to spread out humanity to more than one little planet. All it takes is one big asteroid and the entire human race is gone; hmm entire human race, 1-10 people--I just can't decide.
Yes but the competition for the contract for the next xbox's proc was so steep that they are banking on paying for all that research in the future in the mac market with rediculously overpriced units which we all know apple users are willing to buy. Afterall, the dual G5 does do a gausian blur in photoshop much faster than the G4. Imagine a G6!!111 It will make your images blur so fast you will think you are drinking a zima (after all, we are talking about a mac user).
Umm, the original xbox runs a modified Windows kernel. Just one example of it's reliance on it: on a modded xbox you can directly copy the contents of a DVD meant for an xbox onto the harddrive, and then you can launch the game from there and the game has no clue it is being launched from a harddrive and not a disk. This is because it isn't handling the DVD accesses itself, it's just asking the OS to load some file.
I think he was refering to the fact that xBox can run N64 emulators perfectly on many games and pretty damned close on the others.
With the ACCEPTION of general overuse of commas, I don't know what you are talking about.
Microsoft can garuntee that it will buy x amount of these processors for this thing over the course of its life. Apple can garuntee that it can buy y amount of these processors and constantly stop buying as much as they move up to higher and higher specs as time passes. Now the kicker, Microsoft's x is bigger than Apple's y. Much bigger.
It might seem like a good thing, but in reality hyperthreading is marketed primarily towards average desktop users. Their apps are by and large single threaded.
Or, and this is a big or, degree granting undergraduate institutions don't give a flying shit about competing with ITT Tech. If they were they wouldn't have math classes mandatory in the curriculum, they would just use that time to have everyone memorize yet more vendor specific arcanum. Universities instead are focused on giving you an understanding of the 'why' and 'how' of this stuff, not the arbitrary 'what' of "Cisco uses aqua colored cables for this and orange for that."
If it takes off the music companies will want more money for their catalogs. So your whole premise is that the introductory price will never rise (and I'm not talking about inflation).
Only if it is a CRT projector, which are increasingly rare.
Then personally from your point of view it would bolster what you seek in a reputation and not hinder it. So that's not "some libel [you] wouldnt complain about;" it's a lie you wouldn't complain about.
It is hard to judge which has the most vulnerabilities when one OS has 10x the user base. If they both had equal amounts of vulnerabilities the OS with more users would exude more vulnerabilities. It isn't exactly a linear correlation however (you can't just divide the amount of vulnerabilities published for windows by the number of users and do the same for mac to get a good estimate...). Now granted I think OSX is probably more secure, but I can't back that up.
Whenever said it doesn't really matter.
That 7.1 seconds isn't a valid figure. You will waste far more than 7 seconds posting on slashdot to explain why other people have been posting to slashdot under your moniker.
Hi. I'm just writing to inform you that in the English language it is generally considered appropriate to acknowledge the difference between the word "what" and the word "when." They really are quite different.
"and that it would be more available in China than in the U.S...."
It's not more available in China than the US. To use your "China couldn't feed itself" analogy that is like saying that while "China couldn't feed itself" it still consumed more food than the US did in 1955 and therefore food was "more availble in China than in the US." Also you conviently forget that the internet in China is not the same as the internet in the US. The US has more restrictions on it than a lot of other places, but certainly not more than China.
Yeah I don't see how WWF lost to WWF when MCI (Microwave Communications Inc.) and MCI (Motor Coach Industries/Inc./Something) were forced to coexist. Ever see a bus with MCI on the front? That's not an ad for long distance service.