I'm in Costa Rica, so the channel guide stuff does me no good. How useful would a Tivo/ReplayTV box be without that? I realize it wouldn't be able to seek out content for me, but could I manually program it to record some channel at some specific time, like a conventional VCR? Just the viewing features and the ability to program it to record would be enough to make me buy one.
Some of them say "price for phone orders only". What the F**k is up with that? What's the point of buying online if I have to call them on the phone?
So that they have a chance to explain to you why "you don't want that low-priced junk. What you really want is..."
For digital cameras, places like Broadway Photo are famous for this. You can order online, but they don't actually ship until you "confirm" your order by calling them up. They'll then try to pressure you into buying a bunch of overpriced accessories.
I knew a guy who sold lengerie at swap meets. He was complaining that another guy was discounting everything off artifically high prices, while he was selling his stuff at honest, fair prices. He finally decided to double all the marked prices and then put up a bunch of signs saying everything 50% off. His sales more than doubled.
Given the choice of paying $3500 online or at Best Buy or $4000 at a home theater shop, a buyer should seriously consider paying the $4000. The product may be the same, but the service isn't.
What if the home theater shop would let you pay them $500 and they'll treat you just as if you bought it from them? Do you think that $500 price would be a bargain?
you could introduce such trojans to the compiler and then compile it with some other compiler - the result would be the same.
No it wouldn't. Then you'd have to have the trojan in the source. Thompson's point is that once you've "taught" the compiler about the trojan you can remove it from the source code and still have it inserted in new versions of the compiler. This requires, of course, that you don't use some other compiler to build it.
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Thanks. (and sorry that someone modded you down for it.)
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They could walk through walls, but how come they didn't fall through the floor off the ship?
Yeah. This same deal comes up in a lot of ghost moves. For instance, Ghost, where Patrick Swayze's character is suprised to find he can't touch anything without passing right through it, and yet has no trouble at all walking around, going up stairs, and even landing on the ground when knocked down by the angry train ghost guy.
I've been told by a lawyer that many were technically/scientifically inclined in college, but bad in math; hence they studied law.
Judging by our Supreme Court, which ought to contain some mighty fine minds, there's some evidence of this. Justice Scalia, dissenting on the decision to permit disabled golfer Casey Martin to use a golf cart in PGA events, said
One can envision the parents of a Little League player with attention deficit disorder trying to convince a judge that their son's disability makes it at least 25 percent more difficult to hit a pitched ball. (If they are successful, the only thing that could prevent a court order giving the kid four strikes would be a judicial determination that, in baseball, three strikes are metaphysically necessary, which is quite absurd.)
Now you'd think that a Supreme Court justice, or at least one of his clerks, would have the basic arithmetic ability to realize that four strikes is not 25% more than three strikes, but rather 1/3 more.
I beleive that this is an excellent law. If you went on a crime spree across the United States, and ended up in California-you will be sent back to each state and tried for those crimes. It does not matter where you end up-you 'physically' committed the crime elsewhere. There is no difference here-the data is 'physically' on the server in that state. It does not matter where you are now-you had to be on that server, in that state somehow-whether it was by FTP, Telnet, etc.. And that is when and where the crime was committed.
Well then, to take this to extremes, suppose the country of Moronia makes it illegal for you post your opinion without pre-approval by the Moronian government. Your Usenet message winds up on a Moronian server, and they claim jurisdiction. Will you submit to their court?
Well, in order to transmit a network packet, you do have to store it, however briefly... So, it is conceivable to me that this law could be abused into putting the finger to somebody who just runs a router.
First of all, it's not a law, it's a ruling. Second, the ruling does not hold AOL accountable in any way. The court used the fact that the message must have resided on an AOL server in Virginia to rule that the defendant (not AOL) could be held accountable in a Viginia court.
This case has nothing to do with spam. The entire lawsuit is over one JFK conspiracy nut calling another JFK conspiracy nut a child molestor.
No, the ruling has nothing to do with the issues of the case, only the jurisdiction. The consequences of the ruling reach far beyond this particular suit.
tax deductible basically means that you get to donate for free (up to a point and with certain restrictions of course). No it doesn't. It means you don't have to pay taxes on that money. So, if the donation is $1,000 and if you would have paid 20% tax on that money then in effect the goverment donates $200 and you donate $800. -PP
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I'm in Costa Rica, so the channel guide stuff does me no good. How useful would a Tivo/ReplayTV box be without that? I realize it wouldn't be able to seek out content for me, but could I manually program it to record some channel at some specific time, like a conventional VCR? Just the viewing features and the ability to program it to record would be enough to make me buy one.
So that they have a chance to explain to you why "you don't want that low-priced junk. What you really want is..."
For digital cameras, places like Broadway Photo are famous for this. You can order online, but they don't actually ship until you "confirm" your order by calling them up. They'll then try to pressure you into buying a bunch of overpriced accessories.
I knew a guy who sold lengerie at swap meets. He was complaining that another guy was discounting everything off artifically high prices, while he was selling his stuff at honest, fair prices. He finally decided to double all the marked prices and then put up a bunch of signs saying everything 50% off. His sales more than doubled.
What if the home theater shop would let you pay them $500 and they'll treat you just as if you bought it from them? Do you think that $500 price would be a bargain?
Thrillseekers? I have a master's rating and I don't even like roller coasters.
How could you tell? Because of the teeth?
Good one.
Swipeable? Hell, I can't give mine away.
Don't you think, boy and/or girl, that that might have been intentional?
You're friends with that guy?
No it wouldn't. Then you'd have to have the trojan in the source. Thompson's point is that once you've "taught" the compiler about the trojan you can remove it from the source code and still have it inserted in new versions of the compiler. This requires, of course, that you don't use some other compiler to build it.
Thanks. (and sorry that someone modded you down for it.)
Which is...?
(A serious question.)
Parallel construction please. To someone who's not aware that Ethan Hawke is an actor, he'd think that Ethan Hawke was the character's name.
No, the first part has the word as in it, so it's Denzel Washington as the person turning, and the turnee is the character, not the actor.
Oh please. All these problems you pose are so easily solved by simply reversing the phase. Sheesh, any first year cadet knows that much.
Yeah. This same deal comes up in a lot of ghost moves. For instance, Ghost, where Patrick Swayze's character is suprised to find he can't touch anything without passing right through it, and yet has no trouble at all walking around, going up stairs, and even landing on the ground when knocked down by the angry train ghost guy.
That's not at all what he said though! why would you change his words to something that makes sense? What he said was wrong.
What is this supposed to mean? the way it reads it simply says that the "you" in question is not a person.
Which is it? Is it taking the country by storm or is it rare? I'm guessing the latter, with the former being wishful thinking.
Judging by our Supreme Court, which ought to contain some mighty fine minds, there's some evidence of this. Justice Scalia, dissenting on the decision to permit disabled golfer Casey Martin to use a golf cart in PGA events, said
Now you'd think that a Supreme Court justice, or at least one of his clerks, would have the basic arithmetic ability to realize that four strikes is not 25% more than three strikes, but rather 1/3 more.
Apparently not.
I beleive that this is an excellent law. If you went on a crime spree across the United States, and ended up in California-you will be sent back to each state and tried for those crimes. It does not matter where you end up-you 'physically' committed the crime elsewhere. There is no difference here-the data is 'physically' on the server in that state. It does not matter where you are now-you had to be on that server, in that state somehow-whether it was by FTP, Telnet, etc.. And that is when and where the crime was committed.
Well then, to take this to extremes, suppose the country of Moronia makes it illegal for you post your opinion without pre-approval by the Moronian government. Your Usenet message winds up on a Moronian server, and they claim jurisdiction. Will you submit to their court?
-PP
Well, in order to transmit a network packet, you do have to store it, however briefly...
So, it is conceivable to me that this law could be abused into putting the finger to somebody who just runs a router.
First of all, it's not a law, it's a ruling. Second, the ruling does not hold AOL accountable in any way. The court used the fact that the message must have resided on an AOL server in Virginia to rule that the defendant (not AOL) could be held accountable in a Viginia court.
-PP
This case has nothing to do with spam. The entire lawsuit is over one JFK conspiracy nut calling another JFK conspiracy nut a child molestor.
No, the ruling has nothing to do with the issues of the case, only the jurisdiction. The consequences of the ruling reach far beyond this particular suit.
-PP
tax deductible basically means that you get to donate for free (up to a point and with certain restrictions of course). No it doesn't. It means you don't have to pay taxes on that money. So, if the donation is $1,000 and if you would have paid 20% tax on that money then in effect the goverment donates $200 and you donate $800. -PP
This will work about the same time as that flying car thing...
-PP