From another article I read, Trent obtained permission to conduct this campain from his label. The label had full knowledge, hope and expectation that the few songs on the USB drive would be widely distributed.
Except that as resistance goes up, wattage goes down. the light bulb achieves a point of equalibrium. The filament heats up, the resistance increases. If the filament slightly overheats, the drop in power causes the filament to cool off slightly and lowers the resistance and draws more current which will then heat it up to compensate. A lightbulb is continously and chaotically but imperceptably changing intensity.
I've been summoned to serve on jury duty twice. Most of the time on criminal cases, and the mere threat of a jury was enough to make the defendant settle.
The question most of the lawyers asked was, "Can you keep an open mind and decided only on the evidence presented?"
1) There is no indication that a jury was involved. Trial by Jury is a right. It is not compulsory. Many corporate court battles take place without a jury because it reduces the risks associated with jurries
2) What the F***? 12 ordinary citizens too stupid to get out of jury duty? Some of us are happy to serve and protect your right to trial by jury. The next time a Big Media legal thug drags your ass into a court room, you should be happy that a "smart person" who supports the right of trial by jury might actually decide in your favor.
The only "innovative" aspect of this patent that I see, is while this covers the classic double-linked-list we all learned by our sophomore year, it could represent other other uses. For example, the first linked list could be a traversal ordered by name, and the second linked list could be a traversal ordered by phone number.
I think it fails in that it's fairly obvious to anyone who's dealt with multi-key data.
I am convinced that part of the reason the terrorists succeeded is because they told the passengers to behave and they will be fine. Since the passengers had no reason to believe otherwise, they sat still. It's even possible three of the five hijackers on each plane also believed they would survive too.
This strategy will never work again. There were reports that Richard Reed (the shoe bomber) would have been beaten to by other passengers if not for the intervention of and sedation by the flight crew.
My understanding is that Diebold bought Global Election Systems in 2002 to achieve faster time to market. The Help America Vote Act was in the wake of the 2000 election. Diebold pounced on a chance to enter the ripe electronic voting market. My biggest fault with Diebold, is that they were too hasty and let that cloud their judgement as they bought a crappy company that didn't know squat about security.
I was suspecting that. Microsoft has a TimeZone Editor tool that they are releasing to allow people to fix "legacy products." I was suprised to see that could not handle historical data, nor could it handle jurisdictions that had fixed day changes. Iraq is (was) one such place. Iraq always started DST on April 1 and ended October 31.
Most programs that use the standard C library do use UTC and just don't realise it. The most important thing to realise about daylight savings time is that Time isn't changing. The sun still rise the after DST as before DST (astronomical adjustments due to Earth's heliocentric orbit not withstanding).
But, how we read the clock is changing.
I heard one company just say, "we're going to just change the clock on the computer." This makes me cringe.
All file time timestamps on all versions of UNIX and versions of Windows derived from NT store times as Julian seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT. Changing the system clock means that the times will be stored wrong even though they display properly in the local timezone.
Other places to watch out for are applications that manage their own timezone data. Java is a prime example. Major database vendors would be another.
Organizations like ASCAP and BMI already have the infrastructure to manage artist royalies for composition/publishing side of the royalties equation.
Indie music where the composer is also performer (anecdotally, this would cover 99% of it) ASCAP/BMI would already be involed at some level. Not to diminish BMI, but I am going to refer to ASCAP only hereafter because I am most familiar with how it works. ASCAP is a member-owned organization and is free to any writer who meets membership requirements. The barrier to entry to ASCAP is low.
Apple (or other online system) could create a system where the Indie artist, represented by ASCAP but not by a recording company, qualifies to appear on iTunes and a percentage of the purchase price would go directly to ASCAP. ASCAP would then take their flat administrative fee (currently around 12%) and pass the remaining directly to the artist. ASCAP membership also shifts the issue of sorting out music ownership from Apple to ASCAP. ASCAP members are responsible for keeping ASCAP appraised of the current address.
The procedural change for these groups to represent the additional recording rights of their members might not be that difficult. I would expect a lot of internal conflict within ASCAP as some very important ASCAP members (Alan Jackson, Eddie Van Halen, Phil Collins, John Williams, etc) already have lucrative recording contracts.
The central server for a system of airport flight information display screens (FIDS) where I once worked ran an operating system called iRMX. It had pathetic security. The only thing that kept that system secure was the lock on the door to the room.
The crux of why dimmers don't work has to do with how dimmers work. They work by turning the power off and on very quickly. The power is switch on and off 120 times per second (in regions where power oscilates at 60Hz - 100 times in 50Hz regions). The ratio of time on versus time off controls the brightness. The 'off' is always synchronized when the power crosses zero and the 'on' is adjusted accordingly.
The coils found in transformers and ballasts throw a wrench into the works because of a property called inductive resistance. This is an important property that prevents that coil of wire from becoming a dead short. Inductive resistance can't be created instantaniously and the optimal condition for creating inductive resistance is a sine wave. When the power turns 'on', the current inrush is high and the coil doesn't have inductive resistance so you get a brief short 120 times per second. Prolonged operation in this state can blow fuses and breakers and burn-out transformers.
Seriously, I have a KVM hooked up to "one of everything" (Linux, Mac, XP) When there is a piece if functionality I need that requires Vista, then I'll think about it. Not before
At the airline I worked for, we wrote tiny little UNIX apps that registered with a mainframe message handler. Quite often the terminals at the airports are provided by the airport and link in through industry networks like ARINC or SITA. Montréal (YUL) is one airport that comes to mind. They have airport PC's with a SITA terminal emulator on it. Any airline can use any terminal in the complex.
The environment is supprisingly web like. All editing is done within the emulator, when the user presses "Enter" the request form is sent to SITA, which sends it to the carrier, which routes the form to either a mainframe or UNIX or Java app that does the back-end processing and the response is then painted on the screen.
While I agree that TLS and SSL and the like are flexible, the real barrier is not the specification but how long it take for a critical mass of adoption to make a revised specification useful.
Second life is too unregulated. Also the stock market has a goal of developing wealth for the investor. The same isn't true of second life. Second life has a very high overhead for infrastructure (sims) and they have other economic forces that make ridiculous things like camping chairs profitable for their owners.
I think you missed the nuance of the original question. If a DRM system can be created that can magically recognise the moment your use of digital content goes from legal to illegal, would you still object to DRM.
Most of us hate DRM because no one has come up with that utopian DRM system.
I've used Ruby curses. Ruby curses is a very thin layer on top of the classic C curses library (ncurses actually). There is no significant value add above direct C programming other than you get modern memory management that comes with a modern language like ruby.
The crown jewel of the Ruby world is ActiveRecord - although it's not included in the base distribution, it is easy to bolt onto any ruby installation. I can't think of any database layer in any language that is easier to use than ActiveRecord. ActiveRecord is also DBMS independent - Oracle, DB2, Postgress, Mysql and others.
The parent post called ruby simple. I agree that ruby is simple. But do not misconstrue that simple is weak.
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I'm pretty sure I don't agree with the crowd control theory either.
In the six years I worked at an airline, I've never heard anyone speak of passengers as negatively as this article does.
From another article I read, Trent obtained permission to conduct this campain from his label. The label had full knowledge, hope and expectation that the few songs on the USB drive would be widely distributed.
Except that as resistance goes up, wattage goes down. the light bulb achieves a point of equalibrium. The filament heats up, the resistance increases. If the filament slightly overheats, the drop in power causes the filament to cool off slightly and lowers the resistance and draws more current which will then heat it up to compensate. A lightbulb is continously and chaotically but imperceptably changing intensity.
I've been summoned to serve on jury duty twice. Most of the time on criminal cases, and the mere threat of a jury was enough to make the defendant settle.
The question most of the lawyers asked was, "Can you keep an open mind and decided only on the evidence presented?"
In my haste, I missed the jury bit in the article
The Seventh Amendment of the US Constitution says trial by jury in most civil cases is a right.
1) There is no indication that a jury was involved. Trial by Jury is a right. It is not compulsory. Many corporate court battles take place without a jury because it reduces the risks associated with jurries
2) What the F***? 12 ordinary citizens too stupid to get out of jury duty? Some of us are happy to serve and protect your right to trial by jury. The next time a Big Media legal thug drags your ass into a court room, you should be happy that a "smart person" who supports the right of trial by jury might actually decide in your favor.
The only "innovative" aspect of this patent that I see, is while this covers the classic double-linked-list we all learned by our sophomore year, it could represent other other uses. For example, the first linked list could be a traversal ordered by name, and the second linked list could be a traversal ordered by phone number.
I think it fails in that it's fairly obvious to anyone who's dealt with multi-key data.
I am convinced that part of the reason the terrorists succeeded is because they told the passengers to behave and they will be fine. Since the passengers had no reason to believe otherwise, they sat still. It's even possible three of the five hijackers on each plane also believed they would survive too.
This strategy will never work again. There were reports that Richard Reed (the shoe bomber) would have been beaten to by other passengers if not for the intervention of and sedation by the flight crew.
My understanding is that Diebold bought Global Election Systems in 2002 to achieve faster time to market. The Help America Vote Act was in the wake of the 2000 election. Diebold pounced on a chance to enter the ripe electronic voting market. My biggest fault with Diebold, is that they were too hasty and let that cloud their judgement as they bought a crappy company that didn't know squat about security.
In the wake of 9/11, the people at the DHS are under enormous pressure to do something about security.
What's been lost is the difference between doing something about it is and doing anything about it. Read ID is the later.
I was suspecting that. Microsoft has a TimeZone Editor tool that they are releasing to allow people to fix "legacy products." I was suprised to see that could not handle historical data, nor could it handle jurisdictions that had fixed day changes. Iraq is (was) one such place. Iraq always started DST on April 1 and ended October 31.
Most programs that use the standard C library do use UTC and just don't realise it. The most important thing to realise about daylight savings time is that Time isn't changing. The sun still rise the after DST as before DST (astronomical adjustments due to Earth's heliocentric orbit not withstanding). But, how we read the clock is changing.
I heard one company just say, "we're going to just change the clock on the computer." This makes me cringe.
All file time timestamps on all versions of UNIX and versions of Windows derived from NT store times as Julian seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT. Changing the system clock means that the times will be stored wrong even though they display properly in the local timezone.
Other places to watch out for are applications that manage their own timezone data. Java is a prime example. Major database vendors would be another.
Land mass not withstanding, even in city areas which have high population densities can't seem to provide decent service at a decent price.
Organizations like ASCAP and BMI already have the infrastructure to manage artist royalies for composition/publishing side of the royalties equation.
Indie music where the composer is also performer (anecdotally, this would cover 99% of it) ASCAP/BMI would already be involed at some level. Not to diminish BMI, but I am going to refer to ASCAP only hereafter because I am most familiar with how it works. ASCAP is a member-owned organization and is free to any writer who meets membership requirements. The barrier to entry to ASCAP is low.
Apple (or other online system) could create a system where the Indie artist, represented by ASCAP but not by a recording company, qualifies to appear on iTunes and a percentage of the purchase price would go directly to ASCAP. ASCAP would then take their flat administrative fee (currently around 12%) and pass the remaining directly to the artist. ASCAP membership also shifts the issue of sorting out music ownership from Apple to ASCAP. ASCAP members are responsible for keeping ASCAP appraised of the current address.
The procedural change for these groups to represent the additional recording rights of their members might not be that difficult. I would expect a lot of internal conflict within ASCAP as some very important ASCAP members (Alan Jackson, Eddie Van Halen, Phil Collins, John Williams, etc) already have lucrative recording contracts.
I don't agree.
The central server for a system of airport flight information display screens (FIDS) where I once worked ran an operating system called iRMX. It had pathetic security. The only thing that kept that system secure was the lock on the door to the room.
The crux of why dimmers don't work has to do with how dimmers work. They work by turning the power off and on very quickly. The power is switch on and off 120 times per second (in regions where power oscilates at 60Hz - 100 times in 50Hz regions). The ratio of time on versus time off controls the brightness. The 'off' is always synchronized when the power crosses zero and the 'on' is adjusted accordingly.
The coils found in transformers and ballasts throw a wrench into the works because of a property called inductive resistance. This is an important property that prevents that coil of wire from becoming a dead short. Inductive resistance can't be created instantaniously and the optimal condition for creating inductive resistance is a sine wave. When the power turns 'on', the current inrush is high and the coil doesn't have inductive resistance so you get a brief short 120 times per second. Prolonged operation in this state can blow fuses and breakers and burn-out transformers.
Launch? What launch?
Seriously, I have a KVM hooked up to "one of everything" (Linux, Mac, XP) When there is a piece if functionality I need that requires Vista, then I'll think about it. Not before
I know, but the average slashdot reader wasn't alive then.
At the airline I worked for, we wrote tiny little UNIX apps that registered with a mainframe message handler. Quite often the terminals at the airports are provided by the airport and link in through industry networks like ARINC or SITA. Montréal (YUL) is one airport that comes to mind. They have airport PC's with a SITA terminal emulator on it. Any airline can use any terminal in the complex.
The environment is supprisingly web like. All editing is done within the emulator, when the user presses "Enter" the request form is sent to SITA, which sends it to the carrier, which routes the form to either a mainframe or UNIX or Java app that does the back-end processing and the response is then painted on the screen.
While I agree that TLS and SSL and the like are flexible, the real barrier is not the specification but how long it take for a critical mass of adoption to make a revised specification useful.
Second life is too unregulated. Also the stock market has a goal of developing wealth for the investor. The same isn't true of second life. Second life has a very high overhead for infrastructure (sims) and they have other economic forces that make ridiculous things like camping chairs profitable for their owners.
I know a fellow who has his JD. Apart from Louisiana (Napoleonic Law), the whole body of law and constitution rests upon English Common Law.
I think you missed the nuance of the original question. If a DRM system can be created that can magically recognise the moment your use of digital content goes from legal to illegal, would you still object to DRM.
Most of us hate DRM because no one has come up with that utopian DRM system.
I've used Ruby curses. Ruby curses is a very thin layer on top of the classic C curses library (ncurses actually). There is no significant value add above direct C programming other than you get modern memory management that comes with a modern language like ruby.
The crown jewel of the Ruby world is ActiveRecord - although it's not included in the base distribution, it is easy to bolt onto any ruby installation. I can't think of any database layer in any language that is easier to use than ActiveRecord. ActiveRecord is also DBMS independent - Oracle, DB2, Postgress, Mysql and others.
The parent post called ruby simple. I agree that ruby is simple. But do not misconstrue that simple is weak.
RC1 for W2K was released for for the Alpha - not the final version of W2k - See Wikipedia