Although, I find it hard to fathom that "kind-hearted christian folk" could look into the pale blue eyes of a 7 year old girl and tell her she has no soul and that she's a monster.
They already do it all the time if the girl in question is gay. Don't underestimate human stupidity, cruelty, and hypocrisy.
There is no instinct in this world for self-preservation at the species level; only at the individual organism's level. Try putting some mice in a grain elevator some time and see how many mice and how much grain are left after a year. Or use lemmings. Humans are K-strategists, having long gestations, few offspring, long periods of maturation, much transfer of material resources by the parents, etc. The only thing humans have that's worth criticizing is a capacity for intelligence that lets them build bigger cudgels and step outside the evolutionary box from time to time.
Darwinization, in the sense that you're using it, entails having stupid people kill themselves, thus weeding themselves out of the gene pool. Unfortunately, stupid drivers very often kill other people, and also unfortunately, often fail to kill themselves.
Arrgh! No one is begging any questions here. "To beg the question" is a fallacy where one assumes that an argument is true while attempting to prove its truth. It does not mean "to request that a question be addressed". If you look "beg" up in any dictionary, you'll see an entry referring to the idea of evasion or side-stepping (probably the third entry or so). That's the sense, here.
After the 49G comes out, the price on a 48GX should go down a bit. Splurge on a ramcard (I have a 4meg one. That's right: four megabytes of memory in my calculator. It cost me a couple hundred deutchmarks plus shipping to the us). It really makes all the difference. Symbolic algebra (ALG48) and calculus (ERABLE), not to mention the billion other useful programs you can drop into it. And if you're hoping to do physics or engineering, don't go with anything less than an HP. Once you go reverse polish, there's no turning back. Once you use an infinite level stack, there's no going back. For software, check out hpcalc.org. There are several chess clocks here. Don't even get me started on the number of games for this thing (zelda, dune, civilization...). And if nothing else, comp.sci.hp48 has much more eloquent discussion than you'll find in any of the ti groups.
Silhouette was someone's hack of an existing version of snes9x, in all likelyhood. Both games produced the same sorts of errors when fed the same sorts of data, and both had the same gamegenie scheme (and tell me, why would a nintendo programming environment include a gamegenie scheme?). It was a good program, and it was ahead of snes9x for a few months, but if you believe any of the x-files crap in the docs, then you're quite naive.
The case hasn't proceeded much; all that's happened is that the judge has refused to grant Sony's request for a preliminary injunction against the distribution of the VGS. If you want some precedent in the realm of emulators, go and look at this. It discusses cases like Sega v Accolade.
If it can be demonstrated that the only purpose that an emulator could serve is to violate copyright, then possession of the emulator could be illegal. Since, however, there are so many legitimate uses for emulators, the argument falls on its face. For instance, fair use says you're allowed to make one copy for backup purposes. Who's to say that the cartridge isn't the backup copy and the one on your computer is the one that you actually want to use.
Technically, your.sig is a senryu and not a haiku. Haiku require a moment of seasonal imagery, whereas senryu do not (and deal with human nature). I'll just pretend you actually care.;)
Surely someone is throwing away an "obsolete" box. Take it and turn it into a fileserver or printserver with linux. Exhibit its uptime. Someone is bound to notice, eventually, and it's a lot easier in the long run if you can say: "We did this and got these results" than saying something like "A benchmarking firm did this and got these results".
Congratulations, it was considered illegal by the lower court in question. But when CNN says The entire suit was eventually dismissed, however, and the plaintiffs appealed. and previously says that A federal appeals court last week dismissed charges that the National Science Foundation and its private contractor, Network Solutions Inc. (NSI), violated antitrust laws and overcharged Internet domain name registrants. you'll see your error. Please have a good day.
with Linux? "Throw the kill switch; no more patches for you.
Seriously though, it could never work. So you stop slapping an ".mp3" extension on your files. Copy them across a lan. Not to mention that no one will want this new format. It'll just be another DVX.
The one before "longer"? That means what follows is implicitly a non-restricting "which" clause. 1992 was before 1993. Therefore the original poster was correct, at least on that point. Feel free to disagree with the rest of his post. Linux in 1992 did not have nearly the same amount of momentum behind it as Microsoft was putting behind NT, so the actual quantity of years is not a good metric. Linux will certainly be surpassing NT any moment now, if it has not done so already.
It still does lovely things like dilate your arteries. Besides, who wants to put an insecticide into one's body anyway (nicotine, like caffeine, is a pesticide). It's just one of those things like not consuming most artificial dyes is probably a good thing, since most were originally developed by the German textile industry as textile dyes. It's not a hard rule, since, in this world, your poison may be my dietary nutrient. It's a good rule of thumb, though.
God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" "Okay," says I, "I'll give it a try. Where do I set? How much do I get? What time is lunch? When can I quit? "Gimme back that wheel," says God. "I don't think you're quite ready yet." - Shel Silverstein
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Although, I find it hard to fathom that "kind-hearted christian folk" could look into the pale blue eyes of a 7 year old girl and tell her she has no soul and that she's a monster.
They already do it all the time if the girl in question is gay. Don't underestimate human stupidity, cruelty, and hypocrisy.
This is getting stupid.
There is no instinct in this world for self-preservation at the species level; only at the individual organism's level. Try putting some mice in a grain elevator some time and see how many mice and how much grain are left after a year. Or use lemmings. Humans are K-strategists, having long gestations, few offspring, long periods of maturation, much transfer of material resources by the parents, etc. The only thing humans have that's worth criticizing is a capacity for intelligence that lets them build bigger cudgels and step outside the evolutionary box from time to time.
Popular culture, indeed.
Clearly he is a great fan of Grammer, IN, zip code 47236.
At least that's what Lucas has said in interviews. Hamill was the only one to know, though.
When one of the gungans turned to jarjar and said that jarjar was in big doodoo (at the beginning when they first went down to the underwater city).
Darwinization, in the sense that you're using it, entails having stupid people kill themselves, thus weeding themselves out of the gene pool. Unfortunately, stupid drivers very often kill other people, and also unfortunately, often fail to kill themselves.
Arrgh! No one is begging any questions here. "To beg the question" is a fallacy where one assumes that an argument is true while attempting to prove its truth. It does not mean "to request that a question be addressed". If you look "beg" up in any dictionary, you'll see an entry referring to the idea of evasion or side-stepping (probably the third entry or so). That's the sense, here.
After the 49G comes out, the price on a 48GX should go down a bit. Splurge on a ramcard (I have a 4meg one. That's right: four megabytes of memory in my calculator. It cost me a couple hundred deutchmarks plus shipping to the us). It really makes all the difference. Symbolic algebra (ALG48) and calculus (ERABLE), not to mention the billion other useful programs you can drop into it. And if you're hoping to do physics or engineering, don't go with anything less than an HP. Once you go reverse polish, there's no turning back. Once you use an infinite level stack, there's no going back. For software, check out hpcalc.org. There are several chess clocks here. Don't even get me started on the number of games for this thing (zelda, dune, civilization...). And if nothing else, comp.sci.hp48 has much more eloquent discussion than you'll find in any of the ti groups.
:)
Silhouette was someone's hack of an existing version of snes9x, in all likelyhood. Both games produced the same sorts of errors when fed the same sorts of data, and both had the same gamegenie scheme (and tell me, why would a nintendo programming environment include a gamegenie scheme?). It was a good program, and it was ahead of snes9x for a few months, but if you believe any of the x-files crap in the docs, then you're quite naive.
Emulation can occur with clean rooming. There's no need to reverse engineer anything. I think you're just being sloppy with your terms.
The case hasn't proceeded much; all that's happened is that the judge has refused to grant Sony's request for a preliminary injunction against the distribution of the VGS. If you want some precedent in the realm of emulators, go and look at this. It discusses cases like Sega v Accolade.
If it can be demonstrated that the only purpose that an emulator could serve is to violate copyright, then possession of the emulator could be illegal. Since, however, there are so many legitimate uses for emulators, the argument falls on its face. For instance, fair use says you're allowed to make one copy for backup purposes. Who's to say that the cartridge isn't the backup copy and the one on your computer is the one that you actually want to use.
Technically, your .sig is a senryu and not a haiku. Haiku require a moment of seasonal imagery, whereas senryu do not (and deal with human nature). I'll just pretend you actually care. ;)
Surely someone is throwing away an "obsolete" box. Take it and turn it into a fileserver or printserver with linux. Exhibit its uptime. Someone is bound to notice, eventually, and it's a lot easier in the long run if you can say: "We did this and got these results" than saying something like "A benchmarking firm did this and got these results".
Fine them. A lot. Try to recover some of the $46 million in question.
Or you could weaken their monopoly by authorizing competitors to award domains too. Oh wait; we're already doing that.
Congratulations, it was considered illegal by the lower court in question. But when CNN says The entire suit was eventually dismissed, however, and the plaintiffs appealed. and previously says that A federal appeals court last week dismissed charges that the National Science Foundation and its private contractor, Network Solutions Inc. (NSI), violated antitrust laws and overcharged Internet domain name registrants. you'll see your error. Please have a good day.
I knew it! At least the badguys at distributed.net are honest to admit that you're cracking crypto...
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you're not a mongoose.
; chomp; s/mongoose/idiot; print; print "\n"
with Linux? "Throw the kill switch; no more patches for you.
Seriously though, it could never work. So you stop slapping an ".mp3" extension on your files. Copy them across a lan. Not to mention that no one will want this new format. It'll just be another DVX.
And we all know how popular it's been to refuse nobel prizes (Sartre and a couple others notwithstanding)
The one before "longer"? That means what follows is implicitly a non-restricting "which" clause. 1992 was before 1993. Therefore the original poster was correct, at least on that point. Feel free to disagree with the rest of his post. Linux in 1992 did not have nearly the same amount of momentum behind it as Microsoft was putting behind NT, so the actual quantity of years is not a good metric. Linux will certainly be surpassing NT any moment now, if it has not done so already.
It still does lovely things like dilate your arteries. Besides, who wants to put an insecticide into one's body anyway (nicotine, like caffeine, is a pesticide). It's just one of those things like not consuming most artificial dyes is probably a good thing, since most were originally developed by the German textile industry as textile dyes. It's not a hard rule, since, in this world, your poison may be my dietary nutrient. It's a good rule of thumb, though.
God's Wheel
God says to me with a kind of smile,
"Hey how would you like to be God awhile
And steer the world?"
"Okay," says I, "I'll give it a try.
Where do I set?
How much do I get?
What time is lunch?
When can I quit?
"Gimme back that wheel," says God.
"I don't think you're quite ready yet."
- Shel Silverstein