The detection system undoubtedly relies on the absorbance of light (passing through the vapor cloud, originating from the central star) at wavelengths peculiar to interference by H20...
From what I understand of creationist ideology, the water vapor surrounding these star systems was put there by Satan to make one believe The Creation is a Myth
And installing a new OS on a machine isn't typical
I think it is typical, at least for windows... but also even for Linux. For windows, the OS starts to disintegrate and the MS response is 'upgrade the OS'. For Linux, some new security hole is found, and the response is 'upgrade the OS'. I'm not saying Windows doesn't have the issue Linux has. It's just further down the list of priorities when you consider the operating system's daily function.
OSX (a la Apple) is probably in the same class with Linux, considering its heritage.
As for customer support, I think a lot of issues/can/ be resolved with a phone call, given two cooperative people. The support context simply isn't the same as that of a broken radio, especially when the issue is one of configuration.
Originally, that was Richard Feynman's idea, a challenge to the scientific community to initiate the age of nanotechnology... think it was in Japan, in the early 60's.
damn I had that problem in high school. Even just riding the bus on the way there, it'd go over a bump and I'd have to hold my books in front of me for the next half-hour.:0
Nope. It started off as a bunch of terminal macros, which (I think) were grabbed up by a private company and squirreled away as a pay-per-seat program. Wasn't that Gosling EMACS?
RMS was so ticked off he founded the GNU project and the FSF.
Remapping the wall-tiles in a DOOM-style shoot-em-up game to a transparent image is a local event that nevertheless can change the odds dramatically in a networked game.
It's true, text based MUD's don't have this problem. Are you suggesting we all forsake the 3D-OGL games we've become so used to?
If the developer has an original work, (s)he can choose whatever license (s)he pleases.
If the developer has an improvement for someone elses original work, the GPL lets him/her improve it, without letting him/her *hijack* the original author's code.
In that way (s)he wins, the original author wins, and the user wins.
That is not propaganda, that is Intent.
You are just trying to cloud the issue: the original developer has free choice whether (s)he wants to use the GPL or not.
Adding something to someone elses codebase does NOT allow you to steal it away. Which is what you seem to advocate.
Actually, Stallman's mantra puts the end-users rights ahead of everything. The programmer is just sort of incidental to the transaction.:)
And I might also add: The only way a right-wing fascist anti-democratic corporatist can get elected is playing dumb and pretending he isn't a right-wing fascist anti-democratic corporatist.
Ok, forgetting for just a moment the outrageous assumption that Flash in any way can be a replacement for Java... I can't even tell what physics has to do with all this, and 'navigate my web-site with a parametric EQ' doesn't even parse as physics.
In fact, I'll just rebut your response to the second criticism of flash. You miss the point that those areas where Flash might possibly be stealing ground from Java are exactly in those areas where Java has been found to be inappropriate. Cute animations and framing techniques add zero value to the content of a site. Content is presumably what brings the eyeballs there in the first place. And cute animations and framing techniques are what Flash is used for, they don't add anything to a site except for hey-cool. If you want to make a real UI you'll have put a severe limit on extensibility if you turn to Flash.
Hey-Cool will interest your viewer for about 2 seconds, thereafter it is an encumbrance.
Flash is replacing Java for unnecessary applications (nice thing for Java)
As for OOP discussions in the book (the only on-topic part of your post, the rest was just bad advocacy) I thought the reviewer made the point that the book was rare in that it/did/ talk about OO metaphors in the language. I can't really tell what the model is though, does it use interface inheritance?
They weren't dating organic stuff directly (which is what you want to do with C14-dating, since it's produced continuously in the atmosphere (more or less constitutively, but that's what's being drawn into question here)) but had found some stalagtites thought to've formed during a certain period (through use of other means than C14-dating, presumably) that had more C14 than is expected to be found in mineral.
What they are claiming is some climatic event may have caused a bumper crop of organic slough, or something like that.
They weren't dating the stalagtites by C14, strictly speaking.
And you/can't/ use the isochron method to date once living material, which is what C14 is good for.
...how bad you think this thing is, perhaps you
should take a look at some of the examples to see
just what it is capable of. This think is not the
mere equivalent of something you ran on a TI-99 or
a MAC once, it's really quite a sophisticated thing.
This post is/wrong/... why has it been mod'ed up so high?
It's very clear, if you had only read the material, that the FBI is asking for/everything/ in spite of the basis of their attack, two posts of 'stolen' information.
I cannot see how you can say they are not asking for pages visited... they asked for http logs (and a whole lot more!)
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Uh, it can't be detected unless it sublimates.
The detection system undoubtedly relies on the absorbance of light (passing through the vapor cloud, originating from the central star) at wavelengths peculiar to interference by H20...
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From what I understand of creationist ideology, the water vapor surrounding these star systems was put there by Satan to make one believe The Creation is a Myth
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I think it is typical, at least for windows... but also even for Linux. For windows, the OS starts to disintegrate and the MS response is 'upgrade the OS'. For Linux, some new security hole is found, and the response is 'upgrade the OS'. I'm not saying Windows doesn't have the issue Linux has. It's just further down the list of priorities when you consider the operating system's daily function.
OSX (a la Apple) is probably in the same class with Linux, considering its heritage.
As for customer support, I think a lot of issues
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Originally, that was Richard Feynman's idea, a challenge to the scientific community to initiate the age of nanotechnology... think it was in Japan, in the early 60's.
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damn I had that problem in high school. Even just riding the bus on the way there, it'd go over a bump and I'd have to hold my books in front of me for the next half-hour. :0
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Luciferase, the Firefly's green light of consensual sex, is the enzyme referred to (and is also used as a marker in plant studies.)
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Hasn't Emacs always been open source?
Nope. It started off as a bunch of terminal macros, which (I think) were grabbed up by a private company and squirreled away as a pay-per-seat program. Wasn't that Gosling EMACS?
RMS was so ticked off he founded the GNU project and the FSF.
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Remapping the wall-tiles in a DOOM-style shoot-em-up game to a transparent image is a local event that nevertheless can change the odds dramatically in a networked game.
It's true, text based MUD's don't have this problem. Are you suggesting we all forsake the 3D-OGL games we've become so used to?
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hey mod this response up!
Personally I think Aragorn was a crank myself.
A friend's friend read LOTR while on a road-trip and read Aragorn's lines out loud from the back seat of the car. Try it some time.
If you want to drive your friend's batty.
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Well so does Ruby on the server, and a whole lot more. I think that Flash is too proprietary to make it as yet another language paradigm.
On the client, Flash is superfluous fluff, yet another tab to click on at Bugtraq without any real gains.
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That was neither bullshit nor propaganda!
If the developer has an original work, (s)he can choose whatever license (s)he pleases.
If the developer has an improvement for someone elses original work, the GPL lets him/her improve it, without letting him/her *hijack* the original author's code.
In that way (s)he wins, the original author wins, and the user wins.
That is not propaganda, that is Intent.
You are just trying to cloud the issue: the original developer has free choice whether (s)he wants to use the GPL or not.
Adding something to someone elses codebase does NOT allow you to steal it away. Which is what you seem to advocate.
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Actually, Stallman's mantra puts the end-users rights ahead of everything. The programmer is just sort of incidental to the transaction. :)
And I might also add: The only way a right-wing fascist anti-democratic corporatist can get elected is playing dumb and pretending he isn't a right-wing fascist anti-democratic corporatist.
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Ok, forgetting for just a moment the outrageous assumption that Flash in any way can be a replacement for Java... I can't even tell what physics has to do with all this, and 'navigate my web-site with a parametric EQ' doesn't even parse as physics.
/did/ talk about OO metaphors in the language. I can't really tell what the model is though, does it use interface inheritance?
In fact, I'll just rebut your response to the second criticism of flash. You miss the point that those areas where Flash might possibly be stealing ground from Java are exactly in those areas where Java has been found to be inappropriate. Cute animations and framing techniques add zero value to the content of a site. Content is presumably what brings the eyeballs there in the first place. And cute animations and framing techniques are what Flash is used for, they don't add anything to a site except for hey-cool. If you want to make a real UI you'll have put a severe limit on extensibility if you turn to Flash.
Hey-Cool will interest your viewer for about 2 seconds, thereafter it is an encumbrance.
Flash is replacing Java for unnecessary applications (nice thing for Java)
As for OOP discussions in the book (the only on-topic part of your post, the rest was just bad advocacy) I thought the reviewer made the point that the book was rare in that it
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I've got mod points right now.
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But there's no option for indicating genius.
I think you have a genius about you. Just want to say that...
Very nice prose/poem.
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Uh, er...
/can't/ use the isochron method to date once living material, which is what C14 is good for.
They weren't dating organic stuff directly (which is what you want to do with C14-dating, since it's produced continuously in the atmosphere (more or less constitutively, but that's what's being drawn into question here)) but had found some stalagtites thought to've formed during a certain period (through use of other means than C14-dating, presumably) that had more C14 than is expected to be found in mineral.
What they are claiming is some climatic event may have caused a bumper crop of organic slough, or something like that.
They weren't dating the stalagtites by C14, strictly speaking.
And you
So one wonders what you are talking about.
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...how bad you think this thing is, perhaps you
should take a look at some of the examples to see
just what it is capable of. This think is not the
mere equivalent of something you ran on a TI-99 or
a MAC once, it's really quite a sophisticated thing.
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This post is /wrong/... why has it been mod'ed up so high?
/everything/ in spite of the basis of their attack, two posts of 'stolen' information.
It's very clear, if you had only read the material, that the FBI is asking for
I cannot see how you can say they are not asking for pages visited... they asked for http logs (and a whole lot more!)
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