Most mental disorders are a result of an otherwise normal or useful mental process run-amok. Happiness and energy are good, but take them too far and you've got mania. Organization and hygine are good, but take them too far and you get OCD. Depression when half your family just died in a car wreck and your life is in turmoil is a normal part of coping, depression all the time when nothing is particularly wrong is a disease.
This is one of the places where jurisprudence has repeatedly failed. There is a specific exemption in the DMCA for reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability, which should have applied in the original DeCSS cases. The same section that bans anti-circumvention technologies also specifically mentions that the test includes having "limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent protection..." and re-affirms fair-use rights.
It may be that Real and others have failed to meet that test by too narrowly focusing their products on DVD replication. But still, our judges have repeatedly failed to honor the balance of interests that is actually written into the letter of the law. Instead we get ruling after ruling that places the interests of the deep-pocketed conglomerates above those of users and 3rd party developers. The old men on the bench just can't seem to get the parallels to general purpose tools like hammers and crowbars. Sure, you can break and enter with them, but they clearly have more than limited "significant purpose or use other than to" break into houses.
How could there be any sexual connotation to a massive penetrator exploding deep inside their hidden tunnels? I mean really, this is serious business we're talking about here.
Boeing didn't win the X-Prize, and I don't believe it was any of the super-giant aviation companies that did the work on the two round-the-world record flights.
No, but Scaled Composites, who did do those things, has been owned by both Raytheon and (currently) Northrup Grumman. Now I will say that part of SC's success has been that their larger parents/partners have left Rutan and co. to spend their money in an agile small-company sort of way. Combine that with the quality of their principals and you can see why they are so successful
Absolutely. A crappy network app will be even worse. Those who have been successful in the net-app space have been aggressively optimizing for efficiency to prime themselves for net-book and smart phone clients, thus do not have the luxury of bloat.
In the case of the hosted app, if the host environment (browser, python, or what have you) has already been loaded into memory, initialized its interpreters and rendering engines and so on, it can have something of a leg-up compared to a local/native app starting cold. Vista's memory hungry cache scheme is in part an attempt to address this issue.
A well designed local/native app should smoke a remote app in theory, but in practice people like MS have been allowing bloat to run unchecked for a decade now, while the net-app crowd has been optimizing (out of necessity) for efficiency. The huge javascript performance improvements from the latest generation of browsers is an example of this. MS may have sped up js rendering in IE, but VB.NET and the like have moved in the opposite direction more often than not.
If your browser is already running, when you log into gmail, all you wait for is the client side code (much of which is probably already in your cache) and the actual data to be displayed. When you turn around and launch an app like Outlook, it has to load a whole bunch of shared libraries and re-instantiate its database before it can even think about showing you your old mail, let alone checking for new. As a previous poster pointed out, Outlook will actually load faster accessing an Exchange server than a local mail repository because it doesn't have to start up its own database just to show you your mail.
PnP Rolemaster used a similar mechanic, but solved the min/max problem by having initial stats above a certain threshold start to cost more, and having the potential maximum to which a stat could rise be a determined based of the initial score. High initial stats would have less growth potential in addition to their higher initial cost, while very low initial stats would have greater potential for growth, but might never be able to get much above average. You could heavily imbalance yourself if you wanted to, but the incentives were towards being balanced over all with a couple of mild strengths and weaknesses suited to the character profession.
Rolemaster also bridged the class/level/skill divide in a similar fashion. Anyone could purchase any skill, but those that were in keeping with your profession (fighting for a warrior) were less expensive, while those out of step (magic for a warrior) were more expensive.
Evey time you leveled-up, you would check for stat increases based on the spread between your current and potential scores, and get a budget of skill points to spend. Raising skills to high levels didn't get more expensive, but the benefit to your die rolls declined instead.
The new limit works out to roughly one warhead per seventeen thousand square miles of the Earth's land-mass. That's an area a bit larger than the Netherlands. While I'm glad that we'll be spending less in the long run on maintaining and securing the decommissioned armaments, this doesn't really change the picture should the shit really hit the fan someday.
Absolutely. You'll note that the questioner did not specify which measurement he was comparing, or even if the same measurement was being compared on the sending or receiving ends of the transaction.
First off, I second the recommendation for rsync. This is what it's for. It's also easy to do over a SSH tunnel or similar.
As far as your size discrepancy goes, it's possible that such a small variation could be accounted for by different block sizes on the source and destination volumes. The data may in fact be identical, but the two different volumes may need to allocate a slightly different amount of disc space to store it.
rsync does hash checks as part of its normal operation, but if you really wanted to be methodical, you could have a script rsync to three different directories and then compare hashes on all copies. This may or may not be overkill, depending on your mission.
Well IANAL, but on NPR today they said the the rule was that a convict had to serve at least 85% of the sentance before parole could be considered, thus the above figure.
The regime seems to be fighting the last media war. They've been very effective in deporting and isolating professionals, only to discover how irrelevant that is when thousands of phone-cams are in the streets. Their attempts at jamming and filtering have clearly been quite porous. There's no such thing as a media blackout once word of mouth goes world wide.
Well, yes and no. Automobile license plates serve a similar function. If my car were used in the commission of a crime I would certainly be investigated as a likely suspect.
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Most mental disorders are a result of an otherwise normal or useful mental process run-amok. Happiness and energy are good, but take them too far and you've got mania. Organization and hygine are good, but take them too far and you get OCD. Depression when half your family just died in a car wreck and your life is in turmoil is a normal part of coping, depression all the time when nothing is particularly wrong is a disease.
Unless the dude had a history of violence/instability that they were aware of and ignored, I can't see why VZ should be held liable.
The dude should be charged criminally with assault.
This is one of the places where jurisprudence has repeatedly failed. There is a specific exemption in the DMCA for reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability, which should have applied in the original DeCSS cases. The same section that bans anti-circumvention technologies also specifically mentions that the test includes having "limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent protection..." and re-affirms fair-use rights.
It may be that Real and others have failed to meet that test by too narrowly focusing their products on DVD replication. But still, our judges have repeatedly failed to honor the balance of interests that is actually written into the letter of the law. Instead we get ruling after ruling that places the interests of the deep-pocketed conglomerates above those of users and 3rd party developers. The old men on the bench just can't seem to get the parallels to general purpose tools like hammers and crowbars. Sure, you can break and enter with them, but they clearly have more than limited "significant purpose or use other than to" break into houses.
Word 6 didn't know the word "Internet." It suggested "Internment" intead.
Paytec/McCloud telco does this here in the states.
How could there be any sexual connotation to a massive penetrator exploding deep inside their hidden tunnels? I mean really, this is serious business we're talking about here.
If this is what constitutes a "routine meeting" for them, I'd shudder to think what an extraordinary meeting would be like.
Boeing didn't win the X-Prize, and I don't believe it was any of the super-giant aviation companies that did the work on the two round-the-world record flights.
No, but Scaled Composites, who did do those things, has been owned by both Raytheon and (currently) Northrup Grumman. Now I will say that part of SC's success has been that their larger parents/partners have left Rutan and co. to spend their money in an agile small-company sort of way. Combine that with the quality of their principals and you can see why they are so successful
NASA seems to have forgotten how much aircraft cost.
It's perfectly reasonable for something to stop working if:
Anything else is a either a con job or a rejection of basic principles of commerce.
1984 declared non-purchase.
Read is thoughtcrime.
Conflict of interest.
Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.
Absolutely. A crappy network app will be even worse. Those who have been successful in the net-app space have been aggressively optimizing for efficiency to prime themselves for net-book and smart phone clients, thus do not have the luxury of bloat.
In the case of the hosted app, if the host environment (browser, python, or what have you) has already been loaded into memory, initialized its interpreters and rendering engines and so on, it can have something of a leg-up compared to a local/native app starting cold. Vista's memory hungry cache scheme is in part an attempt to address this issue.
A well designed local/native app should smoke a remote app in theory, but in practice people like MS have been allowing bloat to run unchecked for a decade now, while the net-app crowd has been optimizing (out of necessity) for efficiency. The huge javascript performance improvements from the latest generation of browsers is an example of this. MS may have sped up js rendering in IE, but VB.NET and the like have moved in the opposite direction more often than not.
If your browser is already running, when you log into gmail, all you wait for is the client side code (much of which is probably already in your cache) and the actual data to be displayed. When you turn around and launch an app like Outlook, it has to load a whole bunch of shared libraries and re-instantiate its database before it can even think about showing you your old mail, let alone checking for new. As a previous poster pointed out, Outlook will actually load faster accessing an Exchange server than a local mail repository because it doesn't have to start up its own database just to show you your mail.
PnP Rolemaster used a similar mechanic, but solved the min/max problem by having initial stats above a certain threshold start to cost more, and having the potential maximum to which a stat could rise be a determined based of the initial score. High initial stats would have less growth potential in addition to their higher initial cost, while very low initial stats would have greater potential for growth, but might never be able to get much above average. You could heavily imbalance yourself if you wanted to, but the incentives were towards being balanced over all with a couple of mild strengths and weaknesses suited to the character profession.
Rolemaster also bridged the class/level/skill divide in a similar fashion. Anyone could purchase any skill, but those that were in keeping with your profession (fighting for a warrior) were less expensive, while those out of step (magic for a warrior) were more expensive.
Evey time you leveled-up, you would check for stat increases based on the spread between your current and potential scores, and get a budget of skill points to spend. Raising skills to high levels didn't get more expensive, but the benefit to your die rolls declined instead.
The new limit works out to roughly one warhead per seventeen thousand square miles of the Earth's land-mass. That's an area a bit larger than the Netherlands. While I'm glad that we'll be spending less in the long run on maintaining and securing the decommissioned armaments, this doesn't really change the picture should the shit really hit the fan someday.
Do I smell some juicy contracts for Novell as well?
Absolutely. You'll note that the questioner did not specify which measurement he was comparing, or even if the same measurement was being compared on the sending or receiving ends of the transaction.
First off, I second the recommendation for rsync. This is what it's for. It's also easy to do over a SSH tunnel or similar.
As far as your size discrepancy goes, it's possible that such a small variation could be accounted for by different block sizes on the source and destination volumes. The data may in fact be identical, but the two different volumes may need to allocate a slightly different amount of disc space to store it.
rsync does hash checks as part of its normal operation, but if you really wanted to be methodical, you could have a script rsync to three different directories and then compare hashes on all copies. This may or may not be overkill, depending on your mission.
Well IANAL, but on NPR today they said the the rule was that a convict had to serve at least 85% of the sentance before parole could be considered, thus the above figure.
With time off for good behavior, he could be out in 127.5 years.
Or SuckLegos.com, as the case may be.
The regime seems to be fighting the last media war. They've been very effective in deporting and isolating professionals, only to discover how irrelevant that is when thousands of phone-cams are in the streets. Their attempts at jamming and filtering have clearly been quite porous. There's no such thing as a media blackout once word of mouth goes world wide.
Well, yes and no. Automobile license plates serve a similar function. If my car were used in the commission of a crime I would certainly be investigated as a likely suspect.