I have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse in 'reading mode'. It is amazingly efficient. Copy/paste a URL uses both hands at the same time to select, copy, focus, paste. Ctrl+T is just a bit of a stretch for my normal sized hands, but nothing too different from the ever-present Ctrl+R.
Why on earth would you want a new tab button? It is a waste of toolbar space and slower than the alternative in every single situation. Want to open an arbitrary site? Ctrl+T then type in the address bar, no mouse required. Want to open a bookmark or link in the new tab? Middle click them, or ctrl+click if you are button-impaired.
could be any 16-bit processor. almost every 16-bit system has 16-bit ints. 16-bit char comes up in embedded devices with known targets at international markets, so that unicode requires no additional software support. that dictates that short is 16 bits as well, and long/longlong are at your discretion, probably 16 bits and 32 bits respectively.
8 bits is still not ideal. Somewhere in all the logic to manipulate 8 bits in every possible way there is going to be a 3-bit channel. 2, 4, 16, 256, these are the truly optimal base-data-type sizes. 8 bit characters are going to die eventually. Most people are used to 8-16-32-32-64 as the sizes for char, short, int, long, and long long. But this is not set in stone. I have used 8-8-16-32-64 environments, and 8-16-32-64-128 environments. As the size of our base registers keeps increasing, using just 8 bytes for a char is both wasteful and restrictive. Consider a 256-bit machine. A sensible data type arrangement would be 16-32-64-256-512. That is 16-bit char (which is already well supported in much software), 64-bit int, and 512-bit long long (because we want a data type larger than our registers sometimes)
No, humans driving cars at all is the problem. 99% or more of all traffic fatalities are caused by human error. This is unacceptable. We need computer controlled cars, possibly on a rail-like system, and we need it 10 years ago. We have had the technology for at least that long. Fatalities would go down, transit time would go down, fuel usage would go down.
Fatalities would go down because the computer won't get distracted. I am not talking about some fancy 'modern' PC running a crashable OS, I am talking about a single-piece 1990s-tech system on a chip running QNX or some other microkernel RTOS. Sure, computers can fail, but it would be no more, an probably far less, likely than any mostly-fatal-at-80MPH mechanical failure.
Transit time would go down because traffic could be coordinated nearly perfectly. No more waiting at a red light while there is no cross traffic in sight. No more light turning red just before you get there.
Fuel usage would go down because the computer could drive more efficiently in general. It could also draft (like those 1-seater toyota concept cars do when they play 'follow the leader'), or even physically connect to another car.
Yes, I know it won't happen in our lifetimes in America due to the danger of lawsuits. But it will happen somewhere else. Soon. And shortly thereafter it will happen just about everywhere else. And then it will finally happen here.
The stock market cannot "lose" anything. It is a zero sum game. Someone got the money, even if it is just the people who shorted or sold the day before.
I am so glad I am not alone here. I have long wished Apple would make a 9" iBook (well, now a MacBook) with no disc drive. They could do it, and it would probably only cost $600 for a system otherwise identical to the $1099 13" MacBook.
poor programming. for some reason a machine with 1GB of RAM and no swap space will die while a machine with 512MB of RAM and 512MB of swap space continues to work (slowly) just fine.
We aren't talking about skill, we are talking about one olympic team having $100k to spend on equipment and another having $100M, and that difference changing the outcome of the competition.
The rights to the movie belong to the guy (company) that made it. If the airlines pay for a license to show an edited version then that is cool. The company in question here did NOT have permission to distributed edited versions of the movies.
I am relatively sure that each MSDN License includes permission to produce one physical copy from another legally-produced physical copy. Been a while since I read all the MS licenses. I think the student license says the same thing.
Says who? Can you cite any precedent? I will start you off, from Softman v Adobe:
The Court finds that the circumstances surrounding the transaction strongly suggests that the transaction is in fact a sale rather than a license. For example, the purchaser commonly obtains a single copy of the software, with documentation, for a single price, which the purchaser pays at the time of the transaction, and which constitutes the entire payment for the "license." The license runs for an indefinite term without provisions for renewal. In light of these indicia, many courts and commentators conclude that a "shrinkwrap license" transaction is a sale of goods rather than a license.
The law is very explicit on which rights are reserved exclusively to the copyright holder, and are thus theirs to license. Among these are the right to copy the work, the right to produce derivative works, and a few others, all with many explicit exceptions. Nowhere among these will you find the right to read or use the work. When you buy a book there is no restriction on your reading the book. When you buy a game there is no restriction on your playing the game (except where such playing consitutes a 'Public Performance').
The real problem here is that this judge, if the quote is truly from a judge, implicitly acknowledges the concept of a license to use software, a right that is not (under US and UK copyright law) the copyright holder's to license.
Maybe someone found the install CDs in a liquidation sale at a software store? I know I have done that plenty of times, even dumpster dived when I knew stock was being eliminated at the local EB Games and GameStop. No CD key included in many of them, doesn't mean I can't play them.
Duplicating and distributing software without a license is a crime.
Unless MS/Adobe can prove you installed more copies than you purchased then they don't have a leg to stand on. For all we know, 75% of that company's employees brought in unused-at-home legal copies of Office/Photoshop/whatever for their own use. If I illegally copy every CD I own, and leave all those copies lying on the sidewalk, you are breaking no laws by picking up those copies and installing them.
I hate to break it to you, but anything you sign is a contract. That is the whole and single purpose of a signature. Even if the contract is implicit and as simple as "I, the undersigned, was shown this piece of paper" or "I, the undersigned, wrote this letter" it is still a contract.
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Err, the GPP is about.kkreiger, so yes, thats exactly what we mean...
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Yep. I don't care how long some games take to load. If I am going to be playing for 8+ hours at a time it can take an hour to start and I will just leave it running in the background when I am not playing. The only games that need to load fast are the ones that are over fast.
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Procedural content generation is the next revolution in gaming. It isnt here yet:) Spore is going to take it mainstream, expect other games to copy the idea shortly thereafter.
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I can't be the only one who does the majority of my surfing with stylesheets turned off. On well designed sites it works amazingly well. I get the content and just the content in a nice linear format that is easy to read. Lite mode used to be nice here, but since the redesign it has gotten a lot worse, so I am doing my/.ing with no stylesheets now too.
To some of us this doesnt matter. I actually do not care whether abortion is legal, what the drinking age is, how the latest airline strike is handled, or which way any of a dozen other "hot" issues go. The things I care about are the things no current spotlight politicians talk about, such as privacy, freedom, and Freedom.
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I have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse in 'reading mode'. It is amazingly efficient. Copy/paste a URL uses both hands at the same time to select, copy, focus, paste. Ctrl+T is just a bit of a stretch for my normal sized hands, but nothing too different from the ever-present Ctrl+R.
Why on earth would you want a new tab button? It is a waste of toolbar space and slower than the alternative in every single situation. Want to open an arbitrary site? Ctrl+T then type in the address bar, no mouse required. Want to open a bookmark or link in the new tab? Middle click them, or ctrl+click if you are button-impaired.
could be any 16-bit processor. almost every 16-bit system has 16-bit ints. 16-bit char comes up in embedded devices with known targets at international markets, so that unicode requires no additional software support. that dictates that short is 16 bits as well, and long/longlong are at your discretion, probably 16 bits and 32 bits respectively.
8 bits is still not ideal. Somewhere in all the logic to manipulate 8 bits in every possible way there is going to be a 3-bit channel. 2, 4, 16, 256, these are the truly optimal base-data-type sizes. 8 bit characters are going to die eventually. Most people are used to 8-16-32-32-64 as the sizes for char, short, int, long, and long long. But this is not set in stone. I have used 8-8-16-32-64 environments, and 8-16-32-64-128 environments. As the size of our base registers keeps increasing, using just 8 bytes for a char is both wasteful and restrictive. Consider a 256-bit machine. A sensible data type arrangement would be 16-32-64-256-512. That is 16-bit char (which is already well supported in much software), 64-bit int, and 512-bit long long (because we want a data type larger than our registers sometimes)
No, humans driving cars at all is the problem. 99% or more of all traffic fatalities are caused by human error. This is unacceptable. We need computer controlled cars, possibly on a rail-like system, and we need it 10 years ago. We have had the technology for at least that long. Fatalities would go down, transit time would go down, fuel usage would go down.
Fatalities would go down because the computer won't get distracted. I am not talking about some fancy 'modern' PC running a crashable OS, I am talking about a single-piece 1990s-tech system on a chip running QNX or some other microkernel RTOS. Sure, computers can fail, but it would be no more, an probably far less, likely than any mostly-fatal-at-80MPH mechanical failure.
Transit time would go down because traffic could be coordinated nearly perfectly. No more waiting at a red light while there is no cross traffic in sight. No more light turning red just before you get there.
Fuel usage would go down because the computer could drive more efficiently in general. It could also draft (like those 1-seater toyota concept cars do when they play 'follow the leader'), or even physically connect to another car.
Yes, I know it won't happen in our lifetimes in America due to the danger of lawsuits. But it will happen somewhere else. Soon. And shortly thereafter it will happen just about everywhere else. And then it will finally happen here.
The stock market cannot "lose" anything. It is a zero sum game. Someone got the money, even if it is just the people who shorted or sold the day before.
In Nashville TN, as well as many other cities, you can drive directly under the taxiways, if not the actual runways.
I am so glad I am not alone here. I have long wished Apple would make a 9" iBook (well, now a MacBook) with no disc drive. They could do it, and it would probably only cost $600 for a system otherwise identical to the $1099 13" MacBook.
poor programming. for some reason a machine with 1GB of RAM and no swap space will die while a machine with 512MB of RAM and 512MB of swap space continues to work (slowly) just fine.
We aren't talking about skill, we are talking about one olympic team having $100k to spend on equipment and another having $100M, and that difference changing the outcome of the competition.
The rights to the movie belong to the guy (company) that made it. If the airlines pay for a license to show an edited version then that is cool. The company in question here did NOT have permission to distributed edited versions of the movies.
I am relatively sure that each MSDN License includes permission to produce one physical copy from another legally-produced physical copy. Been a while since I read all the MS licenses. I think the student license says the same thing.
The law is very explicit on which rights are reserved exclusively to the copyright holder, and are thus theirs to license. Among these are the right to copy the work, the right to produce derivative works, and a few others, all with many explicit exceptions. Nowhere among these will you find the right to read or use the work. When you buy a book there is no restriction on your reading the book. When you buy a game there is no restriction on your playing the game (except where such playing consitutes a 'Public Performance').
The real problem here is that this judge, if the quote is truly from a judge, implicitly acknowledges the concept of a license to use software, a right that is not (under US and UK copyright law) the copyright holder's to license.
Maybe someone found the install CDs in a liquidation sale at a software store? I know I have done that plenty of times, even dumpster dived when I knew stock was being eliminated at the local EB Games and GameStop. No CD key included in many of them, doesn't mean I can't play them.
You may be right. But generally legal arguments on /. are considered to be under US Federal law unless otherwise noted.
Having unlicensed software is not a crime.
Using unlicensed software is not a crime.
Installing unlicensed software is not a crime.
Duplicating and distributing software without a license is a crime.
Unless MS/Adobe can prove you installed more copies than you purchased then they don't have a leg to stand on. For all we know, 75% of that company's employees brought in unused-at-home legal copies of Office/Photoshop/whatever for their own use. If I illegally copy every CD I own, and leave all those copies lying on the sidewalk, you are breaking no laws by picking up those copies and installing them.
Trademarks are actually the issue here, not copyright. Most popular characters are trademarked.
I hate to break it to you, but anything you sign is a contract. That is the whole and single purpose of a signature. Even if the contract is implicit and as simple as "I, the undersigned, was shown this piece of paper" or "I, the undersigned, wrote this letter" it is still a contract.
Err, the GPP is about .kkreiger, so yes, thats exactly what we mean...
Yep. I don't care how long some games take to load. If I am going to be playing for 8+ hours at a time it can take an hour to start and I will just leave it running in the background when I am not playing. The only games that need to load fast are the ones that are over fast.
Procedural content generation is the next revolution in gaming. It isnt here yet :) Spore is going to take it mainstream, expect other games to copy the idea shortly thereafter.
This letter is to serve as official notice that you are violating my intellectual property covering the nucleic base sequence: "UGUCAUCGUAUUUCU". Please cease distribution and reproduction of this sequence immediately, in particular your use of it in your 3rd and 9th chromosomes and on the website "slashdot.org". Evidence of compliance will be expected forthwith.
I can't be the only one who does the majority of my surfing with stylesheets turned off. On well designed sites it works amazingly well. I get the content and just the content in a nice linear format that is easy to read. Lite mode used to be nice here, but since the redesign it has gotten a lot worse, so I am doing my /.ing with no stylesheets now too.
To some of us this doesnt matter. I actually do not care whether abortion is legal, what the drinking age is, how the latest airline strike is handled, or which way any of a dozen other "hot" issues go. The things I care about are the things no current spotlight politicians talk about, such as privacy, freedom, and Freedom.