No. A chauffer's license is determined by its class.
Here in Florida, Class E is a standard passenger license, and Class D is the chauffeur's license. It also allows me to drive smaller trucks (up to 26,000 lbs. GVW).
I'm one of the 20% who like them stale. They're fine when freshwith a nice marshmallow texture, but let them harden a little, and you have a chewy treat. Plus the sugar coating has a pleasing texture when somewhat stale.
The company said it used the Mindset Interactive and Inurv lists to send messages to thousands of e-mail account holders. It claims the companies said the data were collected with the consent of the owners and could be used for direct marketing.
This is most likely false. How many e-mails have you received stating that you indicated you wanted to subscribe to some form of mass-e-mailing, but didn't? And how do people receive spam only 8 hours after setting up an e-amil address?
I think there is a real First Amendment problem with this statute," said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the California-based Electronic Frontier Foundation
I wonder how child pornography is covered as "free speech" under the First Amendment? Especially considering that there are other laws prohibiting such activity.
I normally support the EFF's decisions, but I beg to differ on this one.
Not all video game movies are flops
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While past conversions such as Super mario Brothers and Street Fighter were box office flops
Tomb Raider grossed about $131 million. Not a superhit but definitely not a flop.
A single-pixel laser beam moves so fast across the eye that the light creates lingering images which become as much a part of one's vision as scenery in the background.
Since it moves quickly, the beam does not stay in one place long enough to burn a hole in any one particular area.
Can graphics technology possibly get any faster? Well the GeForce2 GTS chip ran Quake3 at 80fps in May of 2000. Just twenty-two months later a GeForce4 Ti4600 can run Quake3 over three times faster. On that reckoning the GeForce6 in two years time should be running Quake3 at over 700fps. Is that fast enough for you!
Is there really much visual difference between 700 fps and 135 fps? I'm not really sure if the human eye can make the distinction. They're sure pretty-looking numbers, but do the results show for it?
And how long before video cards can render essentially photo-realistic graphics? Soon games will be more like interactive movies.
Excellent site. It explains the DMCA, SSSCA and their effects in plain English. It's easy reading, so even one wo is casually motivated against these legislations can get more motivated.
Why this wasn't posted on the front page, I don't know. Many more would see this story and linked site.
Instead of getting graded on how much you write, you get graded on quality. Is it clear, concise and to the point. Does it explain the points in your introduction?
Over course this is an oversimplification, but it does take into account if quality over quantity.
The internet, orignally used by scientists to exchange information, was a wholly serious use. Then the home connection was made popular in the mid-to-late 90's, and a whole generation of AOL-using, chatroom-haunting, warez and MP3 downloading Internet user was born. Now the internet is popular at work, at my company, we distribute electronic compnents and most of the hard-to-find items we find at various electronic component search engines on the Internet.
There will always be the frivolous uses (like slacking @ work), but the novelty has worn off and now people ask: How can we really use this thing?
California's anti-spam law has already held up under appeals court scrutiny so this may very well be a major setback to the spam industry.
Only if other states have enacted already or will enact tough spam laws like the ones in California.
And for those who consider spam free speech: E-mail messages cost bandwidth. An individual e-mail does not cost much, but when multiplied by the number of spams an individual may receive, and multply that by a corporation's user base, it could add up to a lot of money wasted in unnecessary bandwidth usage. It's definitely not free speech! Just ask the spammees.
I think that the crappy interface is one of the reasons for the power of the computer revolution. People are trapped.
I don't think people are really trapped. If computer interfaces are so bad, then why is computer use so widespread over many OS'es? Windows, Linux, Unix, etc. have all sorts of differences which may appeal to different people. Want a GUI? Try Windows, for example. Like a command line. You've got Linux.
And considering the complexity of the modern computer, I think the designers a doing a pretty decent job.
Yes, it's flawed, but there has to be some way of ordering search results. Google's method isn't perfect, but is there any method that will please everyone? The answer is likely to be: No.
IMHO, Google does a fine job of taking me to the information I desire. Google's text-based searcing beats the alternatives hands-down, especially for the obscure.
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They weren't aware of the insect's name and unintentionally duplicated it. A notice shold be sent to the orignal individual or institution credited with the original name and allowed some time to rename it.
Aithough it is quite funny, they are mocking an important field in science.
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Hollings, who has received $264,534 in campaign contributions from the TV, music and movie industries since 1997, has attempted to argue that standardized copy protection is the key to encouraging the continuing rollout of broadband Net connectivity. According to this theory, customers won't sign up for DSL or cable Internet access if they can't get top-notch entertainment via their computers. But Hollywood won't make that content available unless it is confident it won't be pirated.
So movies might not be available via the internet with out copy protection. So what? There's a lot more to the Internet than movies. Online gaming, information, and just not having to wait for a dialup or pages to load up are some of the main reasons why people have switched.
Hollings is grasping onto a straw man, paid for by over a quarter million dollars of Hollywood lobbying money.
IIRC, the force of nuclear bombs is spherical in nature. It seems as if the force is spread upward, since the bombs hit the ground, providing resistance, so much debris is "bounced" upwards.
Another tactical use of nukes is detonating them several miles up and flattening everything on the ground below.
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No. The SSN is required in order to apply for such a license, mandated by the DMV.
No. A chauffer's license is determined by its class.
Here in Florida, Class E is a standard passenger license, and Class D is the chauffeur's license. It also allows me to drive smaller trucks (up to 26,000 lbs. GVW).
Some of the information collected such as eye color, height and such doesn't bother me to compile, since that information is publicly available.
However, I hold a chauffeur's license. It requires that I furnish my Social Security number, which should not be publicly available.
I feel I should not have to change my license (or profession, if I still was doing such) just to protect my privacy.
I'm one of the 20% who like them stale. They're fine when freshwith a nice marshmallow texture, but let them harden a little, and you have a chewy treat. Plus the sugar coating has a pleasing texture when somewhat stale.
The company said it used the Mindset Interactive and Inurv lists to send messages to thousands of e-mail account holders. It claims the companies said the data were collected with the consent of the owners and could be used for direct marketing.
This is most likely false. How many e-mails have you received stating that you indicated you wanted to subscribe to some form of mass-e-mailing, but didn't? And how do people receive spam only 8 hours after setting up an e-amil address?
From the University of Texas website:
N-1 Stages
30 NK-33 LOX/kerosene engines; 10.1 million lb. total thrust.
8 NK-43 LOX/kerosene engines; 3.1 million lb. total thrust.
4 NK-39 engines; 360,800 lb. total thrust.
1 NK-31 engine; 90,200 lb. thrust; trans-lunar boost stage.
1 engine; 19,200 lb. thrust; lunar orbit insertion & initial lunar descent stage.
Why didn't they use fewer, but more powerful engines? Was it a matter of money, or engineering?
The pole does not move in more traditional manets, but the earyth's liquid core might provide an answer.
It has been drifting nothward for decades.
More info at Canada's GSC site.
I think there is a real First Amendment problem with this statute," said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the California-based Electronic Frontier Foundation
I wonder how child pornography is covered as "free speech" under the First Amendment? Especially considering that there are other laws prohibiting such activity.
I normally support the EFF's decisions, but I beg to differ on this one.
While past conversions such as Super mario Brothers and Street Fighter were box office flops
Tomb Raider grossed about $131 million. Not a superhit but definitely not a flop.
Angelina Jolie probably helped that one out.
A single-pixel laser beam moves so fast across the eye that the light creates lingering images which become as much a part of one's vision as scenery in the background.
Since it moves quickly, the beam does not stay in one place long enough to burn a hole in any one particular area.
Can graphics technology possibly get any faster? Well the GeForce2 GTS chip ran Quake3 at 80fps in May of 2000. Just twenty-two months later a GeForce4 Ti4600 can run Quake3 over three times faster. On that reckoning the GeForce6 in two years time should be running Quake3 at over 700fps. Is that fast enough for you!
Is there really much visual difference between 700 fps and 135 fps? I'm not really sure if the human eye can make the distinction. They're sure pretty-looking numbers, but do the results show for it?
And how long before video cards can render essentially photo-realistic graphics? Soon games will be more like interactive movies.
When a company's own director is denied access to financial records of his own company!
Though not an admission of wrongdoing, it does raise some serious issues on how ICANN is run.
One question, was this director already aware of any wrongdoing, or just checking some facts out?
With "Public Domain"?
It's still a copyright(?) license, just not nearly as restrictive as a traditional license.
I'm all for reasonably priced software, but giving it away for free often isn't.
Excellent site. It explains the DMCA, SSSCA and their effects in plain English. It's easy reading, so even one wo is casually motivated against these legislations can get more motivated.
Why this wasn't posted on the front page, I don't know. Many more would see this story and linked site.
And less like a math exam.
Instead of getting graded on how much you write, you get graded on quality. Is it clear, concise and to the point. Does it explain the points in your introduction?
Over course this is an oversimplification, but it does take into account if quality over quantity.
The internet, orignally used by scientists to exchange information, was a wholly serious use. Then the home connection was made popular in the mid-to-late 90's, and a whole generation of AOL-using, chatroom-haunting, warez and MP3 downloading Internet user was born. Now the internet is popular at work, at my company, we distribute electronic compnents and most of the hard-to-find items we find at various electronic component search engines on the Internet.
There will always be the frivolous uses (like slacking @ work), but the novelty has worn off and now people ask: How can we really use this thing?
I didn't say snail mail spam wasn't right, either. And you have some good points, yet no high-powered lawyers are going after snail mailers.
I detest all forms of spam, whether snail mail or e-mail.
The luncheon meat, on the other hand, well maybe.
California's anti-spam law has already held up under appeals court scrutiny so this may very well be a major setback to the spam industry.
Only if other states have enacted already or will enact tough spam laws like the ones in California.
And for those who consider spam free speech: E-mail messages cost bandwidth. An individual e-mail does not cost much, but when multiplied by the number of spams an individual may receive, and multply that by a corporation's user base, it could add up to a lot of money wasted in unnecessary bandwidth usage. It's definitely not free speech! Just ask the spammees.
I think that the crappy interface is one of the reasons for the power of the computer revolution. People are trapped.
I don't think people are really trapped. If computer interfaces are so bad, then why is computer use so widespread over many OS'es? Windows, Linux, Unix, etc. have all sorts of differences which may appeal to different people. Want a GUI? Try Windows, for example. Like a command line. You've got Linux.
And considering the complexity of the modern computer, I think the designers a doing a pretty decent job.
Yes, it's flawed, but there has to be some way of ordering search results. Google's method isn't perfect, but is there any method that will please everyone? The answer is likely to be: No.
IMHO, Google does a fine job of taking me to the information I desire. Google's text-based searcing beats the alternatives hands-down, especially for the obscure.
They weren't aware of the insect's name and unintentionally duplicated it. A notice shold be sent to the orignal individual or institution credited with the original name and allowed some time to rename it.
Aithough it is quite funny, they are mocking an important field in science.
Hollings, who has received $264,534 in campaign contributions from the TV, music and movie industries since 1997, has attempted to argue that standardized copy protection is the key to encouraging the continuing rollout of broadband Net connectivity. According to this theory, customers won't sign up for DSL or cable Internet access if they can't get top-notch entertainment via their computers. But Hollywood won't make that content available unless it is confident it won't be pirated.
So movies might not be available via the internet with out copy protection. So what? There's a lot more to the Internet than movies. Online gaming, information, and just not having to wait for a dialup or pages to load up are some of the main reasons why people have switched.
Hollings is grasping onto a straw man, paid for by over a quarter million dollars of Hollywood lobbying money.
Hopefully the consumer will win here.
IIRC, the force of nuclear bombs is spherical in nature. It seems as if the force is spread upward, since the bombs hit the ground, providing resistance, so much debris is "bounced" upwards.
Another tactical use of nukes is detonating them several miles up and flattening everything on the ground below.
More info can be found here.
When providing a service offering additional functionality can cause a problem like this.
I wonder how not checking a CD-KEY counts as "circumvention"? I thought circumvention was a "sin of commission", not "omission".
Where have you looked? There are dozens upon dozens of online journals, reference sites for law medicine, etc.
Why not try Google and find some intelligent content for yourself?