Mostly, yes but:
One needs a place to type in filenames, the other does not.
One might need a place to type in a pattern to match for display when searching. It's a quick way to filter through a large directory to find just the right file.
Aid for Israel is mostly (like 60%) military aid. That dollar turns right around and ends up back stateside in the pockets of Boeing, Grumman, etc.
Your point? The cash may go back to the US, but Isreal ends up with billions worth of modern military hardware. Who else has ever got that from the US? (besides Iraq, Iran, the Contras,...)
Not unless they figure out how to think as one nation instead of several chauvinistic states. Oh, and get rid of the pork-bellied ruling class that has held the country back so far.
Were you refering to India or the US? It's hard to tell, they both have problems with chauvinistic states and a pork-bellied ruling class.
How much would this movie have to have in common with the books to be considered "based on the book"?. Three laws? Character names? Plot lines? If all there is is the three laws, then it really is not much. It has already been comfirmed that none of the characters will be the same. It might have some minor plot elements mirror events in the book. Is that really enough to claim Isaac Asimov's I, Robot?
Williamson's Android series had laws of behavior that were similar to Asimovs, but distinct. They were used quite differently than Asimovs in the development of the stories. Robotic laws alone do not make a connection.
I heard that the store and action are not at all related to Asimovs Robot novels. It was written from something else. At the last minute, they wanted to attach to something famous to get more publicity for the movie, so they bought the rights to the name "I, Robot".
If you are expecting anything at all related to Asimov's stories, be prepared to be dissapointed.
I think I got this general idea from the books, but I can't verify or remember where.
The eagles are not pets or domesticated. They are wild and intelligent friends of an old and powerful wizard. They do what they do out of thoughtful consideration, not because someone says "giddy-yup".
The eagle rescued Gandolf from Orthanc because it measured the danger to Gandolf as high, and the danger to itself as relatively low, and presumably because it didn't have anything better going at the time.
That's a bit different than intentionally going into Mordor carrying the most dangerous and desired item in the world and facing flying whatever-they-were that the Nazgul ride. The rescue of Frodo was a little different because Mordor was already is disarray and the Nazgul lost their power when the ring was destroyed. Presumably, it was considered a slightly less dangerous effort.
But, I agree. The difference between carrying Frodo in and Rescuing him out is a thin line.
When I read articles like this firstly I look for tell tale signs like this... auditing in some form would be a good idea now The tone says to me... Hello I'm still mad I don't see Al Gore.
Heh. Yeah, whenever I see someone calling for accurate elections, reliable systems and honesty I automatically think Democrats too.
I've been wondering about the motivation of the Cylons coming back after so many years.
There wasn't much. My take, from the last five minutes, was that the Cylons were afraid that the humans would regroup and come back to attack them. Sort of a Kill or be killed mentality. So they attacked first to prevent the humans from attacking them first.
Previously, when a product maker wanted to have controlers on the product, they had a choice: Buy a controler for $$$, license a controler pattern for $$$ and manufacture their own, or keep an in house stable of designers for $$$ to design their own. All three can be expensive.
With open hardware, the manufacturere can get the pattern for basicly free, make the part, and make the final product less expensive. Overall, it reduces the cost of the final product, which most people would agree is a good thing.
It will likely be a while before open hardware can compete in speed/complexity with the likes of Pentium IV or Athlon. But most other supporting parts are realistic choices for open design.
the type who goes on shopping sprees on stolen credit cards,
Con men and thieves will be con men and thieves no matter what medium they use. The fact that they use some knowledge of computers and networks to practice the con is no different than cons on the street using social engineering to take people. Why is everyone so strung up on "but it's different because its on computers". It's not different.
That's like all those horrible patents that say "same thing we've always done, but using computers." How is it different? These are the same conning, stealing theives we've always had, only they're using computers.
I don't mind if they go after Apple.. just one more company joining in the fun of beating SCO up.
I'm sure Apple would think differently about it. Mostly what the SCO fiasco is going to do is make a lot of noise for the press, keep a lot of court clerks busy, and move a LOT of money from computer companies to lawyers, money that could be used for product development.
Noone wants to get involved in litigation, no matter how fun it looks from the outside. It's too damned expensive.
Right. Trying to apply a legal solution to a technical problem is as bad as applying a technical solution to a legal problem.
SPAM is a technical problem. There are too many weaknesses in the current mail systems that allow things like fake addreses.
POP3 requires authintification to receive your mail. Make a mail system require authentication to SEND mail. And take that authentication along when the mail is delivered. SPAM won't stop, but at least you know who it is and can easily track it back to not just the provide, but the individual account. That will make it faster identify and block/shutdown/whatever. No tax, no money. Just force the spammers out in the open where we can deal with them.
You'd have to do something like this anyway to tax mail. So do it but just don't tax it.
Its funny how the best defense anyone can come up with for the current administration and the E-voting scandles is to say "But everyone else is corrupt too."
Or maybe, just maybe, world realpolitik, not least in the shifting morass of Middle Eastern politics, has changed since GWB senior formed his original opinion.
The appropriate thing to do if you change your mind is to write another article with all your new information and your new opinion and in it reference your old article and explain why it is no longer valid. Simply yanking it from publication is not the way to demonstrate that you have changed your mind. It does seem to be a popular way to try to cover your @$$ though.
So the original trilogy will be out next year. Then shortly after Ep. III, we'll see a trilogy set of I,II,III. Then shortly after that, we'll see some super mongo 12 disk set with all six plus George's life story and an Ewoks party dance karoke set.
That is the set I will buy. I can wait. I have patience. And by then, my kids will be old enough to appreciate it.
Answer: No, Diebold is not the company that made the machines listed in the article. That was a competator to Diebold. It is in Diebold's best interest to eradicate their competators, so having their good friends the GOP sue the competition is good for them and good for the GOP. It is in the GOPs best interest to have Diebold on more elections, so they also want to eradicate Diebolds competition.
So, if someone makes a mistake in one area of science, then he must be completely incompetant in all others?
Most people here on slashdot would be doing good to come close to Golds expertiese in just one area, much less the variety of areas he covers.
If you would like to see his theories on the origins of oil, try his book "Deep Hot Biosphere". It makes a good case. If you find any errors in it let us know, hey?
Things like this indicate that organic compounds can be formed in deep space. It has already been shown that some comet material contains organic molecules. They usually distinguish themselves by having lower oxygen content than earthly coal. Subterranian oil is more like cometary organics than coal. Coal is definitely earthly organic in origin, because of fossil remains, but also chemical composition.
Thomas Gold's theory is that most of the organics were accumulated from comets hitting the earth during formation and are slowly rising up from the deep into pockets. When pockets form, some types of bacteria might start growing in them. But the bacteria is not necessarily the source.
One of the limitations AMD put into the AMD64 series is that when you put the processor into long mode (64 bit mode) it no longer supports virtual real mode. The virtual real mode is how windows supports DOS apps. So in this way, it really is the chip, not windows, that is preventing DOS support.
That said, I don't see why they can't support 16 bit windows apps. That support is still there in the chip. I suppose you can always dual boot into 32 bit windows, and then you do get DOS support as well as 16 bit wondows support (such as it is).
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One needs a place to type in filenames, the other does not.
One might need a place to type in a pattern to match for display when searching. It's a quick way to filter through a large directory to find just the right file.
Your point? The cash may go back to the US, but Isreal ends up with billions worth of modern military hardware. Who else has ever got that from the US? (besides Iraq, Iran, the Contras, ...)
Were you refering to India or the US? It's hard to tell, they both have problems with chauvinistic states and a pork-bellied ruling class.
Williamson's Android series had laws of behavior that were similar to Asimovs, but distinct. They were used quite differently than Asimovs in the development of the stories. Robotic laws alone do not make a connection.
It looks like the tech industry isn't the only one being outsourced to India.
I was refering to this movie, not to Ellison's script, which I have not read.
I heard that the store and action are not at all related to Asimovs Robot novels. It was written from something else. At the last minute, they wanted to attach to something famous to get more publicity for the movie, so they bought the rights to the name "I, Robot".
If you are expecting anything at all related to Asimov's stories, be prepared to be dissapointed.
The eagles are not pets or domesticated. They are wild and intelligent friends of an old and powerful wizard. They do what they do out of thoughtful consideration, not because someone says "giddy-yup". The eagle rescued Gandolf from Orthanc because it measured the danger to Gandolf as high, and the danger to itself as relatively low, and presumably because it didn't have anything better going at the time.
That's a bit different than intentionally going into Mordor carrying the most dangerous and desired item in the world and facing flying whatever-they-were that the Nazgul ride. The rescue of Frodo was a little different because Mordor was already is disarray and the Nazgul lost their power when the ring was destroyed. Presumably, it was considered a slightly less dangerous effort.
But, I agree. The difference between carrying Frodo in and Rescuing him out is a thin line.
Heh. Yeah, whenever I see someone calling for accurate elections, reliable systems and honesty I automatically think Democrats too.
There wasn't much. My take, from the last five minutes, was that the Cylons were afraid that the humans would regroup and come back to attack them. Sort of a Kill or be killed mentality. So they attacked first to prevent the humans from attacking them first.
... Microsoft is not retiring Win98 SE, only versions of Win98 prior to SE. See this.
With open hardware, the manufacturere can get the pattern for basicly free, make the part, and make the final product less expensive. Overall, it reduces the cost of the final product, which most people would agree is a good thing.
It will likely be a while before open hardware can compete in speed/complexity with the likes of Pentium IV or Athlon. But most other supporting parts are realistic choices for open design.
Con men and thieves will be con men and thieves no matter what medium they use. The fact that they use some knowledge of computers and networks to practice the con is no different than cons on the street using social engineering to take people. Why is everyone so strung up on "but it's different because its on computers". It's not different.
That's like all those horrible patents that say "same thing we've always done, but using computers." How is it different? These are the same conning, stealing theives we've always had, only they're using computers.
I'm sure Apple would think differently about it. Mostly what the SCO fiasco is going to do is make a lot of noise for the press, keep a lot of court clerks busy, and move a LOT of money from computer companies to lawyers, money that could be used for product development.
Noone wants to get involved in litigation, no matter how fun it looks from the outside. It's too damned expensive.
SPAM is a technical problem. There are too many weaknesses in the current mail systems that allow things like fake addreses.
POP3 requires authintification to receive your mail. Make a mail system require authentication to SEND mail. And take that authentication along when the mail is delivered. SPAM won't stop, but at least you know who it is and can easily track it back to not just the provide, but the individual account. That will make it faster identify and block/shutdown/whatever. No tax, no money. Just force the spammers out in the open where we can deal with them.
You'd have to do something like this anyway to tax mail. So do it but just don't tax it.
Its funny how the best defense anyone can come up with for the current administration and the E-voting scandles is to say "But everyone else is corrupt too."
The appropriate thing to do if you change your mind is to write another article with all your new information and your new opinion and in it reference your old article and explain why it is no longer valid. Simply yanking it from publication is not the way to demonstrate that you have changed your mind. It does seem to be a popular way to try to cover your @$$ though.
That is the set I will buy. I can wait. I have patience. And by then, my kids will be old enough to appreciate it.
Answer: No, Diebold is not the company that made the machines listed in the article. That was a competator to Diebold. It is in Diebold's best interest to eradicate their competators, so having their good friends the GOP sue the competition is good for them and good for the GOP. It is in the GOPs best interest to have Diebold on more elections, so they also want to eradicate Diebolds competition.
Considering the previous story, this type of thing should be called "Blog-Illogical" warfare.
It would if the Democrats were the ones benefiting from it. As it stands now, it's just good old American capitolism.
Most people here on slashdot would be doing good to come close to Golds expertiese in just one area, much less the variety of areas he covers.
If you would like to see his theories on the origins of oil, try his book "Deep Hot Biosphere". It makes a good case. If you find any errors in it let us know, hey?
Thomas Gold's theory is that most of the organics were accumulated from comets hitting the earth during formation and are slowly rising up from the deep into pockets. When pockets form, some types of bacteria might start growing in them. But the bacteria is not necessarily the source.
If you thought port scanning through a 32 bit address space was slow, try it with a 128 bit space.
Hey, I'm out here in B345:9E84:*. Go ahead, try and find me!
One of the limitations AMD put into the AMD64 series is that when you put the processor into long mode (64 bit mode) it no longer supports virtual real mode. The virtual real mode is how windows supports DOS apps. So in this way, it really is the chip, not windows, that is preventing DOS support.
That said, I don't see why they can't support 16 bit windows apps. That support is still there in the chip. I suppose you can always dual boot into 32 bit windows, and then you do get DOS support as well as 16 bit wondows support (such as it is).