It could also scan for and find Open Source software that was installed by a third party without proper compliance with the GPL. Install as much third party junk as you can, then scan to see who is using GPL software without compliance.
That's the point of a money order or cashier check: They take the responsability once the check is written.
Personal checks and bank checks are different. With personal checks, the person writing it takes responsability for it. With cashier bank checks and money orders, the bank takes responsability for it.
The difference is that with a personal check, you do not actually pay out money until the check is cashed. You could block it before then if you wanted to, or might not have the funds to pay it or whatever, but you are responsable for backing it up at the time it is cashed. If you fail, then you could be in trouble.
Bank checks and money orders, you pay up front. The responsability for paying the money goes with the money. The money that is in the money order is now in the hands of the PO and they are now legally responsable for delivering it. If they fail, they are on the hook. That's the whole point of a money order. They guarentee payment in situations were personal checks may be less reliable. This is precisely why some people demand money orders instead of personal checks.
Of course, if the PO were to refuse payment, the receiver might mess with you in some way. They should go after whoever issued the money order. But an unscrupulous or lazy type might go after you instead. Any institution that demands a money order should know how to deal with it if it goes bad though, especially something as large as a University. And any institution that issues money orders and fails to pay them is likely to get in regulatory trouble itself.
What makes you think he's gonna trust the post office and all their new-fangled machines that do their witchery?
Because it is not he who must trust it. It is whoever is demanding something other than cash. Once he has paid the PO for the money order, he's off the hook. It is up to the school to retrieve that money from the PO. If he gets it made out for cash, he does not even have to put his name on it.
Belief in something with no scientific proof is the foundation of just about every failed adventure in human-kind.
It turns man against man, because of different ancient social mores and savagely ignorant beliefs about the workings of the universe.
Glad I could accomodate you, as religion has been a particular pox on my existance.
It is not faith that causes problems, nor is it any particular religion that causes problems. It is usually the destructive and/or self centered actions of a few people associated with those beliefs and acting "in the name of" those beliefs that cause problems.
For example, poor behavior can be recognized as someone making broad unsubstantiated claims, critical or absolutist, with little historical support. There are many human successes with or without unsupported beliefs, as there are many human failures also with or without unsupported beliefs. By explicitly naming "science" and "scientific proof" as the necessary foundation of acceptable knowledge and learning, you are making the same absolutist claim as those who claim the Bible is the basis for all knowledge.
Science is a complex and organized methodology that we have adopted to study the world around us. Before that methodology was adopted, people used whatever method they could to understand the world. They did whatever was necessary to create their own world view, and the resulting world views were often filled with the supernatural, because that is all the knowledge they had to work with at the time.
One can even suppose that in some future time, people will develop some new way of studying, learning and organizing knowledge that is more effective and better suited than the scientific method. There will no doubt be "old school scientific method" holdouts who will be ridiculed and ignored because they didn't make the switch.
"Religion" comes into play in two stages. The first is when some basic understanding gathers enough popular support that people start subscribing to the ideas without using their own knowledge or judgement to vet the concepts involved. As in "I believe the results of quantum collision and baryon creation, even though I don't have a collider or the Physics training to repeat the experiment myself."
The second phase is usually when someone with some ambition for power realizes that this belief could be used to influence those people, and attempts to use that influence to their own advantage. They manipulate the concepts to benefit themselves rather than to further general knowledge. They build power hierarchies on top of this that are focused more on themselves than the beliefs the started with, even to the point of contradicting the original beliefs. The Catholic church has gone deeply into this phase with Christianity. And we can see politicians attempting to do that now with science. Science might be more resiliant, but then it took a few centuries for the church to get going. The politicians have only just begun.
How many US schools teach the full history of the US army genocide of native american indians? Do they talk about how the cavilry would ride in to an indian village and shoot anyone they saw, women and children preferably? Burn whole villages? Slaughtering whole nations? Round up the rest and put them in concentration camps (called reservations)?
The history has been toned down A LOT in most US schools, to the extent that if it is mentioned at all, it's just Custer's last stand.
Unfortunately, it appears that a lot of americans are uncomfortable with the idea that America has just as bad a history as all those evil-doers out there. And because of that discomfort, the subject is dropped or sevearly watered down.
The cut has already been made. The only question is was this appeasement or terrorism?
Teaching ID in the US is something on a slightly different level.
The article says that the british schools mearly dropped the subject of the holocost, not that they introduced an opposing concept in its place.
For comparison, there are plenty of equally devistating topics that have never even been included in school curriculums, genocides all over the world, including in the US by the US army. If mearly dropping a topic out of history class is reason for such an uproar, then how much more stuff is out there to cry about because it was never included in the first place? And how long would history class have to be to include it all?
There is much more to consider than which side you are on concerning this one event.
X86_64 is certainly a cludge on a cludge. But Itanic is no better, and in many ways worse. Given the choice of the two, MS made the right one.
If you really want to get off of the bad hardware, you could maybe go with POWER or Alpha or go invent something else completely new. MS tried with Alpha for a while, but noone bought it. So it looks like it's really our fault, not theirs.
Essentially, it's about the business not the job. Financial companies have access to a lot of inside information, a lot of personal information and a lot of money. As a result, they also have a lot of safety and security regulations. And if they are not stupid, they have their own company policies concerning security above and beyond any regulation.
Anyone working for such a company gets screened, basically for any indications of financial burden or potential blackmail (so they know someone else can't blackmail you into doing something illegal against them.) They look for general signs that you might be a risk for illegal behavior.
These policies cover everyone in the company, even if you are just programming something not related to someone elses money.
At what point will manufacturers start making components with water cooling builtin?
I see a CPU that does not have a heat spreader. Instead it comes with two connectors for plumbing and the water channels are built inside the chip. Same goes for graphics and whatever else needs cooling.
Cases will have space in them for a cooling unit and pump. Plumbing lines will be as prevelent as power connectors. You will buy "Hyper-Gamma Computer Coolent(TM)" from your local geek shop.
And it glows in the dark so you can see it through your fancy glass case and neon lights!
Translation:
We got what we wanted from the unit, a Bush presidency and business friendly congress. Now that Bush is over and the congress has gone over to the Dems and there is no new candidate on the horizon that is as business friendly as we would like, then there is not much point in continuing the effort.
While there are a wide variety of co-processor options (or at least ideas) right now and few sockets into which to put them. I suspect the solution will more likely come in the form of unified co-processors rather than multiple sockets.
Mother board shipsets are becoming the union of a lot of functionality (Disk, Ethernet, Sound, UDB, PCI/e and graphics). Even though you can still get best of breed addin cards for many of these functions, the majority of desktop systems do just fine with what the chipset offers.
These coprocessors will also become unified. AMD and nVidia already are talking about doing physics. In the end, you are likely to get a single processor that does graphics, physics, AI, advanced math, and probably Java, sound and a few other things we have not thought of yet. As a single entity, it takes a single slot. So long as all the functionality is all accessable through some standardized interface (DirectX in the MS world, something else for everyone else) then the difference between the competing manufacturers will be about the same as the difference between graphics cards now.
Yeah, but you just know that everyone will want a.sol domain no matter where they are. I means, seriously, who would want a.beta.cancer or a.apus domain?
Considering that MS has been the leading poster child for dirty, underhanded (and a few illegal) anti-competative practices for the last quarter century, it's more like the black hole calling the kettle black.
There has been a Creationist Museum in Texas for many years. It is situated right next to the Poluxy river and the Dinosaur National Park. (Many dinosaur tracks were found in the river bed.)
AMD is still running their plants at capacity or greater. They are still selling everything they make. If they could make more they could sell more.
The only thing holding them back now is manufacturing capacity. It was nice when they were preceved as being the best, but as long as they can sell everything they make, then they are doing fine.
The biggest problem is price pressure from Intel. And they don't actually have to match Intels price straight out. They only have to balance the price against availability to keep all available production going out the door. As long as the price is low enough to sell all of their production quantity, then it's low enough. The high demand over their limited production capacity actually helps them there.
Perception helps in all of that equation, mostly in allowing them to sell their capacity at a slightly higher price, but it's not going to kill the company if it drops a little. They must have known how well Conroe was going to do well before the public benchmarks came out. If AMD knows they are going to take a hit on their perception from Conroe, then this was probably a good time to make a few other changes and put all of the disruptions behind them in the shortest possible time.
So a spammer in the US is sending spam into the UK. It's illegal to spam there, so the US spammer is breaking UK law. Can the UK convict this spammer and bring them to justice? If the spammer ignored the conviction, would that be any different than Spamhaus?
Maybe spammers should also follow local laws in the foreign countries in which they spam^H^H^H^H^H operate.
The people setting up the system forgot to bring along required material to the voting places. Big Oops! Once the material was brought in, it worked fine.
This has nothing to do with voting machines. It would have been the same if they forgot to bring the paper ballots to a voting location that was using paper ballots instead of machines.
Your assumption is that the two formats carry the same content. I see little reason to squeese a stripped down movie on the same side when you can put the full movie on the other side.
If the DVD content and the HD-DVD content are two different things, like movie and extras, then there is a real reason to choose.
But in those cases, the menu that comes up should be able to control the path to the content. You simply pick "extras" and the player switches format. So default to HD-DVD if available is probably right. The menu that comes up on either format should support a command to force the player to switch to the other format.
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It could also scan for and find Open Source software that was installed by a third party without proper compliance with the GPL. Install as much third party junk as you can, then scan to see who is using GPL software without compliance.
Personal checks and bank checks are different. With personal checks, the person writing it takes responsability for it. With cashier bank checks and money orders, the bank takes responsability for it.
The difference is that with a personal check, you do not actually pay out money until the check is cashed. You could block it before then if you wanted to, or might not have the funds to pay it or whatever, but you are responsable for backing it up at the time it is cashed. If you fail, then you could be in trouble.
Bank checks and money orders, you pay up front. The responsability for paying the money goes with the money. The money that is in the money order is now in the hands of the PO and they are now legally responsable for delivering it. If they fail, they are on the hook. That's the whole point of a money order. They guarentee payment in situations were personal checks may be less reliable. This is precisely why some people demand money orders instead of personal checks.
Of course, if the PO were to refuse payment, the receiver might mess with you in some way. They should go after whoever issued the money order. But an unscrupulous or lazy type might go after you instead. Any institution that demands a money order should know how to deal with it if it goes bad though, especially something as large as a University. And any institution that issues money orders and fails to pay them is likely to get in regulatory trouble itself.
Because it is not he who must trust it. It is whoever is demanding something other than cash. Once he has paid the PO for the money order, he's off the hook. It is up to the school to retrieve that money from the PO. If he gets it made out for cash, he does not even have to put his name on it.
For example, poor behavior can be recognized as someone making broad unsubstantiated claims, critical or absolutist, with little historical support. There are many human successes with or without unsupported beliefs, as there are many human failures also with or without unsupported beliefs. By explicitly naming "science" and "scientific proof" as the necessary foundation of acceptable knowledge and learning, you are making the same absolutist claim as those who claim the Bible is the basis for all knowledge.
Science is a complex and organized methodology that we have adopted to study the world around us. Before that methodology was adopted, people used whatever method they could to understand the world. They did whatever was necessary to create their own world view, and the resulting world views were often filled with the supernatural, because that is all the knowledge they had to work with at the time.
One can even suppose that in some future time, people will develop some new way of studying, learning and organizing knowledge that is more effective and better suited than the scientific method. There will no doubt be "old school scientific method" holdouts who will be ridiculed and ignored because they didn't make the switch.
"Religion" comes into play in two stages. The first is when some basic understanding gathers enough popular support that people start subscribing to the ideas without using their own knowledge or judgement to vet the concepts involved. As in "I believe the results of quantum collision and baryon creation, even though I don't have a collider or the Physics training to repeat the experiment myself."
The second phase is usually when someone with some ambition for power realizes that this belief could be used to influence those people, and attempts to use that influence to their own advantage. They manipulate the concepts to benefit themselves rather than to further general knowledge. They build power hierarchies on top of this that are focused more on themselves than the beliefs the started with, even to the point of contradicting the original beliefs. The Catholic church has gone deeply into this phase with Christianity. And we can see politicians attempting to do that now with science. Science might be more resiliant, but then it took a few centuries for the church to get going. The politicians have only just begun.
The history has been toned down A LOT in most US schools, to the extent that if it is mentioned at all, it's just Custer's last stand.
Unfortunately, it appears that a lot of americans are uncomfortable with the idea that America has just as bad a history as all those evil-doers out there. And because of that discomfort, the subject is dropped or sevearly watered down.
The cut has already been made. The only question is was this appeasement or terrorism?
For comparison, there are plenty of equally devistating topics that have never even been included in school curriculums, genocides all over the world, including in the US by the US army. If mearly dropping a topic out of history class is reason for such an uproar, then how much more stuff is out there to cry about because it was never included in the first place? And how long would history class have to be to include it all?
There is much more to consider than which side you are on concerning this one event.
If you really want to get off of the bad hardware, you could maybe go with POWER or Alpha or go invent something else completely new. MS tried with Alpha for a while, but noone bought it. So it looks like it's really our fault, not theirs.
Maybe it does not count since it was an AMD invention rather than an Intel invention?
Essentially, it's about the business not the job. Financial companies have access to a lot of inside information, a lot of personal information and a lot of money. As a result, they also have a lot of safety and security regulations. And if they are not stupid, they have their own company policies concerning security above and beyond any regulation.
Anyone working for such a company gets screened, basically for any indications of financial burden or potential blackmail (so they know someone else can't blackmail you into doing something illegal against them.) They look for general signs that you might be a risk for illegal behavior.
These policies cover everyone in the company, even if you are just programming something not related to someone elses money.
MarsQuest has had some mars flyover demos for a while. These are controllable though. You can pilot them around. (warning, Flash Player ahead)
He's just a little moron.
I see a CPU that does not have a heat spreader. Instead it comes with two connectors for plumbing and the water channels are built inside the chip. Same goes for graphics and whatever else needs cooling.
Cases will have space in them for a cooling unit and pump. Plumbing lines will be as prevelent as power connectors. You will buy "Hyper-Gamma Computer Coolent(TM)" from your local geek shop. And it glows in the dark so you can see it through your fancy glass case and neon lights!
Translation:
We got what we wanted from the unit, a Bush presidency and business friendly congress. Now that Bush is over and the congress has gone over to the Dems and there is no new candidate on the horizon that is as business friendly as we would like, then there is not much point in continuing the effort.
Mother board shipsets are becoming the union of a lot of functionality (Disk, Ethernet, Sound, UDB, PCI/e and graphics). Even though you can still get best of breed addin cards for many of these functions, the majority of desktop systems do just fine with what the chipset offers.
These coprocessors will also become unified. AMD and nVidia already are talking about doing physics. In the end, you are likely to get a single processor that does graphics, physics, AI, advanced math, and probably Java, sound and a few other things we have not thought of yet. As a single entity, it takes a single slot. So long as all the functionality is all accessable through some standardized interface (DirectX in the MS world, something else for everyone else) then the difference between the competing manufacturers will be about the same as the difference between graphics cards now.
Yeah, but you just know that everyone will want a .sol domain no matter where they are. I means, seriously, who would want a .beta.cancer or a .apus domain?
Considering that MS has been the leading poster child for dirty, underhanded (and a few illegal) anti-competative practices for the last quarter century, it's more like the black hole calling the kettle black.
Robocop
Cybermen
Goblin (he just needs the flying surf board.)
Anand has a nice review of these new processors, including performance comparisons.
The surprise is that it was a little slower than it's 90nm counterpart. They chased it down to the cache latency going up from 90nm to the 65nm part.
Other than that, it looks good.
There has been a Creationist Museum in Texas for many years. It is situated right next to the Poluxy river and the Dinosaur National Park. (Many dinosaur tracks were found in the river bed.)
http://www.creationevidence.org/
Maybe these guys think there's is different enough to claim theirs is "first of it's kind" for some definition of "kind". But it is not the first.
A good reason to revert to OMG Ponies!
AMD is still running their plants at capacity or greater. They are still selling everything they make. If they could make more they could sell more.
The only thing holding them back now is manufacturing capacity. It was nice when they were preceved as being the best, but as long as they can sell everything they make, then they are doing fine.
The biggest problem is price pressure from Intel. And they don't actually have to match Intels price straight out. They only have to balance the price against availability to keep all available production going out the door. As long as the price is low enough to sell all of their production quantity, then it's low enough. The high demand over their limited production capacity actually helps them there.
Perception helps in all of that equation, mostly in allowing them to sell their capacity at a slightly higher price, but it's not going to kill the company if it drops a little. They must have known how well Conroe was going to do well before the public benchmarks came out. If AMD knows they are going to take a hit on their perception from Conroe, then this was probably a good time to make a few other changes and put all of the disruptions behind them in the shortest possible time.
Maybe spammers should also follow local laws in the foreign countries in which they spam^H^H^H^H^H operate.
The people setting up the system forgot to bring along required material to the voting places. Big Oops! Once the material was brought in, it worked fine.
This has nothing to do with voting machines. It would have been the same if they forgot to bring the paper ballots to a voting location that was using paper ballots instead of machines.
Move along.
If the DVD content and the HD-DVD content are two different things, like movie and extras, then there is a real reason to choose.
But in those cases, the menu that comes up should be able to control the path to the content. You simply pick "extras" and the player switches format. So default to HD-DVD if available is probably right. The menu that comes up on either format should support a command to force the player to switch to the other format.