There are several reasons... first, how can they prove you bought a cisco router? Any schmuck could then download it -- it doesn't matter that it doesn't run under windows.
OH MY GOD! Someone may download specalized software for a piece of hardware they don't own. It's the end of the world! Who know what kind of nefarious deeds they might do with those bits. It's unnatural I tells ya.
I know that at least one model of the Chevy Suburban had a problem with handheld CB radios. Every time you pressed "transmit" within about 10 feet of the car, the radio would blow out. It was an expensive repair too, because you had to take the whole damn radio apart to get to the tiny little blown component at the rear. It would have been an early 90s model (can't remember exactly because it's been so long) with the fancy radio that had the mixer as a seperate component (IIRC). It even had a tape deck.
Those airphones priced themselves right out of the market IMHO. I have never ever seen anybody place a call on them. The only time I've ever even hear of them being used was that call from the passenger on 9/11, and even then he probably had to think about it for a minute.
There aren't really any more whackos out there now (as a percentage of the total population at least) than there have ever been. Haloween became less fun with the news media realized that "scare" stores sell at lot better than regular stories. These stories were also helped along by right wing Christian conservatives who never liked the "pagan" holiday anyway and would rather it just go away.
You know, the geosynchronous belt is a big place, 224000km long big. Those ~300 satellites could easily be ~750 km apart, which should be no problem because they are all traveling at 0km/s relative to each other along their orbital paths.
Wi-Fi may not be the best term (I always liked Wavelan myself), but watch your average person's eyes glaze over when you utter 802.11b. Long strings of random sounding letters and numbers is not the sort of thing your average person is going to remember. It sounds hopelessly technological and scary. WLAN doesn't exactly roll off the tounge either.
Maybe they should have two classes. A "traditional" class which must conform to all of these rules (and be stuck in 1995), and an "unlimited" class, which has very few (if any) non-safety related limitations.
Heck, did you see how they're even outlawing technologies that people are commonly using today, like NiMH batteries? When you can buy the technology at Target (the best rechargable batteries are the NiMHs), I think they should allow it in the race.
Maybe it's just me, but that looks like a wonderfully bad idea. It looks like a lot of work keeping the two versions in sync considering most people use DEBUG directives to stick a printf or cout and possibly some calculations in the code at a critical point to monitor what's going on. You're either going to need a whole bunch of those func1()s or they're going to have to be very very generic (basically just print statements). I'm also not a fan of messing with the -I line to change your debugging mode, since the -I and -L lines are the most troublesome parts of the Make file when you're getting someone elses code (and you have to figure out where their system put stuff, and what it called it). You never know what some system is going to stick in some wacky location.
Depends on how you read it. My original reading was that Linux used the Minix kernel "Based on Minix". Everybody else seems to have read that Linus was inspired by Minix, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense either because Minix has a completely different architecture. Unless Minix inspired Linus to stay away from Microkernels of course...
Around the same time, Linux surfaced. Based on the Minix kernel written by computer science professor Andrew Tannenbaum, and unencumbered by the spectre of a lawsuit, Linux began to gain momentum and became the best known freely redistributable UNIX-like operating system.
That's news to me.
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It's worse than you think. Building codes tend to change every year, which means builders and inspectors have to buy those books year after year. These things are a racket.
That or the Asshat in the BMW who is too busy planning the next four people to cut off to actually notice the cars next to him that he's running off the road.
That or the immigrant family driving some beat up POS in the left lane doing 10mph below the flow of traffic, completely oblivious to the traffic jam forming behind them.
I don't know about your local library, but mine is not likely to have any books talking about "gigabytes". More likely they will admonish the user to save up that $5000 for the 386 instead of going for the 286 so they can get the real mode support.
On the other hand, a quick search online will quickly clear up a lot of confusion these people have, unless they get sidetracked by porn and gambling.
At least their government isn't afraid to take drastic measures to protect their young. I think singapore is similarly protecting their young by killing drug dealers on the spot (although they're not officially announcing this due to human rights violations of punishment w/o trial), which has dropped drug sales by a significant amount in their country. While horrific, the government's stance on this means less drugs, which mean less kids doing 'hard drugs', and more kids have a chance at a good future. The United States government is ball-less in this respect.
Wow, remind me never to visit Singapore. I don't do or sell drugs, but if the police in the country have the (unofficial) power to shoot me on sight and say I was dealing drugs, then I don't want to live there. I've not naive, I know that police can become corrupt, especially when given broad unmonitored powers.
Police also tend to get weird ideas, like the undesirable person might not be dealing drugs, but we don't like his kind here anyway. Lets say he's a drug dealer (blam).
To me, this sounds like a human rights disaster waiting to happen, and I hope Singapore gets itself out of the mess before it blows up in their face. I don't think you'll find due process "ball-less" when you get wrongly accuesed by some overzealous cop listening to some guy pleading for his life and fingering everybody he knows as a drug dealer.
Now, granted, midnight to 6am might be a better time for a gaming ban, but you have to ask yourself, did you really need to spend more time gaming tonight? Theres things called books, you know, they're fun too.
Yes. The government knows the best forms of entertainment for you. Thinking for yourself is bad. Pick up government novel GN-23562 for your daily entertainment stipend today.
The only major qualm I have with this is that internet cafes in the far east (as far as I know) represent the new social meccas of the 35 and under crowd, much like drive in fast food was of the 50's, and by shutting these down after 10 pm, will likely be essentially asking for a 500% increase in petty theft and vandalism.
Interestingly enough, a lot of those fast food places used to close between 10 and 12. Maybe the kids will turn to drugs once they take away the gaming? I don't know. I do know that the games weren't hurting anybody (the vast majority of the time at any rate), I don't know what they're going to do instead though. This is a bit of FUD, but it really does reflect my uncertainty about the upcoming situation.
The difference between an apple and a song is that if you eat an apple, you cannot sell that apple to someone else. Even if you download a song it will be available to sell to someone else.
This is why people are hesitant to call music piracy "theft" as it does not result in the deprivation of the resource the same way that real theft does.
Worse, they sometimes have ten or even twelve legs instead of the already scary eight. The picture didn't look that scary though, the thing is literally all legs, there doesn't even appear to be anything resembling a body in the middle to hold it all together, just a bunch of legs stuck end to end.
Actaully, photos in their native habitat would be really lousy since there is generally no light down there. Also, it is hard to say just how rare or common each of these species is, as there is very very little data on them, the mere fact that a random sampling from a single boat managed to catch these guys suggests that they might not be all that rare after all.
A surprising amount of the time, the command prompt is a HELL of a lot faster. Say I want to copy all the MP3 files from a directory to a floppy, and they're mixed with a bunch of other files. In Windows Explorer, there's no way to sort by extension. At the prompt: "copy *.mp3 a:"
While technically true, this is misleading. If you switch into list (or detail) view and choose "Arrange Icons->by Type", 90% of the time Windows will give you just what you want. Some programs do weird things with the filetypes that can break it, but generally that will work fine.
On the other hand, if you want every zip file with a number before the.zip part in a directory of thousands, then the command line is the only way to go. It doesn't help that the command line in Windows is rather badly braindamaged and crippled in several key ways (just try to run any interesting regular expressions to select your files--anything beyond "match one character" and "match multiple characters" gives Windows fits). Plus Microsoft has been trying to discourage command line use by moving your files down 5 directories and sticking spaces and other such characters in as many filenames and directories as possible.
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I know that at least one model of the Chevy Suburban had a problem with handheld CB radios. Every time you pressed "transmit" within about 10 feet of the car, the radio would blow out. It was an expensive repair too, because you had to take the whole damn radio apart to get to the tiny little blown component at the rear. It would have been an early 90s model (can't remember exactly because it's been so long) with the fancy radio that had the mixer as a seperate component (IIRC). It even had a tape deck.
Those airphones priced themselves right out of the market IMHO. I have never ever seen anybody place a call on them. The only time I've ever even hear of them being used was that call from the passenger on 9/11, and even then he probably had to think about it for a minute.
There aren't really any more whackos out there now (as a percentage of the total population at least) than there have ever been. Haloween became less fun with the news media realized that "scare" stores sell at lot better than regular stories. These stories were also helped along by right wing Christian conservatives who never liked the "pagan" holiday anyway and would rather it just go away.
Snopes has a long article on this very subject.
I thought all of the bittorrent traffic was unlicensed Anime Fansubs.
Wow, he'd have to have a really big matress to fit 4.3 trillion pennies under it. I hope he doesn't live on the top floor of some apartment building.
You know, the geosynchronous belt is a big place, 224000km long big. Those ~300 satellites could easily be ~750 km apart, which should be no problem because they are all traveling at 0km/s relative to each other along their orbital paths.
You might want to look up the word jurisdiction in the dictionary, I think it might answer some of your questions.
Wi-Fi may not be the best term (I always liked Wavelan myself), but watch your average person's eyes glaze over when you utter 802.11b. Long strings of random sounding letters and numbers is not the sort of thing your average person is going to remember. It sounds hopelessly technological and scary. WLAN doesn't exactly roll off the tounge either.
Maybe they should have two classes. A "traditional" class which must conform to all of these rules (and be stuck in 1995), and an "unlimited" class, which has very few (if any) non-safety related limitations.
Heck, did you see how they're even outlawing technologies that people are commonly using today, like NiMH batteries? When you can buy the technology at Target (the best rechargable batteries are the NiMHs), I think they should allow it in the race.
Maybe it's just me, but that looks like a wonderfully bad idea. It looks like a lot of work keeping the two versions in sync considering most people use DEBUG directives to stick a printf or cout and possibly some calculations in the code at a critical point to monitor what's going on. You're either going to need a whole bunch of those func1()s or they're going to have to be very very generic (basically just print statements). I'm also not a fan of messing with the -I line to change your debugging mode, since the -I and -L lines are the most troublesome parts of the Make file when you're getting someone elses code (and you have to figure out where their system put stuff, and what it called it). You never know what some system is going to stick in some wacky location.
The law does not protect poor business plans, it does however, protect the right to fair use and the right to reverse engineer.
Depends on how you read it. My original reading was that Linux used the Minix kernel "Based on Minix". Everybody else seems to have read that Linus was inspired by Minix, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense either because Minix has a completely different architecture. Unless Minix inspired Linus to stay away from Microkernels of course...
Really? Cool! I've got dibs on the next shuttle ride.
It's worse than you think. Building codes tend to change every year, which means builders and inspectors have to buy those books year after year. These things are a racket.
That or the Asshat in the BMW who is too busy planning the next four people to cut off to actually notice the cars next to him that he's running off the road.
That or the immigrant family driving some beat up POS in the left lane doing 10mph below the flow of traffic, completely oblivious to the traffic jam forming behind them.
I don't know about your local library, but mine is not likely to have any books talking about "gigabytes". More likely they will admonish the user to save up that $5000 for the 386 instead of going for the 286 so they can get the real mode support.
On the other hand, a quick search online will quickly clear up a lot of confusion these people have, unless they get sidetracked by porn and gambling.
Police also tend to get weird ideas, like the undesirable person might not be dealing drugs, but we don't like his kind here anyway. Lets say he's a drug dealer (blam).
To me, this sounds like a human rights disaster waiting to happen, and I hope Singapore gets itself out of the mess before it blows up in their face. I don't think you'll find due process "ball-less" when you get wrongly accuesed by some overzealous cop listening to some guy pleading for his life and fingering everybody he knows as a drug dealer. Yes. The government knows the best forms of entertainment for you. Thinking for yourself is bad. Pick up government novel GN-23562 for your daily entertainment stipend today. Interestingly enough, a lot of those fast food places used to close between 10 and 12. Maybe the kids will turn to drugs once they take away the gaming? I don't know. I do know that the games weren't hurting anybody (the vast majority of the time at any rate), I don't know what they're going to do instead though. This is a bit of FUD, but it really does reflect my uncertainty about the upcoming situation.
The difference between an apple and a song is that if you eat an apple, you cannot sell that apple to someone else. Even if you download a song it will be available to sell to someone else.
This is why people are hesitant to call music piracy "theft" as it does not result in the deprivation of the resource the same way that real theft does.
Worse, they sometimes have ten or even twelve legs instead of the already scary eight. The picture didn't look that scary though, the thing is literally all legs, there doesn't even appear to be anything resembling a body in the middle to hold it all together, just a bunch of legs stuck end to end.
Actaully, photos in their native habitat would be really lousy since there is generally no light down there. Also, it is hard to say just how rare or common each of these species is, as there is very very little data on them, the mere fact that a random sampling from a single boat managed to catch these guys suggests that they might not be all that rare after all.
If you're not sticking them on KaZaa, I think you're safe in this case.
On the other hand, if you want every zip file with a number before the