That's fine. It's still not established that an EULA presented online is valid. I can think of several strategies by which this could be attacked, and I'm not even a lawyer.
Yeah, that's right. Buy your wife a farking Macintosh or rip Windows/IE off her computer and replace it with some combination of Firefox and or Linux. If your wife is such a power user that she absolutely MUST, MUST, MUST have Windows, then she's enough of a power user to keep her own damn machine clean. Personally, I and most of the rest of the non-clueless world are fed up hearing people's lamentations on the insecurity of the dominant platform. The alternatives are out there. You and wifey-poo ignore them at your own frustration and risk.
I've been using a Sony CLIE TJ37 for about 6 months now and I can't say I am impressed by the PalmOS. It's barely capable of the 802.11 that is supposedly built into the system, the apps aren't that much better than the older versions of PalmOS, battery life sucks, and the handwriting input still trails the NewtonOS, which has been dead for 6 years. All these things were acceptable when the PalmOS was trying to run on a dinky 68k chip but I can run Linux or OSX on the same Mhz processor as we find in the Palm systems these days and still, in the case of OSX (and maybe Linux - I dunno how Linux power management is these days but it used to suck), get decent battery life. I don't know that much about Windows Mobile 2004 or whatever it's called, but I can't imagine it'd be less capable than PalmOS.
You CANNOT know that the file that will result from downloading a given.torrent is copyright protected until you view it. If I gave you a link to TheIncredibles.torrent and you download the torrent, you can GUESS what the content is - the new movie from Pixar. But maybe it's just the trailer. Maybe it's my own movie made with Star Wars figures that acts out the restaurant scene from Pulp Fiction that just HAPPENS to be called 'The Incredibles' as well. So, you download the file specified by the torrent. Do you KNOW it's a copyrighted work yet? No. So let's go watch it. Hey! This is even better than I thought - it's a homegrown pilot for a reality TV show based on living with The Incredible Hulk! This is FUNNY! Boy am I glad it's legal to distribute torrents even though they COULD be used for nefarious purposes.
I have this Metallica T-shirt that I bought when I was 14 (I'm 32 now) and it's been washed so many times that I could SWEAR it was not much more than one atom thick now!!!!
While your resume is sufficient to qualify you to discuss computers and technology, I can't see anything that remotely suggests that you have anything of value to add to a conversation on climatology. And no, a few years of watching Kevin Orpurt predict the weather on WTHI doesn't count.
Actually, the entirety of genetic information is NOT stored in an organism's DNA. See this Wikipedia on 'epigenetics' for a better explanation than I can give here.
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Deidre Honnold's "English With Ease: Mastering the Basic Ingredients of English"
No way. He is a doctor of the philosophy of science and a central tenet of that philosophy is that one doesn't fake data. Not even a little bit, and certainly not systematically and with intent to deceive. If the first thing this fellow did upon graduating was to run out and start falsifying, it's obvious that the degree was granted in error. I understand that we're talking about a slippery slope here, but in this case, the misconduct was very apparent and egregious.
This just shows what a pile of crap the Windows portable architecture is. My Powerbook hasn't been rebooted since the last time I updated the OS (current 68 days ago). When I open the screen, it's ready to work in 10 seconds. It joins whatever wireless network is available and checks my mail, immediately. When I close the screen, it goes to sleep. This is in stark contrast to the legions of Windows laptop users I know that *know* about 'Hibernate' mode or whatnot but are mortified to use it since they're basically assured of a blue screen or other egregious crash as a result of doing so. But really, instead of fixing the problem, let's move important functionality to the BIOS. That'll be GREAT!
I think there are a LOT of compelling features in Mozilla. Mozilla is, IMO, the technological leader, not the follower. IE may have more users, and it may be the leader in usage, but it's simply not as good as Mozilla, IMO.
You need to get back on the Apple platform, man. One of the coolest things about Mac OS X is its concept of system-wide services, with spelling being one of those. My browser, Safari, is spell-checking this as I write, and the code to do that came for free from the Cocoa core foundation. There are all sorts of other little nuggets of goodness in this system, too. Check it out.
what the idiots in hollywood tend to forget is that the demographic which watches sci fi tends to be smarter and more critical than the general populous
That may be the case. However, I must assume that you're a member of the less-intelligent general public since you don't seem to know that your tiny-brained colleagues are members of a 'populace' and not a 'populous'.
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That's fine. It's still not established that an EULA presented online is valid. I can think of several strategies by which this could be attacked, and I'm not even a lawyer.
Yeah, that's right. Buy your wife a farking Macintosh or rip Windows/IE off her computer and replace it with some combination of Firefox and or Linux. If your wife is such a power user that she absolutely MUST, MUST, MUST have Windows, then she's enough of a power user to keep her own damn machine clean. Personally, I and most of the rest of the non-clueless world are fed up hearing people's lamentations on the insecurity of the dominant platform. The alternatives are out there. You and wifey-poo ignore them at your own frustration and risk.
Can we pay with stamps? They're legal tender as well!
Between this and working on the Mars rover, JPLJustin, you are my new god.
I've been using a Sony CLIE TJ37 for about 6 months now and I can't say I am impressed by the PalmOS. It's barely capable of the 802.11 that is supposedly built into the system, the apps aren't that much better than the older versions of PalmOS, battery life sucks, and the handwriting input still trails the NewtonOS, which has been dead for 6 years. All these things were acceptable when the PalmOS was trying to run on a dinky 68k chip but I can run Linux or OSX on the same Mhz processor as we find in the Palm systems these days and still, in the case of OSX (and maybe Linux - I dunno how Linux power management is these days but it used to suck), get decent battery life. I don't know that much about Windows Mobile 2004 or whatever it's called, but I can't imagine it'd be less capable than PalmOS.
You CANNOT know that the file that will result from downloading a given .torrent is copyright protected until you view it. If I gave you a link to TheIncredibles.torrent and you download the torrent, you can GUESS what the content is - the new movie from Pixar. But maybe it's just the trailer. Maybe it's my own movie made with Star Wars figures that acts out the restaurant scene from Pulp Fiction that just HAPPENS to be called 'The Incredibles' as well. So, you download the file specified by the torrent. Do you KNOW it's a copyrighted work yet? No. So let's go watch it. Hey! This is even better than I thought - it's a homegrown pilot for a reality TV show based on living with The Incredible Hulk! This is FUNNY! Boy am I glad it's legal to distribute torrents even though they COULD be used for nefarious purposes.
"Comparing it to Perl is a bit unfair considering we don't exactly have a full fledged Unix like kernel written in Perl"
YET...
I have this Metallica T-shirt that I bought when I was 14 (I'm 32 now) and it's been washed so many times that I could SWEAR it was not much more than one atom thick now!!!!
Since Mac's running OSX have quite extensive uptimes (even laptops), you won't miss the *BONG* since you're not used to hearing it anyway.
While your resume is sufficient to qualify you to discuss computers and technology, I can't see anything that remotely suggests that you have anything of value to add to a conversation on climatology. And no, a few years of watching Kevin Orpurt predict the weather on WTHI doesn't count.
"Rambo Syndrome: Alright, I'll give you that one. There is nothing Rambo-like about Kerry."
Damn straight there's not. Unlike Mr. John Rambo, John Kerry's war record is real and not a function of overactive Hollywood imaginations.
Actually, the entirety of genetic information is NOT stored in an organism's DNA. See this Wikipedia on 'epigenetics' for a better explanation than I can give here.
Deidre Honnold's "English With Ease: Mastering the Basic Ingredients of English"
"by law, you're entitled to access any CCTV footage that contains your image"
I'd like very much to believe this but have never heard about this law before. Can you quote some specifics on this, please?
He said 'user' not 'wanker that sits in front of a 15" monitor pretending to blow up trolls'
No way. He is a doctor of the philosophy of science and a central tenet of that philosophy is that one doesn't fake data. Not even a little bit, and certainly not systematically and with intent to deceive. If the first thing this fellow did upon graduating was to run out and start falsifying, it's obvious that the degree was granted in error. I understand that we're talking about a slippery slope here, but in this case, the misconduct was very apparent and egregious.
The Horned One, Ph.D., UIUC Biology 2001
OK, now that I have managed to pick myself up off the floor and stop laughing, thanks. That made my morning.
This just shows what a pile of crap the Windows portable architecture is. My Powerbook hasn't been rebooted since the last time I updated the OS (current 68 days ago). When I open the screen, it's ready to work in 10 seconds. It joins whatever wireless network is available and checks my mail, immediately. When I close the screen, it goes to sleep. This is in stark contrast to the legions of Windows laptop users I know that *know* about 'Hibernate' mode or whatnot but are mortified to use it since they're basically assured of a blue screen or other egregious crash as a result of doing so. But really, instead of fixing the problem, let's move important functionality to the BIOS. That'll be GREAT!
I think there are a LOT of compelling features in Mozilla. Mozilla is, IMO, the technological leader, not the follower. IE may have more users, and it may be the leader in usage, but it's simply not as good as Mozilla, IMO.
s/Mozilla/Mac OS X/m
You need to get back on the Apple platform, man. One of the coolest things about Mac OS X is its concept of system-wide services, with spelling being one of those. My browser, Safari, is spell-checking this as I write, and the code to do that came for free from the Cocoa core foundation. There are all sorts of other little nuggets of goodness in this system, too. Check it out.
I couldn't get it working under any Linux or *BSD platform
You obviously didn't try MacOS X. Watch your generalizations, por favor.
what the idiots in hollywood tend to forget is that the demographic which watches sci fi tends to be smarter and more critical than the general populous
That may be the case. However, I must assume that you're a member of the less-intelligent general public since you don't seem to know that your tiny-brained colleagues are members of a 'populace' and not a 'populous'.
Perhaps they'd like to come to my house for some burgers and dogs...
"Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly."
Spoken like a true Aussie! This is the funniest comment I've read all morning and I've already been to Fark.