I suppose I shouldn't post unless I know for sure, but I believe the current theory is that the lower gravity is caused by the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere, nor of a consistent density.
They should design ingenious puzzles and traps to snare the wary, with lots pf pressure plates and levers and stone blocks. Then only Lara Croft will be able to get in!
On a more serious note, how are they going to get pictoglyphs that are any more dangerous looking than "curse of the mummy' type stuff? Images of the face from "Scream" are all well and good, but that's more or less what they egyptians had on thier pyramids.
well, there certainly is. I'm not saying there was a flood, just that the flood is a common thread between civilization, which is a reason to look for a connection. There's no evidence AGAINST vampires, after all.
(For what it's worth, I think it's more likely that the flood legends are based on local flooding caused by global climate change, not that the entire world was flooded all at the same time)
There's evidence for a nearly world-wide flood, too - there's examples of the flood myth in native american mythology (can't remember the tribe, sorry), babylonian, bible (of course), hindi, practically every culture has one.
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The existence of alternatives does not mean that I shouldn't complain about flaws in a companies practices. Besides, I am indeed forced to use Windows in my work (although not XP).
Google makes these really, really cool little search appliance things that you set up on your network. Slashdot has a story about it, and I'm sure you can find some stuff on the google site. They also provide site indexing services.
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It's this simple: We think that WE should be the ones who decide what our computers do, not MS. No, i don't really care if they know what my web searches are for. What I care about is the attitude that they are entitled to that information. I want the opportunity to specify that I don't care.
The local search stuff is just messed up. There is NO rational reason to download files just because I did a local search. None whatsoever. Since there's no logical reason for it, I find myself assuming that theres a nefarious purpose behind it.
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It's the index files that the Indexing service stores to speed up your local searches. There may be other stuff as well, I haven't looked at it in too much detail.
Well, as a Gov't Techie(tm), I stay because, while I don't make as much cash, my benefits are unreal, I've got near-total job security, and very little stress.
What liberal arts majors who read too much call "monomythic elements", us normal people who just watch movies all "cliches". Without a french accent mark, mind you.
In all fairness, this only came back into print about a year ago. It took me regular prowling of used book stores all through high school to find my copies.
Just played with it a little bit. Theres a little video thing (it's an ad for weather.com itself, at least for me - kind of odd) that goes away when I disable plugins. I assume it's Java.
Well, it's a personal thing, but I PREFER my browser windows to all be in one "alt-tab" location when I'm working on lots of stuff at once. And anyway, opera 6 lets you choose either SDI or MDI, which is obviously the best of both worlds.
Sadly, no. The Fair Use provision of copyright law only shield you from prosecution, they don't guarantee anything. And the DMCA overrides most of the fair use laws, too, especially the ones about backups (If you can make a backup with it, you can make a copy with it, if you can make a copy with it, it's a circumvention device).
The GPL is based on the exact same concepts as the MS EULA. If the GPL isn't enforcable, then neither is the EULA - and they'll die before they cripple that.
Re:September 11th used to justify everything.
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Thats an interesting point about overseas mail, I hadn't thought of that- I believe that the power to open overseas mail is restricted to Customs however, and "normal" law enforcement can't do it (without a warrant, anyway). That raises all kinds of interesting questions about at which point email becomes overseas (If I mail from CA to NY but it goes via routers in Canada, is that overseas mail?)
And yes, I'm very familiar with the "reasonable expectaion of privacy" idea, I'm just in disagreement about what that really means. There is precedent that if people EXPECT it to be private, then it legally is, even if it's technically trivial to get that information - phone taps, for example. In the case of email, yes, it's sent in the clear, but I'd say it has rather more expectation of privacy than a postcard (the most common comparison) - it never crosses human hands, and there is no reason whatsoever for anything to read and log the content of the message, other than for privacy violation. Aside from that, most people FEEL that email is private, whether it is or not.
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I don't understand why you don't think theres an expectation of (rasonable) privacy in your email - admitedly, it's stupid to rely on it, but theres no way to see someone elses mail without intentionally viewing the information. The fact that it's possible for anyone with access to any of the routers it goes through to view it does not mean you should assume they will, nor does it mean it's in public view - someone has to look at it. Since it takes special effort to view it, that (to me) implies an expectation of reasonable privacy (gentlemen do not read each others mail, and all that), and, thus, that there should be a warrant before police can access that information.
For what it's worth, you actually DO have a right to privacy in your own home, even with the blinds open. Check up on peeping tom laws sometime.
You know, I was going to make more reasoned arguments, but I just re-read your post and I'm just too pissed off by the way people always dismiss these sort of concerns as "whining". Just because YOU are comfortable with people reading all your communications and watching in your windows, doesn't mean that everyone should be, nor that it should be considered a normal thing. Just because you are a sheep doesn't mean that I need to be.
actually,[rock climbing/dancing/sex] can cause adrenalin(sp) rushs, and adrenalin is addictive. There is your chemical dependency. That all you really need for an addiction, the other things you list depend on the type of addiction.
Guess I better rush out real quick and sue everyone who makes anything I might enjoy. In short: Something fun is not addictive, even if I get addicted to it.
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Theres a big difference between "Someone might see this, if they happen to be looking", and "We, the government, are going to actively inspect EVERYTHING". Kinda like how you might not worry about having the blinds drawn all the time, but you'd still get pissed off if the police sat outside with binoculars.
There is also an amazingly large leap from "taking responsibility for the words you write" to "it's okay for the government to inspect everything I write for possible subversive content".
I'm guessing this reduces junk marketers and the porn industry from tainting resultes, but I don't like it. Google offers free submission, and I think their results are excellent.
No. The point is to make the junk marketers and the porn industry to fork over thier 30 bucks per URL. What this affects is people just like you who have a personal page they want listed.
In (sort of) order...
a) Disk space: Sure, my MP3s take up alot more space than windows messenger or outlook express do. But it's still disk space I want back. There's also the fact that I have a small windows partition, and all the MP3s and whatnot are on a seperate physical drive, so removing outlook express saves me space on a partition where I actually need it.
b)Bare bones car: You most certainly can buy a bare-bones car, as in a car that has just enough functionality to run and no more. The care analagy is over-used and hard to stretch this far anyway.
c) Liability: MS has far less liability for anything involved in windows than Ford does for it's cars. For example, MS can quite legally have Windows wipe any linux partitions it finds, and not be liable (although doing so would probably spark enough suits that there'd finally be a real test of the EULA, and they don't want that).
d) Using windows: This isn't so much that "MS makes me use windows and it sucks", although very few people here never touch windows at all - whether it's just for games, or they support it at work, or whatver. It's about bashing a company for making totally false statements in court, and creating a shoddy product, that somehow has become an industry standard. If it's going to be a (de facto) standard, then by god it should be better.
e) Components in linux: You can remove any component you want in linux without affecting things that don't directly rely on that component. Removing the X libraries won't make your system crash when you try to boot. The distribution model for windows is different than for linux, but the basic correlation is Microsoft -> linux kernen:: OEM -> linux distro, which is sort of what the States are pushing for here - A stripped down, core OS which OEMS may then add whatever functionality they want to. MS fears this like the plague.
As for how much you paid... well, if there was a stripped down OS, one would assume it would cost less. And nobody is saying that MS can't add this functionality, simply that it needs to be removable and modifiable. For example, the poster above who mentioned an update for Windows Messenger that "you should install even if not running it". What the heck is up with that? Why should I need to install updates to a program I don't use? Because they've intentionally loaded core OS functionality in the same DLLs that app uses. Thats blatantly poor programming practice, and the only reasonable explanation for it is to give them a legal out.
Thats an activeX control, not part of the OS. The problem is that the DLLs that are linked to that control ALSO contain important OS functionality, like the file manager. There is no reason whatsoever that these functions should share the same DLLs.
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I suppose I shouldn't post unless I know for sure, but I believe the current theory is that the lower gravity is caused by the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere, nor of a consistent density.
Guess you don't know everything, after all. http://www.bartleby.com/65/ma/Mahabali.html
On a more serious note, how are they going to get pictoglyphs that are any more dangerous looking than "curse of the mummy' type stuff? Images of the face from "Scream" are all well and good, but that's more or less what they egyptians had on thier pyramids.
(For what it's worth, I think it's more likely that the flood legends are based on local flooding caused by global climate change, not that the entire world was flooded all at the same time)
There's evidence for a nearly world-wide flood, too - there's examples of the flood myth in native american mythology (can't remember the tribe, sorry), babylonian, bible (of course), hindi, practically every culture has one.
The existence of alternatives does not mean that I shouldn't complain about flaws in a companies practices. Besides, I am indeed forced to use Windows in my work (although not XP).
Google makes these really, really cool little search appliance things that you set up on your network. Slashdot has a story about it, and I'm sure you can find some stuff on the google site. They also provide site indexing services.
The local search stuff is just messed up. There is NO rational reason to download files just because I did a local search. None whatsoever. Since there's no logical reason for it, I find myself assuming that theres a nefarious purpose behind it.
It's the index files that the Indexing service stores to speed up your local searches. There may be other stuff as well, I haven't looked at it in too much detail.
Well, as a Gov't Techie(tm), I stay because, while I don't make as much cash, my benefits are unreal, I've got near-total job security, and very little stress.
What liberal arts majors who read too much call "monomythic elements", us normal people who just watch movies all "cliches". Without a french accent mark, mind you.
In all fairness, this only came back into print about a year ago. It took me regular prowling of used book stores all through high school to find my copies.
Just played with it a little bit. Theres a little video thing (it's an ad for weather.com itself, at least for me - kind of odd) that goes away when I disable plugins. I assume it's Java.
Well, it's a personal thing, but I PREFER my browser windows to all be in one "alt-tab" location when I'm working on lots of stuff at once. And anyway, opera 6 lets you choose either SDI or MDI, which is obviously the best of both worlds.
Sadly, no. The Fair Use provision of copyright law only shield you from prosecution, they don't guarantee anything. And the DMCA overrides most of the fair use laws, too, especially the ones about backups (If you can make a backup with it, you can make a copy with it, if you can make a copy with it, it's a circumvention device).
The GPL is based on the exact same concepts as the MS EULA. If the GPL isn't enforcable, then neither is the EULA - and they'll die before they cripple that.
And yes, I'm very familiar with the "reasonable expectaion of privacy" idea, I'm just in disagreement about what that really means. There is precedent that if people EXPECT it to be private, then it legally is, even if it's technically trivial to get that information - phone taps, for example. In the case of email, yes, it's sent in the clear, but I'd say it has rather more expectation of privacy than a postcard (the most common comparison) - it never crosses human hands, and there is no reason whatsoever for anything to read and log the content of the message, other than for privacy violation. Aside from that, most people FEEL that email is private, whether it is or not.
For what it's worth, you actually DO have a right to privacy in your own home, even with the blinds open. Check up on peeping tom laws sometime.
You know, I was going to make more reasoned arguments, but I just re-read your post and I'm just too pissed off by the way people always dismiss these sort of concerns as "whining". Just because YOU are comfortable with people reading all your communications and watching in your windows, doesn't mean that everyone should be, nor that it should be considered a normal thing. Just because you are a sheep doesn't mean that I need to be.
Guess I better rush out real quick and sue everyone who makes anything I might enjoy. In short: Something fun is not addictive, even if I get addicted to it.
There is also an amazingly large leap from "taking responsibility for the words you write" to "it's okay for the government to inspect everything I write for possible subversive content".
Opera can do this too :) The new right-click funcitonality in Opera 6 is one of my favorite things (But I use K-meleon anyway)
No. The point is to make the junk marketers and the porn industry to fork over thier 30 bucks per URL. What this affects is people just like you who have a personal page they want listed.
a) Disk space: Sure, my MP3s take up alot more space than windows messenger or outlook express do. But it's still disk space I want back. There's also the fact that I have a small windows partition, and all the MP3s and whatnot are on a seperate physical drive, so removing outlook express saves me space on a partition where I actually need it.
b)Bare bones car: You most certainly can buy a bare-bones car, as in a car that has just enough functionality to run and no more. The care analagy is over-used and hard to stretch this far anyway.
c) Liability: MS has far less liability for anything involved in windows than Ford does for it's cars. For example, MS can quite legally have Windows wipe any linux partitions it finds, and not be liable (although doing so would probably spark enough suits that there'd finally be a real test of the EULA, and they don't want that).
d) Using windows: This isn't so much that "MS makes me use windows and it sucks", although very few people here never touch windows at all - whether it's just for games, or they support it at work, or whatver. It's about bashing a company for making totally false statements in court, and creating a shoddy product, that somehow has become an industry standard. If it's going to be a (de facto) standard, then by god it should be better.
e) Components in linux: You can remove any component you want in linux without affecting things that don't directly rely on that component. Removing the X libraries won't make your system crash when you try to boot. The distribution model for windows is different than for linux, but the basic correlation is Microsoft -> linux kernen :: OEM -> linux distro, which is sort of what the States are pushing for here - A stripped down, core OS which OEMS may then add whatever functionality they want to. MS fears this like the plague.
As for how much you paid... well, if there was a stripped down OS, one would assume it would cost less. And nobody is saying that MS can't add this functionality, simply that it needs to be removable and modifiable. For example, the poster above who mentioned an update for Windows Messenger that "you should install even if not running it". What the heck is up with that? Why should I need to install updates to a program I don't use? Because they've intentionally loaded core OS functionality in the same DLLs that app uses. Thats blatantly poor programming practice, and the only reasonable explanation for it is to give them a legal out.
Thats an activeX control, not part of the OS. The problem is that the DLLs that are linked to that control ALSO contain important OS functionality, like the file manager. There is no reason whatsoever that these functions should share the same DLLs.
I believe AOL did get a trademark for "You've got Mail", when using the distinctive "AOL Guy" voice.