The right is to a trial by jury, and it's a right of the defendant. The reason for the right is that the jury is the ultimate check on the power of the state to prosecute. If the jury won't convict, tough shit. (of course, we've seen many instances of prosecutors circumventing the double-jeopardy rules by filing new charges when they don't like the jury's decision.)
If congressman Markey is a lawyer, his obvious lack of familiarity with the US constitution should be grounds to revoke is license to practice law: obviously he must have cheated on his bar exam.
The heads only have to touch the film a few times before the emulsion is history.
We use glass because it's dimensionally stable, easy to make extremely flat, and it's about as rigid as you could want it to be, regardless of whether the disk is spun up or not.
"Taking 2 weeks to get an XP installation working correctly (versus 2hours for Mandriva) indicates your lack of experience setting up XP. XP does come with a generic PS/2 mouse driver - if it didn't work then you probably didn't have the drivers for your mobo installed. A setup with XP is easy. Install XP, install your mobo drivers, install your gfx driver and then any other drivers for extra hardware (printer/scanner etc.)."
And that, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is why I shot him. The defense rests.
Nope. Making a display system work with floating point is a pretty massive undertaking technically, and I'm sure it resulted in quite a few patentable inventions along the way.
Singapore has no natural resources to speak of, and they've built an industrialized economy. North Korea's problem isn't a lack of resources, its problem is that the country is ruled by the last Stalinist dicatorship on earth, and the regime is far more interested in maintaining its power than feeding its people.
The best thing China can do for the people of Korea, is have one of their agents in the country put a bullet between the eyes of that repugnant little twerp who's running the joint.
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Hear, hear! And while we're at it, let's also remember that Al Gore isn't a scientist, either.
-jcr
The right is to a trial by jury, and it's a right of the defendant. The reason for the right is that the jury is the ultimate check on the power of the state to prosecute. If the jury won't convict, tough shit. (of course, we've seen many instances of prosecutors circumventing the double-jeopardy rules by filing new charges when they don't like the jury's decision.)
-jcr
For example, I have an unused copy of OS X for Intel here. Why shouldn't I be allowed to (try) and run it on any computer I want ?
Because it wasn't sold to you on those terms, troll.
-jcr
Jury nullifaction is more than a priviledge, it is a right even greater than serving on a jury.
Personallly, I regard it as a duty.
-jcr
Valid boarding passes, passports, drivers' licenses, and credit cards.
-jcr
If congressman Markey is a lawyer, his obvious lack of familiarity with the US constitution should be grounds to revoke is license to practice law: obviously he must have cheated on his bar exam.
-jcr
The more the Evil Empire irritates its users, the more opportunity arises for other vendors.
Remember when using MS office was the path of least resistance?
-jcr
The heads only have to touch the film a few times before the emulsion is history.
We use glass because it's dimensionally stable, easy to make extremely flat, and it's about as rigid as you could want it to be, regardless of whether the disk is spun up or not.
-jcr
So much for all the AMD fans who were foaming at the mouth over Apple going with Intel.
-jcr
"Taking 2 weeks to get an XP installation working correctly (versus 2hours for Mandriva) indicates your lack of experience setting up XP. XP does come with a generic PS/2 mouse driver - if it didn't work then you probably didn't have the drivers for your mobo installed. A setup with XP is easy. Install XP, install your mobo drivers, install your gfx driver and then any other drivers for extra hardware (printer/scanner etc.)."
And that, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is why I shot him. The defense rests.
-jcr
Why don't they just go find an old diesel locomotive and convert that into a generator?
That's been done, and frequently at that. If you already have a rail siding near your building, it's a pretty straightforward job.
-jcr
Yeah, because an ethics course would really help someone who didn't learn right from wrong before he got to college, right?
Get serious.
-jcr
I've yet to see a patent that isn't anymore than an extension of an idea using a previous technology and applying it to a more contemporary one.
Try looking up the patent on Xerography, then. People come up with novel solutions all the time, and many of them apply for and get patents on them.
-jcr
The problem is that this patent fails the obviousness test about 100%.
If it's so obvious, why didn't you do it first?
Implementing floating-point framebuffers is non-trivial problem, and SGIs solutions to doing so are why they deserved the patent.
-jcr
Nope. Making a display system work with floating point is a pretty massive undertaking technically, and I'm sure it resulted in quite a few patentable inventions along the way.
-jcr
No, RTFA. They patented floating-point frame buffers, which didn't exist before SGI invented them.
-jcr
The difference here is that SGI really did invent a lot of things, and their patents are probably valid.
-jcr
you think that because we're Mac users we'll accept the slowness of virtual memory everytime we run more than 2 apps at once?
Ever hear of something called a "decently implemented paging algorithm"? It makes VM kinda snappy. Check it out.
-jcr
"Microsoft Office Test Drive". That's a nasty one.
-jcr
Ever hear of something called "virtual memory"? It made all the papers, back in the late 1960's. Check it out.
-jcr
Most people are I'm sure saying why would you need that? Two words, video editing.
Heh.. How about two words, "external disk", or "backup device"?
-jcr
Wow. Finally a laptop with enough storage space.
That comment is going to seem so funny to you in a year...
-jcr
lack of natural resources in North Korea
Singapore has no natural resources to speak of, and they've built an industrialized economy. North Korea's problem isn't a lack of resources, its problem is that the country is ruled by the last Stalinist dicatorship on earth, and the regime is far more interested in maintaining its power than feeding its people.
The best thing China can do for the people of Korea, is have one of their agents in the country put a bullet between the eyes of that repugnant little twerp who's running the joint.
-jcr
More to the point, once you give up Windows, you won't be practicing masochism.
-jcr
Hey, pinkie! Haven't seen you for a while, how've you been? Still want to pretend that Marx was a philosopher?
-jcr