The treaty prevents governments from claiming ownership, not people or corporations.
That's right. I forgot what the exact wording was of the Treaty. Of course, just because you have a piece of paper that says you own something doesn't mean squat unless others honor it. Supposedly Congress has backed the guy that sells "land" on the Moon but that is still different than 1 person owning the entire Moon. When it comes to our gaseous neighbors I have to wonder how you can sell land though. Of course the same problem comes with buying up stellar land since there is no rock. I guess if you can convince someone or a group of people (that matter) that your ownership of a celestial object is legally binding then you are golden, otherwise I hope you have a lot of money because you would have just wasted some of it in buying the celestial object.
Naming a star and owning a star are 2 different things, especially if you don't care if your star has hundreds of other names by other people. This is because star registries are not offical astronomical registries and each registry is independently owned and operated. Basically the registries are a gimmick and that's why it's so cheap. Owning a star...well, as far as I know I don't believe that is possible given the International Space Treaty.
If I believe that Social Security is going to collapse before I can benefit (I have no opinion on the matter, for the record, as I lack sufficient information), why the hell would I want pay into such a thing?
It is more like socialized security. Everyone pays into it for someone else's benefit. You pay enough times and eventually you may benefit but you won't get as much out of it as you put in. It is much like the Powerball lottery.
The capacity for hatred really is the one thing all humans have in common.
People on slashdot are quick to think that religious folk are insane and therefore they think in this case that some Muslims will do something to Wikipedia if they don't get their way but the way that is said just shows that those same people hate religion of all kinds. As you said, humans have the capacity to hate and it isn't restricted to those who practice religion; on the contrary it seems to be equally distributed across people who do not practice religion as well as those who do. Considering that various organizations (public and private) in the US are bowing down to anything Muslim and nothing Christian it wouldn't surprise me if Wikipedia catches the same contagion and changes their decision whether voluntarily or involuntarily.
It can only be a matter of time before a slim and I think it will hit before the holidays this year.
I highly doubt it will before Valentine's day. That's when people buy gifts for others, right?. At least that's what all the local advertisers seem to make me want to think the last few weeks.
Actually I have. And I don't believe that everything we consider to be a disease (such as addiction) is really a disease but more a lack of self-control such that an individual favors the "reward" over any truly negative consequences of their actions.
I was on this terrible crap for a while...after 2 weeks I had gained 15 pounds (not exaggerating).
I remember finding myself on the candy Isle at the supermarket shoveling 12-packs of twix, snickers, and all kinds of other candy into my shopping cart...and I usually don't eat sweets.
Do I have to point out that you made a conscious decision to get in your automobile and go to the store to buy that candy? You made a choice. It resulted in an extra 15 pounds. It was a bad choice. One of the things (sweet, sweet candy as Homer would say) you knew you would get in return for making that choice won over the other thing you knew you would get (more weight). Do you press the lever that gives you a treat but shocks you afterward or do you pass on the treat and avoid getting shocked? Seems you wanted the treated despite the punishment you knew you'd get with it. The reward outweighed the consequences.
And before anyone says 'but but we'll all get 16 million addresses!'.. yeah, over the rotting corpses of every major ISP in the world.
It's more than that though. The whole method of assigning IPs is a formal process. To get a certain block you have to be a carrier or something alone those lines. Just like with IPv4 addresses, any individual can not acquire an IPv6 address whether they want to or not. It just isn't going to happen. IP addresses aren't bought, they are leased. Last year the DoD paid for their pool which included a few billion IPs for lots of millions of dollars). No corporation owns their IPs. An individual would in theory go to their ISP as the next level in the hierarchy in an attempt to get their own IP. If an ISP is in the business of splitting up their IPv6 pool to individual users then you have a shot but it will cost money because they will have to spend money to use IPv6. If you attempt to bypass the ISP then you run into the constraints of the formal process preventing individuals from ever coming close to getting their own. There is the private block of IPv6 addresses that users are free to use just like IPv4 addresses from RFC1918. I believe the block is fc00/8 but I could be wrong. I believe Apple's OSX uses the block to assign an IPv6 address to network interfaces.
Two reasons. 1: the warranty disclaimer. Like it or not, "NO WARRANTY" is stamped on to the licenses of commercial software because software consumers don't want to pay the higher cost that would be demanded if a warranty were provided. SLAs do exist, but SLAs cover services. The market is willing to pay for SLA on services, and the whole system works, even if it's not quite as perfect as we might dream.
Was that ever tested? Did software ever come with a warranty and customers decided not to buy it because it cost to much and then companies started to put "NO WARRANTY" in their EULAS?
The other big reason is that a blue screen of death doesn't result in actual death. If you're building homes or highways, you have human life in your hands, and holding you accountable for negligence seems a bit more appropriate. If you're building door locks for the home and a burgular manages to pick it, holding you accountable for negligence is ridiculous because you never promised the lock couldn't be broken. If you're building the home's foundation and it cracks, you still aren't held liable unless you warranted that the foundation wouldn't break. And you wouldn't do that unless you could afford to fix it if it did.
Um, I could be wrong but software inside an embedded device such as a heart defibrillator or any other emergency medical device may just be able to cause death if they malfunction. And now we get to test the reality of a BSoD because MS is pushing their way into the automobile industry.
Simple economics. The market has supplied what the consumer has demanded. But some people get these ridiculous ideas about licensing software developers or enacting liability laws when there is NO risk to human life. They try to draw comparisons to disciplines where there are, then gloss over the details. Under even the most brief analysis, the argument doesn't hold water.
Sears and Craftsman still put warranties on their tools (lifetime if I remember correctly). For that matter, hard drive manufacturers still put warranties (albeit only 1 year in some cases despite holding gigabytes of data) on their drives. In neither of those cases are human lives in danger in many cases. Why can't software have warranties?
"I am, in the States, known as a Software Engineer. In Canada we're not allowed to call ourselves engineers, although the discipline is no less rigorous than any other kind of engineering.
I don't know about the state you are in but in WV (where I am) it is illegal to call yourself a software engineer or hw engineer or any type of engineer unless you take an engineering test. At least that's what I've been told by a local university professor.
We had "anti-matter," "dark matter," now "phantom matter." Jesus, is there anything substantial and real in physics anymore? As the years go on, physics starts to sound less and less like science and more and more like "Alice in Wonderland." Everything seems to hinge on things we can't see, or can't measure, or can't prove. Unless some of this mumbo jumbo can give me eternal life, make women throw themselves at me, or build a better and more luscious cheeseburger, I'm not interested.
Although I whole-heartedly understand your point and realize you were also trying to be funny, the truth is that physicists do try to have a sense of humor with WIMPs and MACHOs, black holes that don't have any hair, and so on. Anti-matter actually is substantial though with anti-protons and positrons actually having measurable masses in particle accelerators. Dark matter isn't as substantial because it is hard to see and thus hard to prove its existence. It's like a black hole: you see its effects but because it is dark you can't see the object you want to. Dark matter is even worse though compared to a black hole because dark matter doesn't emit anything, at least black holes emit x-rays.>
The problem is that physicists, well theoretical physicists, are responsible for treading new ground and thus their theories are usually going to require objects that are not yet observable and ideas not yet provable because they are on the leading edge. The theorists drive the astronomers (the observers) to confirm their theories. It takes time for technology to catch up to do that. It took a many decades to get the technology (and opportunity) capable of mapping the CMB radiation because it is so small and the changes so slight (1 part in 100,000 if I recall correctly) once it was proposed that it should exist (late 1940s) and had been detected by Penzias and Wilson (late 1970s). Since then (1990) we have taken multiple measurements and as a result we have the map shown at the top right of this page.
My understanding is that Apple tried to make a phone the old way, i.e. the rokr, and it failed.
Yes, you are correct. This was explained in the latest issue of Wired which profiled the behind-the-scenes action that happened at Apple leading up to the iPhone's release. I wish the article had been longer but it was still good. It mentioned the Rokr and Jobs knew it was going to flop and started working on the iPhone as soon as he had that realization. And it was due to Motorola still catering to the carriers at that point and not the customers. Jobs took the idea to AT&T and told them if they don't want to play he was fully prepared to become his own carrier.
Apple does not have to cripple a phone in order to insure that the carrier will make enough money.
By the way, 'insure' should be 'ensure'. Apple isn't insuring anything.
I've never seen red arrows before. I've seen yellow ones though. Isn't that a traffic oxymoron? Arrows mean go and red means stop. At least you have a car though. Sometimes when I'm out late on my motorcycle it won't trigger the lights sometimes even though I was told by a cop once that it should be plenty heavy enough to trigger the magnets in the road. But as someone else suggested, you can try triggering the light again by backing up and then going forward again. It would be nice if there was an indicator that doing that actually worked other than just the traffic light itself changing which for all we know could just be coincidence.
but TW is changing a lot of things recently. I just noticed starting on this past Friday that TW has their own search page load if you type in an invalid domain name. Similar to how IE would load an MSN (now it loads live.com) search page, TW now loads a search page with the domain of ww23.rr.com. Luckily they let users opt out so that your browser's normal error page is displayed but it is just another way for TW to annoy customers when they think they are trying to help. And of course do this unannounced. Their redirected search page is located here for anyone who is curious what it looks like. I hope the pilot project for tiered pricing falls flat on its face.
It wasn't the zealots that got the democracy. It was the regular people. Unfortunately, it's the zealots who still have a lot of control over what goes on over there. But that's what happens when there is true integration of religion and the government which is different than the United States which has religion in the government. Many middle eastern countries have government in religion. Many Americans have trouble distinguishing between the two. The US gov't has yet to order anyone stoned for not obeying any religions' rules, especially the religion that so many politicians are a member of.
At the bottom of the map linked in the submission is a diagram of how much capacity is used, available, and bought on the trans-Atlantic cable. Unfortunately the caption says "terabytes" but each of the labels in the diagram use "tbps". Someone doesn't know how to distinguish between terabits and terabytes.
i personally think sexual preference is NOT hardwired though it does stem from prepubescent experiences. your just confusing 2 issues here.
It isn't hard wired. It is a *preference* after all. It is a choice. It wouldn't be fair if God didn't allow homosexuals into Heaven if they had no control of whether they were homosexual. It would be like saying no blacks or whites or asians are allowed into Heaven. You can't help what race you are but you can help what sexual preferences you have. It stems from experience and how well you have been taught right and wrong. If you were properly taught right and wrong however then there probably wouldn't be any experiences that could change your sexual preference. But for many, especially teenagers, it comes down to "how can I get off the best?" and so they pick someone of the same sex because it is easier to talk to people of the same sex and you avoid the whole dating thing. But it is just for sexual gratification.
I can't believe teaching right and wrong has to include sexual preference nowadays but it isn't like people are being raised to think that it is okay to be with someone of the same sex for a marriage type situation but instead people are not being raised to think it is wrong to just have sex with anything that has a hole. We are raising a bunch of hedonists.
I find it INCREDIBLY selfish that anyone would risk their babies health just so that a man isn't involved in anyway. but that's just the kind of nonsense i've come to expect from certain man hating rug munching factions.
You are talking about the same general female population who view their baby as non-human until it is born and thus they are free to choose whatever fate for the alien they want until it takes a breath of air. I hope it isn't a surprise that they would be willing to risk the baby's, I mean alien's, health just so a man isn't involved because when a man is involved but the baby is unwanted they feel they can exercise their right to get rid of the baby, dust off their hands, and move on like nothing ever happened. Many women risk their baby's health just because they want to continue smoking and drinking during pregnancy. I'm sure this will be modded flamebait but sometimes the truth hurts, just ask the babies.....
My sig just happens to be appropriate in this case.
Seriously, I'm surprised the book length is finite.
Well this is just the first one in the series. There are still 25 others. The ones in this book are the ones that begin with 'A' and yes there are only so many that begin with 'A'.
So, now my wife and I both say "I hate this f*cking computer" on a daily basis. First boot of the day often takes 5-10 minutes to simply stabilize and remain consistantly[sic] responsive with nothing but Firefox running. I am completely clueless as to what the hell this machine is doing on it's own that takes up all of its processing power that it can't handle simultaneously opening perezhilton.com.
Well once Vista has fully booted why not run Task Manager to see if anything is using the CPU? If there isn't but it still feels sluggish then it is probably an I/O issue with the hard drive (maybe even RAM).
Late 90s? Don't kid yourself you old geezer. Larry came out in the eighties and even X-Wing is from -93.
Maybe the first LSL did but there were at least 6 of them and the latter ones were available into the 90s. Also, X-Wing may have came out around 93 but I said they were out, not came out, in the late 90s, meaning they were still around. I started playing X-Wing in 97.
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That's right. I forgot what the exact wording was of the Treaty. Of course, just because you have a piece of paper that says you own something doesn't mean squat unless others honor it. Supposedly Congress has backed the guy that sells "land" on the Moon but that is still different than 1 person owning the entire Moon. When it comes to our gaseous neighbors I have to wonder how you can sell land though. Of course the same problem comes with buying up stellar land since there is no rock. I guess if you can convince someone or a group of people (that matter) that your ownership of a celestial object is legally binding then you are golden, otherwise I hope you have a lot of money because you would have just wasted some of it in buying the celestial object.
Naming a star and owning a star are 2 different things, especially if you don't care if your star has hundreds of other names by other people. This is because star registries are not offical astronomical registries and each registry is independently owned and operated. Basically the registries are a gimmick and that's why it's so cheap. Owning a star...well, as far as I know I don't believe that is possible given the International Space Treaty.
It is more like socialized security. Everyone pays into it for someone else's benefit. You pay enough times and eventually you may benefit but you won't get as much out of it as you put in. It is much like the Powerball lottery.
People on slashdot are quick to think that religious folk are insane and therefore they think in this case that some Muslims will do something to Wikipedia if they don't get their way but the way that is said just shows that those same people hate religion of all kinds. As you said, humans have the capacity to hate and it isn't restricted to those who practice religion; on the contrary it seems to be equally distributed across people who do not practice religion as well as those who do. Considering that various organizations (public and private) in the US are bowing down to anything Muslim and nothing Christian it wouldn't surprise me if Wikipedia catches the same contagion and changes their decision whether voluntarily or involuntarily.
I highly doubt it will before Valentine's day. That's when people buy gifts for others, right?. At least that's what all the local advertisers seem to make me want to think the last few weeks.
Actually I have. And I don't believe that everything we consider to be a disease (such as addiction) is really a disease but more a lack of self-control such that an individual favors the "reward" over any truly negative consequences of their actions.
Do I have to point out that you made a conscious decision to get in your automobile and go to the store to buy that candy? You made a choice. It resulted in an extra 15 pounds. It was a bad choice. One of the things (sweet, sweet candy as Homer would say) you knew you would get in return for making that choice won over the other thing you knew you would get (more weight). Do you press the lever that gives you a treat but shocks you afterward or do you pass on the treat and avoid getting shocked? Seems you wanted the treated despite the punishment you knew you'd get with it. The reward outweighed the consequences.
It's more than that though. The whole method of assigning IPs is a formal process. To get a certain block you have to be a carrier or something alone those lines. Just like with IPv4 addresses, any individual can not acquire an IPv6 address whether they want to or not. It just isn't going to happen. IP addresses aren't bought, they are leased. Last year the DoD paid for their pool which included a few billion IPs for lots of millions of dollars). No corporation owns their IPs. An individual would in theory go to their ISP as the next level in the hierarchy in an attempt to get their own IP. If an ISP is in the business of splitting up their IPv6 pool to individual users then you have a shot but it will cost money because they will have to spend money to use IPv6. If you attempt to bypass the ISP then you run into the constraints of the formal process preventing individuals from ever coming close to getting their own. There is the private block of IPv6 addresses that users are free to use just like IPv4 addresses from RFC1918. I believe the block is fc00/8 but I could be wrong. I believe Apple's OSX uses the block to assign an IPv6 address to network interfaces.
Was that ever tested? Did software ever come with a warranty and customers decided not to buy it because it cost to much and then companies started to put "NO WARRANTY" in their EULAS?
The other big reason is that a blue screen of death doesn't result in actual death. If you're building homes or highways, you have human life in your hands, and holding you accountable for negligence seems a bit more appropriate. If you're building door locks for the home and a burgular manages to pick it, holding you accountable for negligence is ridiculous because you never promised the lock couldn't be broken. If you're building the home's foundation and it cracks, you still aren't held liable unless you warranted that the foundation wouldn't break. And you wouldn't do that unless you could afford to fix it if it did.Um, I could be wrong but software inside an embedded device such as a heart defibrillator or any other emergency medical device may just be able to cause death if they malfunction. And now we get to test the reality of a BSoD because MS is pushing their way into the automobile industry.
Simple economics. The market has supplied what the consumer has demanded. But some people get these ridiculous ideas about licensing software developers or enacting liability laws when there is NO risk to human life. They try to draw comparisons to disciplines where there are, then gloss over the details. Under even the most brief analysis, the argument doesn't hold water.Sears and Craftsman still put warranties on their tools (lifetime if I remember correctly). For that matter, hard drive manufacturers still put warranties (albeit only 1 year in some cases despite holding gigabytes of data) on their drives. In neither of those cases are human lives in danger in many cases. Why can't software have warranties?
I don't know about the state you are in but in WV (where I am) it is illegal to call yourself a software engineer or hw engineer or any type of engineer unless you take an engineering test. At least that's what I've been told by a local university professor.
What are you, a spelling Nazi Nazi or some grandmother?
Although I whole-heartedly understand your point and realize you were also trying to be funny, the truth is that physicists do try to have a sense of humor with WIMPs and MACHOs, black holes that don't have any hair, and so on. Anti-matter actually is substantial though with anti-protons and positrons actually having measurable masses in particle accelerators. Dark matter isn't as substantial because it is hard to see and thus hard to prove its existence. It's like a black hole: you see its effects but because it is dark you can't see the object you want to. Dark matter is even worse though compared to a black hole because dark matter doesn't emit anything, at least black holes emit x-rays.>
The problem is that physicists, well theoretical physicists, are responsible for treading new ground and thus their theories are usually going to require objects that are not yet observable and ideas not yet provable because they are on the leading edge. The theorists drive the astronomers (the observers) to confirm their theories. It takes time for technology to catch up to do that. It took a many decades to get the technology (and opportunity) capable of mapping the CMB radiation because it is so small and the changes so slight (1 part in 100,000 if I recall correctly) once it was proposed that it should exist (late 1940s) and had been detected by Penzias and Wilson (late 1970s). Since then (1990) we have taken multiple measurements and as a result we have the map shown at the top right of this page.
Yes, you are correct. This was explained in the latest issue of Wired which profiled the behind-the-scenes action that happened at Apple leading up to the iPhone's release. I wish the article had been longer but it was still good. It mentioned the Rokr and Jobs knew it was going to flop and started working on the iPhone as soon as he had that realization. And it was due to Motorola still catering to the carriers at that point and not the customers. Jobs took the idea to AT&T and told them if they don't want to play he was fully prepared to become his own carrier.
Apple does not have to cripple a phone in order to insure that the carrier will make enough money.By the way, 'insure' should be 'ensure'. Apple isn't insuring anything.
Actually, NFL helmets are made by Riddell.
I've never seen red arrows before. I've seen yellow ones though. Isn't that a traffic oxymoron? Arrows mean go and red means stop. At least you have a car though. Sometimes when I'm out late on my motorcycle it won't trigger the lights sometimes even though I was told by a cop once that it should be plenty heavy enough to trigger the magnets in the road. But as someone else suggested, you can try triggering the light again by backing up and then going forward again. It would be nice if there was an indicator that doing that actually worked other than just the traffic light itself changing which for all we know could just be coincidence.
but TW is changing a lot of things recently. I just noticed starting on this past Friday that TW has their own search page load if you type in an invalid domain name. Similar to how IE would load an MSN (now it loads live.com) search page, TW now loads a search page with the domain of ww23.rr.com. Luckily they let users opt out so that your browser's normal error page is displayed but it is just another way for TW to annoy customers when they think they are trying to help. And of course do this unannounced. Their redirected search page is located here for anyone who is curious what it looks like. I hope the pilot project for tiered pricing falls flat on its face.
It wasn't the zealots that got the democracy. It was the regular people. Unfortunately, it's the zealots who still have a lot of control over what goes on over there. But that's what happens when there is true integration of religion and the government which is different than the United States which has religion in the government. Many middle eastern countries have government in religion. Many Americans have trouble distinguishing between the two. The US gov't has yet to order anyone stoned for not obeying any religions' rules, especially the religion that so many politicians are a member of.
At the bottom of the map linked in the submission is a diagram of how much capacity is used, available, and bought on the trans-Atlantic cable. Unfortunately the caption says "terabytes" but each of the labels in the diagram use "tbps". Someone doesn't know how to distinguish between terabits and terabytes.
It isn't hard wired. It is a *preference* after all. It is a choice. It wouldn't be fair if God didn't allow homosexuals into Heaven if they had no control of whether they were homosexual. It would be like saying no blacks or whites or asians are allowed into Heaven. You can't help what race you are but you can help what sexual preferences you have. It stems from experience and how well you have been taught right and wrong. If you were properly taught right and wrong however then there probably wouldn't be any experiences that could change your sexual preference. But for many, especially teenagers, it comes down to "how can I get off the best?" and so they pick someone of the same sex because it is easier to talk to people of the same sex and you avoid the whole dating thing. But it is just for sexual gratification.
I can't believe teaching right and wrong has to include sexual preference nowadays but it isn't like people are being raised to think that it is okay to be with someone of the same sex for a marriage type situation but instead people are not being raised to think it is wrong to just have sex with anything that has a hole. We are raising a bunch of hedonists.
I find it INCREDIBLY selfish that anyone would risk their babies health just so that a man isn't involved in anyway. but that's just the kind of nonsense i've come to expect from certain man hating rug munching factions.You are talking about the same general female population who view their baby as non-human until it is born and thus they are free to choose whatever fate for the alien they want until it takes a breath of air. I hope it isn't a surprise that they would be willing to risk the baby's, I mean alien's, health just so a man isn't involved because when a man is involved but the baby is unwanted they feel they can exercise their right to get rid of the baby, dust off their hands, and move on like nothing ever happened. Many women risk their baby's health just because they want to continue smoking and drinking during pregnancy. I'm sure this will be modded flamebait but sometimes the truth hurts, just ask the babies.....
My sig just happens to be appropriate in this case.
On this page it says that toy transformers are allowed on the plane. Anyone have Megatron I can borrow to test this?
Be careful not to mix Ethernet with the Physical media layer. More appropriate than UTP/STP/fiber is Fast ethernet, GigE, and Ten GigE.
Well this is just the first one in the series. There are still 25 others. The ones in this book are the ones that begin with 'A' and yes there are only so many that begin with 'A'.
Well once Vista has fully booted why not run Task Manager to see if anything is using the CPU? If there isn't but it still feels sluggish then it is probably an I/O issue with the hard drive (maybe even RAM).
Maybe the first LSL did but there were at least 6 of them and the latter ones were available into the 90s. Also, X-Wing may have came out around 93 but I said they were out, not came out, in the late 90s, meaning they were still around. I started playing X-Wing in 97.
So which one did you pick?