In a free society, when a person dies an accidental death or becomes brain-dead from same, why does their right to leave a pretty corpse trump the right to life of someone who needs a transplant? Our current transplant system is opt-in...how is that justifiable? (Once again, I'm referring to donation at death rather than live donation.)
MS was justifiably convicted of abusing its OS monopoly. That doesn't mean they have a monopoly on web servers, video game consoles, or funny-shaped keyboards.
A monopoly is defined by the amount of control over a market as a whole, not the amount of control over the products offered up in that market. For example, IIS could never be an example of a product with a monopolistic hold on a market as long as Apache maintained significant market share, no matter how tightly IIS was locked down.
Anecdotal, but... My PC is an Athlon 64 3200+ running XP SP3. Before that, it was an Athlon XP 1800+, and a PII/450 before that. I upgraded from a botched Win98 install on the PII to XP RC1(!), and haven't done a clean install since. (I've done repair installs with each CPU/mobo upgrade.) My PC has always been as snappy and responsive as I could hope for; the only problem is an occasional machine check exception which may be due to hardware. (Diagnostics say that the error occurs on HyperTransport 0, which connects the CPU core to its on-chip memory controller.) Maybe the stability is due in part to avoiding crap and bloatware; I use FF, Thunderbird, and Pidgin, and disable most unnecessary services and the startup apps that some programs try to install. I also do clean uninstalls when I remove programs and generally try to trim the fat.
However, I do see less experienced users' PCs running slowly and unreliably...sometimes it's a clearly defined spyware problem and sometimes it's "Windows bloeat" or whatever you'd like to call it. I can't say what they do differently because I'm not looking over their shoulders.
I believe the two child seats fold out into the trunk area...the rear-facing kids' bench used to be common on station wagons, but it is quite unusual for a large sedan. Interior pictures would be nice.
I can't speak to CS programs in other universities, but every CS grad from RIT has learned twos-complement, asymptotic analysis of algorithms, basic computer organization, MIPS assembly...and that's without any electives.
If you're looking to hire new grads...we have two career fairs per year.;)
There's no such thing as HD rabbit ears, or a HD antenna*. Antenna manufacturers like to pretend that you need special equipment, but US DTV is broadcast on a subset of the frequencies used for OTA NTSC. Any existing antenna will work fine.
* You might handle multipath differently, and the UHF range is a little smaller, but that's about it.
Arizona has a transaction privilege tax (TPT) that differs from a "true" sales tax in that the tax is levied on the gross receipts of the vendor and is not a liability of the consumer. (As explained in Arizona Administrative Code rule R15-5-2202, vendors are permitted to pass the amount of the tax on to the consumer, but remain the liable parties for the tax to the state.)
My point re. the GPL was that your views supporting a restriction on copying (requirement for availability of source whenever the binary is distributed, more or less) conflict with your statement that unrestricted copying should be allowed for all works. One could argue that the BSD license is using the devil's tools against him, since it functions primarily as a disclaimer of an implied warranty that probably shouldn't exist in the first place and doesn't impose any major limits on copying. However, the GPL imposes limits.
Succinctly: If copyright goes, the protection provided by the GPL goes with it.
As for stalking, all I can say is that if you don't want people visiting your page, you probably shouldn't have a link to it in your userinfo, where it'll be attached to every comment you make.
I looked at your homepage and was surprised by a few things in light of your comment.
First of all, you prefer the GPL over the BSD license. This is interesting, as the GPL requires copyright law in order to be enforceable. If the author doesn't have the right to control distribution and users do have the right to copy whatever they want, however they want, wouldn't that be a view closer to that of the BSD license?
Second, you sell shareware. This is a source of income which relies on copyright law. Presumably, you'd be unhappy if someone distributed a cracked version. (I'm unsure what's limited in the evaluation version, but the fact that you use a serial system would seem to indicate that SOMETHING is.) You even include a copyright notice on your program.
Relatively as compared to Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs, and other genetic conditions which manifest in the first few years of life, if not at birth.
One foot per nanosecond is the famous rule of thumb, and 16ghz is 16 cycles per nanosecond. (One nanosecond = one billionth of a second, using US terminology. 10**-9.)
I hope that if they do release a 12" Macbook Pro, they realize that 1024x768 just doesn't cut it anymore. I'm typing this on a Toshiba laptop with a 1400x1050 12.1" display, which I find to be quite readable at arm's length despite my poor eyesight.
No, it can send button presses and motion information, but not absolute position as determined by the IR camera. You can swing the remote to swing your sword in Zelda no matter where it's pointed, but you have to point it near the sensor bar to move the on-screen cursor.
DSLRs can't shoot video clips, because of the way they take pictures. (Regular digital cameras, meanwhile, are finally able to shoot some relatively decent video without being limited to a few seconds.)
17% of that 37 billion could have made everyone on the planet a millionaire.
17% of 37 billion is 6.29 billion. There are approximately 6.5 billion people on the planet. 6.29*10^9 / 6.5*10^9 = ~97 cents per person. That's almost enough to make everyone on the planet an, um, unaire.
I think they meant "no hardware modifications" in the sense that "you won't have to buy and/or solder anything." This is a pretty common idea in the modding community; for example, a modification that requires you to open the xbox and attach the HD to a PC is considered a softmod.
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In a free society, when a person dies an accidental death or becomes brain-dead from same, why does their right to leave a pretty corpse trump the right to life of someone who needs a transplant? Our current transplant system is opt-in...how is that justifiable? (Once again, I'm referring to donation at death rather than live donation.)
When they say the longest eclipse of the century, they mean 2001-2100.
Won't work. "Walking on the Moon" is a Police song, not a Who song.
MS was justifiably convicted of abusing its OS monopoly. That doesn't mean they have a monopoly on web servers, video game consoles, or funny-shaped keyboards.
A monopoly is defined by the amount of control over a market as a whole, not the amount of control over the products offered up in that market. For example, IIS could never be an example of a product with a monopolistic hold on a market as long as Apache maintained significant market share, no matter how tightly IIS was locked down.
Anecdotal, but...
My PC is an Athlon 64 3200+ running XP SP3. Before that, it was an Athlon XP 1800+, and a PII/450 before that. I upgraded from a botched Win98 install on the PII to XP RC1(!), and haven't done a clean install since. (I've done repair installs with each CPU/mobo upgrade.) My PC has always been as snappy and responsive as I could hope for; the only problem is an occasional machine check exception which may be due to hardware. (Diagnostics say that the error occurs on HyperTransport 0, which connects the CPU core to its on-chip memory controller.)
Maybe the stability is due in part to avoiding crap and bloatware; I use FF, Thunderbird, and Pidgin, and disable most unnecessary services and the startup apps that some programs try to install. I also do clean uninstalls when I remove programs and generally try to trim the fat.
However, I do see less experienced users' PCs running slowly and unreliably...sometimes it's a clearly defined spyware problem and sometimes it's "Windows bloeat" or whatever you'd like to call it. I can't say what they do differently because I'm not looking over their shoulders.
I believe the two child seats fold out into the trunk area...the rear-facing kids' bench used to be common on station wagons, but it is quite unusual for a large sedan. Interior pictures would be nice.
I can't speak to CS programs in other universities, but every CS grad from RIT has learned twos-complement, asymptotic analysis of algorithms, basic computer organization, MIPS assembly...and that's without any electives.
If you're looking to hire new grads...we have two career fairs per year. ;)
There's no such thing as HD rabbit ears, or a HD antenna*. Antenna manufacturers like to pretend that you need special equipment, but US DTV is broadcast on a subset of the frequencies used for OTA NTSC. Any existing antenna will work fine.
* You might handle multipath differently, and the UHF range is a little smaller, but that's about it.
From Wikipedia:
Arizona has a transaction privilege tax (TPT) that differs from a "true" sales tax in that the tax is levied on the gross receipts of the vendor and is not a liability of the consumer. (As explained in Arizona Administrative Code rule R15-5-2202, vendors are permitted to pass the amount of the tax on to the consumer, but remain the liable parties for the tax to the state.)
And Lenovo does have an office in Phoenix, so...
My point re. the GPL was that your views supporting a restriction on copying (requirement for availability of source whenever the binary is distributed, more or less) conflict with your statement that unrestricted copying should be allowed for all works. One could argue that the BSD license is using the devil's tools against him, since it functions primarily as a disclaimer of an implied warranty that probably shouldn't exist in the first place and doesn't impose any major limits on copying. However, the GPL imposes limits.
Succinctly: If copyright goes, the protection provided by the GPL goes with it.
As for stalking, all I can say is that if you don't want people visiting your page, you probably shouldn't have a link to it in your userinfo, where it'll be attached to every comment you make.
I looked at your homepage and was surprised by a few things in light of your comment.
First of all, you prefer the GPL over the BSD license. This is interesting, as the GPL requires copyright law in order to be enforceable. If the author doesn't have the right to control distribution and users do have the right to copy whatever they want, however they want, wouldn't that be a view closer to that of the BSD license?
Second, you sell shareware. This is a source of income which relies on copyright law. Presumably, you'd be unhappy if someone distributed a cracked version. (I'm unsure what's limited in the evaluation version, but the fact that you use a serial system would seem to indicate that SOMETHING is.) You even include a copyright notice on your program.
So...how do you reconcile these views?
I know it's unrealistic to expect perfect spelling and grammar on the Web, but that was the worst misspelling of Chrono Trigger that I've ever seen!
(Kidding, kidding...)
gender (but only male and female...)
You only get the "yes, please" option when the form has a field for sex, not gender.
The famous undocmented 320x240 VGA video mode, pre-VESA, and other tweaked VGA modes.
I've heard the 6502 (or, more specifically, RP2A03) had some useful undocumented opcodes. I think they weren't intentional, so they might count.
On the software side...how about exploitable buffer overflows on the Xbox and PSP to enable execution of arbitrary code?
Relatively as compared to Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs, and other genetic conditions which manifest in the first few years of life, if not at birth.
I got a call from Road Runner a few years ago, when my younger brother had inadvertently set up an open relay. The conversation went like this:
Me: Y'see, my brother just installed Linux, and...
RR Tech: And now he thinks he's Net God?
Nope.
16 GHz = 16 billion Hz = 16 billion cycles per second.
((1 second) / 16 billion) * c = 1.87370286 centimeters
One foot per nanosecond is the famous rule of thumb, and 16ghz is 16 cycles per nanosecond. (One nanosecond = one billionth of a second, using US terminology. 10**-9.)
For instance, buying stock in DRAM makers when a new version of Windows was about to be released
How'd that work out for you?
Perhaps they could call it iPodPhone without violating the trademark...the iPP could be the biggest thing since the Wii!
I hope that if they do release a 12" Macbook Pro, they realize that 1024x768 just doesn't cut it anymore. I'm typing this on a Toshiba laptop with a 1400x1050 12.1" display, which I find to be quite readable at arm's length despite my poor eyesight.
No, it can send button presses and motion information, but not absolute position as determined by the IR camera. You can swing the remote to swing your sword in Zelda no matter where it's pointed, but you have to point it near the sensor bar to move the on-screen cursor.
DSLRs can't shoot video clips, because of the way they take pictures. (Regular digital cameras, meanwhile, are finally able to shoot some relatively decent video without being limited to a few seconds.)
17% of that 37 billion could have made everyone on the planet a millionaire.
17% of 37 billion is 6.29 billion. There are approximately 6.5 billion people on the planet. 6.29*10^9 / 6.5*10^9 = ~97 cents per person. That's almost enough to make everyone on the planet an, um, unaire.
I think they meant "no hardware modifications" in the sense that "you won't have to buy and/or solder anything." This is a pretty common idea in the modding community; for example, a modification that requires you to open the xbox and attach the HD to a PC is considered a softmod.