Very young children can testify under oath, the judge just needs to be satisfied that they can tell what is a lie and what is the truth, and that it is very important to tell the truth when under oath.
When you give a deposition, it is under oath just like you were in a court of law. If they therefore got her to lie in the deposition, that would be suborning perjury.
When Napster came into being, music sales shot up over 20% and the recording industry had their most profitable year ever. The year after they shut down napster, CD sales droped 30%, and they blamed it on file sharing. Go figure. I know I bought more CDs when napster was around, it let me listen to songs I would have never heard otherwise and find artists I didn't mind shelling out $15 for. When they shut Napster down, I pretty much stopped buying CDs, partly because the greedy bastards ticked me off.
That is one awesome show. I still chuckle every time the show starts. The camera leers at Steven as he turns to it with the sound of an eagle screeching loudly. He's supposed to be ultra-conservative, but he is so over-the-top it is obvious he is making fun of it. For example, he explained how think tanks are good, and one of them sponsors the show. He then goes on to show one of their videos on oil, which shows a jungle setting with a dinosaur and human fighting with the voiceover "5,000 years ago..."
Ah, changing words around again. By copying a game illegally, you are not taking anything from the company. Point to one thing that the company did have and now it does not after you copied that game. If you decide not to buy the game after copying it, and you would have otherwise, then that is a sale that they would have made but did not. It is not theft or stealing however because the money was never in the company's hands. It may be like stealing, but unless that word has changed definitions, it is not.
Look at it another way... Let's say you are a high school student to lower-middle class parents and you copy Photoshop CS 2 illegally (retail about $600). You would never have bought the software legally anyway, so it is definitely not stealing since you are in no way depriving the company of money. It still is copyright violation however.
Why is this marked interesting? It has nothing to do with the story, nor is it all that interesting. The document is 'Uniform Driver Interface', it has to do with creating drivers that will run on multiple variants of Unix with little or no changes. The only thing it has to do with this story is that the acronym UDI is the same as for the device in the story, UDI (Unified Display Interface). Plus this document is from early 2001, it isn't even the same SCO. This document has people listed from old SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. This is from before Caldera bought UnixWARE from Santa Cruz, from 18 months before they hired Darl McBride, and from two years before they starting suing people and changed their name to SCO.
It wasn't called 'Intelligent Design' I don't believe, but we went over several 'proofs' of the existence of God and it was one of them. I specifically remember the professor going over the 'If you find a watch in the desert, do you think it just came into being or grew out of the ground?' argument that I've seen associated with Intelligent design as well.
Which actually goes to blow holes in Intelligent Design. If I find a watch in the desert, I would assume that someone lost it or threw it away. I could find that person, or use the serial number to find out where and when the watch was made. I could go to the factory and observe how the watch was made, including all the materials that went into it. Using science, I could theorize about how that watch came into being from the big bang, to supernovae that created the heavier elements, to the forming of the earth and geology to form the minerals, to the evolution of man who created the factory to make the watch.
If I was a firm believer in Intelligent Design and didn't know how watches were made, I would simply say that God must have created the watch and placed it in the desert with his own hand for me to find. Has everyone seen 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'?
Intelligent Design should not be tought in Biology class for one simple reason, it is Philosophy (or Theology) and not Science.
theory - A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
By definition, the act of an 'intelligent designer' would deal with supernatural phenomena. ID goes into no depth in explanation of phenomena, it merely states that there is a designer. It statest that there must be a designer because nothing else could explain the observations, when there are clearly other ways to explain the observations and no evidence whatsoever of the designer. It doesn't go into how the designer would have created anything. What powers would it use? How can ID make predictions, an important part of science, if anything would depend on the unknowable whims of this creator?
So, mandating that ID not be taught is in no way an establishment of religion, but quite the opposite. See, Science is NOT religion, and keeping these thinly veiled religious views out of the science classroom is exactly what that part of the first ammendment is about. Putting them into the classroom by a government would be establishment of religion.
If anything, stay away from Maxtor. I had two 160gb Maxtor drives in one Dell XPS computer and one external Maxtor 250gb drive all fail within 6 months. Dell sent me Seagate drives as replacements and I couldn't be happier, no problems yet. I also bought two Seagate 400gb external drives and haven't had a single problem. They are the best external drives I've owned (also had two maxtors and one WD). They are very quiet and very cool and I haven't had one issue with them.
The people in those reviews seem to be complaining about 'Delayed Write Errors'. That is NOT an issue with the hardware, it is a software issue. I also think it is unique to Firewire, at least in my experience. I had that issue with my Maxtors which were Firewire, especially when I daisy-chained them instead of plugging each one into its own port, or unplugged a drive without 'Safely' removing it using the tray icon. I haven't had a single error with the Seagates using USB 2.0 yet and I've had them over 6 months.
listen, folks. Godaddy does domain registrations for like 6 dollars a year. bitching about the service/support is like complaining that walmart doesnt employ people to carry groceries out to your car.
Bitching about the service when you try to get a resolution might be like that, but the problem is more like hiring a woman for $6 an hour to answer the phone at your office, but she only ends up picking up the phone if the caller id ends in an odd number. No reason for it, she's just not doing her job. So you shouldn't complain about the crappy job she's doing?
What would you say instead? If I want to load a [document | picture | mp3 song | spreadsheet | database | movie] what would you call it? Where would you put it? Having 'files' and 'directories' (folders) is nearly a necessity for having an operating computer. You could theoritically design an operating system that stored and classified all files based on their type and kept them segregated like that, but you still would have just the notion of file type replacing directory. Then you have all the textures for Doom located in with your family pictures because they're the same type. Have fun browsing through tens of thousands of pictures (including system icons and cached pics from the web) to find your 20 pictures from your camera you wanted to store on your computer. Unless you can come up with a better way, 'file' is here to stay.
If you do away with the concept of 'files', the operating system then has to handle every possible type of document. You wouldn't have had the MP3 revolution because there would be no such thing as an 'MP3' since the OS didn't support it. You also wouldn't be able to organize data in directories, like having all of a game's data in one directory. Grand Theft Auto would have it's application wherever applications are, sounds wherever sounds are kept, textures wherever pictures are kept, movies wherever they are kept, settings files wherever they are kept, and their proprietary data files wherever they are kept, if the OS even allows it because it knows the type of file and where it should go. Then you could be scanning your pictures one day and see a texture not knowing what it is and delete it, then you can't play the game anymore.
And how exactly is 'save' obsolete? How often are you going to write the file to the disk? Every 10 minutes? Every 1 minute? Every keystroke? I would argue that having a 'save' button or menu item is the best way to handle this. If they close down the application with a modified document, the application can warn them as most applications do. Good luck saving a big spreadsheet every keystroke with OO when a save can take minutes. I don't think you'd get much work done. What if you want to just play around? Do you want to have to create a copy of the 'document' before opening it if you want to make changes you may not want to keep? It's also inefficient to save every keystroke when you may be making a lot of changes before saving.
The notion of a 'FILE' menu is there because applications work with FILES. If you have an application that doesn't work with FILES then don't use a file menu.
Come on, 'satinweave' and 'grassnests'? These aren't words are they? They seem to be combinations of words that should be separated. That makes a different interesting puzzle if you can use any combination of words to make up those 10 letters and they don't have to be single words, but that's not the stated puzzle.
The 472,068,000 doesn't include the 300,000km/s. The real number would be 142,009,200,000,000. (also a year is 365.25 days, but the 15 light-year measurement is much less accurate than that I suspect) The page you point to says the planet's average orbit is 0.2 times the earth-sun distance, about 31.5 million km. That gives an angular distance between the star and planet of about 0.0000127 degrees, or 0.045 arcseconds. The hubble can resolve about 0.07 arcseconds, if we can separate the glare from the star bleeding over, then we are close.
Last year when I heard about this on NPR's "Science Friday", it was groups from the US that were leading the charge for this, not the countries' governments fighting back against oppressive american policies. I guess the media can spin any story how they like...
At least no more than there is now. There's not a 'switch' that will get flipped in 2009. Broadcasters will still be licensed a spectrum to operate in so they don't interfere with each other. Whether you are sending a digital or Analog TV channel, the spectrum will be licensed. For instance, let's say there's a Channel 4 on the US side of the border and a channel 5 on the Canadian side. For now, broadcasters are keeping their analog channels and adding digital on new spectrum. When channel 4 starts to broadcast digital, they will get a new spectrum (say UHF channel 49) where they will broadcast their digital signals. That one channel can equate to 6 digital extended definition 640x480 channels or 1 digital high-definition channel and I think 2 digital extended definition 640x480 channels. That channel will no more interfere with channel 5 in Canada than it would if it was analog. In 2009 if it is mandated that analog channels be discontinued, they will re-use their spectrum for channel 4. It wouldn't bleed over into Canada's analog channel 5 any more than the existing analog signal on channel 4 does today.
The court ruled there that Connectix had every right to create an emulator for the Playstation. It was even fair use for them to use the Playstation bios. They even used code from the bios wile developing their replacement to work out bugs. The court ruled that copyright couldn't be used as a club to prevent others from getting at the ideas behind the copyrighted work. Even more relevant is Lexmark v. Static Control. In that case Lexmark tried to use copyright law and the DMCA to prevent Static Control from marketing a chip to let other companies create toner cartridges for use with Lexmark printers. All the same findings of the appelate court would hold true if Microsoft tried to stop a company from creating games that run on the XBox. Microsoft may have patents they could use, but not DMCA or copyright.
I think all of those are good ideas. Auto-pause if a controller is unplugged is a great idea. Consisten language in messages is a great idea. Why would you want users to see "LAN ERROR" in one game, "NETWORK PROBLEM" in another game, and "SYSTEM LINK DOWN" in yet another for the same problem? Most menus already abide by the last thing you mention, a menu that didn't would be stupid. I can't think of any reason one of those would be bad for someone playing games. The video might be annoying to some, but it would also prevent burn-in of the menu for people with Plasmas...
As part of the launch and Steam's exclusivity, we will no longer be offering Darwinia as a download option from our site, although it will still be possible to purchase shipped boxed copies.
So they'll still ship you a boxed copy, but they won't let you buy it from their site anymore. Also for a month or so at least they won't have the demo available on their site. Since I will never get anything again that requires me to use Steam (dumb, dumb system, I bought HL2 without knowing it required their Steam client to run), I won't be able to get the demo. Pity, it looks interesting and I may have bought a copy. I rarely buy a game without trying the demo...
A rootkit is a set of tools used by a hacker to hide his presence on a system and maintain 'root' privileges (Administrator on Windows). While Sony's DRM app does hide its presence, I don't believe there has been any indication of systems comprimised and hacked into by Sony and I don't think that was their intention. I don't know what it is, but I wouldn't call it a 'rootkit'.
That would be no different than say fencing in a field in Iowa and asking if you are fencing in the field or the rest of North America. Not to mention that the plot can only be about 1 mile in size. And on the near side of the moon (the flag must be visible from earth, although it would have to be 55km to be seen with the naked eye from earth, 115m to be seen with the hubble).
For the sake of argument though, you would be fencing in the area with the flag in the center. If you put a fence around the equator it would depend on whether you put your flag on the "north" pole or the "south" pole.
He said you can't just go changing code on supported Linux offerings without paying extra to companies like Red Hat or Novell.
Uh, you can if it is covered by the GPL, you just won't get the same price support, right? Is that less open that Microsoft that 1) charges a lot for support anyway and 2) won't give you the source code at all? It's not about open source, it's about the policies of those companies when supporting your system.
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Very young children can testify under oath, the judge just needs to be satisfied that they can tell what is a lie and what is the truth, and that it is very important to tell the truth when under oath.
When you give a deposition, it is under oath just like you were in a court of law. If they therefore got her to lie in the deposition, that would be suborning perjury.
Except that he wasn't testifying under oath, and that he did have intelligence (however shoddy) that those things were true.
When Napster came into being, music sales shot up over 20% and the recording industry had their most profitable year ever. The year after they shut down napster, CD sales droped 30%, and they blamed it on file sharing. Go figure. I know I bought more CDs when napster was around, it let me listen to songs I would have never heard otherwise and find artists I didn't mind shelling out $15 for. When they shut Napster down, I pretty much stopped buying CDs, partly because the greedy bastards ticked me off.
That is one awesome show. I still chuckle every time the show starts. The camera leers at Steven as he turns to it with the sound of an eagle screeching loudly. He's supposed to be ultra-conservative, but he is so over-the-top it is obvious he is making fun of it. For example, he explained how think tanks are good, and one of them sponsors the show. He then goes on to show one of their videos on oil, which shows a jungle setting with a dinosaur and human fighting with the voiceover "5,000 years ago..."
Or geosynchronous satellite internet, 600ms pings, but 3mbit
Look at it another way... Let's say you are a high school student to lower-middle class parents and you copy Photoshop CS 2 illegally (retail about $600). You would never have bought the software legally anyway, so it is definitely not stealing since you are in no way depriving the company of money. It still is copyright violation however.
Why is this marked interesting? It has nothing to do with the story, nor is it all that interesting. The document is 'Uniform Driver Interface', it has to do with creating drivers that will run on multiple variants of Unix with little or no changes. The only thing it has to do with this story is that the acronym UDI is the same as for the device in the story, UDI (Unified Display Interface). Plus this document is from early 2001, it isn't even the same SCO. This document has people listed from old SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. This is from before Caldera bought UnixWARE from Santa Cruz, from 18 months before they hired Darl McBride, and from two years before they starting suing people and changed their name to SCO.
Which actually goes to blow holes in Intelligent Design. If I find a watch in the desert, I would assume that someone lost it or threw it away. I could find that person, or use the serial number to find out where and when the watch was made. I could go to the factory and observe how the watch was made, including all the materials that went into it. Using science, I could theorize about how that watch came into being from the big bang, to supernovae that created the heavier elements, to the forming of the earth and geology to form the minerals, to the evolution of man who created the factory to make the watch.
If I was a firm believer in Intelligent Design and didn't know how watches were made, I would simply say that God must have created the watch and placed it in the desert with his own hand for me to find. Has everyone seen 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'?
So, mandating that ID not be taught is in no way an establishment of religion, but quite the opposite. See, Science is NOT religion, and keeping these thinly veiled religious views out of the science classroom is exactly what that part of the first ammendment is about. Putting them into the classroom by a government would be establishment of religion.
The people in those reviews seem to be complaining about 'Delayed Write Errors'. That is NOT an issue with the hardware, it is a software issue. I also think it is unique to Firewire, at least in my experience. I had that issue with my Maxtors which were Firewire, especially when I daisy-chained them instead of plugging each one into its own port, or unplugged a drive without 'Safely' removing it using the tray icon. I haven't had a single error with the Seagates using USB 2.0 yet and I've had them over 6 months.
If you do away with the concept of 'files', the operating system then has to handle every possible type of document. You wouldn't have had the MP3 revolution because there would be no such thing as an 'MP3' since the OS didn't support it. You also wouldn't be able to organize data in directories, like having all of a game's data in one directory. Grand Theft Auto would have it's application wherever applications are, sounds wherever sounds are kept, textures wherever pictures are kept, movies wherever they are kept, settings files wherever they are kept, and their proprietary data files wherever they are kept, if the OS even allows it because it knows the type of file and where it should go. Then you could be scanning your pictures one day and see a texture not knowing what it is and delete it, then you can't play the game anymore.
And how exactly is 'save' obsolete? How often are you going to write the file to the disk? Every 10 minutes? Every 1 minute? Every keystroke? I would argue that having a 'save' button or menu item is the best way to handle this. If they close down the application with a modified document, the application can warn them as most applications do. Good luck saving a big spreadsheet every keystroke with OO when a save can take minutes. I don't think you'd get much work done. What if you want to just play around? Do you want to have to create a copy of the 'document' before opening it if you want to make changes you may not want to keep? It's also inefficient to save every keystroke when you may be making a lot of changes before saving.
The notion of a 'FILE' menu is there because applications work with FILES. If you have an application that doesn't work with FILES then don't use a file menu.
Come on, 'satinweave' and 'grassnests'? These aren't words are they? They seem to be combinations of words that should be separated. That makes a different interesting puzzle if you can use any combination of words to make up those 10 letters and they don't have to be single words, but that's not the stated puzzle.
Just give a computer to my mom for a few months, it should be chock full of spyware to test with!
The 472,068,000 doesn't include the 300,000km/s. The real number would be 142,009,200,000,000. (also a year is 365.25 days, but the 15 light-year measurement is much less accurate than that I suspect) The page you point to says the planet's average orbit is 0.2 times the earth-sun distance, about 31.5 million km. That gives an angular distance between the star and planet of about 0.0000127 degrees, or 0.045 arcseconds. The hubble can resolve about 0.07 arcseconds, if we can separate the glare from the star bleeding over, then we are close.
Last year when I heard about this on NPR's "Science Friday", it was groups from the US that were leading the charge for this, not the countries' governments fighting back against oppressive american policies. I guess the media can spin any story how they like...
At least no more than there is now. There's not a 'switch' that will get flipped in 2009. Broadcasters will still be licensed a spectrum to operate in so they don't interfere with each other. Whether you are sending a digital or Analog TV channel, the spectrum will be licensed. For instance, let's say there's a Channel 4 on the US side of the border and a channel 5 on the Canadian side. For now, broadcasters are keeping their analog channels and adding digital on new spectrum. When channel 4 starts to broadcast digital, they will get a new spectrum (say UHF channel 49) where they will broadcast their digital signals. That one channel can equate to 6 digital extended definition 640x480 channels or 1 digital high-definition channel and I think 2 digital extended definition 640x480 channels. That channel will no more interfere with channel 5 in Canada than it would if it was analog. In 2009 if it is mandated that analog channels be discontinued, they will re-use their spectrum for channel 4. It wouldn't bleed over into Canada's analog channel 5 any more than the existing analog signal on channel 4 does today.
Of course, IANAL, IAJIILIACL.
I think all of those are good ideas. Auto-pause if a controller is unplugged is a great idea. Consisten language in messages is a great idea. Why would you want users to see "LAN ERROR" in one game, "NETWORK PROBLEM" in another game, and "SYSTEM LINK DOWN" in yet another for the same problem? Most menus already abide by the last thing you mention, a menu that didn't would be stupid. I can't think of any reason one of those would be bad for someone playing games. The video might be annoying to some, but it would also prevent burn-in of the menu for people with Plasmas...
A rootkit is a set of tools used by a hacker to hide his presence on a system and maintain 'root' privileges (Administrator on Windows). While Sony's DRM app does hide its presence, I don't believe there has been any indication of systems comprimised and hacked into by Sony and I don't think that was their intention. I don't know what it is, but I wouldn't call it a 'rootkit'.
For the sake of argument though, you would be fencing in the area with the flag in the center. If you put a fence around the equator it would depend on whether you put your flag on the "north" pole or the "south" pole.