Homer: Marge, if you don't mind, I'm a little busy right now achieving financial independence. Marge: With cans of grease? Homer: [sarcastically] No! Through savings and wise investment. Of course with grease.
After having a horrible experience trying to get a darn kernel driver working with an Nvidia card (which has been sitting in a box for a year now) I'm now exclusively ATI.
Try taking the card out of the box and plugging it into the PC.
So many violent death animations, so little time...
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Another impossibility in DRM:
I buy some CDs. I then rip these to MP3s and burn them onto a CD-R.
Scenario A: I use this CD in my CD/MP3 player, or on my computer at work, or whatever. This is allowed under fair use.
Scenario B: I give this CD to my friend, and he copies the files onto his PC, or listens to the MP3s while I'm listening to the original CD somewhere else. This is copyright violation, and is illegal.
The only difference between these two scenarios is the physical location of the CD. This type of piracy cannot be prevented with software, without also blocking the fair use aspect (i.e. preventing the MP3 creation in the first place).
[Me] Start Mozilla, open up Dabs website, look for better graphics card. [PC] Oh, not good enough for you, am I? I know you don't really love me - whenever you're working on me, you're always thinking of that slutty iMac bitch. It's the case, isn't it - you think this case makes me look fat! Well screw you! (proceeds to BSOD).
If a and b are integers, we say that a divides b (and write a|b) if b = a*c for some integer c. So 3|6 because 6=3*2, and (-3)|6 because 6 = (-3)*(-2), and so on.
An integer p is called prime if for any pair of integers a, b we have that p|(a*b) implies p|a or p|b. As an example of this, 48 = 6*8. 3|48, so for 3 to be prime, we would need either 3|6 or 3|8. Since 3|6, it passes the test in this case (but remember, the condition has to be true for all pairs of integers.)
It turns out that this definition of a "prime number" is the same as the usual one for integers.
We know (well, we can show) that 3 is prime. From this we can show that -3 is prime as well, since 3|a if and only if (-3)|a (Proof: Slashdot post is too small to contain it...)
While the form factor on these boards are great, one gives up a lot in the way of ability to upgrade, since many parts are now soldered onto the motherboard.
The war is not "illegal" in the US. Again, I am considering in the US. Outside of the US, its also not "illegal", there have been no court or un proceedings
Um, over the last century or so there have been numerous international laws passed (most of which the US has signed) under which it is possible that this war is illegal. Whether those laws actually apply in this case is the argument that people should be having, but the laws are there, and the US government has agreed to abide by them.
Provided the price point is fair and paying is convenient,
... and there's music that people have heard of on there. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that a lot of the music already available is better than the chart crap we hear, but if people can't download the music that they hear on the radio, or "that song that's in that film, ooh, what's it called?", they won't bother subscribing.
And we all know the consequences of that - Record exec's saying "blah people won't buy music online blah piracy blah new DMCA blah THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
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They're concerned because a lot of the bits of rubbish are travelling at several thousand miles per hour. Therefore even the 'little' pieces of rubbish have similar energy/momentum to a bullet. And there are a lot of these little bits, and we can't detect them.
I mean come on, would you like to be hit in the face by a tiny frozen lump of astronaut poo travelling at 17 000 mph?
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My favourite bit from that one has to be
Homer: Marge, if you don't mind, I'm a little busy right now achieving financial independence.
Marge: With cans of grease?
Homer: [sarcastically] No! Through savings and wise investment. Of course with grease.
Stallman demands that people call it GNU/[Foo]
Bastards! I came up with this idea next week!
Try taking the card out of the box and plugging it into the PC.
HTH
Of course not - as everyone knows, the vast quantities of ice covering the planet disappeared shortly after the dicovery of whisky
hic ... 'scuse me.
So many violent death animations, so little time ...
The only difference between these two scenarios is the physical location of the CD. This type of piracy cannot be prevented with software, without also blocking the fair use aspect (i.e. preventing the MP3 creation in the first place).
[Me] Start Mozilla, open up Dabs website, look for better graphics card.
[PC] Oh, not good enough for you, am I? I know you don't really love me - whenever you're working on me, you're always thinking of that slutty iMac bitch. It's the case, isn't it - you think this case makes me look fat! Well screw you! (proceeds to BSOD).
Short answer: Yes, -3 is prime in the integers.
Long answer:
So 3|6 because 6=3*2, and (-3)|6 because 6 = (-3)*(-2), and so on.
As an example of this, 48 = 6*8. 3|48, so for 3 to be prime, we would need either 3|6 or 3|8.
Since 3|6, it passes the test in this case (but remember, the condition has to be true for all pairs of integers.)
since 3|a if and only if (-3)|a (Proof: Slashdot post is too small to contain it
Obligatory reference to Captain Cyborg ...
HTH
Um, over the last century or so there have been numerous international laws passed (most of which the US has signed) under which it is possible that this war is illegal. Whether those laws actually apply in this case is the argument that people should be having, but the laws are there, and the US government has agreed to abide by them.
ObLink:
How many would it take?
And we all know the consequences of that - Record exec's saying "blah people won't buy music online blah piracy blah new DMCA blah THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
Everybody run east as fast as you can, to speed the Earth up again!
/me waits for hundreds of pedantic comments explaining why this wouldn't work
For those of you who prever more conventional units, the conversion rate is roughly 6,000 hours of movie per Library of Congress.
HTH
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Pretty neat, isn't it?
Guinevere compromised. Faulty key mechanism in chastitybelt.dll blamed.
Am I the only person who thought of newspeak - i.e. NewCard - PlusNewCard - DoublePlusNewCard ...
They're concerned because a lot of the bits of rubbish are travelling at several thousand miles per hour. Therefore even the 'little' pieces of rubbish have similar energy/momentum to a bullet. And there are a lot of these little bits, and we can't detect them.
I mean come on, would you like to be hit in the face by a tiny frozen lump of astronaut poo travelling at 17 000 mph?