Of course the cat is an "instrument of your will", you are 100% guilty of progressing in the installation, but you have also demonstrated that you did not agree to the contract. Since you did not agree to the contract you are not bound by it, and the only possible crime is intentional circumvention of a contract-protection (as in copyright-protection) mechanism. I am not even sure that is illegal under any law.
Saving to the desktop is only default in stupid programs such as Firefox. KDE programs doesn't save to the Desktop. In KDE4 there isn't even a "desktop" to save to.
It relies on the user downloading saving and running a shell-script. The only trick here is that in this KDE/GNOME form the user does not need explicitly to add execution rights on the file. Still hardly a virus, more like a gun without a safety switch. It is one step easier for someone to shoot themselves this way.
Interestingly if we wish to reinforce the 'chmod +x' scheme, desktop files should need a +x (or some other non-MIME property) to be treated specially by GNOME and KDE. Might be an idea.
"If-you-are-reading-this" contracts doesn't work. The only valid contract here is when a user uploads content to the website, the site is then providing a hosting service and can demand a license for that service. They can't change the license offered when the user uploaded the content, they can only change it for new content.
While my advice is not legal advise from the mouth of blood-sucker. It doesn't change the fundamentals of what makes a contract, and what is legal and not.
Changing prices are acceptable if they change within reason of the original contract. New terms of service are not. The subscriber needs to be notified and can demand to be freed from the new updated contract with no severance fee. He would still lose the original service though.
Fortunately that is a completely invalid contract point. You can not wish for more wishes, and a contract one side can change without notice or renegotiation is not a valid contract.
The stations depend entirely on the country. Just like RDS technology ifself. The original radio (with also has a cassette player!) in my 15 year old car supports RDS, and all the major radio stations in my country supports it, and sends alternative frequencies on it, but then; I live in Europe. Which makes me wonder if XM solved a mainly North American problem (crappy local stations, and low adoptation of RDS).
You can listen to an FM radio station too for the entire drive. You just need to listen for a national radio station and have a radio that supports automatically switching to alternative frequencies. All this meta-information is send via the RDS signal.
Sure it is not a zero-sum, but if it is active suspension it is softer by being active, not by being a hybrid-suspension. They could also be using decoupled suspension like everybody outside Detroit does, but that is still just another standard trick, and nothing new or special.
Btw. If I remember correctly, active suspension primarily improves comfort during cornering by eliminating body-roll. This makes the driver _feel_ turning is easier, but it doesn't improve the turning performance. No race-cars use this technology, only over-powered luxury cars do.
Recharging the batteries using movement of the shock absorbers is ingenious!
That they would smooth the ride more than conventional shock-absorbers is bullshit. You can get all kinds of traditional shock-absorbers. American ones for instance are typically softer than European which leads to poor handling and increased fuel consumptions. European ones are harder, and sports-models even harder yet, given the cars better handling at the expense of ride comfort.
If the new absorbers are smoother than traditional ones, it just means the car can't corner, and rides like a pimp car.
No reason for the long urls. We have excellent TLDs for this, just place them on http://reports.gov/ which I hope will come online right after http://secrets.mil/
Well, yes and no. They have branches in them, but they are local branches. This is why said real branches and not just branches in general. Shader programs are short and branches in them don't involve jumping to another part of memory, and therefore mispredicting a branch is not nearly as costly. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the shader didn't guess it at all, and just executed both branches.
Intel and AMD has been using hardware x86-emulators running on top of specialized instruction sets since Pentium Pro and Athlon. The last native x86-chip in production was the AMD Geode, and that one is dead now.
But GPU and CPU is still very different things. Performance on CPUs is very dependent on branch, and random-memory access performance. GPU's don't have real-branches and only reads memory linearly. NVidia is going to need a completely new architecture, and can only reuse some of the algorithmic implementations (fast float-point operations, etc.)
Actually global warming is changing the climate-balance, so it actually makes it more likely to snow places where it didn't snow before. Overall on global scale the climate will be warmer, but when the climate changes the balance changes too, and various natural events will occur places they didn't before, and stop happening in the old places.
Unfortunately it can also make it impossible to login if you are trying to login remotely from a foreign computer, for instance to check mail while traveling.
If you have committed a crime, tried to blackmail the government trying to legalize your criminal actions. No as person, I do not think you would be allowed to leave, and I don't think they will just take your passport.
The LG Prada phones shipped 8 months before the iPhone. 6 months before the iPhone it was celebrated as "Phone of the Year", and featured on several covers of monthly magazines. The first pictures and descriptions of it was available more than a year before the iPhone was revealed.
Seriously I doubt Apple threw away a complete design 12 months before, the similarities are probably more accidental, with some minor experience based improvements possible on the Apple side. The existence of the Prada phone only demonstrates that even in the UI and interface the iPhone was not revolutionary or innovating, and it makes it easy to make fun of Apple as "copy-cats", a well deserved punishment for years of accusing everybody else of copying them, and pretending to be "innovating".
That he means is a person who is literally liberal, that is what some Americans would call libertarian. The point is anyway that "libertarian" is a stupid invented word that means liberal to people who has forgotten what liberal really means.
The server version of Windows are not even in the same generation. Look there is no server version in the list of Windows 7 version.. The last server windows was the windows 2003, which had no desktop versions.
More interesting the phone that inspired the iPhone (or that the iPhone ripped off) the Prada phone now has to be taken off market or pay royalties. How ironic.
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Of course the cat is an "instrument of your will", you are 100% guilty of progressing in the installation, but you have also demonstrated that you did not agree to the contract. Since you did not agree to the contract you are not bound by it, and the only possible crime is intentional circumvention of a contract-protection (as in copyright-protection) mechanism. I am not even sure that is illegal under any law.
Saving to the desktop is only default in stupid programs such as Firefox. KDE programs doesn't save to the Desktop. In KDE4 there isn't even a "desktop" to save to.
It relies on the user downloading saving and running a shell-script. The only trick here is that in this KDE/GNOME form the user does not need explicitly to add execution rights on the file.
Still hardly a virus, more like a gun without a safety switch. It is one step easier for someone to shoot themselves this way.
Interestingly if we wish to reinforce the 'chmod +x' scheme, desktop files should need a +x (or some other non-MIME property) to be treated specially by GNOME and KDE. Might be an idea.
"If-you-are-reading-this" contracts doesn't work. The only valid contract here is when a user uploads content to the website, the site is then providing a hosting service and can demand a license for that service. They can't change the license offered when the user uploaded the content, they can only change it for new content.
While my advice is not legal advise from the mouth of blood-sucker. It doesn't change the fundamentals of what makes a contract, and what is legal and not.
Changing prices are acceptable if they change within reason of the original contract. New terms of service are not. The subscriber needs to be notified and can demand to be freed from the new updated contract with no severance fee. He would still lose the original service though.
Fortunately that is a completely invalid contract point. You can not wish for more wishes, and a contract one side can change without notice or renegotiation is not a valid contract.
The stations depend entirely on the country. Just like RDS technology ifself. The original radio (with also has a cassette player!) in my 15 year old car supports RDS, and all the major radio stations in my country supports it, and sends alternative frequencies on it, but then; I live in Europe. Which makes me wonder if XM solved a mainly North American problem (crappy local stations, and low adoptation of RDS).
You can listen to an FM radio station too for the entire drive. You just need to listen for a national radio station and have a radio that supports automatically switching to alternative frequencies. All this meta-information is send via the RDS signal.
Sure it is not a zero-sum, but if it is active suspension it is softer by being active, not by being a hybrid-suspension. They could also be using decoupled suspension like everybody outside Detroit does, but that is still just another standard trick, and nothing new or special.
Btw. If I remember correctly, active suspension primarily improves comfort during cornering by eliminating body-roll. This makes the driver _feel_ turning is easier, but it doesn't improve the turning performance. No race-cars use this technology, only over-powered luxury cars do.
Electronic suspension is already used in many modern cars. Many European, but cars everywhere is doing it now.
Recharging the batteries using movement of the shock absorbers is ingenious!
That they would smooth the ride more than conventional shock-absorbers is bullshit. You can get all kinds of traditional shock-absorbers. American ones for instance are typically softer than European which leads to poor handling and increased fuel consumptions. European ones are harder, and sports-models even harder yet, given the cars better handling at the expense of ride comfort.
If the new absorbers are smoother than traditional ones, it just means the car can't corner, and rides like a pimp car.
No but the console I bought for another 30$ does, and does it better than an iPhone.
No, it doesn't!
You don't become a reseller because you upgrade your Apple powerbook, and then sell it used.
There is no excuse for what Apple is doing, get over it.
No reason for the long urls. We have excellent TLDs for this, just place them on http://reports.gov/ which I hope will come online right after http://secrets.mil/
Well, yes and no. They have branches in them, but they are local branches. This is why said real branches and not just branches in general. Shader programs are short and branches in them don't involve jumping to another part of memory, and therefore mispredicting a branch is not nearly as costly. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the shader didn't guess it at all, and just executed both branches.
True, but K6 was more traditional, so while they started with the K5, it wasn't until the Athlon that they didn't do anything else.
I think the VIA x86 department was sold off to AMD, their last design became the AMD Geode, and then they died.
Intel and AMD has been using hardware x86-emulators running on top of specialized instruction sets since Pentium Pro and Athlon. The last native x86-chip in production was the AMD Geode, and that one is dead now.
But GPU and CPU is still very different things. Performance on CPUs is very dependent on branch, and random-memory access performance. GPU's don't have real-branches and only reads memory linearly. NVidia is going to need a completely new architecture, and can only reuse some of the algorithmic implementations (fast float-point operations, etc.)
Actually global warming is changing the climate-balance, so it actually makes it more likely to snow places where it didn't snow before. Overall on global scale the climate will be warmer, but when the climate changes the balance changes too, and various natural events will occur places they didn't before, and stop happening in the old places.
Unfortunately it can also make it impossible to login if you are trying to login remotely from a foreign computer, for instance to check mail while traveling.
If you have committed a crime, tried to blackmail the government trying to legalize your criminal actions. No as person, I do not think you would be allowed to leave, and I don't think they will just take your passport.
The LG Prada phones shipped 8 months before the iPhone. 6 months before the iPhone it was celebrated as "Phone of the Year", and featured on several covers of monthly magazines. The first pictures and descriptions of it was available more than a year before the iPhone was revealed.
Seriously I doubt Apple threw away a complete design 12 months before, the similarities are probably more accidental, with some minor experience based improvements possible on the Apple side. The existence of the Prada phone only demonstrates that even in the UI and interface the iPhone was not revolutionary or innovating, and it makes it easy to make fun of Apple as "copy-cats", a well deserved punishment for years of accusing everybody else of copying them, and pretending to be "innovating".
That he means is a person who is literally liberal, that is what some Americans would call libertarian. The point is anyway that "libertarian" is a stupid invented word that means liberal to people who has forgotten what liberal really means.
The server version of Windows are not even in the same generation. Look there is no server version in the list of Windows 7 version.. The last server windows was the windows 2003, which had no desktop versions.
More interesting the phone that inspired the iPhone (or that the iPhone ripped off) the Prada phone now has to be taken off market or pay royalties. How ironic.