that even being accused of it should ruin one's life. Virginia Tech shooting had a false suspect. The mistake has been revealed and he is fine now. Why should this be any different? We can not allow ourselves to become so horrified by anything that we embark on a witchhunt without due process and skepticism. Otherwise, corrupt government or an angry neighbor can ruin your life by just suggesting you are a pedophile. Or distract people from real problems - deaths in Iraq, global warming, poverty - by dishing out some juicy news to keep the media busy.
Even a genuine perpetual generator would eventually succumb to wear and tear. But a pendulum works in principal, is fun to watch and, with a heavy enough weight, will not slow down noticeably for long time. If you want a longer lasting example, consider Earth orbiting around the Sun. If you are worried about the red dwarf thingy or orbits decaying due to imperfect vacuum or photon emission, oh well universe will also end some day.
Look at e-mail Received From path for network structure, make social engineering phone calls, convince a hot chick to sleep with their system administrator for passwords...
If it is "aberrant to subject 149 million people to a preference of 151 million", what is it to subject 149 thousand people to a preference of 151 thousand? Or 149 people to 151?
Better.
In a community with 300 people I have many options. Perhaps I can convince 10 of my neighbors to swing the vote in my favor. Perhaps, the local security officer will be amendable to making an exception for me since I am a very responsible adult and my rule breaking seems not to harm anyone. Most importantly, I can move to a place that better suits my lifestyle and still be able to keep in touch with my friends and family, even if the district is of 300 thousand people.
Do you really think a) young single males, b) parents of small children and c) a retirement community should live in communities with exactly the same laws?
US constitution never envisioned federal government regulating every small detail of our lives, be it a form of ID used or smoking pot in the privacy of one's backyard. It aberrant to subject 149 million people to a preference of 151 million. It's time to delegate most decisions to state level, where they would be hopefully passed on to local governments to honor the spirit of constitution (that was written when the whole US population was smaller than some metropolitan areas now).
Just spin up a pendulum in vacuum. It just keeps going and going and going... wicked! Now you can move on to more challenging pursuits like a closed system energy generator.
Oh well, having spent 20 years in programming business, starting from copied PDP-11s and 8086s in Soviet Russia, I am now 33 and nowhere close to retirement. I am currently trying to fight the pull of slashdot to write some yucky J2EE code:-)
Most shoppers, gift buyers and corporate purchasers do not understand what is a graphics card, RAM size or recordable DVD drive. They just expect to be sold something that will run a wide variety of applications, including the next version of the OS. Thus, the default computer should come with modern features built in as a higher priority than having the latest processor - Core Solo will do just fine instead of Core 2 Duo for most people.
Why can't a multibillion-dollar company include a halfway decent graphics card in their motherboard design? Just because of that, millions of people find they can not run any games or upgrade to the latest desktop with 3D effects on their only computer.
Oh well, there is no snow in graphics modes and avoiding it in 80x25 mode is a good exercise in understanding hardware and instruction timing. As I recall, you need to use xchg instead of mov to write a character+attribute during horizontal retrace to avoid a pipeline stall at inconvenient time. EGA on the other hand is even more confusing in native graphics modes. The effect of memory reads and writes depend on the state of bit plane registers and, in one mode, has nothing to do with data being actually written! VGA was the only PC adapter with a straightforward memory mapping in its 320x200x8 mode. It could be made a bit higher resolution on some monitors, at the cost of sacrificing said memory mapping.
But I still say it's a better learning platform than trying to program 2D acceleration features of one of a today's graphics cards, without really understanding what they do to VRAM.
We all know stressed-out types get hypertension and not too many easy going, yoga types do. All this does is explain the exact chemistry by which some of us are ruining our bodies.
Is it really necessary to fight the sun though, or can fiber optics leads from other parts of the notebook redirect additional light behind the screen?
These gigahertz are actually a problem when learning certain topics in programming. How can one explain the value of Bresenham's line algorithm when a for loop using floating point appears just as fast? There is a huge learning value in running into limitations of the hardware and either optimizing your code or redefining its goals to solve a simpler problem. Something Vista engineers need to learn to avoid making a dual core machine crawl.
An original IBM PC would be perfect for teaching someone advanced programming.
Interrupt handling - Check
Instruction timing-based optimization - Check
Drawing lines by directly altering video memory - Check
Disk and memory data structures - Check
On a modern computer, everything is wrapped into so many of abstraction that you can not discover how it works. It will take someone 3 years of experience to create a device driver or a graphics library that can be understood in 3 weeks on an old PC.
Well, I am not much of a martyr. I already escaped one regime and its associated mandatory military service. It seems the least I can do is kind of bark at them from safe distance under a small risk that I can not flee to Canada if things go really bad here. If enough Russian expatriates renounce their citizenship and explain why they are doing it, it's one way to send a message.
Go ahead and mod me down - prove Republicans have no sense of humor
Well, they don't have a dictatorship for sure, although Republicans+Democrats do constitute a ROWM (Rich old white male) aristocracy. Aristocracy is better than dictatorship, because majority of any group is not insane and can oust total nutcases or keep their power in check. Care to suggest a country that combines democracy, freedom (to disagree with majority), compassion (helping decent people get over hard times), responsibility (global warming...) and liberal immigration policy?
they are have as much legal validity as any other agreement
In the other words, none. Legal contracts and rental agreements have to be done in a very specific way to be binding, and impose obligations on both parties. Microsoft will not want to get stuck with giving a 30 day notice to terminate rental, give user access to their data in platform-neutral format after eviction, bring Windows in compliance with software building codes...
I recently got US citizenship and was debating on what to do with by Russian passport. But, I have no desire to be in any way associated with a dictatorship. I guess I will be returning it shortly, with a note describing why.
Fortunately in America we have the right to decided whats done with our own intellectual property
Fortunately, in America copyright holders only have a right to control how copies of their intellectual property are distributed to other people. They have no business whatsoever to control what one does with their own copy. In fact, if Microsoft was to much with my copy of Vista, I will have grounds to sue them for theft and tresspassing, which is far more serious than copyright infringement.
You can not run the host and guest OS of Vista Home using the same key. Microsoft gives you extra permissions to run several copies of Vista business on the same machine using only one license. Nobody is stopping you from running Vista Home Basic under Parallels if you bought a dedicated license for this purpose. In fact, it would be dubious since Mac+OSX+Parallels can be viewed as simply another computer and, for all its ills, Microsoft is not practicing hardware lock-ins.
Great quote, but it's more about DRM than Internet or evolving media per se. With Wikipedia, anyone interested can make a copy of the article and later prove that the history of edits was falsified. If none of us care to make a copy, well we deserve what we get.
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that even being accused of it should ruin one's life. Virginia Tech shooting had a false suspect. The mistake has been revealed and he is fine now. Why should this be any different? We can not allow ourselves to become so horrified by anything that we embark on a witchhunt without due process and skepticism. Otherwise, corrupt government or an angry neighbor can ruin your life by just suggesting you are a pedophile. Or distract people from real problems - deaths in Iraq, global warming, poverty - by dishing out some juicy news to keep the media busy.
Even a genuine perpetual generator would eventually succumb to wear and tear. But a pendulum works in principal, is fun to watch and, with a heavy enough weight, will not slow down noticeably for long time. If you want a longer lasting example, consider Earth orbiting around the Sun. If you are worried about the red dwarf thingy or orbits decaying due to imperfect vacuum or photon emission, oh well universe will also end some day.
Look at e-mail Received From path for network structure, make social engineering phone calls, convince a hot chick to sleep with their system administrator for passwords...
If it is "aberrant to subject 149 million people to a preference of 151 million", what is it to subject 149 thousand people to a preference of 151 thousand? Or 149 people to 151?
Better.
In a community with 300 people I have many options. Perhaps I can convince 10 of my neighbors to swing the vote in my favor. Perhaps, the local security officer will be amendable to making an exception for me since I am a very responsible adult and my rule breaking seems not to harm anyone. Most importantly, I can move to a place that better suits my lifestyle and still be able to keep in touch with my friends and family, even if the district is of 300 thousand people.
Do you really think a) young single males, b) parents of small children and c) a retirement community should live in communities with exactly the same laws?
US constitution never envisioned federal government regulating every small detail of our lives, be it a form of ID used or smoking pot in the privacy of one's backyard. It aberrant to subject 149 million people to a preference of 151 million. It's time to delegate most decisions to state level, where they would be hopefully passed on to local governments to honor the spirit of constitution (that was written when the whole US population was smaller than some metropolitan areas now).
I intend to build a perpetual motion machine
Just spin up a pendulum in vacuum. It just keeps going and going and going... wicked! Now you can move on to more challenging pursuits like a closed system energy generator.
I would prefer to screw something in holodeck, but definitely not a lightsaber!
I would have to see ads for competitors show up during presentation of my product.
Oh well, having spent 20 years in programming business, starting from copied PDP-11s and 8086s in Soviet Russia, I am now 33 and nowhere close to retirement. I am currently trying to fight the pull of slashdot to write some yucky J2EE code :-)
Most shoppers, gift buyers and corporate purchasers do not understand what is a graphics card, RAM size or recordable DVD drive. They just expect to be sold something that will run a wide variety of applications, including the next version of the OS. Thus, the default computer should come with modern features built in as a higher priority than having the latest processor - Core Solo will do just fine instead of Core 2 Duo for most people.
Why can't a multibillion-dollar company include a halfway decent graphics card in their motherboard design? Just because of that, millions of people find they can not run any games or upgrade to the latest desktop with 3D effects on their only computer.
Oh well, in many cases obesity and excessive smoking are directly related to stress. Relaxed people tend to have time to think about their health.
Oh well, there is no snow in graphics modes and avoiding it in 80x25 mode is a good exercise in understanding hardware and instruction timing. As I recall, you need to use xchg instead of mov to write a character+attribute during horizontal retrace to avoid a pipeline stall at inconvenient time. EGA on the other hand is even more confusing in native graphics modes. The effect of memory reads and writes depend on the state of bit plane registers and, in one mode, has nothing to do with data being actually written! VGA was the only PC adapter with a straightforward memory mapping in its 320x200x8 mode. It could be made a bit higher resolution on some monitors, at the cost of sacrificing said memory mapping.
But I still say it's a better learning platform than trying to program 2D acceleration features of one of a today's graphics cards, without really understanding what they do to VRAM.
We all know stressed-out types get hypertension and not too many easy going, yoga types do. All this does is explain the exact chemistry by which some of us are ruining our bodies.
Is it really necessary to fight the sun though, or can fiber optics leads from other parts of the notebook redirect additional light behind the screen?
These gigahertz are actually a problem when learning certain topics in programming. How can one explain the value of Bresenham's line algorithm when a for loop using floating point appears just as fast? There is a huge learning value in running into limitations of the hardware and either optimizing your code or redefining its goals to solve a simpler problem. Something Vista engineers need to learn to avoid making a dual core machine crawl.
On a modern computer, everything is wrapped into so many of abstraction that you can not discover how it works. It will take someone 3 years of experience to create a device driver or a graphics library that can be understood in 3 weeks on an old PC.
Well, I am not much of a martyr. I already escaped one regime and its associated mandatory military service. It seems the least I can do is kind of bark at them from safe distance under a small risk that I can not flee to Canada if things go really bad here. If enough Russian expatriates renounce their citizenship and explain why they are doing it, it's one way to send a message.
Go ahead and mod me down - prove Republicans have no sense of humor
Well, they don't have a dictatorship for sure, although Republicans+Democrats do constitute a ROWM (Rich old white male) aristocracy. Aristocracy is better than dictatorship, because majority of any group is not insane and can oust total nutcases or keep their power in check. Care to suggest a country that combines democracy, freedom (to disagree with majority), compassion (helping decent people get over hard times), responsibility (global warming...) and liberal immigration policy?
Why should I be polite to someone who voluntarily represents a repressive regime?
they are have as much legal validity as any other agreement
In the other words, none. Legal contracts and rental agreements have to be done in a very specific way to be binding, and impose obligations on both parties. Microsoft will not want to get stuck with giving a 30 day notice to terminate rental, give user access to their data in platform-neutral format after eviction, bring Windows in compliance with software building codes...
I recently got US citizenship and was debating on what to do with by Russian passport. But, I have no desire to be in any way associated with a dictatorship. I guess I will be returning it shortly, with a note describing why.
Fortunately in America we have the right to decided whats done with our own intellectual property
Fortunately, in America copyright holders only have a right to control how copies of their intellectual property are distributed to other people. They have no business whatsoever to control what one does with their own copy. In fact, if Microsoft was to much with my copy of Vista, I will have grounds to sue them for theft and tresspassing, which is far more serious than copyright infringement.
You can not run the host and guest OS of Vista Home using the same key. Microsoft gives you extra permissions to run several copies of Vista business on the same machine using only one license. Nobody is stopping you from running Vista Home Basic under Parallels if you bought a dedicated license for this purpose. In fact, it would be dubious since Mac+OSX+Parallels can be viewed as simply another computer and, for all its ills, Microsoft is not practicing hardware lock-ins.
Great quote, but it's more about DRM than Internet or evolving media per se. With Wikipedia, anyone interested can make a copy of the article and later prove that the history of edits was falsified. If none of us care to make a copy, well we deserve what we get.