Uh, no, the same world doesn't make those mistakes. I'm talking about the 99.9% of the english SPEAKING population of the world. I'm not even talking about their spelling skills, or anything they're doing online. I'm talking about their english lexicon: almost no one on the planet makes the distinction, which means its just a bit of jargon relative at best to one technical field. People in that field shouldn't expect the broad english-speaking world to use all their jargon. No other field has that same expectation.
That's nice, but as my last post (in a diff thread) mentioned, the REST of the world besides slashdot just says "hacker" means "computer criminal". Everyone needs to accept that only a tiny fraction of a percent of the world-wide population of english-speakers acknowledges any distinction between hacker/cracker. Its a dead distinction.
Here's the thing: its not the public's misuse of a word, its yours! The distinction between cracker/hacker simply isn't party of the normal American lexicon, but rather is a peice of jargon specific to rather sophisticated computer users/programmers/etc. You need to get over yourself, and realize that for well over 99% of the English speaking population of the country, not to mention the PLANET, there simply isn't a distinction there. Grow up, and stop whining about other people, and realize that you're the odd-man-out, not everyone else.
Your analogy fails because this just isn't the same as just stealing the receipts. Stealing the receipts doesn't make people afraid of using the atm; stealing the receipts has a higher burden of risk (in terms of physical capture, etc.); stealing the receipts requires an additional burden of work to process the data.
There is a trade off there; its so much harder to steal the receipts, and so much riskier, that the danger of punishment doesn't need to be as severe to serve as an equivalent deterrant.
Anyone notice that there's no REQUIREMENT that you update the software on your ipod? Thus far, Apple hasn't made ANY requirements to iTunes or the Music Store to require that you update your firmware on the iPod to continue to use the software. In fact, quite the contrary, you can continue to use all the various firmwares, so long as those firmwares included support for iTunes/the store.
I would bet anything that you're wrong. The reason is because that would involve removing mpa playback (i.e. mp4 AAC files without DRM built in) entirely. This would be a terrible move for several reasons, the least of which being that when iTunes rips a CD to AAC, it does so in mpa files without DRM. I think you just didn't realize what the grandparent poster was saying when he said Hymn stripped out the DRM. It creates a new file that simple doesn't have DRM in it.
No, you don't need time, so long as you can get progressive data. For example, you can represent a whole conversation, etc. in morse code using a one dimensional interface: you just have to read left to right, as it were. Its harder to imagine such a 2d interface, unless you didn't use the entire area of the interface, so as to allow "frames". In other words, you can do it without time if you have space for "framing" each bit of info.
Um, that is not what Angland means. Angland, from Angleland, means "land of the Angles", as in the land of the people who warred with the Saxons (and eventually so inter-bred as to create the modern term anglosaxon), Celts, etc.
"I hate it when people say things like this so matter-of-factly. You DON'T KNOW that. Just because it's written in a contract, doesn't make it legal. The courts strike down contracts or parts of contracts quite often."
God, have you ever studied law? EULAs have been ruled enforceable repeatedly by the courts.
For examples, see the following cases:
Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Intergraph Corp., 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17601 (D. Cal., 2004)
Davidson & Assocs. v. Internet Gateway, 334 F. Supp. 2d 1164 (D. Mo., 2004) (you should recognize this: its the bnetd decision)
Microsoft Corp. v. V3 Solutions, Inc., 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15008 (D. Ill., 2003)
Tell you what, you find ANY cases that are still valid today - where EULAs have been stricken down as a whole, as opposed to a particular EULA - and I'll back down. However, I've now shown how the current common law standard is that in several states, and in federal court, EULAs are enforceable. So yes, I do know that unless there is a complete reversal of an established trend in law, the contract will be enforceable. Your turn.
"Hmmm... if thats the case, he wasnt old enough to buy the game in the first place ( it is rated M )."
No. The M Rating is an optional system without any legal basis. It is entirely an 'honor system'. Contracts, on the other hand, are highly statutory, and very specific on issues of age. Children who are "infantile" are not capable of agreeing to contracts. That said, any child for whom HL2 is appropriate should be more than old enough to meet the requirement.
The truth though is that the contract will be enforceable.
Incidentally, where were his parents, if he's so young? How'd he get $50?
Its around 1200 pages, right? (I can't remember for sure off the top of my head). Well, that'd mean around 100 pages per hour. I read 1-3 pages per minute, depending on the content, so thats somewhat reasonable. Of course, it'd be exhausting.
I dont think we have to admit that at all. The same science is being used to improve the quality of the very thing you're moaning about: prosthetics for humans. Its extremely complicated to design flexible materials that respond like types of flesh, and this is all part of the progress. Its disapointing, especially on Slashdot, to see people who don't realize that research isn't a straight line. Research is a branching tree, with some branches rejoining the main trunk, where distal improvements often reintegrate to improve the main research.
No: if it was just the cable, it would need to be twice the lenght of geo-sync orbit. The thing is, there will be a massive satellite at the end. Presumably, in fact, the satellite could be designed to be a launching-off point for interplanetary flight (via building the ship in orbit, instead of having to lift it off the surface). Its pretty easy to show that with a sufficiently massive satellite, the cable can be basically an arbitrary length (or more accurately, an arbitrary length longer than geo-sync orbit).
Who the FUCK moderated that as interesting? That's just anti-intellectualist, anti-establishment ranting. While some educators certainly don't like the laziness of the manner of how some people use the internet to research, my college and law school professors have all be exceedingly eager to integrate online searching (in fact, in Law School, your primary searching tools are Lexis and Westlaw, not the physical library).
Mods, grow up.
(and yes I'm aware I may take a karma hit for this, but if the mods who give out karma thing this parent post which blithly criticised educators for no real reason, are the mods who control karma, what the fuck do I care?)
I was basing my comment on the fact that I've personally seen the bibles in the Episcopal, Baptist, Lutheran and Holly-Roller Baptist churches where I've lived (in Miami, DC and Philly), and each included most or all of the standard apocrypha. I perhaps should have qualified that particular comment as anecdotal.
You're partially correct. Chinese dragons are most certainly not all evil; in fact, few are evil at all. There are stories of them breathing fire though: the Futs Long, who create volcanos when they leave earth to travel to heaven, are described sometimes has breathing flame. Since the Chinese' dragon's head is styled after a kind of mythical deer which is always aflame, this isn't too surprising.
Celtic/Christian: St.George is a Catholic saint who slayed a Fire breathing dragon. It goes without saying of course that in the Revelation of St.Peter the Beast is a firebreathing dragon.
Chinese/Japanese/Korean: All three feature multiple myths featuring fire breathing, not to mention countless beautiful scrollworks, paintings, etc. showing these myths.
S.American: Quetzalcoatl is an excellent example. The God of War, Storms and a few other things, he was a massive flying serpent who at times spewed fire (as well as lightning, etc.)
African: You got me; I've never heard of an African dragon myth, actually.
American Indian: Like Africa, I'm not aware of Dragon myths in the N.American continent. I suspect this is because of the decided lack of large reptiles, perhaps? Thats just a guess...
Norse: Jorgamurund (I'm misspelling that, but he's also called the Midgard serpect) normally has his tail in his mouth, encircling the globe. In the story of Ragnarok, when he will swallow the moon (and Thor too), there are some stories of him spewing fire. That's not standard though, and the Ettas don't include it.
I think the core of all these beliefs is the same underlying core belief about dragons: they're creatures that embody our evolutionary fears. Its been demonstrated that primates have an innate fear of large serpents. Similarly, there is an innate fear of fire (to a certain degree). The combination of multiple fears is not unheard of (coughchimeracough, coughsphinxcough), so its unsurprising that it would occur in several places. What's more interesting is that in China/Japan/Korea/Vietnam (where each country violently claims to have invented their dragons) the dragons are just as often benevolent as they are malicious, so its hard to cage them in language of fear and anxiety. Perhaps that represents a more intellectual understanding of our fears, where we take that which scares us and relegate it to the awesome (in the oldest sense of the word)? This would then link back to the core of religion, where we take things like Lightning and Death and instead of making them evil, make them the actions of an all-powerful God (who sometimes loves us)...
Actually, you're a bit off. The OP was using The Bible to refer to the Old Testament plus the New Testament [and if you're talking most Protestant versions, also including several apocryphal texts such as the 2 Macabees]. When people say "People of the Book", the only common texts are the Old Testament, i.e. the Torah. Jews and Muslims don't include the New Testament [although the latter include some of it], while Jews and Christians of course exclude the Qu'ran, and Muslims and Christians ignore the Neviim, Ketuvim, and the multitude of texts discussing those Rabbinical texts.
People still do that? Back in my hometown, Miami, that was a problem like seven or eight years ago at at least one major theater. The owner (or whoever was in charge, at least) had the smart idea of smacking a small video camera up above the center of the screen, aimed at the audience, feeding to the projection booth. They could clearly see whenever someone did it, and nailed them. I was there a few times where someone got caught, and it was fucking hi-larious. I dunno if they only had the cameras in a few screens, all of them, or what, but it had the desired effect. Besides, I haven't seen that in any theater I've been in, for years...I'm not saying you're lying or anything, I'm just shocked that its still happening somewhere.
You want to know why? Because you're using a piece of shit imitation of Tivo. If you got a -real- Tivo, it'd take you less than an hour to have your Tivo fully hacked, with extremely easy extraction/reinsertion of video. There's no strong market to hack the cable-company specific units, because there's too much variation between units. Get a real Tivo. The base Tivo is better anyway, and you'll be able to hack it to your hearts content.
Actually, with the tens of thousands of lines of dialogue in this game, its quite arguably akin to a movie as much as its akin to a normal game. If you read interviews with the people from the gaming company, its very clear that the storyline is extremely important to them. I'm not going to be getting this until its on the PC, and I know I'm hoping to avoid mention of any storyline details until then.
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Uh, no, the same world doesn't make those mistakes. I'm talking about the 99.9% of the english SPEAKING population of the world. I'm not even talking about their spelling skills, or anything they're doing online. I'm talking about their english lexicon: almost no one on the planet makes the distinction, which means its just a bit of jargon relative at best to one technical field. People in that field shouldn't expect the broad english-speaking world to use all their jargon. No other field has that same expectation.
That's nice, but as my last post (in a diff thread) mentioned, the REST of the world besides slashdot just says "hacker" means "computer criminal". Everyone needs to accept that only a tiny fraction of a percent of the world-wide population of english-speakers acknowledges any distinction between hacker/cracker. Its a dead distinction.
Here's the thing: its not the public's misuse of a word, its yours! The distinction between cracker/hacker simply isn't party of the normal American lexicon, but rather is a peice of jargon specific to rather sophisticated computer users/programmers/etc. You need to get over yourself, and realize that for well over 99% of the English speaking population of the country, not to mention the PLANET, there simply isn't a distinction there. Grow up, and stop whining about other people, and realize that you're the odd-man-out, not everyone else.
Your analogy fails because this just isn't the same as just stealing the receipts. Stealing the receipts doesn't make people afraid of using the atm; stealing the receipts has a higher burden of risk (in terms of physical capture, etc.); stealing the receipts requires an additional burden of work to process the data.
There is a trade off there; its so much harder to steal the receipts, and so much riskier, that the danger of punishment doesn't need to be as severe to serve as an equivalent deterrant.
Anyone notice that there's no REQUIREMENT that you update the software on your ipod? Thus far, Apple hasn't made ANY requirements to iTunes or the Music Store to require that you update your firmware on the iPod to continue to use the software. In fact, quite the contrary, you can continue to use all the various firmwares, so long as those firmwares included support for iTunes/the store.
I would bet anything that you're wrong. The reason is because that would involve removing mpa playback (i.e. mp4 AAC files without DRM built in) entirely. This would be a terrible move for several reasons, the least of which being that when iTunes rips a CD to AAC, it does so in mpa files without DRM. I think you just didn't realize what the grandparent poster was saying when he said Hymn stripped out the DRM. It creates a new file that simple doesn't have DRM in it.
No, you don't need time, so long as you can get progressive data. For example, you can represent a whole conversation, etc. in morse code using a one dimensional interface: you just have to read left to right, as it were. Its harder to imagine such a 2d interface, unless you didn't use the entire area of the interface, so as to allow "frames". In other words, you can do it without time if you have space for "framing" each bit of info.
Um, that is not what Angland means. Angland, from Angleland, means "land of the Angles", as in the land of the people who warred with the Saxons (and eventually so inter-bred as to create the modern term anglosaxon), Celts, etc.
I'm sorry, we're looking at a theological magazine for technical articles?
"I hate it when people say things like this so matter-of-factly. You DON'T KNOW that. Just because it's written in a contract, doesn't make it legal. The courts strike down contracts or parts of contracts quite often."
God, have you ever studied law? EULAs have been ruled enforceable repeatedly by the courts.
For examples, see the following cases:
Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Intergraph Corp., 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17601 (D. Cal., 2004)
Davidson & Assocs. v. Internet Gateway, 334 F. Supp. 2d 1164 (D. Mo., 2004) (you should recognize this: its the bnetd decision)
Microsoft Corp. v. V3 Solutions, Inc., 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15008 (D. Ill., 2003)
Tell you what, you find ANY cases that are still valid today - where EULAs have been stricken down as a whole, as opposed to a particular EULA - and I'll back down. However, I've now shown how the current common law standard is that in several states, and in federal court, EULAs are enforceable. So yes, I do know that unless there is a complete reversal of an established trend in law, the contract will be enforceable. Your turn.
"Hmmm... if thats the case, he wasnt old enough to buy the game in the first place ( it is rated M )."
No. The M Rating is an optional system without any legal basis. It is entirely an 'honor system'. Contracts, on the other hand, are highly statutory, and very specific on issues of age. Children who are "infantile" are not capable of agreeing to contracts. That said, any child for whom HL2 is appropriate should be more than old enough to meet the requirement.
The truth though is that the contract will be enforceable.
Incidentally, where were his parents, if he's so young? How'd he get $50?
Its around 1200 pages, right? (I can't remember for sure off the top of my head). Well, that'd mean around 100 pages per hour. I read 1-3 pages per minute, depending on the content, so thats somewhat reasonable. Of course, it'd be exhausting.
I dont think we have to admit that at all. The same science is being used to improve the quality of the very thing you're moaning about: prosthetics for humans. Its extremely complicated to design flexible materials that respond like types of flesh, and this is all part of the progress. Its disapointing, especially on Slashdot, to see people who don't realize that research isn't a straight line. Research is a branching tree, with some branches rejoining the main trunk, where distal improvements often reintegrate to improve the main research.
No: if it was just the cable, it would need to be twice the lenght of geo-sync orbit. The thing is, there will be a massive satellite at the end. Presumably, in fact, the satellite could be designed to be a launching-off point for interplanetary flight (via building the ship in orbit, instead of having to lift it off the surface). Its pretty easy to show that with a sufficiently massive satellite, the cable can be basically an arbitrary length (or more accurately, an arbitrary length longer than geo-sync orbit).
Who the FUCK moderated that as interesting? That's just anti-intellectualist, anti-establishment ranting. While some educators certainly don't like the laziness of the manner of how some people use the internet to research, my college and law school professors have all be exceedingly eager to integrate online searching (in fact, in Law School, your primary searching tools are Lexis and Westlaw, not the physical library).
Mods, grow up.
(and yes I'm aware I may take a karma hit for this, but if the mods who give out karma thing this parent post which blithly criticised educators for no real reason, are the mods who control karma, what the fuck do I care?)
Stupid edit: while it seems like a Freudian slip, I meant "prophet", not "profit".
It certainly acknowledges Jesus, but he's not the messiah to Muslims. Rather, he was a profit. As such, it excludes most of the New Testament.
I was basing my comment on the fact that I've personally seen the bibles in the Episcopal, Baptist, Lutheran and Holly-Roller Baptist churches where I've lived (in Miami, DC and Philly), and each included most or all of the standard apocrypha. I perhaps should have qualified that particular comment as anecdotal.
You're partially correct. Chinese dragons are most certainly not all evil; in fact, few are evil at all. There are stories of them breathing fire though: the Futs Long, who create volcanos when they leave earth to travel to heaven, are described sometimes has breathing flame. Since the Chinese' dragon's head is styled after a kind of mythical deer which is always aflame, this isn't too surprising.
Offhand...
Celtic/Christian: St.George is a Catholic saint who slayed a Fire breathing dragon. It goes without saying of course that in the Revelation of St.Peter the Beast is a firebreathing dragon.
Chinese/Japanese/Korean: All three feature multiple myths featuring fire breathing, not to mention countless beautiful scrollworks, paintings, etc. showing these myths.
S.American: Quetzalcoatl is an excellent example. The God of War, Storms and a few other things, he was a massive flying serpent who at times spewed fire (as well as lightning, etc.)
African: You got me; I've never heard of an African dragon myth, actually.
American Indian: Like Africa, I'm not aware of Dragon myths in the N.American continent. I suspect this is because of the decided lack of large reptiles, perhaps? Thats just a guess...
Norse: Jorgamurund (I'm misspelling that, but he's also called the Midgard serpect) normally has his tail in his mouth, encircling the globe. In the story of Ragnarok, when he will swallow the moon (and Thor too), there are some stories of him spewing fire. That's not standard though, and the Ettas don't include it.
I think the core of all these beliefs is the same underlying core belief about dragons: they're creatures that embody our evolutionary fears. Its been demonstrated that primates have an innate fear of large serpents. Similarly, there is an innate fear of fire (to a certain degree). The combination of multiple fears is not unheard of (coughchimeracough, coughsphinxcough), so its unsurprising that it would occur in several places. What's more interesting is that in China/Japan/Korea/Vietnam (where each country violently claims to have invented their dragons) the dragons are just as often benevolent as they are malicious, so its hard to cage them in language of fear and anxiety. Perhaps that represents a more intellectual understanding of our fears, where we take that which scares us and relegate it to the awesome (in the oldest sense of the word)? This would then link back to the core of religion, where we take things like Lightning and Death and instead of making them evil, make them the actions of an all-powerful God (who sometimes loves us)...
Actually, you're a bit off. The OP was using The Bible to refer to the Old Testament plus the New Testament [and if you're talking most Protestant versions, also including several apocryphal texts such as the 2 Macabees]. When people say "People of the Book", the only common texts are the Old Testament, i.e. the Torah. Jews and Muslims don't include the New Testament [although the latter include some of it], while Jews and Christians of course exclude the Qu'ran, and Muslims and Christians ignore the Neviim, Ketuvim, and the multitude of texts discussing those Rabbinical texts.
People still do that? Back in my hometown, Miami, that was a problem like seven or eight years ago at at least one major theater. The owner (or whoever was in charge, at least) had the smart idea of smacking a small video camera up above the center of the screen, aimed at the audience, feeding to the projection booth. They could clearly see whenever someone did it, and nailed them. I was there a few times where someone got caught, and it was fucking hi-larious. I dunno if they only had the cameras in a few screens, all of them, or what, but it had the desired effect. Besides, I haven't seen that in any theater I've been in, for years...I'm not saying you're lying or anything, I'm just shocked that its still happening somewhere.
You want to know why? Because you're using a piece of shit imitation of Tivo. If you got a -real- Tivo, it'd take you less than an hour to have your Tivo fully hacked, with extremely easy extraction/reinsertion of video. There's no strong market to hack the cable-company specific units, because there's too much variation between units. Get a real Tivo. The base Tivo is better anyway, and you'll be able to hack it to your hearts content.
Actually, with the tens of thousands of lines of dialogue in this game, its quite arguably akin to a movie as much as its akin to a normal game. If you read interviews with the people from the gaming company, its very clear that the storyline is extremely important to them. I'm not going to be getting this until its on the PC, and I know I'm hoping to avoid mention of any storyline details until then.
"Not to mention that the powers that the Incredibles had were biting off the Fantastic Four majorly."
How the hell do you figure?
Yes, ElastaGAL is much like Mr.Fantastic, and whatshername is just like the Invisible Woman, but the other two's powers are totally different.