Funny... I thought internet traffic was supposed to be 2-way.
Not in the consumer-internet the RIAA & Co. want. In that internet, you just consume stuff (preferably in a form where you cannot store it in any way), and pay for it.
iTunes is actually an interesting point: It's obviously legal download (as loing as you pay instead of doing tricks), and Apple certainly would rather like more than less download traffic.
I guess such a bandwidth-throttling contract could be seen as anti-competitive measure by Apple.
You didn't know that there are hidden encoded MP3s in the Linux kernel source? You just have to know the right binary pattern to xor it with, and you'll get any mp3 you want from Linux source!
Besides the fact that E is obviously the CowboyNeal option, even if there weren't any, C would catch the behaviour you describe (because your favourite option obviously is the CN option).
Hmmm... thinking about it, everyone who'd actually take option C would be a liar (because he actually did take an option, by chosing the option which says "choose none").
I don't know. MSG probably isn't too expensive, but unless it has a big impact on food flavor why would it be in so much? Manufactures must really think that MSG helps them sell their product if they pay to use so much of it.
I guess it's just cheaper than the flavour it replaces. That is, if you can replace e.g. half of all the flavour by cheaper MSG, then it's a win to do so.
Well, we probably cannot make it inhabitable by any life form. But we surely can make it inhabitable by humans. It's not even that difficult today; the reason why it hasn't been done is mainly that those who would be able to do it don't see a reason to do so; especially since they need that earth to survive themselves.
In that light, maybe colonisation of space isn't such a good idea. After all, if some space colony can live independent of earth, and gets mighty enough to be able to destroy the earth, they may have less problems to actually do it...
Now, being smaller means there's less difference in gravity potencial between head and feet. According to general relativity, this means less difference in speed of time. Therefore I propose as next term:
better synchronized people
Now, thinking about it, this may be negative towards the tall people...
So if I invented a magical cure which fixed all known diseases then I suppose I would be irresponsible because I'm putting all those medical professionals out of a job?
Of course. And you should also thank all those criminals for keeping police officers, lawyers, judges, and jailors in job. Not to speak of the indirect jobs which come from building jails, court buildings and police stations, producing police cars and prisoner transport cars, making police uniforms and handcuffs,... Ah, I forgot, since the criminals also tend to injure people from time to time, they also increase the jobs for medical doctors and hospital staff. And of course makers of locks, alarm systems, safes and other security systems would be almost completely out of work without all those criminals.
So if you would find a way to completely stop crime, you'd clearly be irresponsible because you'd put many people out of work and even kill whole industries.
I think "special status" here is not meant technically. After all, a logo is not something you put in the software, it's something you put on the box. That is, there will probably be a "designed for LUA" logo along the "designed for Windows" logo.
Well, the permission system will probably have a few more bits:
The copy bit (allows you to make a copy from the file). Cannot be set even by the system admin, only cleared.
The move bit (allows you to move the file to a different device, i.e. making a copy and at the same time remove the old). Same as above.
The internet bit (tells that you are not allowed to start the program if you don't have an internet connection open. Ideal for spyware. Can only be set, not cleared.
How many people do you think abort the installation of unsigned drivers, even when XP warns them that they are unsigned. I'd presume it is a very high percentage.
With OSS everyone whom you give the code is allowed (but not required) to distribute it further. So keeping an OSS program inside a small group cannot be enforced, it will only work if all members of the group have actually the desire not to distribute further.
the "what is" feature is not new though, thats all I'm saying.. they added it to the search with "define" in 2003, and started parsing "what is" kind of stuff in 2004
Bah. Unix had whatis for much longer. And it works quite well, too:
While he could certainly install spyware (e.g. to find out the questions of the next test), I don't see how this would be required or even helpful in getting a perfect grade on his papers. For that, he'd probably better do some modification on the grading data (like, giving the appearance of his name in the author line an unusual high score).
What about using it for slashdot? Train it on slashdot stories and replace the editors. Done right, this should not only reduce spelling errors, but also misleading front page content. Also, if the idea is that the teacher doesn't have to read the essay himself, it must have built-in dupe detection (because that's the most conventional form of cheating, after all). Therefore this way there wouldn't even be dupes on slashdot!
Ah, and while we're at it, use if for the moderation system as well. After all, its objective is to give grades, and moderations are a sort of grades.
Of course, those Insightful moderations might get a bit unreliable... but then, they are already now!
If it takes the time from an external signal, then there's no problem at all: It will just believe the external signal whatever it tells about the time. Even if the time signal announced a sudden jump two weeks forward, the device would just change it's internal time accordingly (because it would "assume" that by some accident it just has the wrong time).
It's something different if the DST is built-in, of course. But I've never come across such a device.
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Not in the consumer-internet the RIAA & Co. want. In that internet, you just consume stuff (preferably in a form where you cannot store it in any way), and pay for it.
iTunes is actually an interesting point: It's obviously legal download (as loing as you pay instead of doing tricks), and Apple certainly would rather like more than less download traffic.
I guess such a bandwidth-throttling contract could be seen as anti-competitive measure by Apple.
You didn't know that there are hidden encoded MP3s in the Linux kernel source? You just have to know the right binary pattern to xor it with, and you'll get any mp3 you want from Linux source!
Besides the fact that E is obviously the CowboyNeal option, even if there weren't any, C would catch the behaviour you describe (because your favourite option obviously is the CN option).
... thinking about it, everyone who'd actually take option C would be a liar (because he actually did take an option, by chosing the option which says "choose none").
Hmmm
I guess it's just cheaper than the flavour it replaces. That is, if you can replace e.g. half of all the flavour by cheaper MSG, then it's a win to do so.
... of this (German language) story. :-)
Unless it's a war against the Mars colony
Well, we probably cannot make it inhabitable by any life form. But we surely can make it inhabitable by humans. It's not even that difficult today; the reason why it hasn't been done is mainly that those who would be able to do it don't see a reason to do so; especially since they need that earth to survive themselves.
...
In that light, maybe colonisation of space isn't such a good idea. After all, if some space colony can live independent of earth, and gets mighty enough to be able to destroy the earth, they may have less problems to actually do it
Now, being smaller means there's less difference in gravity potencial between head and feet. According to general relativity, this means less difference in speed of time. Therefore I propose as next term:
Now, thinking about it, this may be negative towards the tall people
Better make that a requirement. Otherwise you might not find a human team which is willing to play against your robots
Why? The lower end would still be connected to the ground station.
;-)
However, I don't want to be the one who has to untangle it
Of course. And you should also thank all those criminals for keeping police officers, lawyers, judges, and jailors in job. Not to speak of the indirect jobs which come from building jails, court buildings and police stations, producing police cars and prisoner transport cars, making police uniforms and handcuffs,
So if you would find a way to completely stop crime, you'd clearly be irresponsible because you'd put many people out of work and even kill whole industries.
SCNR
Well, actually it does if you already have some. It's called interest.
I think "special status" here is not meant technically. After all, a logo is not something you put in the software, it's something you put on the box. That is, there will probably be a "designed for LUA" logo along the "designed for Windows" logo.
With OSS everyone whom you give the code is allowed (but not required) to distribute it further. So keeping an OSS program inside a small group cannot be enforced, it will only work if all members of the group have actually the desire not to distribute further.
Bah. Unix had whatis for much longer. And it works quite well, too:
Indeed, it got an F[lamebait]
You forgot the "First Post" script. Should not be too difficult to write :-)
To which the professor could probably reply: "Really? Let's look at the logs ..."
While he could certainly install spyware (e.g. to find out the questions of the next test), I don't see how this would be required or even helpful in getting a perfect grade on his papers. For that, he'd probably better do some modification on the grading data (like, giving the appearance of his name in the author line an unusual high score).
So basically, this is a sophisticated version of Slashdot's lameness filter?
What about using it for slashdot? Train it on slashdot stories and replace the editors. Done right, this should not only reduce spelling errors, but also misleading front page content. Also, if the idea is that the teacher doesn't have to read the essay himself, it must have built-in dupe detection (because that's the most conventional form of cheating, after all). Therefore this way there wouldn't even be dupes on slashdot!
... but then, they are already now!
Ah, and while we're at it, use if for the moderation system as well. After all, its objective is to give grades, and moderations are a sort of grades.
Of course, those Insightful moderations might get a bit unreliable
SCNR
If it takes the time from an external signal, then there's no problem at all: It will just believe the external signal whatever it tells about the time. Even if the time signal announced a sudden jump two weeks forward, the device would just change it's internal time accordingly (because it would "assume" that by some accident it just has the wrong time).
It's something different if the DST is built-in, of course. But I've never come across such a device.