Has anybody sued MS and won because there was a bug in their product? Do you think you could sue any sizeable software company and get any money out of them because you lost money due to a bug in the product? Unless you are hiring a company to do custom software, and it's spelled out in the contract, there probably isn't much of a recourse for anybody who loses money/data due to a bug in software.
Which doesn't make sense to me. Why would a video tuner require any processor power at all. Good ones have MPEG encoding on board, and don't require a fast processor at all, even when recording at very high bit rates. I'm not sure if any cards support 4 streams at once, but if you plug in 2 hauppauge dual tuner cards I think it would do the trick.
Better than the American channels who seem to put subtitles for people speaking English with an accent. People with accents aren't that hard to understand.
But they did go on to prove Fermat's theorem. So maybe he did write down the proof somewhere else. Maybe it was just lost. I'm sure paper's have been lost before, it wouldn't be the first time. The proof took a long time to be proved, and was quite a long one, but that's not to say that it's impossible that Fermat actually had a proof. For sure it wouldn't have fit inside the margin of that text. Maybe the person who the Voynich manuscript was meant for did decode it, and it completed it's point. Maybe it wasn't meant for the entire world to get the message, but just a small group of people who have since passed away.
I think the problem with being vegetarian is that you have to be quite careful to ensure that you get all the required nutrients. If you eat meat, it's easy to have a somewhat balanced diet by eating both meat and plant life. When not eating meat, you have to really think about what you are eating in order to assure that you get enough protein, fats, calcium, iron, and other things that aren't present in a lot of vegetarian foods. Granted, the same would happen if you cut out the vegetables completely, or any other food group. By cutting out meat, you have to compensate for it by eating a lot of beans/lentils, and other foods to make sure you get the right nutrients. I've seen a lot of people get it wrong, and end up with anemia, because they go vegetarian, and don't compensate properly. For people who eat both meat and vegetables, I don't think I've ever know any body who had problems due to missing out on nutrients.
Do we *really* want software techniques to be legally protected *forever*
Actually, the techniques of software wouldn't be protected, only your actually source code and the compiled binary. I you want to go write a program that does exactly the same thing as another program, you're completely free to do so. Be careful not to step on trademarks, but you are free to implement all the same algorithms, as long as you don't steal source code. I think copyright works a lot better for software than anything else. With software, just having the end product binaries doesn't really get you that much closer to duplicating somebody else's product. There's a lot of work that goes into writing maintainable source code. There's also a lot of work that goes into marketing and supporting your software product. Even if you had complete access to Microsoft's source code to rewrite you own functionally equalivalent version of Windows, you still wouldn't be as successful as them, because there's a lot more to making a successful software business than generating some binaries.
Google refusing to index you is only censorship if you consider that it would be censorship if a store refused to sell your magazine. The store has a limited amount of shelf space, and may stock any magazines it sees fit. If it doesn't like your magazine, or doesn't think that it's patrons will like your magazine on the shelves, then it doesn't have to stock it. Is the grocery store "censoring" playboy when it decides not to sell it in the store? Or is it just making a business decision. The government thing comes in to play when the government makes laws saying, you cannot publish certain material. That is censorship. A private entity refusing to to business with another private entity is not censorship.
But is one course really enough. I know I had 1 course in university on SQL and databases, but if that was all the experience I had with databases I would have been missing out on a lot. I would like to see a course on databases in the first year, or possibly first semester of second year, and then have other courses incorporate that knowledge of databases into their assignments. That way you get a good base to start off with early on, and then you get continued improvement in other courses by requiring that you use those skills in a variety of settings. Working with databases at some point in your career is almost certain. I don't think a single course is all the database exposure one should be given.
Or perhaps they just don't know about that sort of thing
They don't know because they don't care. A computer is a lot more complicated than a TV, fridge, microwave or phone. If you want to compare it in complexity to another thing that many people own, the only thing comparible would be a car. People know that cars require maintenance to keep them running well. Computers are no different in this respect.
Doctors can only diagnose them based on what you tell them your symptoms are. So a doctor could diagnose you with chronic back pain, if you complain of having back pain all the time. They aren't always able to find a reason for the back pain, and in many cases just have to take your word for it. They prescribe pain medication, but only because you tell them you have back pain. If you're a good actor, you can probably get a prescription for pain meds without much trouble. Same goes for depression. If you tell the doctor the right symptoms, they will classify you as depressed. Not that I think that a lot of people do this, but I've seen enough people in my day who were receiving disability benefits for a sore back, or something along those lines, but they spent most days just enjoying life, working on their cars, and doing more strenuous work than many people who held down jobs.
Also, many students who go to school in a city, are more likely to stay in that city to work. If you don't have any college graduates living in your city, your city will quickly devolve into an uneducated mess. I learned that playing SimCity. Surely they can figure this one out.
Student loans don't just cover tuition. They also cover books, rent, food, and taxes on all those items. In Canada where I live, they make sure you pay your tuition, but after that, the remaining goes in your account. I don't see why they wouldn't be able to pay the tax out of a student loan. Also, I doubt the average tuition is $40,000. If you are from in state, and going to a state school, you might pay $5000 a year, which puts your tax fee at more like $50. Granted, I still think this is stupid. Students already pay property tax (through their rent). They shouldn't have to pay extra tax just because they are going to school. Maybe the schools can fight back and charge $1 tuition, and $9999 administrative fees. I know my school had a tuition freeze, so they just increased the administration fee. It would be a smart school to use that to their advantage.
Which brings up my thoughts. I think that the failure rates have a lot more to do with how portable the devices are, rather than how well they are actually built. Netbooks are small and light and people take them every where. Under $1000 laptops are mostly 14 inch laptops that people take with them sometimes. $1000 + laptops are ones that have the 17 inch screen and are desktop replacements. People don't take these anywhere, They sometimes take them from the house to the car, and then from the car to the office. But that's about it.
MS Messenger is pretty good, don't get me wrong. However it does have some downsides. Like how long did it take them to get offline messaging. ICQ had it back in the 90's, and MSN only managed to get this feature in 2006. Which has been a while, but why they couldn't get it out the door earlier is beyond me. And, also, the MSN client is built for 13 year old girls. Great for sending little IMs to your friends, complete with plenty of emoticons, and even attrocities such as winks and nudges, but fails in any kind of professional environment. Why is there a maximum message length. Why is it so short. Why isn't there integrated spell checking. Why are all the ads at the bottom such tripe. You would think that sometool with as large of a user base as MSN Messenger could get some high quality ads for real products that real people would buy. But apparently that's too much. I couple probably go on for paragraphs. But I will stop. Basically, it could be about 100 times better if they had a client that wasn't aimed at 13 year old girls.
Also, along the same lines. If you are limited by time constraints, as most developers in the real world are, you would be much better off spending your time writing clear and concise code, and leaving out the comments entirely, than to spend time writing comments and code, simply because of some belief that comments must be there. Quite often, comments fall out of date with the code that was written, as they aren't updated every time the code is updated, and at that point, only serve to confuse the user.
The UAW is the reason that most of the car manufacturing industry has moved to other countries. People who are doing jobs that require not more education or skill than a Walmart worker are being paid 3 times as much. Worked nice for a while, but it isn't sustainable. It's not like auto workers have any special skills. In fact, with the advent of robots, I would have to say that their skills became less and less important. So, while I think it's important for people to have good working conditions, I really dont' understand why the average factory worker would get paid so much more than somebody who works in a retail store, or fast food joint. They really providing anything extra to any company.
I think that's probably due more to bad coding than to not running compiled code. Compiled code might run 10% faster, but not that much faster. It's probably much more likely due to something being coded with completely inefficient algorithms, or people not realizing that things like appending 1 character to the end of a string 10,000 times is going to be slow, or people not realizing just how expensive "Redim Preserve" really is.
That's because BMI is good for measuring large populations. Not individuals. It only works because there's a very small percentage of the population that has a large amount of muscle. If Everyone on the planet looked like He-Man, then BMI would work very poorly. However, as a general rule, people don't have a whole lot of muscle. People are mostly heavy because they are fat. People are light because they lack fat. Sure, some people have extreme amount of muscle, or extremely little muscle, But over large populations it works out for the most part that people's weight varies because of the amount of fat, not because of the amount of muscle.
Amazon has basically done this with the kindle. It's now possible to buy books that you can't resell. They can also control what you can do with the book, including which devices you can read it on. With paper books it was wasn't possible to really track a paper book, and see who you sold it to. But with eBooks, it's possible, so why not lock them down as much as possible.
Even better. Stop taking notes entirely and increase you focus on actually listening to what the teacher is saying. I almost always did better in courses when I actually payed attention to what the professor was saying, instead of trying like crazy to copy down every single word they wrote/said. If you are unclear about a certain topic, consult the textbook, the professor, or other students.
Thank you. I don't know why more people don't use this format. Much less ambiguous, and it goes from largest to smallest, the same way we write every other number in the world. You wouldn't say you had 14 cents and 30 dollars. You wouldn't say that something measured 3 inches and 8 feet. Why would you want to write the date with the smallest units first. The time shows hours, then minutes, then seconds. Makes complete sense, and is consistent with everything else. I don't know why dates are so messed up.
What's to stop them from using standard home connections to monitor torrent downloads? That trick will only work so long. It would be easy to set up 10 nodes in some random american cities on some residential cable ISP to monitor who is downloading what.
The three strikes idea comes out of of California. The basic idea was that after you committed 3 serious criminal offenses, they were able lock you up for an extended period of time. It first was passed in California, in 1994, long before the internet was popular.
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Has anybody sued MS and won because there was a bug in their product? Do you think you could sue any sizeable software company and get any money out of them because you lost money due to a bug in the product? Unless you are hiring a company to do custom software, and it's spelled out in the contract, there probably isn't much of a recourse for anybody who loses money/data due to a bug in software.
Which doesn't make sense to me. Why would a video tuner require any processor power at all. Good ones have MPEG encoding on board, and don't require a fast processor at all, even when recording at very high bit rates. I'm not sure if any cards support 4 streams at once, but if you plug in 2 hauppauge dual tuner cards I think it would do the trick.
Better than the American channels who seem to put subtitles for people speaking English with an accent. People with accents aren't that hard to understand.
But they did go on to prove Fermat's theorem. So maybe he did write down the proof somewhere else. Maybe it was just lost. I'm sure paper's have been lost before, it wouldn't be the first time. The proof took a long time to be proved, and was quite a long one, but that's not to say that it's impossible that Fermat actually had a proof. For sure it wouldn't have fit inside the margin of that text. Maybe the person who the Voynich manuscript was meant for did decode it, and it completed it's point. Maybe it wasn't meant for the entire world to get the message, but just a small group of people who have since passed away.
I think the problem with being vegetarian is that you have to be quite careful to ensure that you get all the required nutrients. If you eat meat, it's easy to have a somewhat balanced diet by eating both meat and plant life. When not eating meat, you have to really think about what you are eating in order to assure that you get enough protein, fats, calcium, iron, and other things that aren't present in a lot of vegetarian foods. Granted, the same would happen if you cut out the vegetables completely, or any other food group. By cutting out meat, you have to compensate for it by eating a lot of beans/lentils, and other foods to make sure you get the right nutrients. I've seen a lot of people get it wrong, and end up with anemia, because they go vegetarian, and don't compensate properly. For people who eat both meat and vegetables, I don't think I've ever know any body who had problems due to missing out on nutrients.
Actually, the techniques of software wouldn't be protected, only your actually source code and the compiled binary. I you want to go write a program that does exactly the same thing as another program, you're completely free to do so. Be careful not to step on trademarks, but you are free to implement all the same algorithms, as long as you don't steal source code. I think copyright works a lot better for software than anything else. With software, just having the end product binaries doesn't really get you that much closer to duplicating somebody else's product. There's a lot of work that goes into writing maintainable source code. There's also a lot of work that goes into marketing and supporting your software product. Even if you had complete access to Microsoft's source code to rewrite you own functionally equalivalent version of Windows, you still wouldn't be as successful as them, because there's a lot more to making a successful software business than generating some binaries.
Google refusing to index you is only censorship if you consider that it would be censorship if a store refused to sell your magazine. The store has a limited amount of shelf space, and may stock any magazines it sees fit. If it doesn't like your magazine, or doesn't think that it's patrons will like your magazine on the shelves, then it doesn't have to stock it. Is the grocery store "censoring" playboy when it decides not to sell it in the store? Or is it just making a business decision. The government thing comes in to play when the government makes laws saying, you cannot publish certain material. That is censorship. A private entity refusing to to business with another private entity is not censorship.
But is one course really enough. I know I had 1 course in university on SQL and databases, but if that was all the experience I had with databases I would have been missing out on a lot. I would like to see a course on databases in the first year, or possibly first semester of second year, and then have other courses incorporate that knowledge of databases into their assignments. That way you get a good base to start off with early on, and then you get continued improvement in other courses by requiring that you use those skills in a variety of settings. Working with databases at some point in your career is almost certain. I don't think a single course is all the database exposure one should be given.
They don't know because they don't care. A computer is a lot more complicated than a TV, fridge, microwave or phone. If you want to compare it in complexity to another thing that many people own, the only thing comparible would be a car. People know that cars require maintenance to keep them running well. Computers are no different in this respect.
Doctors can only diagnose them based on what you tell them your symptoms are. So a doctor could diagnose you with chronic back pain, if you complain of having back pain all the time. They aren't always able to find a reason for the back pain, and in many cases just have to take your word for it. They prescribe pain medication, but only because you tell them you have back pain. If you're a good actor, you can probably get a prescription for pain meds without much trouble. Same goes for depression. If you tell the doctor the right symptoms, they will classify you as depressed. Not that I think that a lot of people do this, but I've seen enough people in my day who were receiving disability benefits for a sore back, or something along those lines, but they spent most days just enjoying life, working on their cars, and doing more strenuous work than many people who held down jobs.
Also, many students who go to school in a city, are more likely to stay in that city to work. If you don't have any college graduates living in your city, your city will quickly devolve into an uneducated mess. I learned that playing SimCity. Surely they can figure this one out.
Student loans don't just cover tuition. They also cover books, rent, food, and taxes on all those items. In Canada where I live, they make sure you pay your tuition, but after that, the remaining goes in your account. I don't see why they wouldn't be able to pay the tax out of a student loan. Also, I doubt the average tuition is $40,000. If you are from in state, and going to a state school, you might pay $5000 a year, which puts your tax fee at more like $50. Granted, I still think this is stupid. Students already pay property tax (through their rent). They shouldn't have to pay extra tax just because they are going to school. Maybe the schools can fight back and charge $1 tuition, and $9999 administrative fees. I know my school had a tuition freeze, so they just increased the administration fee. It would be a smart school to use that to their advantage.
Which brings up my thoughts. I think that the failure rates have a lot more to do with how portable the devices are, rather than how well they are actually built. Netbooks are small and light and people take them every where. Under $1000 laptops are mostly 14 inch laptops that people take with them sometimes. $1000 + laptops are ones that have the 17 inch screen and are desktop replacements. People don't take these anywhere, They sometimes take them from the house to the car, and then from the car to the office. But that's about it.
MS Messenger is pretty good, don't get me wrong. However it does have some downsides. Like how long did it take them to get offline messaging. ICQ had it back in the 90's, and MSN only managed to get this feature in 2006. Which has been a while, but why they couldn't get it out the door earlier is beyond me. And, also, the MSN client is built for 13 year old girls. Great for sending little IMs to your friends, complete with plenty of emoticons, and even attrocities such as winks and nudges, but fails in any kind of professional environment. Why is there a maximum message length. Why is it so short. Why isn't there integrated spell checking. Why are all the ads at the bottom such tripe. You would think that sometool with as large of a user base as MSN Messenger could get some high quality ads for real products that real people would buy. But apparently that's too much. I couple probably go on for paragraphs. But I will stop. Basically, it could be about 100 times better if they had a client that wasn't aimed at 13 year old girls.
Also, along the same lines. If you are limited by time constraints, as most developers in the real world are, you would be much better off spending your time writing clear and concise code, and leaving out the comments entirely, than to spend time writing comments and code, simply because of some belief that comments must be there. Quite often, comments fall out of date with the code that was written, as they aren't updated every time the code is updated, and at that point, only serve to confuse the user.
The UAW is the reason that most of the car manufacturing industry has moved to other countries. People who are doing jobs that require not more education or skill than a Walmart worker are being paid 3 times as much. Worked nice for a while, but it isn't sustainable. It's not like auto workers have any special skills. In fact, with the advent of robots, I would have to say that their skills became less and less important. So, while I think it's important for people to have good working conditions, I really dont' understand why the average factory worker would get paid so much more than somebody who works in a retail store, or fast food joint. They really providing anything extra to any company.
I think that's probably due more to bad coding than to not running compiled code. Compiled code might run 10% faster, but not that much faster. It's probably much more likely due to something being coded with completely inefficient algorithms, or people not realizing that things like appending 1 character to the end of a string 10,000 times is going to be slow, or people not realizing just how expensive "Redim Preserve" really is.
That's because BMI is good for measuring large populations. Not individuals. It only works because there's a very small percentage of the population that has a large amount of muscle. If Everyone on the planet looked like He-Man, then BMI would work very poorly. However, as a general rule, people don't have a whole lot of muscle. People are mostly heavy because they are fat. People are light because they lack fat. Sure, some people have extreme amount of muscle, or extremely little muscle, But over large populations it works out for the most part that people's weight varies because of the amount of fat, not because of the amount of muscle.
Amazon has basically done this with the kindle. It's now possible to buy books that you can't resell. They can also control what you can do with the book, including which devices you can read it on. With paper books it was wasn't possible to really track a paper book, and see who you sold it to. But with eBooks, it's possible, so why not lock them down as much as possible.
Even better. Stop taking notes entirely and increase you focus on actually listening to what the teacher is saying. I almost always did better in courses when I actually payed attention to what the professor was saying, instead of trying like crazy to copy down every single word they wrote/said. If you are unclear about a certain topic, consult the textbook, the professor, or other students.
I have an older router that doesn't support WPA2/AES. TKIP is the best thing you can use. Guess I have to buy new hardware.
Thank you. I don't know why more people don't use this format. Much less ambiguous, and it goes from largest to smallest, the same way we write every other number in the world. You wouldn't say you had 14 cents and 30 dollars. You wouldn't say that something measured 3 inches and 8 feet. Why would you want to write the date with the smallest units first. The time shows hours, then minutes, then seconds. Makes complete sense, and is consistent with everything else. I don't know why dates are so messed up.
What's to stop them from using standard home connections to monitor torrent downloads? That trick will only work so long. It would be easy to set up 10 nodes in some random american cities on some residential cable ISP to monitor who is downloading what.
Sorry, here's the wikipedia link to the three strikes law.
The three strikes idea comes out of of California. The basic idea was that after you committed 3 serious criminal offenses, they were able lock you up for an extended period of time. It first was passed in California, in 1994, long before the internet was popular.