Well what if you don't intend to register but just want to see if the domain is available. Without restrictions against the likes of NetworkSolutions, Register.com could do the exact same thing, and the whole registration process would go downhill really fast. Couldn't you just do a DNS request to see if a domain is taken? Is it a requirement that if you have registered a domain, to have a DNS server?
In Super Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, and Mario Galaxy there is no more Super Mario. Mario is always the same size. Mario Galaxy has brought back the fire flower, along with a bunch of other special suits, kind of like Super Mario 3, but without any time when Mario is smaller. Super Mario Seems to have disappeared after the Super Nintendo left the scene.
I think the major reason that most games have loading times, isn't because the console isn't capable of it, but simply because the game production companies don't care.
The source code probably never existed. A lot of this stuff was probably done in assembly. I guess the original assembly code would have some comments, but actually understanding it would still probably be extremely difficult. And even if you did, a lot of it wouldn't be applicable to programming in anything other than assembly.
Yes but aren't there already laws against dangerous driving? It seems stupid to me that you would have to outlaw every single act which could cause you to drive dangerously. If you're driving and not paying attention, you should get a ticket. Regardless of what you're actually doing.
The PS1 also had rampant piracy. You could get a little pirating package. It came with a dongle, a boot CD, and a spring. The dongle plugged into the back, the spring allowed you to swap the boot CD for the copied game CD once the unit had booted without the PS1 knowing you had opened the cover. The XBox also had rampant piracy. Yes these consoles didn't die. The DS and GBA have even more widespread piracy than any of the consoles, yet they were extremely good sellers.
The Canadian system is not dieing. Sure there are wait times, for certain non-life-threatening conditions, but I think it's better than the alternative. In the US, even if you are insured, they may not cover you, because you incorrectly filled out some form, or because some certain procedure is "too experimental". Also, because of whatever pre-existing condition some corporation doesn't like, you may not be able to get medical insurance at all. Also, that whole story about waiting 2-3 years is vastly exaggerated. Look at the real statistics. 9/10 people are treated for hip replacement within 207 days. That's less than 2/3 of a year, and nowhere close to 2-3 years. Sure in the US you could probably get the surgery faster, but the question is, would you be able to afford it?
Just don't look up anything in a reference book in front of your patients (or in the case of a vet, the owner of your patients). My boss is a pilot, and he told me a story about how he took up a friend for a flight once, and when coming in for the landing, he got out his checklist to go through the proper landing procedures. The guy got all freaked out because he thought that he was looking in a manual, and didn't know what he was doing. I'm a software developer, and I spend a lot of my time looking up the right answer in various places, rather than trying to come up with it on my own. It's often faster, easier, and more reliable to look up the answer somewhere else, rather then try to solve a problem yourself.
In school I used WordPerfect 5.1, Quattro Pro, MS Works, Filemaker Pro, QBasic, MS-Dos, and CorelDraw, along with a bunch of programs that were so obscure, I can't even remember the name of them. Up until high school, the only computer I had ever used at school was an ICON. I don't use any of that anymore. However that hasn't stopped me from becoming quite proficient with computers. I'm a computer geek, so I did some learning on my own, but nobody I know from school has any problems using computers in the slightest. Any program you learn in school now will be out of use in 5-10 years. So the real answer is, instead of trying to focus on what a software is being used, try to teach the kids concepts, instead of trying to teach them exact sequences of buttons to press that will only ever work in the exact version of the software you are "teaching" them on.
Anybody who has messed around with servers in 32 bit Windows knows how dumb Windows is about how it uses it's memory. It can't allocate more than 2 GB to any single process, unless you enable some special flag at boot, at which case it's 3GB, Oh, and ASP.Net can really only use about 800 MB before it starts to report OutOfMemory errors, even if you have a machine with 2 GB of physical RAM.
They will never stop all of piracy. However, they never had a time when there was no piracy. What they have to do is make it more convenient to pay for the music than to pirate it. Make downloads cost $3 an album, or 25 cents a song, and put everything in MP3 format. It will be too cheap to make it worth your time to go out and find a decent pirated copy. The artists will make up for the lower prices with higher volumes and everyone will be happy. Also your 50 cents for all the software you can download would kill high end software in Canada. No more copies of VS.Net, Photoshop, or 3D Studio Max would ever be sold, because everyone would just download them for free.
If I'm forced to pay a tax because they think I'm downloading music, then I will download everything, and never buy a CD ever again. Currently I spend much more than $5 a month, and am happy doing so, because I know that the artists I like are being supported. However, if they enact this, I will never buy a CD ever again, and they will get less money from me. But it seems that that is what they want. If they think CD sales are dying now, just wait until downloading music is completely legal, and people feel that they are already paying for it.
Except for some reason I can't help but think that the artists I listen to would end up get $0, while the top 40 artists would end up getting 99.9% of the money.
How about, because one day, I may get sick, and then the health system is going to be there for me when I need it. I do not pirate music now, nor do I plan on doing it in the future. If everybody walks around sick all the time, because they can't afford to get medical help, then it has a big cost to society, like making others sick, and lost productivity in the work place, which affects the entire economy. Just like for roads and schools and firefighters and all the other things that benefit the whole of society. However, me not downloading music doesn't affect anybody else in any other way, and there's not some chance in the future that I may just want to download music. If I want music, I'll pay for it, and I'll decide which artists get my money.
But it's simple enough to just not buy CDRs. DVDRs are cheaper and hold more a data anyway. Sure you could always go without an internet connection, but that's a little much to ask. I hope this will fall flat on it's face like the tax on hard drives. There is so many other uses for the internet, that charging 10% of your monthly bill for downloads seems like asking for a bit much.
Sorry, but as a Canadian, I don't agree. I want my money to go to the artists that I support. Not whoever they decide the money should go to. How does the money get divided up so that all the artists get their fair share?
If somebody calls in a false alarm, they should not be charged. If you smell rotten eggs, and call up saying you think there's a natural gas leak, then you shouldn't be charged if it in fact turns out to actually be rotten eggs. Reporting a safety problem shouldn't come with consequences, otherwise, people might be too afraid to report something. Maliciously reporting false information is one thing. But if you report something that you genuinely think is dangerous, you shouldn't be charged.
My video card has it's own RAM, so no problem with that. I'm also running Mandriva Linux 99.9% of the time, and haven't noticed it slowing down at all. I know RAM is cheap lately, but I just haven't gotten around to buying RAM, because the amount of RAM seems to work fine for all my needs.
It is not faster than XP. Possibly if you have a computer with 4 GB of RAM it might run a little faster, because it has smarter caching, but I highly doubt that anyway. And also, in that case, you probably would have a computer so fast, that any speed improvement would be extremely small. I have a laptop with 512 MB of RAM that came preinstalled with Vista, and trust me, XP runs a lot faster. Linux runs faster than both.
Maybe not in your first day of of school, but there's a lot of degrees that will get you in the door, and on your way to making $100,000 in the first 10 years.
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Well what if you don't intend to register but just want to see if the domain is available. Without restrictions against the likes of NetworkSolutions, Register.com could do the exact same thing, and the whole registration process would go downhill really fast. Couldn't you just do a DNS request to see if a domain is taken? Is it a requirement that if you have registered a domain, to have a DNS server?
In Super Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, and Mario Galaxy there is no more Super Mario. Mario is always the same size. Mario Galaxy has brought back the fire flower, along with a bunch of other special suits, kind of like Super Mario 3, but without any time when Mario is smaller. Super Mario Seems to have disappeared after the Super Nintendo left the scene.
I think the major reason that most games have loading times, isn't because the console isn't capable of it, but simply because the game production companies don't care.
The source code probably never existed. A lot of this stuff was probably done in assembly. I guess the original assembly code would have some comments, but actually understanding it would still probably be extremely difficult. And even if you did, a lot of it wouldn't be applicable to programming in anything other than assembly.
Maybe the logic goes that if it's an executable, and only 4K, it must be a trojan. No actual program is that small anymore.
Yes but aren't there already laws against dangerous driving? It seems stupid to me that you would have to outlaw every single act which could cause you to drive dangerously. If you're driving and not paying attention, you should get a ticket. Regardless of what you're actually doing.
The PS1 also had rampant piracy. You could get a little pirating package. It came with a dongle, a boot CD, and a spring. The dongle plugged into the back, the spring allowed you to swap the boot CD for the copied game CD once the unit had booted without the PS1 knowing you had opened the cover. The XBox also had rampant piracy. Yes these consoles didn't die. The DS and GBA have even more widespread piracy than any of the consoles, yet they were extremely good sellers.
The Canadian system is not dieing. Sure there are wait times, for certain non-life-threatening conditions, but I think it's better than the alternative. In the US, even if you are insured, they may not cover you, because you incorrectly filled out some form, or because some certain procedure is "too experimental". Also, because of whatever pre-existing condition some corporation doesn't like, you may not be able to get medical insurance at all. Also, that whole story about waiting 2-3 years is vastly exaggerated. Look at the real statistics. 9/10 people are treated for hip replacement within 207 days. That's less than 2/3 of a year, and nowhere close to 2-3 years. Sure in the US you could probably get the surgery faster, but the question is, would you be able to afford it?
What's the difference between talking to someone on your wireless headset, and talking to someone in the passenger seat?
Just don't look up anything in a reference book in front of your patients (or in the case of a vet, the owner of your patients). My boss is a pilot, and he told me a story about how he took up a friend for a flight once, and when coming in for the landing, he got out his checklist to go through the proper landing procedures. The guy got all freaked out because he thought that he was looking in a manual, and didn't know what he was doing. I'm a software developer, and I spend a lot of my time looking up the right answer in various places, rather than trying to come up with it on my own. It's often faster, easier, and more reliable to look up the answer somewhere else, rather then try to solve a problem yourself.
In school I used WordPerfect 5.1, Quattro Pro, MS Works, Filemaker Pro, QBasic, MS-Dos, and CorelDraw, along with a bunch of programs that were so obscure, I can't even remember the name of them. Up until high school, the only computer I had ever used at school was an ICON. I don't use any of that anymore. However that hasn't stopped me from becoming quite proficient with computers. I'm a computer geek, so I did some learning on my own, but nobody I know from school has any problems using computers in the slightest. Any program you learn in school now will be out of use in 5-10 years. So the real answer is, instead of trying to focus on what a software is being used, try to teach the kids concepts, instead of trying to teach them exact sequences of buttons to press that will only ever work in the exact version of the software you are "teaching" them on.
And if this happens, then I will download all the music I want, and the artists will be getting considerably less money from me.
Anybody who has messed around with servers in 32 bit Windows knows how dumb Windows is about how it uses it's memory. It can't allocate more than 2 GB to any single process, unless you enable some special flag at boot, at which case it's 3GB, Oh, and ASP.Net can really only use about 800 MB before it starts to report OutOfMemory errors, even if you have a machine with 2 GB of physical RAM.
Who say's you can't build a Penrose triangle?
They will never stop all of piracy. However, they never had a time when there was no piracy. What they have to do is make it more convenient to pay for the music than to pirate it. Make downloads cost $3 an album, or 25 cents a song, and put everything in MP3 format. It will be too cheap to make it worth your time to go out and find a decent pirated copy. The artists will make up for the lower prices with higher volumes and everyone will be happy. Also your 50 cents for all the software you can download would kill high end software in Canada. No more copies of VS.Net, Photoshop, or 3D Studio Max would ever be sold, because everyone would just download them for free.
If I'm forced to pay a tax because they think I'm downloading music, then I will download everything, and never buy a CD ever again. Currently I spend much more than $5 a month, and am happy doing so, because I know that the artists I like are being supported. However, if they enact this, I will never buy a CD ever again, and they will get less money from me. But it seems that that is what they want. If they think CD sales are dying now, just wait until downloading music is completely legal, and people feel that they are already paying for it.
Except for some reason I can't help but think that the artists I listen to would end up get $0, while the top 40 artists would end up getting 99.9% of the money.
How about, because one day, I may get sick, and then the health system is going to be there for me when I need it. I do not pirate music now, nor do I plan on doing it in the future. If everybody walks around sick all the time, because they can't afford to get medical help, then it has a big cost to society, like making others sick, and lost productivity in the work place, which affects the entire economy. Just like for roads and schools and firefighters and all the other things that benefit the whole of society. However, me not downloading music doesn't affect anybody else in any other way, and there's not some chance in the future that I may just want to download music. If I want music, I'll pay for it, and I'll decide which artists get my money.
But it's simple enough to just not buy CDRs. DVDRs are cheaper and hold more a data anyway. Sure you could always go without an internet connection, but that's a little much to ask. I hope this will fall flat on it's face like the tax on hard drives. There is so many other uses for the internet, that charging 10% of your monthly bill for downloads seems like asking for a bit much.
Sorry, but as a Canadian, I don't agree. I want my money to go to the artists that I support. Not whoever they decide the money should go to. How does the money get divided up so that all the artists get their fair share?
If somebody calls in a false alarm, they should not be charged. If you smell rotten eggs, and call up saying you think there's a natural gas leak, then you shouldn't be charged if it in fact turns out to actually be rotten eggs. Reporting a safety problem shouldn't come with consequences, otherwise, people might be too afraid to report something. Maliciously reporting false information is one thing. But if you report something that you genuinely think is dangerous, you shouldn't be charged.
My video card has it's own RAM, so no problem with that. I'm also running Mandriva Linux 99.9% of the time, and haven't noticed it slowing down at all. I know RAM is cheap lately, but I just haven't gotten around to buying RAM, because the amount of RAM seems to work fine for all my needs.
It is not faster than XP. Possibly if you have a computer with 4 GB of RAM it might run a little faster, because it has smarter caching, but I highly doubt that anyway. And also, in that case, you probably would have a computer so fast, that any speed improvement would be extremely small. I have a laptop with 512 MB of RAM that came preinstalled with Vista, and trust me, XP runs a lot faster. Linux runs faster than both.
What percentage of the general population have played with lego. I imagine it would probably be quite high. Probably around 75% at least.
Maybe not in your first day of of school, but there's a lot of degrees that will get you in the door, and on your way to making $100,000 in the first 10 years.