People here seem very materialistic and focused on college as a way to increase their pay grade. That's not the purpose of a well-rounded education (though it *can* do that); its purpose is to make you a more intelligent and generally more well-informed person. If you know everything about TCP/IP networking inside-out, but don't even know what continent Pakistan is on, that's a bad thing, even if it isn't detrimental to your job performance. Same with knowing some basic literature, how to do math, some simply physics, and so on. You can be the best at your job and still be an idiot - the goal of higher education is to prevent that from happening.
If that's not what you look for in education, why go to a 4-year college when you could for much cheaper go to a trade school and learn just the skills you want to learn?
However, many of the copy protection systems do not violate the Red Book CD Audio standard, so could validly carry that logo. The copy protection works by inserting square waves and small breaks into the audio, which are filtered out by "standard" audio CD players, but not by ripping programs or most CD-ROM drives in playback mode. The CD itself is still written in the proper CD-DA format, it's just that the audio data written within that format is intentionally degraded in a specific way.
I think the point is that they could concede that and still not be hurt. Even if the music industry agrees not to put the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo/text on these copy-protected CDs, 99% of people won't notice its absence, and seeing a shiny disc in a jewel case will just assume it's a standard CD.
The retail outlets might not, but I believe the manufacturer has to take the return if you choose not to accept the license (i.e. you click "no" during install).
Perhaps there aren't as many incompetent admins, but there are still a lot of neglected Linux installs out there. A lot of them are just forgotten boxes, or test boxes that are sitting around waiting for a project to complete, or forgotted installs - I can't even count how many default Apache pages I've seen on the internet. Somebody installed Apache and never did anything with it, so if there were a hole in Apache, who knows if they'd even remember they had Apache running, much less to patch it. Sure, worms might spread slower, but I think they'd still spread.
The article is about FrontPage, which typically doesn't require a high level of "seriousness" to buy. The Oracle example was just a corroborating example showing that this practice isn't limited to Microsoft.
Not to mention that the user is not presented with the EULA until *after* he's bought the software. Sure, he can return it, but this is an added inconvenience. At the very least, the EULA should be required to be readily visible prior to purchase (either on the box or available at the retail locations where the software is sold).
Well of course the other reason Iran opposes the Taliban is that they belong to a different ethnic group. The majority of Iranians belong to the same ethnic group as the deposed previous government of Afghanistan, who now constitute the "Northern Alliance" anti-Taliban fighters, while the ethnic group of the Taliban is a minority in Iran.
Well I really wasn't too excited about this - "just another FPS" - but the one level in the multiplayer test is extremely well done. While certainly not enough to please the ardent history fan, the game does a very good job of capturing a WW2 style normandy-style infantry beach storming. The weapons are modeled in a way appropriate to the period (i.e. the guns overheat, the sniper rifle has a huge recoil) and the terrain is such that it forces real tactics (i.e. if you just run up to the door, you'll get mowed down by the enemy's machine-gun emplacements).
Players should also understand that the system requirements for
this Multiplayer TEST are higher and different than what we anticipate for the retail version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
and:
The use of a flamethrower can impact the performance of the
game at this time. If more than 2
players per team use the flamethrower at the same time, players may experience
various performance issues.
Note that Israel did not invade the Arab portion of Jerusalem - the Arabs invaded Israel, including the Israeli portion of Jerusalem in 1967, in an attempt to destroy Israel. Israel responded decisively, pushing back the Arabs and seizing East Jerusalem from the retreating invaders.
I'm not sure whether you're intending to blame Israel for the lack of a Palestinian homeland or not, but just to clarify, they are not the ones solely responsible - the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip were the portions of the original Palestine set aside for the Arab Palestinians. These were immediately (in 1948) taken by Egypt and Jordan, both of whom refused to allow the Palestinians there to form their own state during their 19 years of occupation (1948-1967). After the Arabs invaded Israel in 1967, Israel captured the territories as a buffer zone against future invasions, and only *then* did Egypt and Jordan begin to clamor for a Palestinian state. So while Israel is certainly not blameless, the problem is at least as much a creation of the Arab states of the region, who continue, through discriminatory laws, to refuse to allow the Palestinian refugees in their countries to lead normal lives, keeping them instead confined to refugee camps as pawns to be used in their struggle against Israel.
MSMP doesn't like them because they are corrupt - not in valid MPEG format. He admits this on the page, but mentions that XAnim plays them anyway (perhaps XAnim ignores the invalid header?)
And Israel's been doing it for years, and still does it. That's why of the four hijack attempts during that "skyjacking" crisis, only three succeeded - one was an El Al flight, which as a matter of policy has armed plainclothed anti-terrorist agents. The would-be hijacker was captured alive, while the other three planes were successfully hijacked.
In fact, unless I'm mistaken, this is the first time a hijacking has not been essentially a hostage situation - every other hijacking is done to get hostages to force governments to comply with the terrorists' demands. So it's certainly understandable that the pilots would've though this was the same.
The US claims it's not, and I'm inclined to believe them, as I would think they would want to publicize any retaliation as much as possible, not cover it up.
CNN updates on the website indicate that the US has emphatically stated that this is not a US retaliatory strike. They're guessing it's related to the internal Afghani civil war.
In this particular case, I'm inclined to believe the US govt. If they were to launch a retaliatory strike, I think they would damn well sure make sure everyone knows about it (since most Americans would support it anyway), not try to cover it up.
I agree - the Taliban has been trying very hard in the past weeks to gain some sort of legitimacy in the eyes of other countries (for example, allowing the imprisoned foreigners from Shelter Now to have foreign non-Muslim lawyers, and trying to set up their trial as an example of how fair Islamic Sharia law is). I would think that a good way to do this would be to change their previous story of "Osama bin Laden is our guest, and we have been given no conclusive evidence that he has commited any crimes, so must presume his innocence and treat him as a guest" to one of "ok, now we have evidence, so he has abused his status as a guest and we will now expel him from the country."
The US intelligence agencies had been picking up indications of an imminent threat to American interests, and had sent an advisory last week to all American embassies to be on heightened alert, but they weren't sure where the attack, if it were to come, would be. Basically, they knew something would probably happen, but since their information was so vague it was practically useless - I'm guessing they expected another embassy bombing.
In addition, unless the hijackers told them of their plans to crash the plane, the thing most pilots would assume is that the hijackers would be making ransom demands (either for money, or for the release of imprisoned comrades). Thus, there's no reason to jeopardize the safety of the crew and passengers when most hijacks end with most or all people on board still alive.
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People here seem very materialistic and focused on college as a way to increase their pay grade. That's not the purpose of a well-rounded education (though it *can* do that); its purpose is to make you a more intelligent and generally more well-informed person. If you know everything about TCP/IP networking inside-out, but don't even know what continent Pakistan is on, that's a bad thing, even if it isn't detrimental to your job performance. Same with knowing some basic literature, how to do math, some simply physics, and so on. You can be the best at your job and still be an idiot - the goal of higher education is to prevent that from happening.
If that's not what you look for in education, why go to a 4-year college when you could for much cheaper go to a trade school and learn just the skills you want to learn?
However, many of the copy protection systems do not violate the Red Book CD Audio standard, so could validly carry that logo. The copy protection works by inserting square waves and small breaks into the audio, which are filtered out by "standard" audio CD players, but not by ripping programs or most CD-ROM drives in playback mode. The CD itself is still written in the proper CD-DA format, it's just that the audio data written within that format is intentionally degraded in a specific way.
I think the point is that they could concede that and still not be hurt. Even if the music industry agrees not to put the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo/text on these copy-protected CDs, 99% of people won't notice its absence, and seeing a shiny disc in a jewel case will just assume it's a standard CD.
The retail outlets might not, but I believe the manufacturer has to take the return if you choose not to accept the license (i.e. you click "no" during install).
Perhaps there aren't as many incompetent admins, but there are still a lot of neglected Linux installs out there. A lot of them are just forgotten boxes, or test boxes that are sitting around waiting for a project to complete, or forgotted installs - I can't even count how many default Apache pages I've seen on the internet. Somebody installed Apache and never did anything with it, so if there were a hole in Apache, who knows if they'd even remember they had Apache running, much less to patch it. Sure, worms might spread slower, but I think they'd still spread.
The article is about FrontPage, which typically doesn't require a high level of "seriousness" to buy. The Oracle example was just a corroborating example showing that this practice isn't limited to Microsoft.
Not to mention that the user is not presented with the EULA until *after* he's bought the software. Sure, he can return it, but this is an added inconvenience. At the very least, the EULA should be required to be readily visible prior to purchase (either on the box or available at the retail locations where the software is sold).
Thank you sir for pointing out the painfully obvious point of the post.
Well of course the other reason Iran opposes the Taliban is that they belong to a different ethnic group. The majority of Iranians belong to the same ethnic group as the deposed previous government of Afghanistan, who now constitute the "Northern Alliance" anti-Taliban fighters, while the ethnic group of the Taliban is a minority in Iran.
Well I really wasn't too excited about this - "just another FPS" - but the one level in the multiplayer test is extremely well done. While certainly not enough to please the ardent history fan, the game does a very good job of capturing a WW2 style normandy-style infantry beach storming. The weapons are modeled in a way appropriate to the period (i.e. the guns overheat, the sniper rifle has a huge recoil) and the terrain is such that it forces real tactics (i.e. if you just run up to the door, you'll get mowed down by the enemy's machine-gun emplacements).
Players should also understand that the system requirements for this Multiplayer TEST are higher and different than what we anticipate for the retail version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
and:
The use of a flamethrower can impact the performance of the game at this time. If more than 2 players per team use the flamethrower at the same time, players may experience various performance issues.
Note that Israel did not invade the Arab portion of Jerusalem - the Arabs invaded Israel, including the Israeli portion of Jerusalem in 1967, in an attempt to destroy Israel. Israel responded decisively, pushing back the Arabs and seizing East Jerusalem from the retreating invaders.
I'm not sure whether you're intending to blame Israel for the lack of a Palestinian homeland or not, but just to clarify, they are not the ones solely responsible - the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip were the portions of the original Palestine set aside for the Arab Palestinians. These were immediately (in 1948) taken by Egypt and Jordan, both of whom refused to allow the Palestinians there to form their own state during their 19 years of occupation (1948-1967). After the Arabs invaded Israel in 1967, Israel captured the territories as a buffer zone against future invasions, and only *then* did Egypt and Jordan begin to clamor for a Palestinian state. So while Israel is certainly not blameless, the problem is at least as much a creation of the Arab states of the region, who continue, through discriminatory laws, to refuse to allow the Palestinian refugees in their countries to lead normal lives, keeping them instead confined to refugee camps as pawns to be used in their struggle against Israel.
MSMP doesn't like them because they are corrupt - not in valid MPEG format. He admits this on the page, but mentions that XAnim plays them anyway (perhaps XAnim ignores the invalid header?)
Umm, those two sites are mirrors of each other.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ches/map/index.html
Can anybody out there convert the corrupted MPEG videos to a working format? They claim to be MPEG, but are not valid MPEG files.
And Israel's been doing it for years, and still does it. That's why of the four hijack attempts during that "skyjacking" crisis, only three succeeded - one was an El Al flight, which as a matter of policy has armed plainclothed anti-terrorist agents. The would-be hijacker was captured alive, while the other three planes were successfully hijacked.
In fact, unless I'm mistaken, this is the first time a hijacking has not been essentially a hostage situation - every other hijacking is done to get hostages to force governments to comply with the terrorists' demands. So it's certainly understandable that the pilots would've though this was the same.
The US claims it's not, and I'm inclined to believe them, as I would think they would want to publicize any retaliation as much as possible, not cover it up.
The US has denied that they're involved in the explosions, guessing that it's related to the civil war there.
And in this case I'm inclined to believe them, as if they did retaliate I'm pretty sure they'd make sure everyone knows about it, not cover it up.
CNN updates on the website indicate that the US has emphatically stated that this is not a US retaliatory strike. They're guessing it's related to the internal Afghani civil war.
In this particular case, I'm inclined to believe the US govt. If they were to launch a retaliatory strike, I think they would damn well sure make sure everyone knows about it (since most Americans would support it anyway), not try to cover it up.
I agree - the Taliban has been trying very hard in the past weeks to gain some sort of legitimacy in the eyes of other countries (for example, allowing the imprisoned foreigners from Shelter Now to have foreign non-Muslim lawyers, and trying to set up their trial as an example of how fair Islamic Sharia law is). I would think that a good way to do this would be to change their previous story of "Osama bin Laden is our guest, and we have been given no conclusive evidence that he has commited any crimes, so must presume his innocence and treat him as a guest" to one of "ok, now we have evidence, so he has abused his status as a guest and we will now expel him from the country."
The US intelligence agencies had been picking up indications of an imminent threat to American interests, and had sent an advisory last week to all American embassies to be on heightened alert, but they weren't sure where the attack, if it were to come, would be. Basically, they knew something would probably happen, but since their information was so vague it was practically useless - I'm guessing they expected another embassy bombing.
In addition, unless the hijackers told them of their plans to crash the plane, the thing most pilots would assume is that the hijackers would be making ransom demands (either for money, or for the release of imprisoned comrades). Thus, there's no reason to jeopardize the safety of the crew and passengers when most hijacks end with most or all people on board still alive.