I'm just saying that the practice has been around, whenever 'companies' (or producers, since it has existed longer than companies have) could get away with it, at least as far back as the middle ages. The guilds had similar practices, at least near the end of their influence, and in any market where there is a near-monopoly or oligopy situation, you'll probably find further examples. The British Empire's enforcement of rules that helped such behavior was what caused the American colonies to revolt.
It's not new, it's common, and it has occured whenever the companies that make products could get away with it. Unfortunately at the moment they are learning they can get away with it in the tech sector in the USA.
You can if you need to do to a lot of calculations involving a small amount of data. (So that it all fits in RAM, or at least you can batch large portions of it into RAM at a time for extended periods.)
I'll take that bet. To be settled in five or ten years, your choice.
Note: This is conditional on terms that 'that money' can be paid as a fine by the US Government, or by tarrifs imposed on US goods, or by other remidies as spelled out in the WTO treaties.
China bans it internally as well as externally. Same with Germany: It doesn't matter if you are German citizen or not in that example.
The US in this case only bans it if you are not in the US. Which is exactly what the treaty the US signed with the WTO said we won't do. (Not just on gambling.) If the law applied equally to US and non-US gambling there would be no problem.
The WTO does not have a problem with any of their member nations banning something. It only has a problem when you try to shut other countries out of your markets intentionally, while keeping the local companies in them. This is the point of the WTO, and it benifits the US in many cases. It's why the USA pushed for the formation of the WTO, and for countries to sign the treaty the US violated.
The US is being stupid, and is going to pay for it. It is that simple. If the US wanted to ban online gambling, then it should ban online gambling, not just everyone else's online gambling.
You reading the document does not invoke any copyright issues. You should even be able to hand the orginal to someone else (not copying it) without copyright ever coming up.
The only way anything like that could have any effect is if you then copied the document, in whole or in part. Until then you haven't done anything but read what you were given.
I've never had one required (courses tended to require graphing calculators by the time I got to them), but I found one in my grandpa's desk and learned to use it. Then I carried it with me to high school and gave it to anyone who asked to borrow my calculator.
This needs to be changed. We should be able to challenge illegal laws simply in the interests of justice. Sounds like a good addition to the bill of rights to me. Then anyone could challenge any law at any time? Is that what you are asking for? I thought we already had enough stupid lawsuits.
If you think a law is illegal, get a good lawyer and work out a way to get charged with breaking that law. Viola, instant challenge. Typically the ACLU will help you find a lawyer for this purpose, if they agree the law is illegal. In the past they have even been known to look for people willing to be the case. (That is: They had the lawyers ready and willing, just waiting for a client.)
It isn't hard to make a challenge case for most laws. You just have to be willing to spend the next few years in court.
I was asking myself the same question (parent of this parent as well), why did it take several years for something that was so much of a blatant violation of the Bill of Rights be removed? Does it actually take a challenge (ie lawsuit) for a court to overturn anti-constitutional laws? Yes. In theory you could pass another law which says the old law is invalid, but in practice nearly any law will stand until challenged in court. Congress, like any other body of people, rarely wants to admit it was wrong.
You can go back even farther, how in the world did Congress ever allow this bill to become law anyway? Oh, did it ride on the coattails of another bill that was a sure-in to be signed? As much as I hate that practice, that is not relevant in this case: the PATRIOT act was it's own bill, and it was a sure-in to be signed. It was the immedeate, paniced, reaction to the 9/11 attacks. People wanted Congress to do something anything to make them 'safe' again. Unfortunately in the panic, the bill that was presented made us less safe, not more. But it sounded like it made people safe, so that was enough.
Somewhere, once a upon a time, I saw an article that took the opposite approach: They worked out what the absolute maximum transistor density was, and worked out from that when Moore's Law had to end. They figured one transisitor per Plank-unit, in a spherical computer. (Where the clock speed is proportional to the size of the sphere, governed by the speed of light.)
IIRC, it ended up something like 150 years in the future.
Sorry, refractive indexes actually have very little to do with the speed of light in the various mediums. (At least, not directly.) Instead, they have to do with the materials permeability and permittivity to electromagnetic fields. (That is: How fast it magnatizes, and how fast it polarises.)
Negative refractive index materials have already been demonstrated, for specfic wavelengths. Haven't managed on visual wavelengths yet, as far as I can remember.
IE7 does a better job of standards support than 6, and all the browsers they mention as working are very good at standards support. I assume that the system is built on approved web standards, not Microsoft's web 'standards.' (Which don't work consistantly even from version to version of their own software...)
Different purpose: Publisher and Pagemaker are expressly designed to lay out and specify exactly where everything goes on a page. If you want or need that level of control, then you can buy those programs. Office and OpenOffice aren't designed for people who normally care about that level of control over the output, but instead want document creation in standard formats to be quick and easy.
The one does not equate to the other. In one case, it is with the copyright holders permission, in the other it is expressly against it.
The copyright holder has the right to decide how their works are made avalible to the public, and at what cost. The public has the right to say 'thank you' or 'fuck you'. Other holders of other copyrights do not have any say in it.
For that matter, I can't think of a time when I've opened another website while using the web interface for a firewall. If I'm configuring a firewall that's what I'm doing, and the rest of my internet connection is probably non-fuctional until I get the firewall set up.
But the vunlerablity isn't limited to firewalls, of course...
Yes, the Wii is cheaper, and yes it is sucessful, but is it sucessful just because it is cheaper?
Unfortunately, the ellipses in the TFS are also in TFA. I think they might hide a little more than that.
Yeah, I noticed that as well. I suspect the speaker knew what he was talking about, and that 'cost' is just the variable Sony is most able to change at this point. (And that he tailored his speach for his audience...)
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I'm just saying that the practice has been around, whenever 'companies' (or producers, since it has existed longer than companies have) could get away with it, at least as far back as the middle ages. The guilds had similar practices, at least near the end of their influence, and in any market where there is a near-monopoly or oligopy situation, you'll probably find further examples. The British Empire's enforcement of rules that helped such behavior was what caused the American colonies to revolt.
It's not new, it's common, and it has occured whenever the companies that make products could get away with it. Unfortunately at the moment they are learning they can get away with it in the tech sector in the USA.
Increasingly? It's a time-honored tradition...
You can if you need to do to a lot of calculations involving a small amount of data. (So that it all fits in RAM, or at least you can batch large portions of it into RAM at a time for extended periods.)
(Proud Apple user since 1984.)
I'll take that bet. To be settled in five or ten years, your choice.
Note: This is conditional on terms that 'that money' can be paid as a fine by the US Government, or by tarrifs imposed on US goods, or by other remidies as spelled out in the WTO treaties.
China bans it internally as well as externally. Same with Germany: It doesn't matter if you are German citizen or not in that example.
The US in this case only bans it if you are not in the US. Which is exactly what the treaty the US signed with the WTO said we won't do. (Not just on gambling.) If the law applied equally to US and non-US gambling there would be no problem.
The WTO does not have a problem with any of their member nations banning something. It only has a problem when you try to shut other countries out of your markets intentionally, while keeping the local companies in them. This is the point of the WTO, and it benifits the US in many cases. It's why the USA pushed for the formation of the WTO, and for countries to sign the treaty the US violated.
The US is being stupid, and is going to pay for it. It is that simple. If the US wanted to ban online gambling, then it should ban online gambling, not just everyone else's online gambling.
You reading the document does not invoke any copyright issues. You should even be able to hand the orginal to someone else (not copying it) without copyright ever coming up.
The only way anything like that could have any effect is if you then copied the document, in whole or in part. Until then you haven't done anything but read what you were given.
20? You overestimate. It was starting by my freshman year of high school...
Nope. Of course, the fact that I am 6-6, weighed 250+ pounds, and was starting center on the basketball team probably influenced that...
I've never had one required (courses tended to require graphing calculators by the time I got to them), but I found one in my grandpa's desk and learned to use it. Then I carried it with me to high school and gave it to anyone who asked to borrow my calculator.
If you think a law is illegal, get a good lawyer and work out a way to get charged with breaking that law. Viola, instant challenge. Typically the ACLU will help you find a lawyer for this purpose, if they agree the law is illegal. In the past they have even been known to look for people willing to be the case. (That is: They had the lawyers ready and willing, just waiting for a client.)
It isn't hard to make a challenge case for most laws. You just have to be willing to spend the next few years in court.
That looks like the article, thanks.
Sorry, correction: The clock speed is inversely proportional to the size of the computer. (Smaller computer, faster cycles.)
Somewhere, once a upon a time, I saw an article that took the opposite approach: They worked out what the absolute maximum transistor density was, and worked out from that when Moore's Law had to end. They figured one transisitor per Plank-unit, in a spherical computer. (Where the clock speed is proportional to the size of the sphere, governed by the speed of light.)
IIRC, it ended up something like 150 years in the future.
Yes, but it does it on Mars.
6WD, in this case. It's a 6x6. (I think all wheels are powered...)
Sorry, refractive indexes actually have very little to do with the speed of light in the various mediums. (At least, not directly.) Instead, they have to do with the materials permeability and permittivity to electromagnetic fields. (That is: How fast it magnatizes, and how fast it polarises.)
Negative refractive index materials have already been demonstrated, for specfic wavelengths. Haven't managed on visual wavelengths yet, as far as I can remember.
IE7 does a better job of standards support than 6, and all the browsers they mention as working are very good at standards support. I assume that the system is built on approved web standards, not Microsoft's web 'standards.' (Which don't work consistantly even from version to version of their own software...)
Exactly. I thought Works was add-ware: It's basically just an advertisement for Office anyway...
Different purpose: Publisher and Pagemaker are expressly designed to lay out and specify exactly where everything goes on a page. If you want or need that level of control, then you can buy those programs. Office and OpenOffice aren't designed for people who normally care about that level of control over the output, but instead want document creation in standard formats to be quick and easy.
The one does not equate to the other. In one case, it is with the copyright holders permission, in the other it is expressly against it.
The copyright holder has the right to decide how their works are made avalible to the public, and at what cost. The public has the right to say 'thank you' or 'fuck you'. Other holders of other copyrights do not have any say in it.
For that matter, I can't think of a time when I've opened another website while using the web interface for a firewall. If I'm configuring a firewall that's what I'm doing, and the rest of my internet connection is probably non-fuctional until I get the firewall set up.
But the vunlerablity isn't limited to firewalls, of course...
Nah, the Moon is the ejecta from that impact. The actual meteor was much bigger.
Unfortunately, the ellipses in the TFS are also in TFA. I think they might hide a little more than that.
Yeah, I noticed that as well. I suspect the speaker knew what he was talking about, and that 'cost' is just the variable Sony is most able to change at this point. (And that he tailored his speach for his audience...)