My one suggestion to my family is a magazine subscription. Preferably Asimov's or Analog. Good stories, and updates monthly, and it doesn't cost much more than a book.
If you really want memory cards, power cells, and a backlight, you can get a subscription to Baen Books. Four books a month, and previews of their upcoming catalog. No DRM either: just open formats.
My family has given up on giving me books: I've usually already read anything they find...
That was never the case. A contract just has to be agreed to by both parties. A signature is the easiest, long-lasting, method of noting that agreement. A verbal contract is just as valid, but you have to have impartial witnesses to prove both sides agreed. (A good video camera should be fine, if you can be relatively sure it has not been tampered with.)
There are specific contracts that the government requires a signature for ('real property', meaning land, is usually one...), but as a general rule a signature is not required. Just acknowledgment and agreement.
(IANAL, but I did take Business Law, which spent most of the course covering this.)
Well, they could put up a sign at the store saying that by buying these cameras you are agreeing to return them when the memory gets full for picture processing. Then it would be a contract clause. As long as you have to see and read the contract before buying the camera you could be bound by it. (This would be different from 'shrinkwrap' licensing in that you would see the contract before money changed hands.)
"Ooh! Look at the little glowing fish! I've lost all interest in spawning!"
*Sigh*. No, this is closer: "I'm sorry, I just can't do this with it glowing at me!"
"Ok, I'll get him out of the stream." (Pause, splash) "Now, where were we..."
(Fishy noises)
"I just can't... I can't stop thinking about it glowing at me."
"It's gone. It can't be glowing at you now."
"But I can't get it out of my head!"
"What is it, really? Am I to fat? To thin? To red? Not red enough? What? Last night you had a headache, the night before that it was your 'time of the month', before that... Don't you love me anymore?"
"I... I don't know. I'm not sure I do."
"What happened? What went wrong?"
"I'm not sure. I think we just grew apart. Please, let's not talk about it now. I... I need to sleep."
"Fine."
"Um, could you sleep on the other side of the streambed..."
And it is all due to a glowing fish...
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Question: Would said email client have the ability to write email/email attachments to disk? If so, a clever virus writer will eventually find a way to make one, given enough incentive. It may not have quite the auto-propogating power of an Outlook virus, but a trojan will work for sure, at least.
Such a system would present greater hurdles, sure. But if the system allows one program to create data and another to execute it, ever, then there is a way to write a virus. It may not be easy, but there will be one.
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Even if this were a diversity case, the $75,000 amount isn't that hard to reach -- one doesn't have to prove it, one only has to claim it (actually, you have to claim *at least* $75,001) in your complaint. Granted, there needs to be a reasonable basis for claiming it...
And remember, by this definition of 'reasonable', SCO is suing IBM for $3 billion...
I'll agree he should have posted something. I think he could have waited on the working exploit code until Apple's stated fix release date passed. Posting that he had (without giving it out) exploit code would have been reasonable, given that he knew Apple was working on a fix.
The US has a different pricing model, so that problem won't come up. In the US outgoing calls are billed as international/long distance/local, depending on the number. The extra cost of calling a cell phone has been transfered to the person called. This means that if someone calls you long distance on your cell phone you can get quite a charge for a call you did not orginate...
Recently a couple of companies (Nextel for one) have offered plans with free incoming calls. But since the precedent has been established, there is still no extra charge to the caller. I assume they cover the cost in other areas.
Not a problem: I didn't think you meant to disparage the Open Source software crowd. My point actually was that this was/is not a new thing: other systems can do it already. (Though OpenBSD has only been able to do all of it stock for less than a month...)
People are getting up in arms about Cisco doing this. Open Source has already done it. Seems there is a double standard.
Cisco firewalls are not your little linksys router from Fry's or that 386 running OpenBSD over in the corner.
Just as a sidenote: OpenBSD can do all this. Out of the box. Look into authpf and pf: you can identify hosts based on OS, whether they are running a login program, and shape the traffic resulting from this.
(Though I wouldn't like to try running it on a 386. 486 sure.)
Actually, I would suspect it would take a while. A long while.
The human body is incredibly good at resisting viri. It needs to be: natural viri are incredibly good at getting past the defenses. Mutating armor, adaptive camouflage, site-specific intrusion points, are all common in the virus world. Building a working virus that can actually infect a human is a lot harder than just getting it to replicate in ideal conditions. Natural viri have to work very hard, just to get us to sneeze once or twice. Specifically modifying brain connections to obtain a certain result would be (nearly?) impossible. (Especially since we don't understand how the brain works yet...)
I'll trust our natural defenses against any made-from-scratch virus. I'd even take even odds on a modified-from-natural virus. Now, bred-for-leathality I'll worry about...
Ok, quick question: what fundimentally is the problem with a dictatorship? Why must all governments be democracies of one form or another?
History has plenty of good dictators (or kings). History also has one or two bad democracies, though that form of government hasn't been around as long.
I don't know. I don't have an mp3 player, and am not in the market for one. But I felt confident enough to make the statement since CNET rates it at the top, as does StreetTech, The Gadgeteer, and every other comparative review I've looked at. The marketplace also agrees: the iPod outsells any other mp3 player (and (nearly?) outsells all other mp3 players combined).
So I appeal to authority: the reviewers and public all believe it is the best all round. I believe that enough backing to make an opinion statement on/.;-)
That wasn't the point. This is not a review. It is a state-of-the-market analysis, using the iPod as a comparison point.
The iPod is the best all-round mp3 player today. Many would say it is perfect. CNET doesn't agree: they point out the areas where it could be improved (and list alternatives if that specific feature is important to you). The point is to show what mp3 players in general need to work on. The iPod is just an example.
1. Voyager is now mostly past the 'comets and stuff'.
2. Getting useful information about space from telemetry means you have to track an object which you know the properties of. We know approximate mass for most comets. We know exact mass, composition, initial velocity, acceleration vectors and more about Voyager. This means we don't have to guess these in calculations, which means we get quite a bit more detailed info out of them.
Twenty years ago, when the majority of software changed from being Free to being proprietary, there was no revolution, despite the public no longer being able to see what the software was doing, modify/fix it, or share it.
Ok. I'm posting this from a commercial operating system (Mac OS X) that includes an open-source core, using a web browser that does the same. I run a personal servers using OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I'm writing code to (in Perl, which is open-source) convert the publicly documented file format (APXL, aka Keynote) of a program I bought to HTML.
The revolution happened. Or more correctly is happening. It just took a while.
It's going to take a lot of work from a small number of people to prevent digital TV etc. from spoiling modern culture/freedom.
'Running, but unplayable' is probably the best thing that could happen to the marketing department: They get to tell people that it can run their old games (since it can, technically), but anyone who tries will soon realize they want to upgrade to the new improved version...
1: The PowerPC architecture has proven fairly good at emulating Intel architecture. It's definitely not megahertz for megahertz, but a G5 chip that emulates a 733Mhz x86 is not out of the question for a game console. If you don't mind a performance hit you don't even need to keep the same preformance nessisarially... Just tell people that while they can run their old XBox games they aren't 'optimized' for the XBox2 and therefore won't run as fast.
2: Microsoft has emulation code for the PPC inhouse: they recently bought VirtualPC which did exactly that. Now, I'm sure it is not a direct port, but it would make a good starting code base.
I'm not saying it will happen. Just that it is not out of the question.
Well, a *completely* incompetent tyranny would be fine, but a *mostly* incompetent tyranny is actually worse, in my opinion, than a competent tyranny. At least with competence there is some assurance you can know the rules, (even if they are 'don't breathe without first asking permission') but with a partially competent tyranny the rules are what they can enforce. And what they can enforce is a function of the situational competence, which you cannot predict...
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My one suggestion to my family is a magazine subscription. Preferably Asimov's or Analog. Good stories, and updates monthly, and it doesn't cost much more than a book.
If you really want memory cards, power cells, and a backlight, you can get a subscription to Baen Books. Four books a month, and previews of their upcoming catalog. No DRM either: just open formats.
My family has given up on giving me books: I've usually already read anything they find...
That was never the case. A contract just has to be agreed to by both parties. A signature is the easiest, long-lasting, method of noting that agreement. A verbal contract is just as valid, but you have to have impartial witnesses to prove both sides agreed. (A good video camera should be fine, if you can be relatively sure it has not been tampered with.)
There are specific contracts that the government requires a signature for ('real property', meaning land, is usually one...), but as a general rule a signature is not required. Just acknowledgment and agreement.
(IANAL, but I did take Business Law, which spent most of the course covering this.)
Well, they could put up a sign at the store saying that by buying these cameras you are agreeing to return them when the memory gets full for picture processing. Then it would be a contract clause. As long as you have to see and read the contract before buying the camera you could be bound by it. (This would be different from 'shrinkwrap' licensing in that you would see the contract before money changed hands.)
Not that I've seen such signs...
*Sigh*. No, this is closer: "I'm sorry, I just can't do this with it glowing at me!"
"Ok, I'll get him out of the stream." (Pause, splash) "Now, where were we..."
(Fishy noises)
"I just can't... I can't stop thinking about it glowing at me."
"It's gone. It can't be glowing at you now."
"But I can't get it out of my head!"
"What is it, really? Am I to fat? To thin? To red? Not red enough? What? Last night you had a headache, the night before that it was your 'time of the month', before that... Don't you love me anymore?"
"I... I don't know. I'm not sure I do."
"What happened? What went wrong?"
"I'm not sure. I think we just grew apart. Please, let's not talk about it now. I... I need to sleep."
"Fine."
"Um, could you sleep on the other side of the streambed..."
And it is all due to a glowing fish...
Question: Would said email client have the ability to write email/email attachments to disk? If so, a clever virus writer will eventually find a way to make one, given enough incentive. It may not have quite the auto-propogating power of an Outlook virus, but a trojan will work for sure, at least.
Such a system would present greater hurdles, sure. But if the system allows one program to create data and another to execute it, ever, then there is a way to write a virus. It may not be easy, but there will be one.
Isn't that the point?
And remember, by this definition of 'reasonable', SCO is suing IBM for $3 billion...
I'll agree he should have posted something. I think he could have waited on the working exploit code until Apple's stated fix release date passed. Posting that he had (without giving it out) exploit code would have been reasonable, given that he knew Apple was working on a fix.
The problem is Unicode support is not present in the places it is needed. So they have a way of encoding Unicode in ASCII.
That would be Dominatrix (or just Dom, for dominate)/Sub.
The US has a different pricing model, so that problem won't come up. In the US outgoing calls are billed as international/long distance/local, depending on the number. The extra cost of calling a cell phone has been transfered to the person called. This means that if someone calls you long distance on your cell phone you can get quite a charge for a call you did not orginate...
Recently a couple of companies (Nextel for one) have offered plans with free incoming calls. But since the precedent has been established, there is still no extra charge to the caller. I assume they cover the cost in other areas.
Not a problem: I didn't think you meant to disparage the Open Source software crowd. My point actually was that this was/is not a new thing: other systems can do it already. (Though OpenBSD has only been able to do all of it stock for less than a month...)
People are getting up in arms about Cisco doing this. Open Source has already done it. Seems there is a double standard.
Oh, come on. Be festive! Put him on top of the tree. (Be sure to sharpen the tree first.)
Just as a sidenote: OpenBSD can do all this. Out of the box. Look into authpf and pf: you can identify hosts based on OS, whether they are running a login program, and shape the traffic resulting from this.
(Though I wouldn't like to try running it on a 386. 486 sure.)
Ok, I'm done being an OpenBSD shrill for the day.
Nope. A graviton is massless. This has a mass (a fairly big one too.)
Can we all just interpret this to mean that Best Buy admits their prices are higher than their competition?
;-)
After all, if their prices were lower they would want to tell everyone so people would shop there, right?
Actually, I would suspect it would take a while. A long while.
The human body is incredibly good at resisting viri. It needs to be: natural viri are incredibly good at getting past the defenses. Mutating armor, adaptive camouflage, site-specific intrusion points, are all common in the virus world. Building a working virus that can actually infect a human is a lot harder than just getting it to replicate in ideal conditions. Natural viri have to work very hard, just to get us to sneeze once or twice. Specifically modifying brain connections to obtain a certain result would be (nearly?) impossible. (Especially since we don't understand how the brain works yet...)
I'll trust our natural defenses against any made-from-scratch virus. I'd even take even odds on a modified-from-natural virus. Now, bred-for-leathality I'll worry about...
Ok, quick question: what fundimentally is the problem with a dictatorship? Why must all governments be democracies of one form or another?
History has plenty of good dictators (or kings). History also has one or two bad democracies, though that form of government hasn't been around as long.
Just to defend my statement:
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I don't know. I don't have an mp3 player, and am not in the market for one. But I felt confident enough to make the statement since CNET rates it at the top, as does StreetTech, The Gadgeteer, and every other comparative review I've looked at. The marketplace also agrees: the iPod outsells any other mp3 player (and (nearly?) outsells all other mp3 players combined).
So I appeal to authority: the reviewers and public all believe it is the best all round. I believe that enough backing to make an opinion statement on
That wasn't the point. This is not a review. It is a state-of-the-market analysis, using the iPod as a comparison point.
The iPod is the best all-round mp3 player today. Many would say it is perfect. CNET doesn't agree: they point out the areas where it could be improved (and list alternatives if that specific feature is important to you). The point is to show what mp3 players in general need to work on. The iPod is just an example.
Two reasons:
1. Voyager is now mostly past the 'comets and stuff'.
2. Getting useful information about space from telemetry means you have to track an object which you know the properties of. We know approximate mass for most comets. We know exact mass, composition, initial velocity, acceleration vectors and more about Voyager. This means we don't have to guess these in calculations, which means we get quite a bit more detailed info out of them.
Ok. I'm posting this from a commercial operating system (Mac OS X) that includes an open-source core, using a web browser that does the same. I run a personal servers using OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I'm writing code to (in Perl, which is open-source) convert the publicly documented file format (APXL, aka Keynote) of a program I bought to HTML.
The revolution happened. Or more correctly is happening. It just took a while.
Now that, unfortunately, is true.
'Running, but unplayable' is probably the best thing that could happen to the marketing department: They get to tell people that it can run their old games (since it can, technically), but anyone who tries will soon realize they want to upgrade to the new improved version...
Quick counterpoint:
1: The PowerPC architecture has proven fairly good at emulating Intel architecture. It's definitely not megahertz for megahertz, but a G5 chip that emulates a 733Mhz x86 is not out of the question for a game console. If you don't mind a performance hit you don't even need to keep the same preformance nessisarially... Just tell people that while they can run their old XBox games they aren't 'optimized' for the XBox2 and therefore won't run as fast.
2: Microsoft has emulation code for the PPC inhouse: they recently bought VirtualPC which did exactly that. Now, I'm sure it is not a direct port, but it would make a good starting code base.
I'm not saying it will happen. Just that it is not out of the question.
Well, a *completely* incompetent tyranny would be fine, but a *mostly* incompetent tyranny is actually worse, in my opinion, than a competent tyranny. At least with competence there is some assurance you can know the rules, (even if they are 'don't breathe without first asking permission') but with a partially competent tyranny the rules are what they can enforce. And what they can enforce is a function of the situational competence, which you cannot predict...