Alright, but the rationality of the decision to run is based on evaluation criteria that are pretty much at odds with the general public's rational criteria for who they'd vote for.
Who we want to run: selfless, competent, fair, and intelligent folks who want to serve the public interest (and happen to agree with us on every issue).
Who wants to run: thieving, lying, pathological gits who are out to serve only #1 (and are willing to deceive anyone into thinking they support their position, long enough to get the vote).
But yeah, the decision to run for office is pretty rational in an egoistic and sociopathic way. It's a shame that the only people who want to get into office are exactly the wrong people to do so.
Other than their package management scheme based on RPM... once upon a time, that initialism translated as "Redhat Package Manager". Revisionists at the RPM project have changed the "R" into a recursive "RPM" (i.e., RPM Package Manager), but that's just marketing nonsense.
Alas, I can't find anyone around here who sells wood in bags. Metric or otherwise.
I can get it by the cord, by the board foot, or the stick.
Can we try a car analogy?
You probably have problems with time, too... "Each bag of wood takes 1 minute and 45 seconds to fill. How long will it take to fill three bags?" "Uh, uh, OMG, that's not BASE TEN!"
And ferpetesake, what are you going to do about combining partial cases of beer? Sheesh. Way to hose up the critical issues of the modern age!
Of course, someone could make the argument that this archive is copyright infringement. I doubt anyone will, but it is an interesting question. The archiving is an important point in preserving digital history, and yet it's also a moment of massive copyright infringement -- technically speaking. This is the sort of bizarrely bad result you get in a world where copyright is automatically given to any content at the moment of creation. Most of the people creating Geocities pages would have no reason (or desire) to copyright what they created, and yet they all got it by default.
In this insanely litigious society, I wonder what kind of copyright release (from all the grillions of Geocities content copyright holders) these "Archive" chaps got? I hope it doesn't come back to bite them.
On an unrelated note, anyone wanna bet how many megabytes of this 1TB torrent is <blink> tags and "under construction" GIFs?
Read up on child labor laws. Otherwise, what's to keep the science department from outsourcing the biology students to grounds care on the pretense of studying botany? The home economics program could be dragooned into becoming the cafeteria staff. Don't even ask what the ROTC department could become.
Sorry, the fundamental premise of primary education is that it is, and must remain, completely useless. In a practical, economic sense.
Never. There's no need. You can own the hardware. You just can't use any of the software included until you agree to the license, and thereby agree to Apple's restrictions on how you use the hardware.
That's the cleverness, really. They don't control your ownership of the hardware. So to a naive observer, you're completely in charge. But the moment you actually try to use any functionality embodied in the included software (i.e., anything capability beside "crappy doorstop" and "blender fodder"), Apple owns you. As long as your path coincides with Apple's decisions, you're golden. But try to do anything they don't want you to do... "You get nothing! you lose! Good day, Sir!"
To operate the serial port, we need to run an RS232 to TTL converter. Fortunately, there's a 3.3v output on the bottom of the phone that'll power our unit. Not useful if you want to get into the phone's serial console, since it only provides power once booted.
In other words, this design is powered with a power source that isn't even available until the iPhone/iPod is booted up.
I guess you could fix that with an appropriate external power supply; a little wall-wart and some appropriate voltage regulation.
Don't confuse tactics with strategy. FPSs are, almost by definition, tactical-scale. Even the team aspect is tactical.
A safe definitional distinction: if it doesn't involve multiple units, multiple simultaneous objectives, and multiple sets of resources to manage, it is a misnomer to call it strategic.
Unless you're using the imprecise and erroneous definition that "stategic == thinking". Sorry, higher brain functions are also required for tactical play.
And she does actually use the phrase "It's SCO II".
And, it appears that Google's counter to the copyright infringement claims is that the code in question was open sourced between copyright registration and Google incorporation. Quoting Groklaw:
As to Oracle's copyright claim, the Complaint alleges that "Oracle America owns copyrights in the code, documentation, specifications, libraries, and other materials that comprise the Java platform" and that "Oracle America's Java-related copyrights are registered with the United States Copyright Office, including those attached as Exhibit H." Compl. 11. Exhibit H to the Complaint consists of certificates of copyright registrations obtained by Sun for two identified works, named "Java 2 Standard Edition 1.4" and "Java Standard Edition, Version 5.0" (the "Asserted Copyrights"). Compl. Ex. H. These registrations appear to relate to versions of certain Sun Java materials that were released as open-sourced software in 2006 and 2007.
(Emphasis mine)
So, is it just me, or does anyone else conclude that Oracle really doesn't understand the licensing basis of their own copyrighted API codebase? If we can believe Google's statements, either it's that or Oracle is trying to take back code it released to the Open community 3 years ago.
blocks and the willingness to write alternate-platform versions of, say, 25% of the codebase. It's perfectly portable. And if someone wants to run your code on a platform you've never heard of, screw'em.
"And that's a huge liability. There's waaaay too much strategy in Civ and not nearly enough farming. After all, farming is the only real point to playing a game. Someone who insists on "strategy" at the expense of simulated agriculture in a game is absolutely missing the point."
Sounds silly, but the reverse is also true. More strategy != better game. Not necessarily, anyway. Certainly, hardcore FPS'ers would disagree with that. ("Strategy? Screw that, I'm knifing you in your kidneys. STRATEGY THAT! <teabagging>")
Sneering at someone else's choices only demonstrates you don't understand their goals and arrogantly assume yours are superior.
But that's the entire point of games! To challenge yourself and make you think. Isn't it? Otherwise I'd be grinding through WoW.
Obviously, you know the answer... for yourself. For others, games are supposed to inherently mindless escape, or moderate-activity relaxation, or ego-satisfaction.
It's almost always a mistake to assume someone else's goals and values even faintly resemble yours, and foolish to judge someone else's choices based on your priorities.
"I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am"
with each factory/complex serializing independently
with pre-assigned blocks of serial numbers, if I recall correctly, so if you saw the output of only one factory you might get a slightly low number (unless you saw the product of the factory with the highest serial number block).
It's all probabilistic, and the variance calculation is documented in the article for a very good reason.
I don't know. If the CIA secretly operated reconnaissance satellites before they were actually invented, the certainly would have deserved a large chunk of the intelligence budget.
I'm at peace with the world. I'm completely serene. I've discovered my purpose in life. I know why I was put here and why everything exists... I am here so everybody can do what I want. Once everybody accepts it, they'll be serene too.
Slashdot Mirror
I've got a fever. And the only prescription... is more G!
This one goes to 11G.
It's like, how much more G could this be? and the answer is none. None more G.
Alright, but the rationality of the decision to run is based on evaluation criteria that are pretty much at odds with the general public's rational criteria for who they'd vote for.
Who we want to run: selfless, competent, fair, and intelligent folks who want to serve the public interest (and happen to agree with us on every issue).
Who wants to run: thieving, lying, pathological gits who are out to serve only #1 (and are willing to deceive anyone into thinking they support their position, long enough to get the vote).
But yeah, the decision to run for office is pretty rational in an egoistic and sociopathic way. It's a shame that the only people who want to get into office are exactly the wrong people to do so.
Synthetic organs from A Gift from Earth.
"liverbeasts", "heartbeasts"... heh. Cute. Now if we could just get safe Bussard ramjets (or maybe hyperdrive).
Other than their package management scheme based on RPM... once upon a time, that initialism translated as "Redhat Package Manager". Revisionists at the RPM project have changed the "R" into a recursive "RPM" (i.e., RPM Package Manager), but that's just marketing nonsense.
Alas, I can't find anyone around here who sells wood in bags. Metric or otherwise.
I can get it by the cord, by the board foot, or the stick.
Can we try a car analogy?
You probably have problems with time, too... "Each bag of wood takes 1 minute and 45 seconds to fill. How long will it take to fill three bags?" "Uh, uh, OMG, that's not BASE TEN!"
And ferpetesake, what are you going to do about combining partial cases of beer? Sheesh. Way to hose up the critical issues of the modern age!
In this insanely litigious society, I wonder what kind of copyright release (from all the grillions of Geocities content copyright holders) these "Archive" chaps got? I hope it doesn't come back to bite them.
On an unrelated note, anyone wanna bet how many megabytes of this 1TB torrent is <blink> tags and "under construction" GIFs?
Read up on child labor laws. Otherwise, what's to keep the science department from outsourcing the biology students to grounds care on the pretense of studying botany? The home economics program could be dragooned into becoming the cafeteria staff. Don't even ask what the ROTC department could become.
Sorry, the fundamental premise of primary education is that it is, and must remain, completely useless. In a practical, economic sense.
Never. There's no need. You can own the hardware. You just can't use any of the software included until you agree to the license, and thereby agree to Apple's restrictions on how you use the hardware.
That's the cleverness, really. They don't control your ownership of the hardware. So to a naive observer, you're completely in charge. But the moment you actually try to use any functionality embodied in the included software (i.e., anything capability beside "crappy doorstop" and "blender fodder"), Apple owns you. As long as your path coincides with Apple's decisions, you're golden. But try to do anything they don't want you to do... "You get nothing! you lose! Good day, Sir!"
Alas, this hack won't do it:
To operate the serial port, we need to run an RS232 to TTL converter. Fortunately, there's a 3.3v output on the bottom of the phone that'll power our unit. Not useful if you want to get into the phone's serial console, since it only provides power once booted.
In other words, this design is powered with a power source that isn't even available until the iPhone/iPod is booted up.
I guess you could fix that with an appropriate external power supply; a little wall-wart and some appropriate voltage regulation.
How are you going to attach the tape reader/punch for the program tape without a serial port?
Don't confuse tactics with strategy. FPSs are, almost by definition, tactical-scale. Even the team aspect is tactical.
A safe definitional distinction: if it doesn't involve multiple units, multiple simultaneous objectives, and multiple sets of resources to manage, it is a misnomer to call it strategic.
Unless you're using the imprecise and erroneous definition that "stategic == thinking". Sorry, higher brain functions are also required for tactical play.
She's on the job!
And she does actually use the phrase "It's SCO II".
And, it appears that Google's counter to the copyright infringement claims is that the code in question was open sourced between copyright registration and Google incorporation. Quoting Groklaw:
(Emphasis mine)
So, is it just me, or does anyone else conclude that Oracle really doesn't understand the licensing basis of their own copyrighted API codebase? If we can believe Google's statements, either it's that or Oracle is trying to take back code it released to the Open community 3 years ago.
Sure, given enough
blocks and the willingness to write alternate-platform versions of, say, 25% of the codebase. It's perfectly portable. And if someone wants to run your code on a platform you've never heard of, screw'em.
They're too busy playing Farmville at the moment.
"And that's a huge liability. There's waaaay too much strategy in Civ and not nearly enough farming. After all, farming is the only real point to playing a game. Someone who insists on "strategy" at the expense of simulated agriculture in a game is absolutely missing the point."
Sounds silly, but the reverse is also true. More strategy != better game. Not necessarily, anyway. Certainly, hardcore FPS'ers would disagree with that. ("Strategy? Screw that, I'm knifing you in your kidneys. STRATEGY THAT! <teabagging>")
Sneering at someone else's choices only demonstrates you don't understand their goals and arrogantly assume yours are superior.
But that's the entire point of games! To challenge yourself and make you think. Isn't it? Otherwise I'd be grinding through WoW.
Obviously, you know the answer... for yourself. For others, games are supposed to inherently mindless escape, or moderate-activity relaxation, or ego-satisfaction.
It's almost always a mistake to assume someone else's goals and values even faintly resemble yours, and foolish to judge someone else's choices based on your priorities.
Blastoise, I choose you!
Blastoise uses "SSL Fountain"!
It's super effective!
The Allies had problems with that too.
with each factory/complex serializing independently
with pre-assigned blocks of serial numbers, if I recall correctly, so if you saw the output of only one factory you might get a slightly low number (unless you saw the product of the factory with the highest serial number block).
It's all probabilistic, and the variance calculation is documented in the article for a very good reason.
I don't know. If the CIA secretly operated reconnaissance satellites before they were actually invented, the certainly would have deserved a large chunk of the intelligence budget.
there will be a comparison to Hitler
Math > Hitler
Q.E.D.
Alas, it doesn't run Linux.
It run BEE-Os.
--Calvin
If there's a physicist out there, I get the impression that somehow leptons are being converted to fermions?
When life hands you leptons, make leptonaide.
Indeed, I'm not a physicist. How'd you guess?