It will stop the theft of DVDs for only about 15 minutes, all the while introducing another level of complexity and failure into the legal purchase process. I don't think that's the real reason. Retailers are already on the hook for any "slippage" that occurs in their inventory. Why should the studio get involved since they're compensated regardless? What this will do is prevent the return of any movies. Now when you purchase it the cashier will have to remove the shrinkwrap, peel off those "security stickers" along the edges, open the case, remove the DVD, activate it, and then give you the now-opened product. Good luck returning that one as I doubt they'll re-sticker and shrinkwrap it for you.
And if they ever do introduce this and you really want to protest it, you can take a bunch of DVDs to the cashier, watch as they activate all of them, then tell them you've changed your mind and no longer wish to purchase them.
If asked what would your one wish be, only a nerd would ask for an infinite number of wishes. "Oh clever nerd, I hereby grant your wish. I will fulfill every last wish you ask for, once you've filled up this infinitely long scroll."
Also remember when it talks about "the face of the earth", it is refering to the local area that was known about, which was common for the time. Now before anyone attacks this logic - with the account with the birth of Jesus it says that Ceaser taxed the whole earth, obviously talking about the Roman Empire (which was the known world), Rome didn't tax the goths, chinese etc as they weren't part of their world. So don't be so quick to jump the gun with assumptions about the bible. So when the bible says that Noah was 600 years old, what did *that* mean? You know, there's a reason why bible supporters are called apologists... they're always having to apologize for all the problems that no logical person would ignore.
Just remember that until the city of Ninevah was discovered many people thought that it was a made up city in the bible, and that many of the cities mentioned in the bible were thought not to exist which are now known to have (Ur, Ninevah etc) Let's say I write a book about a city called New York, two tall buildings of concrete and steel, and winged creatures that attacked those buildings and conquered them. I then added in a leader named Bush who was in communication with aliens from Alpha Centauri and Bush raised his arms in the air which signaled the winged creatures to divert their course and crash into those buildings.
People 1000 years from now could go through history and find my writings. They could verify that there was a place called New York. There were two tall buildings that were destroyed by airplanes (obviously what winged creatures are a metaphor for), that there was in fact a President George W. Bush who was a prominent leader. Alpha Centauri does in fact exist. So obviously the story about aliens and Bush raising his arms to direct the airplanes are true, right? If your argument in support of the bible is that certain historical people and sites have been verified, then won't you apply the same logic to my story?
Heck, even Valenti's own world produced Star Wars. What do the gentle teddy bears do when the emperor (and his minions) is finally killed? They throw a wild party. Do the Ewoks shout curses at the emporor's corpse? No, they celebrate their newfound freedom. They celebrate the defeat of a common enemy. They don't spew vitriol at the death of one single minion.
You can't support GPL without supporting copyright, as it would be unenforceable without copyright. The GPL would not be necessary if copyright didn't exist. The GPL relies on copyright only to propagate itself. Why would you need a viral license if everything was in the public domain? The nonexistence of copyright doesn't imply that everything is in the public domain. Unless you enjoy reverse engineering things, it's still valuable to have the original source code.
If I moved to Canada I'd say "a-boot" instead of about. It's just polite. And 99% of Canadians would look at you and break out laughing. This accent is heavily concentrated on the East coast and was influenced by Scottish immigrants. Imagine Groundskeeper Willie pronouncing the word, and you'd have it about right. Implying that you'd learn to say "a-boot" to be polite is like saying that anyone going to the USA should practice saying "Y'all come back now, ya hear?" to be polite.
If there's any trauma, it's because someone has over-personified their online avatar. Imagine someone totally into those "choose your own adventure" books and really identifies with the character. Someone takes their book and where it says "A large woman shoves a sandwich in your pocket and sends you on your way" and they cross out and replace a few words so it now says "A large woman shoves a large stick in your ass and sends you on your way". Is that sodomy?
At any rate, online "crimes" in a game should not be dealt with in real life. There should be an in-game mechanism just like there's an in-life mechanism. Have an in-game jail or just simply ban the offender -- this should be decided by the community.
Nothing in bash prohibits the things you suggest; it just takes more effort. Send output of any variety to a fifo or a file, read in from the same. With enough effort, you can make anything do anything -- I'd agree with that. Even an abacus can be employed to find cube roots.
An example of a common error is date formats. When I write a date in my text editor I know how I do it, "May 2, 2007", or "2/5/2007", or "2007/05/02", etc. When you have a binary object you have no way of knowing for sure the exact internal format you have used for the data. What if the person who sent you a binary file used two digits for the year and forgot to tell you? Binary data is much more error-prone than text. Why did you invent this concept of a binary file just so that you could point out the flaws? Of course binary files have this problem, whether you work in Unix or in Windows. However, that's completely orthogonal to the discussion. Passing.NET classes whose methods you can call to operate on the data is of course completely different from passing in random binary files. From the sounds of it, you think all methods in a code library should follow this form:
char *someMethod(char *argument);
After all, if text is the only way to be sure why would you pass anything else?
Imagine someone gave you some library code, but to use the code you couldn't pass in variables, objects, or whatever. Each function in the library takes one input -- a string. The return from the functions are also one output -- a string. You need to convert this to/from any meaningful format in order for you to use it. That is bash.
Now imagine the same thing, but instead of passing in strings you could pass in/out native data types, full objects, other methods, etc. That's PowerShell.
I think this is an excellent opportunity for this guy. With that charge, he can go around on business trips around the world, spending a week at each competitive site to evaluate what their performance is like. Naturally, you'll want a large enough sample size and I think 52 companies ought to do it. One year later, having burned through half a million dollars of travel expenses, hand in your report.
What's the dirty trick? He spent his own money to make a myspace site. Candidate tells him great job, I'd like to centralize control of the thing, I'll buy it off you for your trouble. Guy names rather high number. Candidate tells him to forget it, and starts his own myspace page from scratch. Which is his right to do.
So what's the issue here? Guy gets greedy, and/or overestimates his own value, and loses? The issue is not that the Obama campaign started up its own site (that's fair game) but that they convinced MySpace to disable Anthony's access to the site he created and redirect the URL to the new Obama campaign site. When Anthony balked at this (rightfully so) MySpace offered to give back the content to him, but at a different URL.
Imagine if you had registered obamarocks.com and gained the support of hundreds of thousands of individuals for Obama. The campaign team gets interested, offers to buy you out, you don't agree on the details, so they convince ICANN to take the domain from you and in return they register obamaisgood.com and let you use that instead. What good is a URL that nobody knows about given that you spent years building up traffic to the one you originally created?
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I've scraped the poppy seeds off a bun once and ate them.. they didn't have any specific taste that I could tell - quite unlike the relatively strong tastes of, say, sesame seeds, sunflower pits, almond shavings, etc. So assuming I don't have some poppy seed-taste deficiency, and they really are rather bland, why are they in/on food products and why do some of us choose to eat them. The taste (or more accurately: smell, since it's your nose that picks it up not the tongue) is subtle, but definitely there. If your poppy seeds were a year old then perhaps the taste was gone, but I can most definitely notice the flavor.
Yup, smarter until they turn old, lonely and empty - seeking solace in finding the perfect toy for their cats, the best clothes for their dogs or some other trivial pursuit with utmost seriousness. You say that as if the only source of social contact is one's children. It's similar to saying that the people who do have children will spend their days doing nothing but waiting until the kids come and visit. The assumption that childless people can find nothing at all to do but attend to their pets is rather ridiculous.
California and South Carolina still haven't been able to setup databases for child support payments by divorced fathers. Are you saying they were able to implement their child support payment database for divorced mothers?
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And if they ever do introduce this and you really want to protest it, you can take a bunch of DVDs to the cashier, watch as they activate all of them, then tell them you've changed your mind and no longer wish to purchase them.
Must be a glitch in the matrix. This content is only 10 hours old.
People 1000 years from now could go through history and find my writings. They could verify that there was a place called New York. There were two tall buildings that were destroyed by airplanes (obviously what winged creatures are a metaphor for), that there was in fact a President George W. Bush who was a prominent leader. Alpha Centauri does in fact exist. So obviously the story about aliens and Bush raising his arms to direct the airplanes are true, right? If your argument in support of the bible is that certain historical people and sites have been verified, then won't you apply the same logic to my story?
If there's any trauma, it's because someone has over-personified their online avatar. Imagine someone totally into those "choose your own adventure" books and really identifies with the character. Someone takes their book and where it says "A large woman shoves a sandwich in your pocket and sends you on your way" and they cross out and replace a few words so it now says "A large woman shoves a large stick in your ass and sends you on your way". Is that sodomy?
At any rate, online "crimes" in a game should not be dealt with in real life. There should be an in-game mechanism just like there's an in-life mechanism. Have an in-game jail or just simply ban the offender -- this should be decided by the community.
Your controls are so user friendly, you're self-documenting?
char *someMethod(char *argument);
After all, if text is the only way to be sure why would you pass anything else?
Imagine someone gave you some library code, but to use the code you couldn't pass in variables, objects, or whatever. Each function in the library takes one input -- a string. The return from the functions are also one output -- a string. You need to convert this to/from any meaningful format in order for you to use it. That is bash.
Now imagine the same thing, but instead of passing in strings you could pass in/out native data types, full objects, other methods, etc. That's PowerShell.
I think this is an excellent opportunity for this guy. With that charge, he can go around on business trips around the world, spending a week at each competitive site to evaluate what their performance is like. Naturally, you'll want a large enough sample size and I think 52 companies ought to do it. One year later, having burned through half a million dollars of travel expenses, hand in your report.
So what's the issue here? Guy gets greedy, and/or overestimates his own value, and loses? The issue is not that the Obama campaign started up its own site (that's fair game) but that they convinced MySpace to disable Anthony's access to the site he created and redirect the URL to the new Obama campaign site. When Anthony balked at this (rightfully so) MySpace offered to give back the content to him, but at a different URL.
Imagine if you had registered obamarocks.com and gained the support of hundreds of thousands of individuals for Obama. The campaign team gets interested, offers to buy you out, you don't agree on the details, so they convince ICANN to take the domain from you and in return they register obamaisgood.com and let you use that instead. What good is a URL that nobody knows about given that you spent years building up traffic to the one you originally created?
Boy, CmdrTaco will be pissed that his isn't prime!
Unless, of course, you are proud of your humility. Why, I'm a shining beacon of humility, radiating for all the world to see.
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