The US doesn't think Canada should make its own laws about lots of things -- because we have a huge common border and massive amounts of trade with each other. Canada doesn't think the US should be able to do anything they want all willy-nilly either, but they do it anyway.
The US broke international treaties they'd signed on when embargoing our softwood lumber (ruling by WTO), but they didn't care much.
Either the NYT makes mountains out of mole hills as you seem to infer, or they're the ones who manage to find the good and interesting stories that nobody else finds. Last I checked, that makes for good journalism.
If in fact everyone were completely blind and stupid, your comment would make sense -- no, this isn't flame...... it just so happens that when I try to sell my house, if everyone else on my street let theirs turn into dumps, I won't get a quarter what it cost me. I will lose my money because of what someone else did.
I can't control who moves in and out of my neighbourhood. I don't actually want to (although to be honest, it seems like it would be nice sometimes). I do however believe in basic area regulations, whether legally enforced or simply by good manners, to protect the others around me and myself too.
Just to be picky, you can't Copyright methods either.
You can Copyright your writings about a fact, or your pictures of that fact, or your rantings about your discoveries of the fact, but not the fact itself.
You could trademark a fact, or even patent a method for discovering a fact.
However, most companies depend on trade secrets and licenses for these situations.
Its a perfectly good way to generate the redacted document *for print*. Its much more foolproof than just scribbling over text with a black marker, or even doing the above then photocopying (traditional method).
However, that electronic copy *itself* should still be classified at the same level as the original unredacted document.
If a new PDF is required for electronic distribution, that should be done by someone who understands the technology involved.
The categories are shooters, puzzles and mazes, adventure games, sports games, and simulations. That's it. Most of today's hottest games are combinations of two or three of these categories, with a storyline added to keep the players from being bored stiff. When my kids show me a game, I usually say that it's nothing but the same old running-jumping-kicking-shooting with a new background. They leave in a huff.
Sounds like novels and movies to me. There's what, adventures, documentary, sci-fi, romance, a few others. Books haven't had any real new ideas except a tacked on story line to keep the reader from being bored stiff.
I hate to break it to Dvorak, but gaming isn't always about something new and creative. In fact, new and creative can be very hard to enjoy for a gamer who's used to certain types of games (go read all the "why isn't it more like/x/" messages on the boards).
A good story will get me through a really stupid game any day of the week, like a page turner with a great plot and terrible spelling because the writer didn't get a good editor.
I actually am one of those people who quite enjoyed Doom 3, not for the incredible graphics or sound effects, but because it had an intriguing plot line. I'm not saying it was as well fleshed-out as it could have been. I'm not going to refer anyone to the hundreds of people who didn't bother watching any of the video discs in the game or reading the E-mails, they're easy to find too.
There are many types of gamer -- some like newspapers, some like comic books, some like 2000 page novels, some like to reread their favorite magazine fifteen times. The gaming industry isn't dying.
Most people don't care about their privacy until its violated.
Identity theft is a huge issue, if people understood how it happens.
My wife didn't think that it was worth the extra money for the encrypted baby monitor set -- then I changed channels on the cheaper one while walking around the local townhouses so she could listen in on people's home conversations.
You identified an issue in american culture that may or may not be at the root of the problem -- that someone must in fact be responsible.
Sometimes, its nobody's fault, not in a legal sense.
Sometimes, you just have to suck it up and move on.
That applies to you, it applies to the MPAA, it applies to the president.
There are people breaking the law, I understand that, and there are people whose warehouses are used for illegal drug trafficking without their knowledge.
Ignorance of the law is not a defence, but that applies to knowing that something was illegal, not knowing that you did it.
If in fact you had no knowledge that you were doing something (which isn't possible in normal terms, but it is if you've got mental problems -- or with a computer), that's different.
Oh I see, you think Patrick sends cheques to Linus.
You're missing the point I made entirely.
And yes, I added you to my foes list for your remarks -- thats how I do things. I usually don't E-mail people about their Slashdotting behaviour either.
I bought a set of aluminium drive coolers that are smaller than what is shown in that picture for about $10 (Can) each. The fan is 6cm and about 1/4 cm thick mounted to the metal bracket. The metal bracket screws directly onto the drive using the four underside screws (won't work in an Antec mounting solution but those have cooling already...).
I reversed the fan so that it blew away from the drive, sucking air through the holes in the metal bracket. The bracket being thoroughly connected to the two edges of the drive quite effectively cools the entire surface of the drive.
Even with the fan inoperative, the additional heatsink factor makes this a good solution.
I can't find a better picture, but on page 16 of Tomauri's catalogue there's a picture near the top -- number 2048.
I can see the point for certain details that are too detailed to fit into the code; I've seen code with a paragraph of comments in between each statement, to explain why certain options are the way they are (often device drivers).
That said, I'd prefer an editor that simply shortens such comments to/* This option takes [...] */ and lets me hotkey on the [...] to get the rest.
I always 4xx (temporary reject) incoming messages on any of the four RBL-type lists I use.
I have a tendancy to use the near-zero time lists; spam goes out in batches of thousands or millions at a time -- blocking a mail server an hour after the first message often means getting all the spam anyway.
In fact, I'm even suffering a little -- I love music, and there are several CDs I want to buy. I'm waiting for un-DRM'd downloadable, high-quality music to be available for sale online before I'm buying more music.
For now, I've got satellite radio (with random songs, not necessarily the ones I want).
Actually, multiple processors affects the average Joe too.
Most people will benefit, albeit only slightly, simply from having the OS get its own core (if it so decides to schedule itself). Your video game can now have a core all to its graphics pipeline, while the kernel has a different core for handling disk and network data, and your mail client checking for new messages won't slow down your video game almost at all.
Average Joe plays video games with his PC. Average Joe will like multi-core CPUs because of much lower numbers in task-switches which speeds up each individual CPU.
Intelligent OS schedulers will even start giving more cycles and switching tasks less often if possible to let a given core use its cache more effectively on an specific thread.
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You mean we're selfish.
Most of us don't work for government because the private sector pay is better and the red tape is too.
The US doesn't think Canada should make its own laws about lots of things -- because we have a huge common border and massive amounts of trade with each other. Canada doesn't think the US should be able to do anything they want all willy-nilly either, but they do it anyway.
... oh well.
The US broke international treaties they'd signed on when embargoing our softwood lumber (ruling by WTO), but they didn't care much.
Now they don't like our IP laws
Mod AC parent up -- informative.
... it looks pretty funky to be honest.
We have lots of transmitters on the local water towers
Either the NYT makes mountains out of mole hills as you seem to infer, or they're the ones who manage to find the good and interesting stories that nobody else finds. Last I checked, that makes for good journalism.
If in fact everyone were completely blind and stupid, your comment would make sense -- no, this isn't flame ... ... it just so happens that when I try to sell my house, if everyone else on my street let theirs turn into dumps, I won't get a quarter what it cost me. I will lose my money because of what someone else did.
I can't control who moves in and out of my neighbourhood. I don't actually want to (although to be honest, it seems like it would be nice sometimes). I do however believe in basic area regulations, whether legally enforced or simply by good manners, to protect the others around me and myself too.
Just to be picky, you can't Copyright methods either.
You can Copyright your writings about a fact, or your pictures of that fact, or your rantings about your discoveries of the fact, but not the fact itself.
You could trademark a fact, or even patent a method for discovering a fact.
However, most companies depend on trade secrets and licenses for these situations.
Its a perfectly good way to generate the redacted document *for print*. Its much more foolproof than just scribbling over text with a black marker, or even doing the above then photocopying (traditional method).
However, that electronic copy *itself* should still be classified at the same level as the original unredacted document.
If a new PDF is required for electronic distribution, that should be done by someone who understands the technology involved.
Sounds like novels and movies to me. There's what, adventures, documentary, sci-fi, romance, a few others. Books haven't had any real new ideas except a tacked on story line to keep the reader from being bored stiff.
I hate to break it to Dvorak, but gaming isn't always about something new and creative. In fact, new and creative can be very hard to enjoy for a gamer who's used to certain types of games (go read all the "why isn't it more like
A good story will get me through a really stupid game any day of the week, like a page turner with a great plot and terrible spelling because the writer didn't get a good editor.
I actually am one of those people who quite enjoyed Doom 3, not for the incredible graphics or sound effects, but because it had an intriguing plot line. I'm not saying it was as well fleshed-out as it could have been. I'm not going to refer anyone to the hundreds of people who didn't bother watching any of the video discs in the game or reading the E-mails, they're easy to find too.
There are many types of gamer -- some like newspapers, some like comic books, some like 2000 page novels, some like to reread their favorite magazine fifteen times. The gaming industry isn't dying.
And people complain of the days when the Church ran Europe ... looks like the power of the music industry is rivaling those days.
Most people don't care about their privacy until its violated.
Identity theft is a huge issue, if people understood how it happens.
My wife didn't think that it was worth the extra money for the encrypted baby monitor set -- then I changed channels on the cheaper one while walking around the local townhouses so she could listen in on people's home conversations.
She wouldn't use it anymore after that.
You identified an issue in american culture that may or may not be at the root of the problem -- that someone must in fact be responsible.
Sometimes, its nobody's fault, not in a legal sense.
Sometimes, you just have to suck it up and move on.
That applies to you, it applies to the MPAA, it applies to the president.
There are people breaking the law, I understand that, and there are people whose warehouses are used for illegal drug trafficking without their knowledge.
Ignorance of the law is not a defence, but that applies to knowing that something was illegal, not knowing that you did it.
If in fact you had no knowledge that you were doing something (which isn't possible in normal terms, but it is if you've got mental problems -- or with a computer), that's different.
Are you illiterate?
Re-read my post and the grandparent (also mine).
Then take your head out of your ass.
Moderator: Yes, this is a flame.
Oh I see, you think Patrick sends cheques to Linus.
You're missing the point I made entirely.
And yes, I added you to my foes list for your remarks -- thats how I do things. I usually don't E-mail people about their Slashdotting behaviour either.
These messages are not trolls. They may be off topic but they're definately not trolls.
..." option so you can read the replies above me.
If you don't know what troll means, go look it up.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, click that nice little "x messages below your
I bought a set of aluminium drive coolers that are smaller than what is shown in that picture for about $10 (Can) each. The fan is 6cm and about 1/4 cm thick mounted to the metal bracket. The metal bracket screws directly onto the drive using the four underside screws (won't work in an Antec mounting solution but those have cooling already ...).
I reversed the fan so that it blew away from the drive, sucking air through the holes in the metal bracket. The bracket being thoroughly connected to the two edges of the drive quite effectively cools the entire surface of the drive.
Even with the fan inoperative, the additional heatsink factor makes this a good solution.
I can't find a better picture, but on page 16 of Tomauri's catalogue there's a picture near the top -- number 2048.
I was just about to point out that a blob of epoxy is the quick (and often right) fix for holding a solder joint together.
Make sure the electronics work before you cover the joint with that blob of epoxy though.
I stopped after Win98SE.
Ok then, what makes you a believer?
Or at least, what do you see that is at all compelling?
I don't see *anything* but some minor UI changes that are the result of changing styles in culture.
I can see the point for certain details that are too detailed to fit into the code; I've seen code with a paragraph of comments in between each statement, to explain why certain options are the way they are (often device drivers).
/* This option takes [...] */ and lets me hotkey on the [...] to get the rest.
That said, I'd prefer an editor that simply shortens such comments to
I always 4xx (temporary reject) incoming messages on any of the four RBL-type lists I use.
I have a tendancy to use the near-zero time lists; spam goes out in batches of thousands or millions at a time -- blocking a mail server an hour after the first message often means getting all the spam anyway.
You and me both.
In fact, I'm even suffering a little -- I love music, and there are several CDs I want to buy. I'm waiting for un-DRM'd downloadable, high-quality music to be available for sale online before I'm buying more music.
For now, I've got satellite radio (with random songs, not necessarily the ones I want).
I was hoping to figure out YHWH in Ancient Hebrew Unicode characters, but couldn't locate it quickly enough.
Besides, it would probably offend a few people to have it written out.
I didn't realize the native Hebrew alphabet was Latin.
No SDK that requires a specific target platform is reasonable. Period.
Actually, multiple processors affects the average Joe too.
Most people will benefit, albeit only slightly, simply from having the OS get its own core (if it so decides to schedule itself). Your video game can now have a core all to its graphics pipeline, while the kernel has a different core for handling disk and network data, and your mail client checking for new messages won't slow down your video game almost at all.
Average Joe plays video games with his PC. Average Joe will like multi-core CPUs because of much lower numbers in task-switches which speeds up each individual CPU.
Intelligent OS schedulers will even start giving more cycles and switching tasks less often if possible to let a given core use its cache more effectively on an specific thread.