You *can* skip sections. There's an entire single-player mode where you do random races of various types using any car from your inventory against a variety of co-racers.
You should also be unlocking events faster than you can complete them, meaning that there is more than one option of a next event to complete at any one time in the world tour mode.
When I buy a ticket to a movie theatre I understand and it is made clear that I am buying the right to watch Shrek tonight at 7:15 PM. If I show up late, they're not restarting the movie for me just because I bought at ticket (they might, you never know).
If I don't like the movie, I can walk out, complain and get my money back, but I don't get to keep the movie and rewind and rewatch it over and over.
When I buy a DVD, I'm buying the movie to use an any legal way I wish, forever. Its mine. I can resell it, I can watch it with my wife, I can rewind and pause it, I can burn it onto a memory stick to watch on my PSP while on the train. I have those rights under *LAW* and therefore my PC OS shouldn't keep me from exercising those rights.
I'm not George Bush, nor would I have voted for him. Lets make that clear.
As for your question, yes, all science books should be accurate. That's what I'd expect. Innacuracies should be corrected, no matter the special interest group that had the idea or what their subtexts may be.
For what its worth, I pointed out several non-evolution examples myself in my postings, please read them.
"God did it" is a perfectly valid answer if you believe in God, just as string theory is a valid theory if you believe in strings and black holes are an answer to where the missing matter in a galaxy is if you believe in them too.
There is evidence for each, not a lot, but some. It bears interpretation. Maybe in a few thousand years we'll prove black holes really do exist, that strings hold the universe together, and that God designed it all to be so. Perhaps we'll disprove all three. Until then, none of the above is less valid on its own legs than the others.
Mr Gates is talking out of his... he *did* put the software on your PC to obey those restrictions, and doesn't allow you to bypass them.
In the hospital correlation, he didn't have the foresight to create a medical or secure version of Windows for use in government / industry which has heavy DRM protections and a home version with none.
It may be the subject of many sci-fi movies, and many self-proclaimed christians may believe such a thing would be good, those of us who are educated (and I happen to have conservative theological education as well) know that "those who do not believe cannot be expected to act as those who do."
I have no moral authority over someone who doesn't believe what I believe. As a christian, my sole worries in that sense should be trying to witness christ-likeness to those who don't believe, and correcting and helping those who do.
Correcting people who don't believe, or trying to legislate christendom is like trying to correct the grammar of a foreign person's language which you don't speak or understand, based on your own language's rules.
That said, legislating morality in the case where the majority of a democratic group have voted it to be so should be allowed to go ahead except where it significantly and unfairly impedes others' rights.
I feel all special that you mentionned my hometown and its massive mining operations that made my house shake a little every night at midnight for years.
Lets try using intelligent compression... just a thought, but why not use a dictionary compression system for compressing tags as they occur in the output so that for transmissions with less than 255 tags, there would be single-byte tagging in the document.
Building such a decompression scheme into a SAX parser seems mind-numbingly simple as well, and even faster if the parser were run-time optimizable.
Actual content (between tags) could be compressed using any system of course, with a proper marker at the beginning to specify which method was used (or none).
The article (and event in question) has nothing to do with creationism except by association.
The stickers simply pointed out that evolution is still theoretical.
Of course, that begs questions that christians are happy to answer, and that irritates some people, but why don't we just explain to kids that we don't really know where we came from yet? We don't know everything, and that's one of them. Here we have this theory about evolving that looks good, but needs more evidence.
He sounds like he's chewing on one already in many parts of that interview.
He wants to justify using DRM in music because its used for medical technologies. He's screwing up the point on purpose -- just because the OS knows about DRM for medical records doesn't mean MS has to acknowledge those "same bits" on music files at all.
If the laws in my country (Canada) allow me to make copies of the file, Windows had better let me.
Let me expound on that -- I work with a church that frequently uses short video clips to back up or emphasize a point; several clips were used from Shrek when discussing relationships, etc.
Under CCLI rules, we're allowed to use those clips without specific permission, during service time. However, to rip those clips, we need to use software that falls on the "hey, that's bad" side of Copyright regulations. Luckily, we don't have a DMCA in Canada.
Bug is detected by *untrusted* source and exploited quietly for months.
Result: when bug is detected by whitehat person and kept quiet, little do they realize that the bug is being exploited as they wait with their thumbs up their...
The radical christian right has as much right having a say in the debate as do the UFOlogists.
I'd like to point out that there is no good evidence of extra-terrestrial life either, some just think it probable.
I was taught about UFOs in school, grade 4 I believe. I also learned about various native origins of the world beliefs and worship rituals of various "foreign" nations.
It'd be a shame to equally educate our children equally, wouldn't it.
Because of why Copyright was designed in the first place.
Copyright was put into place to encourage people to create content which would then inevitably enter the public domain, which is a good thing.
The *only* reason we have Copyright is to create more public domain works for the general use of the people. Where would we be if Shakespeare's works were still Copyright and highschool kids couldn't perform his plays without permission (and money)?
And just because you don't like theatre doesn't mean you have to answer that we'd be better off.
Any litterate person must realize that free access to books is one of the cornerstones of free society. In modern times, when much of our culture is in the form of movies and television, it is simple to extrapolate that these should also be freely accessible within a short period of time after creation.
I don't think 120 years after death of author counts as short.
I don't want my father or mother reading my E-mails after I'm dead.
If I wanted them to, I'd leave my password with my lawyer as part of my property listed in my last will and testament, the same as I would for a house or other property.
The goal is nonetheless laudable. Dan Bernstein is quite willing to guarantee his software as being security defect free. I don't see why, although impractical in many cases, it wouldn't be possible to guarantee freedom from explicit defects in a piece of software.
I sleep in the same room as my computer (and my wife, to you losers out there who want to make rude comments)... having *no* lights on it would be very nice.
First thing I did with my new Antec Sonata was disconnect the front blue lights. Not that I don't like sleeping in a room that is illuminated like a porn set, its just a little distracting for actual sleep.
A nice "lights off" switch would be a good hack, come to think of it... on an activity timer, so after not using the PC for 15 minutes or so, all the lights go out, including power, making it nice and dark.
That's hacking together a PC of your own from parts still.
Its almost "hacking" but by strict definition, I think modding the traces on your motherboard to allow a second AGP slot would be a lot more of a hack.
You're ignoring the majority of what the developpers have said about the new system.
Just to summarize, average people use kernels from distributions. Distributors are responsible for making choices about stable versions of software to bundle in their distributions.
RedHat / SuSE / etc. are going to provide you patched versions of 2.6.9 or 2.6.10 that they believe are stable and functional for you to use. You, as a non-developper, are not supposed to use the kernel.org kernels unless you *want* to test the bleeding edge.
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You *can* skip sections. There's an entire single-player mode where you do random races of various types using any car from your inventory against a variety of co-racers.
You should also be unlocking events faster than you can complete them, meaning that there is more than one option of a next event to complete at any one time in the world tour mode.
I too highly recommend other cardio stimulating activities.
Sex comes to mind.
This oft-cited and ill-used example irks me.
When I buy a ticket to a movie theatre I understand and it is made clear that I am buying the right to watch Shrek tonight at 7:15 PM. If I show up late, they're not restarting the movie for me just because I bought at ticket (they might, you never know).
If I don't like the movie, I can walk out, complain and get my money back, but I don't get to keep the movie and rewind and rewatch it over and over.
When I buy a DVD, I'm buying the movie to use an any legal way I wish, forever. Its mine. I can resell it, I can watch it with my wife, I can rewind and pause it, I can burn it onto a memory stick to watch on my PSP while on the train. I have those rights under *LAW* and therefore my PC OS shouldn't keep me from exercising those rights.
End of story.
I'm not George Bush, nor would I have voted for him. Lets make that clear.
As for your question, yes, all science books should be accurate. That's what I'd expect. Innacuracies should be corrected, no matter the special interest group that had the idea or what their subtexts may be.
For what its worth, I pointed out several non-evolution examples myself in my postings, please read them.
"God did it" is a perfectly valid answer if you believe in God, just as string theory is a valid theory if you believe in strings and black holes are an answer to where the missing matter in a galaxy is if you believe in them too.
There is evidence for each, not a lot, but some. It bears interpretation. Maybe in a few thousand years we'll prove black holes really do exist, that strings hold the universe together, and that God designed it all to be so. Perhaps we'll disprove all three. Until then, none of the above is less valid on its own legs than the others.
Mr Gates is talking out of his ... he *did* put the software on your PC to obey those restrictions, and doesn't allow you to bypass them.
In the hospital correlation, he didn't have the foresight to create a medical or secure version of Windows for use in government / industry which has heavy DRM protections and a home version with none.
That's not christian at all. That's just stupid.
It may be the subject of many sci-fi movies, and many self-proclaimed christians may believe such a thing would be good, those of us who are educated (and I happen to have conservative theological education as well) know that "those who do not believe cannot be expected to act as those who do."
I have no moral authority over someone who doesn't believe what I believe. As a christian, my sole worries in that sense should be trying to witness christ-likeness to those who don't believe, and correcting and helping those who do.
Correcting people who don't believe, or trying to legislate christendom is like trying to correct the grammar of a foreign person's language which you don't speak or understand, based on your own language's rules.
That said, legislating morality in the case where the majority of a democratic group have voted it to be so should be allowed to go ahead except where it significantly and unfairly impedes others' rights.
I feel all special that you mentionned my hometown and its massive mining operations that made my house shake a little every night at midnight for years.
As others have pointed out, most of those features are here today.
Please remember that not all XML data is transmitted by HTTP however (thank god).
Lets try using intelligent compression ... just a thought, but why not use a dictionary compression system for compressing tags as they occur in the output so that for transmissions with less than 255 tags, there would be single-byte tagging in the document.
Building such a decompression scheme into a SAX parser seems mind-numbingly simple as well, and even faster if the parser were run-time optimizable.
Actual content (between tags) could be compressed using any system of course, with a proper marker at the beginning to specify which method was used (or none).
You're way off.
Often security patches aren't contributed by people who've contributed many other patches but by semi-random individuals.
Read up on the bazaar.
The article (and event in question) has nothing to do with creationism except by association.
The stickers simply pointed out that evolution is still theoretical.
Of course, that begs questions that christians are happy to answer, and that irritates some people, but why don't we just explain to kids that we don't really know where we came from yet? We don't know everything, and that's one of them. Here we have this theory about evolving that looks good, but needs more evidence.
He sounds like he's chewing on one already in many parts of that interview.
He wants to justify using DRM in music because its used for medical technologies. He's screwing up the point on purpose -- just because the OS knows about DRM for medical records doesn't mean MS has to acknowledge those "same bits" on music files at all.
If the laws in my country (Canada) allow me to make copies of the file, Windows had better let me.
Let me expound on that -- I work with a church that frequently uses short video clips to back up or emphasize a point; several clips were used from Shrek when discussing relationships, etc.
Under CCLI rules, we're allowed to use those clips without specific permission, during service time. However, to rip those clips, we need to use software that falls on the "hey, that's bad" side of Copyright regulations. Luckily, we don't have a DMCA in Canada.
And while I'm at it:
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Scenario 4:
Bug is detected by *untrusted* source and exploited quietly for months.
Result: when bug is detected by whitehat person and kept quiet, little do they realize that the bug is being exploited as they wait with their thumbs up their
Who says Alice is a trusted person?
Trusted in this case usually means people who pony up money to be in the know, it doesn't mean people who actually know how to fix the bug.
The radical christian right has as much right having a say in the debate as do the UFOlogists.
I'd like to point out that there is no good evidence of extra-terrestrial life either, some just think it probable.
I was taught about UFOs in school, grade 4 I believe. I also learned about various native origins of the world beliefs and worship rituals of various "foreign" nations.
It'd be a shame to equally educate our children equally, wouldn't it.
Afraid of something?
Because of why Copyright was designed in the first place.
Copyright was put into place to encourage people to create content which would then inevitably enter the public domain, which is a good thing.
The *only* reason we have Copyright is to create more public domain works for the general use of the people. Where would we be if Shakespeare's works were still Copyright and highschool kids couldn't perform his plays without permission (and money)?
And just because you don't like theatre doesn't mean you have to answer that we'd be better off.
Any litterate person must realize that free access to books is one of the cornerstones of free society. In modern times, when much of our culture is in the form of movies and television, it is simple to extrapolate that these should also be freely accessible within a short period of time after creation.
I don't think 120 years after death of author counts as short.
As a scientifically minded person, I wish all theories would be stated as such until well proven.
Gravity is now the "law of gravity" in common nomenclature. String theory is a theory. Quantum theory is a theory, and so is evolution.
Get over it.
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I don't want my father or mother reading my E-mails after I'm dead.
If I wanted them to, I'd leave my password with my lawyer as part of my property listed in my last will and testament, the same as I would for a house or other property.
I remember looking at the lake while in the boat with my wife and thinking about how to improve the water textures in a game.
The goal is nonetheless laudable. Dan Bernstein is quite willing to guarantee his software as being security defect free. I don't see why, although impractical in many cases, it wouldn't be possible to guarantee freedom from explicit defects in a piece of software.
I tried it -- no go. The lights are LEDs -- pretty much fixed output levels.
And I connected the lights when I set it up, but then shut them off after having tried to sleep with them on.
I sleep in the same room as my computer (and my wife, to you losers out there who want to make rude comments) ... having *no* lights on it would be very nice.
... on an activity timer, so after not using the PC for 15 minutes or so, all the lights go out, including power, making it nice and dark.
First thing I did with my new Antec Sonata was disconnect the front blue lights. Not that I don't like sleeping in a room that is illuminated like a porn set, its just a little distracting for actual sleep.
A nice "lights off" switch would be a good hack, come to think of it
That's hacking together a PC of your own from parts still.
Its almost "hacking" but by strict definition, I think modding the traces on your motherboard to allow a second AGP slot would be a lot more of a hack.
You're ignoring the majority of what the developpers have said about the new system.
Just to summarize, average people use kernels from distributions. Distributors are responsible for making choices about stable versions of software to bundle in their distributions.
RedHat / SuSE / etc. are going to provide you patched versions of 2.6.9 or 2.6.10 that they believe are stable and functional for you to use. You, as a non-developper, are not supposed to use the kernel.org kernels unless you *want* to test the bleeding edge.