no DRM at all (which is actually already starting to happen, at least in with music)
"Starting to happen"? You do realize that the most popular and successful commercial digital music distribution system, by far, has always been wide open with no DRM at all? It's been around for 25 years and is still going strong. It's called Red Book CDDA.
Movies are where the DRM has always been. It appears to be getting even worse in that market.
Just think how pissed you'd be if a bunch of velociraptors popped out of some jurassic "doomsday" vault next week and started chomping down on your homo sapiens brethren?
If I were a velociraptor I'd be pretty damned happy about it. As a human I'd be pretty damned happy to be properly prepared to reclaim Earth after a global catastrophe. We are humans so we should plan for humanity.
The possibility of an exception proves the existence of a rule to be excepted. At least, that's the legal meaning. In most other contexts it makes little sense.
That seems pretty legitimate. I mean, it's obvious what his sponsors are getting for their money: advertising space. What are the other candidates' sponsors getting for their money? Hmm...?
One of my advanced math professors defined a mathematical proof as whatever it takes to convince mathematicians. Sure, there are formal techniques but non-trivial proofs are rarely 100% formalizable (i.e. they can't be completely expressed in predicate calculus). General purpose computers generally can't be formally proven to be secure due to the halting problem (not to mention vagueness in the definition of security) so "provably secure" in practice means "you can convince Theo that it's secure".
I think the confusion stems from operator precedence. A (without) the (god) ism (belief). If you think of it as a-(the-ism) then it means "without belief in god" but if you think of it as (a-the)-ism then it means "belief in the lack of god".
Even if it does provide enough power for the intended application, if it takes more energy to build and maintain it than it will ever produce it's still not a good idea. The energy could be better spent helping the "third world" in other ways. Or something like that.
My impression is that spammers occasionally get killed for the same reason they occasionally go to jail: not because they spam but because they're low-life criminals involved in lots of shady underworld activities.
If they do send all that money back it won't be in a big box addressed to the US government with a note saying "don't need this any more, please recycle". They'll send it back by buying things that are still sold in dollars, like American real estate. The money will go to individuals and companies, not to the government. The huge influx of dollars will cause lots of inflation. The only way the government can take the money out of circulation is by collecting it (i.e. taxing) and not subsequently spending it. Tax and not spend? The US government? Ha!
GPL would prevent competitors from using the AMD-developed driver technology without sharing back their own improvements. Seems like a win for both AMD and the Linux community (developers, distributors, and users) though a bit of a loss for everyone else. I'm sure Nvidia and Intel would rather see AMD's software released under a more permissive license.
It is possible to attribute your own deeds to a force or entity greater than yourself without invoking gods. Consider the criminal who complains that "society made me do it." Similarly, a philanthropist might credit society, his friends and family, or simply random chance with giving him the opportunity to do good deeds that anyone would have done in the same situation.
Anything you can do with the help of imaginary gods you can also do without. I say "imaginary" not necessarily as a disparagement or denial, but because whether a god exists or not imagination is your only means of contact, since you obviously can't perceive it using reason or the senses.
As far as I can tell, gods are purported to act in modern times only through human agency, without working supernatural miracles. All such acts are equally explainable as purely human with no external divine impulse.
Conservation of momentum in teleportation plays an important role in The Witling by Vernor Vinge. Also conservation of energy features prominently in some of Larry Niven's teleportation stories, particularly The Alibi Machine. Technical stupidities in TV scripts are far too numerous to worry about.
... recreates the familiar living room remote control on the screen...
I know it's easy and obvious and portable, but that UI metaphor drives me crazy. Any software with an on-screen "remote control" goes straight in the virtual shitcan, unless every single button on it has a keyboard equivalent.
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"Starting to happen"? You do realize that the most popular and successful commercial digital music distribution system, by far, has always been wide open with no DRM at all? It's been around for 25 years and is still going strong. It's called Red Book CDDA.
Movies are where the DRM has always been. It appears to be getting even worse in that market.
It's only difficult if you want it. If you don't it's ridiculously easy.
Spam is unsolicited bulk email. Most of it is commercial.
The possibility of an exception proves the existence of a rule to be excepted. At least, that's the legal meaning. In most other contexts it makes little sense.
That seems pretty legitimate. I mean, it's obvious what his sponsors are getting for their money: advertising space. What are the other candidates' sponsors getting for their money? Hmm...?
One of my advanced math professors defined a mathematical proof as whatever it takes to convince mathematicians. Sure, there are formal techniques but non-trivial proofs are rarely 100% formalizable (i.e. they can't be completely expressed in predicate calculus). General purpose computers generally can't be formally proven to be secure due to the halting problem (not to mention vagueness in the definition of security) so "provably secure" in practice means "you can convince Theo that it's secure".
I think the confusion stems from operator precedence. A (without) the (god) ism (belief). If you think of it as a-(the-ism) then it means "without belief in god" but if you think of it as (a-the)-ism then it means "belief in the lack of god".
Even if it does provide enough power for the intended application, if it takes more energy to build and maintain it than it will ever produce it's still not a good idea. The energy could be better spent helping the "third world" in other ways. Or something like that.
My impression is that spammers occasionally get killed for the same reason they occasionally go to jail: not because they spam but because they're low-life criminals involved in lots of shady underworld activities.
If they do send all that money back it won't be in a big box addressed to the US government with a note saying "don't need this any more, please recycle". They'll send it back by buying things that are still sold in dollars, like American real estate. The money will go to individuals and companies, not to the government. The huge influx of dollars will cause lots of inflation. The only way the government can take the money out of circulation is by collecting it (i.e. taxing) and not subsequently spending it. Tax and not spend? The US government? Ha!
GPL would prevent competitors from using the AMD-developed driver technology without sharing back their own improvements. Seems like a win for both AMD and the Linux community (developers, distributors, and users) though a bit of a loss for everyone else. I'm sure Nvidia and Intel would rather see AMD's software released under a more permissive license.
It is possible to attribute your own deeds to a force or entity greater than yourself without invoking gods. Consider the criminal who complains that "society made me do it." Similarly, a philanthropist might credit society, his friends and family, or simply random chance with giving him the opportunity to do good deeds that anyone would have done in the same situation.
Anything you can do with the help of imaginary gods you can also do without. I say "imaginary" not necessarily as a disparagement or denial, but because whether a god exists or not imagination is your only means of contact, since you obviously can't perceive it using reason or the senses.
As far as I can tell, gods are purported to act in modern times only through human agency, without working supernatural miracles. All such acts are equally explainable as purely human with no external divine impulse.
Even when ISPs do pay to get off the list, SORBS doesn't get any of the money. What a racket!
Try http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/15991 instead.
Conservation of momentum in teleportation plays an important role in The Witling by Vernor Vinge. Also conservation of energy features prominently in some of Larry Niven's teleportation stories, particularly The Alibi Machine. Technical stupidities in TV scripts are far too numerous to worry about.
I know it's easy and obvious and portable, but that UI metaphor drives me crazy. Any software with an on-screen "remote control" goes straight in the virtual shitcan, unless every single button on it has a keyboard equivalent.
I've posted to Slashdot hundreds of times and never seen a captcha here.
What does that mean? Does Slashdot require some users to pass "captcha" tests before posting?
The Seattle "riots" were co-ordinated by police radio.
Bingo.
There may be more dimensions!
Without a miracle, current trends cannot continue. At some point we'll have to accept some limits to growth.