Well, I read it and found it very boring (although with an admittedly interesting twist at the end). I'm a much bigger fan of Frank Miller and books like "The dark night returns", "Sin City" or "Elektra: Assassin"
"Linux" as most people understand the term is the 2-5 CDs full of software that makes a PC do interesting things. That would be GNU/Linux:-)
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even though corporations can steal BSD-licensed code This on the same website where it's constantly argued that copyright infringement is not theft! They're not stealing anything, they have every right to use the code...
TV stations sell advertising air time to pay for content. I'm afraid TV stations actually try to make content to keep people in front of the TV for commercials.
This wasn't imposed by the faceless government, but by the people themselves (through their elected school board I'm assuming) You mean the faceless elected government? This isn't a really good argument...
Remember the rule of thumb: the existence of Apple Insurance doesn't in any way dilute the trademark of Apple Computers. You mean: the existence of Apple Computers doesn't dilute the trademark of Apple Records...
I had a thought last month, when there was news of duplicates being found in the MD5 hash. For security purposes, couldn't we just use the MD5 hash along with the SHA1 hash I we think MD5 is too weak, we have to move to a stronger hash. MD5+SHA1 is not necessarily the best replacement. Would there be any string of data which held the same hash for both MD5 and SHA1? If you mean that 2 strings can have both the same MD5 ad the same SHA1, given the space of hashable data is at least as big as the space of hashes (actually, it's infinite vs finite), then answer is definitely yes. The question is, how hard is it to find a collision? If you mean that a single string happens to hash to the same thing with both SHA1 and MD5, I don't know if this is possible, but in any case it's irrelevant.
A law like this in North America would cause warranties to default to zero. All products would be labelled "As Is" to reduce liability. I would think this kind of law would also imply a minimal required warranty.
Living in Texas, I'm not sure what constitutes `Texan-style private ISP justice'. It probably means "hang first, ask questions later", as in cheesy western movies.
Condorcet can be played just as much as any other voting system, though it may take more thinking to do it. Condorcet is not so much a manner to vote, as a way to determine a winner based on this vote. The fact is, you're never penalized by voting your preferences (unlike in Borda, where e.g. if the current vote is T and M close, C small, you'd better rank C higher than M if you want T to win, even if you like M better than C. Same thing in the current system, voting for your favorite might takes a vote from your "lesser evil", effectively helping the "greater evil")
Actually, no I am not referring to isomers. I don't give a fuck about the structure of the molecule. What makes ozone unique from regular O2? Not the structure, but the fact it is unstable. There are over 10 different isotopes of oxygen I'm not sure I should answer to what is so ignorant it might be a troll, but:
zone is not O2, but O3. That's why it's unstable.
There might be many isotopes of O, but not many of them are stable (a quick search gives 3 stable ones, O16 to O18, the next most stable lasting less than an hour), and the relative concentration of each probably isn't much different in the ozone layer and on the ground. What's more, isotopes usually have very similar chemical properties (it might change the time to degrade, or the likelihood to form, but only very little. And O16 is the most common anyway)
But wouldn't you get the same with concorda?. $45 would vote in order of preference: [1 Toronto, 2 Chicago (to screw the others) You don't understand. The "to screw the others" is strategic voting. It doesn't indicate an actual preference. In the Borda system, it can be good for you to put your most likely competitor last, even if it's not the one you like least (because if you e.g. rank it second, it might be enough to make it beat your own candidate). No such thing in the Condorcet method.
Pixar develops a Bugs Life, and -- what a coincidence -- Dreamworks releases Antz a few months before Pixar Antz and Bug's life were completely different (although with a similar "setting"), and I for one found Antz vastly superior (it was more directed to an adult audience)
I don't own a car, I make a point of not owning one but how do you convince Mr Tinyknob in his suv-sports-environment killer to drive something fuel efficient? It's nice to see I'm not the only one! But judging by how many people keep telling me I should get one, I can understand how hard it would be to convince other people to care. By the way, for people who can read French, this site has a lot of interesting information and numbers about the subjet.
Why don't you run those 4 watts into the heat pump again, hey you've got 16 watts. Now run all those into the heat pump, you have 64 watts. Repeat again.... While what you suggest doesn't violate the first principle of thermodynamics (as long as you don't pump enough energy to make outside too cold...), it certainly violates the second (you can't transform heat to electricity that easily)
That is absolutely, utterly, completely insane. That, in my book, negates any problem with "pirating" XP after purchasing a computer with XP installed, because they've taken away your ability to install XP by itself without all the bells and whistles the OEM throws in. Not to mention, some restore CDs format your WHOLE disk (with a weirdly sized (i.e., about half the disk) partition to boot)
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Well, I read it and found it very boring (although with an admittedly interesting twist at the end).
I'm a much bigger fan of Frank Miller and books like "The dark night returns", "Sin City" or "Elektra: Assassin"
"Linux" as most people understand the term is the 2-5 CDs full of software that makes a PC do interesting things. :-)
That would be GNU/Linux
even though corporations can steal BSD-licensed code
This on the same website where it's constantly argued that copyright infringement is not theft! They're not stealing anything, they have every right to use the code...
TV stations sell advertising air time to pay for content.
I'm afraid TV stations actually try to make content to keep people in front of the TV for commercials.
This wasn't imposed by the faceless government, but by the people themselves (through their elected school board I'm assuming)
You mean the faceless elected government? This isn't a really good argument...
Open Source is like a herd of (your favorite herd animal here)
gnus I imagine...
Yes, they do make a lot of money
Although they're a non-profit...
only rifles and grenades.
Oh, only that? I guess we're fine then.
Remember the rule of thumb: the existence of Apple Insurance doesn't in any way dilute the trademark of Apple Computers.
You mean: the existence of Apple Computers doesn't dilute the trademark of Apple Records...
I had a thought last month, when there was news of duplicates being found in the MD5 hash. For security purposes, couldn't we just use the MD5 hash along with the SHA1 hash
I we think MD5 is too weak, we have to move to a stronger hash. MD5+SHA1 is not necessarily the best replacement.
Would there be any string of data which held the same hash for both MD5 and SHA1?
If you mean that 2 strings can have both the same MD5 ad the same SHA1, given the space of hashable data is at least as big as the space of hashes (actually, it's infinite vs finite), then answer is definitely yes. The question is, how hard is it to find a collision?
If you mean that a single string happens to hash to the same thing with both SHA1 and MD5, I don't know if this is possible, but in any case it's irrelevant.
A law like this in North America would cause warranties to default to zero. All products would be labelled "As Is" to reduce liability.
I would think this kind of law would also imply a minimal required warranty.
Living in Texas, I'm not sure what constitutes `Texan-style private ISP justice'.
It probably means "hang first, ask questions later", as in cheesy western movies.
You need to get out more then. 90% of the people I know have no problems understanding the word "browser".
Well, maybe YOU need to get out more...
How far did the first airplane fly?
Well it didn't have the laws of thermodynamics against it...
could we come up with a carbon source to use here?
I know! Gasoline! (OK, maybe coal)
And besides, IE is not even an option
Indeed, it's not an option, it's packaged with windows.
It's almost hilarious how obvious it is.
If you find this funny, check out Microsoft vs. Linux
Condorcet can be played just as much as any other voting system, though it may take more thinking to do it.
Condorcet is not so much a manner to vote, as a way to determine a winner based on this vote. The fact is, you're never penalized by voting your preferences (unlike in Borda, where e.g. if the current vote is T and M close, C small, you'd better rank C higher than M if you want T to win, even if you like M better than C. Same thing in the current system, voting for your favorite might takes a vote from your "lesser evil", effectively helping the "greater evil")
There are over 10 different isotopes of oxygen
I'm not sure I should answer to what is so ignorant it might be a troll, but:
But wouldn't you get the same with concorda?. $45 would vote in order of preference: [1 Toronto, 2 Chicago (to screw the others)
You don't understand. The "to screw the others" is strategic voting. It doesn't indicate an actual preference. In the Borda system, it can be good for you to put your most likely competitor last, even if it's not the one you like least (because if you e.g. rank it second, it might be enough to make it beat your own candidate). No such thing in the Condorcet method.
Pixar develops a Bugs Life, and -- what a coincidence -- Dreamworks releases Antz a few months before Pixar
Antz and Bug's life were completely different (although with a similar "setting"), and I for one found Antz vastly superior (it was more directed to an adult audience)
I wined
Yes it's always good to get drunk...
I don't own a car, I make a point of not owning one but how do you convince Mr Tinyknob in his suv-sports-environment killer to drive something fuel efficient?
It's nice to see I'm not the only one! But judging by how many people keep telling me I should get one, I can understand how hard it would be to convince other people to care.
By the way, for people who can read French, this site has a lot of interesting information and numbers about the subjet.
Why don't you run those 4 watts into the heat pump again, hey you've got 16 watts. Now run all those into the heat pump, you have 64 watts. Repeat again....
While what you suggest doesn't violate the first principle of thermodynamics (as long as you don't pump enough energy to make outside too cold...), it certainly violates the second (you can't transform heat to electricity that easily)
That is absolutely, utterly, completely insane. That, in my book, negates any problem with "pirating" XP after purchasing a computer with XP installed, because they've taken away your ability to install XP by itself without all the bells and whistles the OEM throws in.
Not to mention, some restore CDs format your WHOLE disk (with a weirdly sized (i.e., about half the disk) partition to boot)