... Not only that, but using intangible ideals such as morality or religion to further an illogical goal...
I feel like intangible is the wrong word here.
Of course ideas like morality or religion are intangible. As are logic and reason.
Our laws should be guided by logic&reason, but you can't hold reason and logic in the palm of your hand.
I think I understand you point, but that threw me off of it for a bit(Hence this comment)
Much of what is considered morality can be described logically. It is probably the best reason to take philosophy class despite the fact that as an engineer you might need it.
...because you've got enough money to pay for four different entertainment devices...
I think you are implying that I can only do this because I am rich, if so, you are wrong. I just find useful things to do with old hardware. PS2 isn't considered a current generation of gaming system (i bought it 6 years ago), and a first generation Pentium 4 doesn't have what it takes to be my workhorse anymore.
This has nothing to do with excessive amounts of $$. There are functions that fit well between your defined lines. I consider those lines quite blurred to the tech-minded.
If you don't have at least 4 "entertainment devices" then you must throw everything you can away (tv's/monitors, dvd/tape/cd players, console systems, older computers). I also never let a friend through an old computer away I can use. I take all their laptop hard drives...
With how much lag? Is, say, Super Street Fighter II fun between a player in North America and a player in Japan?
I have no friends in Japan, so thats not really an issue.
But how do you dump your MAME PCBs, NES Game Paks, Super NES Game Paks, and Genesis cartridges into your PC so that you can use them with emulators? (Owning a lawfully made copy of a work is not a defense to downloading another copy from a ROM site. In US case law, for example, the key case is UMG Recordings v. MP3.com.)
It is if that copywritten work is not available anymore. MP3.com lost because they still sell those songs on CDs. I cannot acquire new copies of 99.9% of nintendo games.
Also your argument is a tangent to the original point. Legality will constatnly be at odds with function because Corporations never want to give up control. Just because people can get a law passed doesn't mean it is right.
You also basically contradict yourself. You tell me to play all games on the original console, but then suggest I play a game re-released for the wii. But the wii what? The with virtual console! Do you think they have an original nes chip in there?!, NO! they have an emulator.
Except emulators add functionality. I can play a 2 player snes game over the network to any friend I want in the world. The SNES didn't know what a network was.
Emulators allow one aging pc to play 100s of MAME, NES, SNES, GENS games. And, you can even get arcade style joysticks for full effect.
I can't play my old zelda cartride because the internal battery died so you can't save a game, but I can play it on my computer. Thanks to emulators.
I currently have a PS2 plugged into my monitors extra input port (to play some of my old favorite games, the WII is in the living room on the bigscreen).
I also have a small pc hooked up to my Big Screen TV so I can watch all those backed up movies, play some games (wireless mouse and keyboard), and show my wife funny you tube videos with out making her come into the office.
Sigh,
It is not "just wrong." It might be slighted shortened to a conversational form. But I assure you, the definition has been around for 100-500 years.
From the Oxford english dictionary: Survive, 1. a. intr. To continue to live after the death of another...to remain alive, live on.
1b: transf. To continue to exist after some person, thing, or event; to last on.
In this context, unless the brain is from a zombie, I would draw your attention to accepted definition 1b. Even you should be able to infer what the writer is trying to say.
Is this an intentional troll? Some words in the english language have changed over time. If you dislike it, I'm sorry. But, if you just disagree, then you would be wrong.
Complaining about gay marriage, is pretty far off topic here. Screaming 1984, hah, you might as well a say "hitler did that too" for all the lack of anything interesting you have to say.
And your final sentence shows how much you just don't get it. English, unlike some other languages, has no governing body which dictates what words exist in it, and what words mean exactly. While it makes it kind of existential, I would rather have it that way than have a government body telling me what they mean. In fact, I bet you do too. New words come and go ESPECIALLY slang and words relating to new commerce and trademarks.
Or, do you really wish that spam email had to include descriptions or pictures of precooked ham ( made common around WW2 I believe )?
Last I read, there is not nearly enough data to conclude whether or not the chickenpox vaccine increases, decreases, or changes the chance of getting shingles. This is simply because the vaccine hasn't been around long enough. There is a giant double blind study still being conducted.
I checked because when I was 18 I was considering getting the vaccine because I've never had chickenpox. It turns out that I'm immune, but that is a different story.
Knowing the side effects ahead of time is important to being prepared. So it looks like you have either have a jerk Dr. (one that doesn't trust you with the truth) or a bad one (one that doesn't know it). I'ld get a new Dr. and still vaccinate.
Well, aside from User-agent, Disallow I don't think any of the other commands are part of the official standard. Major search places like Yahoo/Google seems to actually care about the effects of searching so they follow those extensions AFAIK.
Then again, there is no law that says a bot has to follow robots.txt, but perhaps that myspace will change that.
True, but still a minor point. I understand that perhaps on black friday there were shortages.
But, if you have been looking for a wii for the last year (after the first big shortage), and can't find one then you are: refusing to pay list price for it, or live in smalltown without the internet, or mentally or physically deficient in some way.
The key to the gap in your understanding is that cancer proteins can be found in the blood with out there being any cancer cells that have actually metastasized to the blood. When any cells replicate proteins slip in to the blood for various reasons. Looking at presence and the relative increase of these proteins is the focus for early detection of cancers.
tNOX (tumor-associated NADH oxidase) is a protein some research was looking at.
early detection of ovarian cancer based on four proteins: leptin, prolactin, osteopontin and insulin-like growth factor-II.
All this research is from the last couple years, so it appears that measuring the correlation of these proteins with cancer has been an area of hot research.
...But what real influence does the LSB Workgroup have in the GNU/Linux ecosystem?
I don't think much at all. I thought the purpose of the LSB was to give commercial applications a standard to be able to expect. Then they could be LSB version X certified.
...it seems like someone with very little experience wouldn't know exactly what package would best suit them....
Isn't that going to be true with any operating system? If you don't understand it, you ask, or buy it premade for you.
If someone isn't willing to investigate, then the only way they will start using linux is if someone installs it for them. Whether that person be a friend, or a store-bought eeePC with a debian etch variant.
I think (I could be wrong) you misunderstand me. I was expanding by saying because of the overcrowding of prisons which in great part is due to the war-on-drugs, the resources in prisons will not accomplish the task of security, safety, and rehabilitation.
I agree, but with such a large amount of people in prison, the amount of funds to goto prisons get diluted. I'm not saying "throw more money at the problem," but with more money, you have more things you can do.
I saw a documentary on the current state of low security prisons in CA, US (because they are overflowing because of the war-on-drugs. They are set up in cubicals! You will never be able to set up safe, let alone secure prisons like that.
But this has nothing to do with planning a trip. GPS puts you on a map without you telling it ahead of time. When you are close to a reported speed trap, it tells you. That is no different than any other auditory clue. There is no control needed.
Of course it is a double standard. But there is a difference between government law enforcement against and everyone else. Codified into law, there literally are, two standards.
Given "just cause" agents of the government can do what ever our laws allow them to do. There are many things the police and military personal can do legally, and many more they can get away with, that I could not.
An officer can probably get away with bringing a gun just about anywhere, while I could not. [S]he could also get away with pulling that firearm on anyone and wouldn't even get a slap on the wrist unless that person was famous and no physical harm was done.
I couldn't get away with tasering someone for being an asshole, that would be assault.
Also, those acts would not have been torturous had they been perpetrated against me. But had they been committed against me @13, I would be much worse off.
Additionally, even comparing this to a military situation is trolling. I'm hoping you can see that difference. If you can't see the distinction (whether you agree with it or not) between war-time actions and non, then I wonder what country you live in.
Yes, and that is exactly it. A digital signal is just an encoding on top of an analog transport. While there may be some sort of corner case, I feel confident saying that if you find me a generally accepted digital signal, I can find it's analog transport.
...Also the HDMI signal isn't digital, really, it is a digital bitstream on an analog carrier. (at the frequencies involved everything is analog).
Praytell, at what frequencies can there be a digital signal then?
How about I skip to the point: A Digital signal realized using electricity is an encoding on top of an analog signal.
Saying that it isn't digital because it is really a digital signal modulated on top of an analog signal shows that you don't really know what you are talking about.
The more cynical part of me wonders if the reason to terminate support for Firefox 2 is to simply force everyone to upgrade. It's a bit too close to The Microsoft Way for comfort...
As Raenex said, they want to stop supporting FF2, because it is almost twice as much work when fix needs to be merged. This required developers to stay familiar with twice as much code. They don't get any money from 'forcing' you to upgrade to get the newer fixes. You don't fail a registration.
I agree, regressions should be fixed. My point was that this bug is an inefficiency in rendering a HORRIBLY designed web page. It is this that causes it to be a low priority; nothing to do with glitz/bling/& flash.
Just remember the good old memory leak bug...
that has nothing to do with this. Do you think firefox *refused* to fix any memory leak they can find?! No, and FF3 uses less memory than FF2. The biggest annoyance was done to people who like to leave the same firefox open for days, but didn't know how to limit firefox's memory usage in the oh-so-secret about:config.
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Not only that, but using intangible ideals such as morality or religion to further an illogical goal...
I feel like intangible is the wrong word here.
Of course ideas like morality or religion are intangible. As are logic and reason.
Our laws should be guided by logic&reason, but you can't hold reason and logic in the palm of your hand.
I think I understand you point, but that threw me off of it for a bit(Hence this comment)
Much of what is considered morality can be described logically. It is probably the best reason to take philosophy class despite the fact that as an engineer you might need it.
...because you've got enough money to pay for four different entertainment devices...
I think you are implying that I can only do this because I am rich, if so, you are wrong. I just find useful things to do with old hardware. PS2 isn't considered a current generation of gaming system (i bought it 6 years ago), and a first generation Pentium 4 doesn't have what it takes to be my workhorse anymore.
This has nothing to do with excessive amounts of $$. There are functions that fit well between your defined lines. I consider those lines quite blurred to the tech-minded.
If you don't have at least 4 "entertainment devices" then you must throw everything you can away (tv's/monitors, dvd/tape/cd players, console systems, older computers). I also never let a friend through an old computer away I can use. I take all their laptop hard drives...
With how much lag? Is, say, Super Street Fighter II fun between a player in North America and a player in Japan?
I have no friends in Japan, so thats not really an issue.
But how do you dump your MAME PCBs, NES Game Paks, Super NES Game Paks, and Genesis cartridges into your PC so that you can use them with emulators? (Owning a lawfully made copy of a work is not a defense to downloading another copy from a ROM site. In US case law, for example, the key case is UMG Recordings v. MP3.com.)
It is if that copywritten work is not available anymore. MP3.com lost because they still sell those songs on CDs. I cannot acquire new copies of 99.9% of nintendo games.
Also your argument is a tangent to the original point. Legality will constatnly be at odds with function because Corporations never want to give up control. Just because people can get a law passed doesn't mean it is right.
You also basically contradict yourself. You tell me to play all games on the original console, but then suggest I play a game re-released for the wii. But the wii what? The with virtual console! Do you think they have an original nes chip in there?!, NO! they have an emulator.
Except emulators add functionality. I can play a 2 player snes game over the network to any friend I want in the world. The SNES didn't know what a network was.
Emulators allow one aging pc to play 100s of MAME, NES, SNES, GENS games. And, you can even get arcade style joysticks for full effect.
I can't play my old zelda cartride because the internal battery died so you can't save a game, but I can play it on my computer. Thanks to emulators.
I currently have a PS2 plugged into my monitors extra input port (to play some of my old favorite games, the WII is in the living room on the bigscreen).
I also have a small pc hooked up to my Big Screen TV so I can watch all those backed up movies, play some games (wireless mouse and keyboard), and show my wife funny you tube videos with out making her come into the office.
You can merge them if the glove fits.
Sigh,
It is not "just wrong." It might be slighted shortened to a conversational form. But I assure you, the definition has been around for 100-500 years.
From the Oxford english dictionary:
Survive,
1. a. intr. To continue to live after the death of another...to remain alive, live on.
1b: transf. To continue to exist after some person, thing, or event; to last on.
In this context, unless the brain is from a zombie, I would draw your attention to accepted definition 1b. Even you should be able to infer what the writer is trying to say.
Is this an intentional troll? Some words in the english language have changed over time. If you dislike it, I'm sorry. But, if you just disagree, then you would be wrong.
Complaining about gay marriage, is pretty far off topic here. Screaming 1984, hah, you might as well a say "hitler did that too" for all the lack of anything interesting you have to say.
And your final sentence shows how much you just don't get it. English, unlike some other languages, has no governing body which dictates what words exist in it, and what words mean exactly. While it makes it kind of existential, I would rather have it that way than have a government body telling me what they mean. In fact, I bet you do too. New words come and go ESPECIALLY slang and words relating to new commerce and trademarks.
Or, do you really wish that spam email had to include descriptions or pictures of precooked ham ( made common around WW2 I believe )?
Last I read, there is not nearly enough data to conclude whether or not the chickenpox vaccine increases, decreases, or changes the chance of getting shingles. This is simply because the vaccine hasn't been around long enough. There is a giant double blind study still being conducted.
I checked because when I was 18 I was considering getting the vaccine because I've never had chickenpox. It turns out that I'm immune, but that is a different story.
Knowing the side effects ahead of time is important to being prepared. So it looks like you have either have a jerk Dr. (one that doesn't trust you with the truth) or a bad one (one that doesn't know it). I'ld get a new Dr. and still vaccinate.
Well, aside from User-agent, Disallow I don't think any of the other commands are part of the official standard. Major search places like Yahoo/Google seems to actually care about the effects of searching so they follow those extensions AFAIK.
Then again, there is no law that says a bot has to follow robots.txt, but perhaps that myspace will change that.
True, but still a minor point. I understand that perhaps on black friday there were shortages.
But, if you have been looking for a wii for the last year (after the first big shortage), and can't find one then you are:
refusing to pay list price for it,
or live in smalltown without the internet,
or mentally or physically deficient in some way.
Oh sorry, I read the launch info quickly. The launch date was announced in sept. to be November. My point still stands.
...Wii is interesting enough...so I plan to get one.
The wii was launched on September 14, 2006. That is over 2 years ago. WTF are you waiting for?!
There is no way Stephen Hawking had to go to a surplus store to get a Centrino Pentium M, running XP, made by Intel for him repaired.
And the software "Equalizer" was ported to XP for him.
In short, I call BS.
The key to the gap in your understanding is that cancer proteins can be found in the blood with out there being any cancer cells that have actually metastasized to the blood. When any cells replicate proteins slip in to the blood for various reasons. Looking at presence and the relative increase of these proteins is the focus for early detection of cancers.
tNOX (tumor-associated NADH oxidase) is a protein some research was looking at.
serum amyloid A elevates for lung cancer
Doctors in india found a protein to indicate the precursor to colon cancer
early detection of ovarian cancer based on four proteins: leptin, prolactin, osteopontin and insulin-like growth factor-II.
All this research is from the last couple years, so it appears that measuring the correlation of these proteins with cancer has been an area of hot research.
...But what real influence does the LSB Workgroup have in the GNU/Linux ecosystem?
I don't think much at all. I thought the purpose of the LSB was to give commercial applications a standard to be able to expect. Then they could be LSB version X certified.
There was a /. article about it sometime ago...
...it seems like someone with very little experience wouldn't know exactly what package would best suit them....
Isn't that going to be true with any operating system? If you don't understand it, you ask, or buy it premade for you.
If someone isn't willing to investigate, then the only way they will start using linux is if someone installs it for them. Whether that person be a friend, or a store-bought eeePC with a debian etch variant.
I think (I could be wrong) you misunderstand me. I was expanding by saying because of the overcrowding of prisons which in great part is due to the war-on-drugs, the resources in prisons will not accomplish the task of security, safety, and rehabilitation.
I agree, but with such a large amount of people in prison, the amount of funds to goto prisons get diluted. I'm not saying "throw more money at the problem," but with more money, you have more things you can do.
I saw a documentary on the current state of low security prisons in CA, US (because they are overflowing because of the war-on-drugs. They are set up in cubicals! You will never be able to set up safe, let alone secure prisons like that.
But this has nothing to do with planning a trip. GPS puts you on a map without you telling it ahead of time. When you are close to a reported speed trap, it tells you. That is no different than any other auditory clue. There is no control needed.
Of course it is a double standard. But there is a difference between government law enforcement against and everyone else. Codified into law, there literally are, two standards.
Given "just cause" agents of the government can do what ever our laws allow them to do. There are many things the police and military personal can do legally, and many more they can get away with, that I could not.
An officer can probably get away with bringing a gun just about anywhere, while I could not. [S]he could also get away with pulling that firearm on anyone and wouldn't even get a slap on the wrist unless that person was famous and no physical harm was done.
I couldn't get away with tasering someone for being an asshole, that would be assault.
Also, those acts would not have been torturous had they been perpetrated against me. But had they been committed against me @13, I would be much worse off.
Additionally, even comparing this to a military situation is trolling. I'm hoping you can see that difference. If you can't see the distinction (whether you agree with it or not) between war-time actions and non, then I wonder what country you live in.
Yes, and that is exactly it. A digital signal is just an encoding on top of an analog transport. While there may be some sort of corner case, I feel confident saying that if you find me a generally accepted digital signal, I can find it's analog transport.
...Also the HDMI signal isn't digital, really, it is a digital bitstream on an analog carrier. (at the frequencies involved everything is analog).
Praytell, at what frequencies can there be a digital signal then?
How about I skip to the point:
A Digital signal realized using electricity is an encoding on top of an analog signal.
Saying that it isn't digital because it is really a digital signal modulated on top of an analog signal shows that you don't really know what you are talking about.
...and with a lot less processor power being eaten up just to run a Flash video.
here is to hoping, but flash video still is twice as cpu intensive on my 32bit machines than any other video player.
The more cynical part of me wonders if the reason to terminate support for Firefox 2 is to simply force everyone to upgrade. It's a bit too close to The Microsoft Way for comfort...
As Raenex said, they want to stop supporting FF2, because it is almost twice as much work when fix needs to be merged. This required developers to stay familiar with twice as much code. They don't get any money from 'forcing' you to upgrade to get the newer fixes. You don't fail a registration.
I agree, regressions should be fixed. My point was that this bug is an inefficiency in rendering a HORRIBLY designed web page. It is this that causes it to be a low priority; nothing to do with glitz/bling/& flash.
Just remember the good old memory leak bug...
that has nothing to do with this. Do you think firefox *refused* to fix any memory leak they can find?! No, and FF3 uses less memory than FF2. The biggest annoyance was done to people who like to leave the same firefox open for days, but didn't know how to limit firefox's memory usage in the oh-so-secret about:config.