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Of course, in the days before discount cards they would have given those discounts to everyone and called them "sales". So, actually, they are giving out fewer discounts than they would have and getting marketing info for free.
Actually, as a forth programmer, I can tell you 2 + is a stack underflow error, 2 * is also a stack underflow error, and then 2 is 2. So the answer is 2.
I think the history of oil use is too short for such sweeping generalizations. There have not been enough 20 year periods to determine that.
Eg. from 0-15 I slept with 3 women, from 16-30 I slept with 30, so, by extension, from 31-45 I should sleep with 300 (much to my wife's chagrin). If our data set is too small, extrapolations tend to produce equally absurd results.
You are under 25, aren't you? If you didn't grow up with the smalltalk-esque gui paradigm, there is nothing intuitive about sliding a puck with a button around. As I said, CLI is akin to typing, so relatively easy transition. The mouse has no outside world analogy, so it is not inherently inuitive.
Or do I have to explain this to you at much greater length?
OK> Your response in the last paragraph is basically "If you install fresh and have exactly the right hardware it is rock solid". Well, um, that isn't exactly a stable OS. I installed FreeBSD on flaky hardware, ancient hardware, everywhere, and I have left it running unpatched for a year or more, and it doesn't crash. A 2 month old install of XP, on the otherhand, crashes 1/day if I dare to use mozilla.
To anticipate your response, yes, Mozilla is crashing it, but my argument is: The is no way Mozialla should be able to take out the entire OS/UI. THAT is a design flaw.
For audio, however, the DRM is much more problematic. No matter what protections ar ein place, the end result is a digital audio stream. I can always replace my speaker output line with a cable connected to a digital audio recording device and recreate a clean copy of that audio stream. Yes, it is an annoyance to have to record the audio signal into a usable file format, but it is a last gasp way to circumvent any copy protection on audio recordings.
Likewise, if you have an old enough VCR (I have a mid 80's JVC) you could previously record even copy protected video casettes. That's why I kept an old machine around. I am sure similarly crippled video devices could be used to circumvent any digital video copy protection. Simply pump raw video output into your crippled recording device (which doesn't recognize any copy protection) and you can duplicate the content. (OK. So this doesn't rip an entire DVD with extras, but it is still a circumvention of copy protection).
And these are just 2 low tech answers off the top of my head. I am sure that there are 100's of better solutions.
It is like cryptography. Short of a one time pad, there is no unbreakable code, simply ones that would take too long to break. By giving you the encrypted material and the plaintext, DRM of necessity makes the breaking of any protection much easier.
Are you saying the high end of the IQ scale are not consumers? So most intelligent people are entirely self-sufficient survivalists who never buy anything? That's an odd world view.
No. There is an inherent problem in the OS. Window's refusal to compartmentalize memory and Window's insistence on running everything in one big memory segment creates a greater likelihood a catastrophic crash than Unix/Linux systems.
I don't know if I would call apple's interface "intuitive". If you learn Mac first, perhaps, but I don't think any computer interface is intuitive. CLI may be the closest to an intuitive interface as it is just like typing. Any GUI has some learning curve as moving a small puck on a cord to make a dot on the screen bounce over a little picture is not something that corresponds to anything in the outside world.
I was about to post on the very same thing!
QUOTE:
"The cadmium atom that has lost an electron becomes a negatively charged ion, which can then be controlled with an electrical field," said Daniel Stick, a doctoral student in the University of Michigan's physics department who participated in the work.
And he's a doctoral student? Losing 1 negative charge makes the atom negative? Huh?,br>
Don't think I'll be putting too much faith in this particular computer.
Seems much more prevalent on Mac and Linux. Mozilla for windows does not appear to do it. And FreeBSD only says i386 (which I know the machine is not). Konquerer for *BSD also doesn't appear to give the CPU type.
Have to disagree with point #3. If women "usually worked" through out history 9excepting when Dwight Eisnehower chained them barefoot in the kitchen) why was it considered a societal upheaval when women started to work in large numbers in the lat teens and early 20's? If they had been working all along, why would anyone notice? Were they fooled by nostalgia for the 50's that hadn't happened yet?
I am as big a fan of free speech as anyone, but I think you have lost historical perspective. The same guys who wrote and approved that ammendment about 8-9 years later passed the Sedition Act. So, apparently, even the founders thought there was some restraint on the exercise of free speech.
I would agree with you that such laws may be a good idea, except that I know how completely ineffective they are. When I worked as an admin for a large webspace reseller, we had 2 or 3 cases a day where a spammer would exploit a formmail script to spam out his kiddie porn site adverts. Of course the site was hosted on some anonymous free space server so there was no way to track him down. (And I was sure his "subscription fees" were probably just a credit card scam in disguise, though no one ever proved that theory.) Anyway, if these people sending spam send it anonymously, have sites hosted anonymously or in countries which don't care about US laws, and don't conveniently provide their own identity, what good do such laws do? If I get spam sent through a defective formmail advertising morphine and viagra sent by mail from Brasil, what good does a Utah law do?
Check any given state's sex offender registry and compare the number of clergy to non-clergy. I bet you will find the ratio to heavily favor the non-clergy end of things.
To be a bit pedantic, orbits can be stable while not being circular. Eliptical orbits are also stable. (Hey, everyone else was being so pedantic, I had to join in.)
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Of course, in the days before discount cards they would have given those discounts to everyone and called them "sales". So, actually, they are giving out fewer discounts than they would have and getting marketing info for free.
The advertisers to whom you sell space don't know if the viewers are 14 or 40.
Actually, as a forth programmer, I can tell you 2 + is a stack underflow error, 2 * is also a stack underflow error, and then 2 is 2. So the answer is 2.
I think the history of oil use is too short for such sweeping generalizations. There have not been enough 20 year periods to determine that.
Eg. from 0-15 I slept with 3 women, from 16-30 I slept with 30, so, by extension, from 31-45 I should sleep with 300 (much to my wife's chagrin).
If our data set is too small, extrapolations tend to produce equally absurd results.
You are under 25, aren't you? If you didn't grow up with the smalltalk-esque gui paradigm, there is nothing intuitive about sliding a puck with a button around. As I said, CLI is akin to typing, so relatively easy transition. The mouse has no outside world analogy, so it is not inherently inuitive.
Or do I have to explain this to you at much greater length?
OK> Your response in the last paragraph is basically "If you install fresh and have exactly the right hardware it is rock solid". Well, um, that isn't exactly a stable OS. I installed FreeBSD on flaky hardware, ancient hardware, everywhere, and I have left it running unpatched for a year or more, and it doesn't crash. A 2 month old install of XP, on the otherhand, crashes 1/day if I dare to use mozilla.
To anticipate your response, yes, Mozilla is crashing it, but my argument is: The is no way Mozialla should be able to take out the entire OS/UI. THAT is a design flaw.
For audio, however, the DRM is much more problematic. No matter what protections ar ein place, the end result is a digital audio stream. I can always replace my speaker output line with a cable connected to a digital audio recording device and recreate a clean copy of that audio stream. Yes, it is an annoyance to have to record the audio signal into a usable file format, but it is a last gasp way to circumvent any copy protection on audio recordings.
Likewise, if you have an old enough VCR (I have a mid 80's JVC) you could previously record even copy protected video casettes. That's why I kept an old machine around. I am sure similarly crippled video devices could be used to circumvent any digital video copy protection. Simply pump raw video output into your crippled recording device (which doesn't recognize any copy protection) and you can duplicate the content. (OK. So this doesn't rip an entire DVD with extras, but it is still a circumvention of copy protection).
And these are just 2 low tech answers off the top of my head. I am sure that there are 100's of better solutions.
It is like cryptography. Short of a one time pad, there is no unbreakable code, simply ones that would take too long to break. By giving you the encrypted material and the plaintext, DRM of necessity makes the breaking of any protection much easier.
Are you saying the high end of the IQ scale are not consumers? So most intelligent people are entirely self-sufficient survivalists who never buy anything? That's an odd world view.
At long last, I found my new .sig!
You _____ bigots are all the same! Always bashing Microsoft because you're just such a ______ fan boy!
Stabilized at 100% of bandwidth.
No. There is an inherent problem in the OS. Window's refusal to compartmentalize memory and Window's insistence on running everything in one big memory segment creates a greater likelihood a catastrophic crash than Unix/Linux systems.
I don't know if I would call apple's interface "intuitive". If you learn Mac first, perhaps, but I don't think any computer interface is intuitive. CLI may be the closest to an intuitive interface as it is just like typing. Any GUI has some learning curve as moving a small puck on a cord to make a dot on the screen bounce over a little picture is not something that corresponds to anything in the outside world.
The best part is the associated URL, landoverbaptist.org.
I was about to post on the very same thing!
QUOTE:
"The cadmium atom that has lost an electron becomes a negatively charged ion, which can then be controlled with an electrical field," said Daniel Stick, a doctoral student in the University of Michigan's physics department who participated in the work.
And he's a doctoral student? Losing 1 negative charge makes the atom negative? Huh?,br> Don't think I'll be putting too much faith in this particular computer.
Seems much more prevalent on Mac and Linux. Mozilla for windows does not appear to do it. And FreeBSD only says i386 (which I know the machine is not). Konquerer for *BSD also doesn't appear to give the CPU type.
I did some very bad typing above. Should read "started to work in large numbers in the late teens and early twenties".
Have to disagree with point #3. If women "usually worked" through out history 9excepting when Dwight Eisnehower chained them barefoot in the kitchen) why was it considered a societal upheaval when women started to work in large numbers in the lat teens and early 20's? If they had been working all along, why would anyone notice? Were they fooled by nostalgia for the 50's that hadn't happened yet?
I am as big a fan of free speech as anyone, but I think you have lost historical perspective. The same guys who wrote and approved that ammendment about 8-9 years later passed the Sedition Act. So, apparently, even the founders thought there was some restraint on the exercise of free speech.
I would agree with you that such laws may be a good idea, except that I know how completely ineffective they are. When I worked as an admin for a large webspace reseller, we had 2 or 3 cases a day where a spammer would exploit a formmail script to spam out his kiddie porn site adverts. Of course the site was hosted on some anonymous free space server so there was no way to track him down. (And I was sure his "subscription fees" were probably just a credit card scam in disguise, though no one ever proved that theory.) Anyway, if these people sending spam send it anonymously, have sites hosted anonymously or in countries which don't care about US laws, and don't conveniently provide their own identity, what good do such laws do? If I get spam sent through a defective formmail advertising morphine and viagra sent by mail from Brasil, what good does a Utah law do?
Check any given state's sex offender registry and compare the number of clergy to non-clergy. I bet you will find the ratio to heavily favor the non-clergy end of things.
I don't ever recall seeing the CPU type listed in the http headers.
To be a bit pedantic, orbits can be stable while not being circular. Eliptical orbits are also stable. (Hey, everyone else was being so pedantic, I had to join in.)
I can recall one major software bug, the FOOF memory bug on intel processors. Otherwise I would agree.
On the other hand, how is "del" any more intuitive than "rm"?