The evidence submitted to the court as part of a motion or transcript is public domain, not the items themselves. Otherwise any copyright could be nullified simply by initiating a lawsuit, and any rights holder that sued would automatically nullify their own copyright.
Second, I'm sorry, you are just plain wrong. Is it the car companies fault you can put other liquids in your gas tank and ruin your car, is it the car companies fault you car can exceeed the spee dlimit and you can get a ticket for it, is it the car companies fualt that even thouth the oil light on you rcar is on it still runs and gives you a chance to kill it for good.
FUCK NO. It is you fault, all your fault.
Spoken like a car company in the 1950s, before seat belts, safety glass, crumple zones, head rests, airbags, ABS, traction control, gas mileage standards, and soft dashboards.
Those things you named are user error, but if, for example, the car you cite shipped without a speedometer, or the oil light was hidden under the seat and blinked out a code you had to look up in a third-party manual, you might be tempted to think the manufacturer had some sort of liability for the consequences. That's the situation we're in, that's why people are pissed.
So why is making it a mandatory part of the high school [or better yet elementary] curriculum such a bad idea?
It's not necessarily, but you could say the same thing about driving, cooking/nutrition, personal financial management, media literacy, and lots of other life skills subjects that don't relate to standardized tests. The problems are time, money, qualified teachers, and politicization/monetization of most of the subjects I listed above (see your average school board meeting about the sex ed program for an example).
The sweet spot for memory will be vista requirements(512mb or so) + space for whatever apps you usualy concurrently run, IE/FF, photoshop, iTunes, whatever, it'll dump those into system ram before you even click their icons, reduce real world loading times significantly.
Lovely. So my 3D rendering application that needs (very) large swaths of contiguous free memory for framebuffer storage won't even be placated by a restart.
Also recall that these are music people and we are geeks.
The sets 'music people' and 'geeks' overlap significantly. The only time I've ever really been able to empathize with my wife hearing me talk about computers is when more than one of my jazz-playing friends are in the room talking about music.
I find that for some reason, commercial packages insist on being idiot-proof.
Speaking as someone with 10 semesters of teaching 3ds max to undergrads under his belt, if Max and Maya feel idiot-proof to you, Blender must be really goddamn confusing.
PS to grandparent - 3ds max creates objects where the cursor is, and can even align the object's pivot and local coordinates to the face normal under the cursor. The lack of that feature has always been one of my pet peeves about Maya.
How abut this: A constellation of deeply harmful attitudes about nutrition and eating are endemic to the culture, and the effects are highly profitable for both food conglomerates and the media outlets they advertise with. While different people are affected differently, a great many are affected negatively. Forty years ago, Type-2 diabetes was called "adult onset diabetes," because one almost never saw it in juveniles, and anorexia nervosa was a rare enough diagnosis to be publishable.
By the way, severe anorexia kills quicker than severe obesity, and both are considered to have similar underlying causes.
Don't discount the Mii channel and 'mingling' miis. I like having cartoon versions of my friends in other cities (and their friends and significant others) show up in Wii baseball. And the news thing is pretty cool and surprisingly well-designed from a usability standpoint too, although I still don't understand why all news from Baghdad seems to be blacked out.
I spent some time in Israel, where suspicious devices are routinely disposed of by the bomb squad. Left your backpack somewhere 20 minutes ago? Sorry, it's been blowed up. However, the cops don't shut down the city to do it. They cordon off a reasonable blast radius, set a charge next to the device, lower a concrete box over it from a flatbed truck, and press the button. The intersection reopens in less than an hour, and some lady's short a diaper bag.
That's how you handle a credible threat of regularly placed terrorist bombs. Without terror.
Well, in a situation where the terrorists are going to land the plane somewhere and make demands, it's not a terrible idea to cooperate, and that's what had happened every time before - if they wanted to kill you they'd have used a bomb, right? People on the jet that crashed in PA caught on pretty quick when they heard via cell phone what was going on.
In the past, these sorts of children were generally punished, and it was accepted in society that a child that is "a bad seed" gets punished. In today's society though, even a spanking is considered wrong. Parents are AFRAID to punish their children for being "bad", and that's the real problem with the world today. I am NOT saying that abuse is wrong, but a proper fear of punishment is how most children grow up with a proper sense that certain things are NOT acceptable behaviors.
Gee, if only there were a way to communicate to a child that violent behavior is unacceptable without resorting to violence, or a nonviolent way to punish a child...
If you're holding the bat right in Wii sports baseball, you can wiggle it in circles with what feels like perfect accuracy before the pitch. Once it senses you're getting into the swing, however, it kicks into scripted mode - I haven't been able to miss the ball by swinging above or below when the timing is correct.
(OT: is it even possible to get a walk in Wii baseball? The computer's thrown like 2 balls the entire time I've had the Wii, and the computer batters swing at everything.)
You know, it's extremely probable he licensed the song for his videos, it's not so terribly expensive to do for small runs. The character video is great ammunition for an unclean hands defense should one be needed, however.
Bear in mind that the Wii surfs the web, can send and receive email and SMS, displays global weather forecasts and what appears to be the entire AP wire (minus Iraq - what's up with the Iraq blackout?) through a slick 3D interface, and has a photo editing and display application included. I wouldn't be surprised if they release an MP3 player app for it through WiiConnect24, too.
But no playing while driving or until after you do the dishes.
The important difference betweent those functions and the PS3, though, is that they feel like simple auxilliary features, and don't get in the way of the gaming experience.
NTSC has 525 horizontal scanlines, but each scanline is a trace of an analog signal and doesn't really have pixels until you get computers involved. "Lines of resolution" in analog monitor land means how many vertical lines the unit/technology can display before they're no longer intelligible as separate lines. 720 is, I believe, the theoretical maximum horizontal resolution of the standard, but I don't think anything can actually display that. So the GP is correct in referring to VHS as having 240 lines of resolution.
Oh, and NTSC can be 640x480 (low-end/old gear), 720x480 (DVD), and 720x486 (D1); again because it doesn't actually have horizontal pixels and you really want to have the image a little smeared vertically across those 525 lines to avoid interlace strobing of fine horizontal detail.
Oh, and when broadcasters degrade the signal, you see more MPEG artifacting, not lower resolution, BTW.
It offers no speedup in computation time, and probably has no parallelization opportunities beyond those normally there in fluid dynamics. However, it *does* produce better-looking solutions as all of the conservation laws are met.
To us pretty-pictures guys, a better-looking solution in the same amount of time IS a speedup, because otherwise we crank up the quality higher and slow down the calculation in order to get the results we want.
(Or fake it some other way - for example, Blizzard made a trailer for warcraft 3 that showed two dead characters' blood mixing in standing water. Instead of killing themselves with a CFD solution, they shot white latex paint dissolving in a black kiddie pool on video, and used the footage as a mask to do the effect in post.)
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Actually, Israel maintained a concerted campaign of tree-planting from the 1920's through today of trees that can survive in the climactic conditions there. No tree farms (unless you count fruit trees, or the fact that the average grove of pines stands in oddly neat rows and all the trees are the same height). They need the water too badly for their population and agriculture to plant irrigated tree farms on a scale that would impact climate.
Incidentally, that's the origin of the term "green line" to refer to the border between Israel proper and the west bank - from the air, it really is a green line where the trees abruptly stop.
Even more incidentally, one reason there were so few trees in the first place is that the Ottomans imposed a tax on having a tree on one's property at some point.
Cannot be broken by anyone? Maybe not. Cannot be broken without spending a few million bucks? Sure. Really, the chip is pretty much unbreakable if it costs more to break it than it does to just steal the keys directly from the manufacturer. Industrial espionage is often a much more practical solution.
Hmm, who has a vested interest and a few million bucks? Oh, that's right, the mafia does...
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The evidence submitted to the court as part of a motion or transcript is public domain, not the items themselves. Otherwise any copyright could be nullified simply by initiating a lawsuit, and any rights holder that sued would automatically nullify their own copyright.
FUCK NO. It is you fault, all your fault.
Spoken like a car company in the 1950s, before seat belts, safety glass, crumple zones, head rests, airbags, ABS, traction control, gas mileage standards, and soft dashboards.
Those things you named are user error, but if, for example, the car you cite shipped without a speedometer, or the oil light was hidden under the seat and blinked out a code you had to look up in a third-party manual, you might be tempted to think the manufacturer had some sort of liability for the consequences. That's the situation we're in, that's why people are pissed.
It's not necessarily, but you could say the same thing about driving, cooking/nutrition, personal financial management, media literacy, and lots of other life skills subjects that don't relate to standardized tests. The problems are time, money, qualified teachers, and politicization/monetization of most of the subjects I listed above (see your average school board meeting about the sex ed program for an example).
In that case, the landing has definitely caused an emergency.
Lovely. So my 3D rendering application that needs (very) large swaths of contiguous free memory for framebuffer storage won't even be placated by a restart.
That's retarded.
The sets 'music people' and 'geeks' overlap significantly. The only time I've ever really been able to empathize with my wife hearing me talk about computers is when more than one of my jazz-playing friends are in the room talking about music.
Or you're a Verizon customer, you pay them 25 cents to put it on a web page, which you then screenscrape.
Speaking as someone with 10 semesters of teaching 3ds max to undergrads under his belt, if Max and Maya feel idiot-proof to you, Blender must be really goddamn confusing.
PS to grandparent - 3ds max creates objects where the cursor is, and can even align the object's pivot and local coordinates to the face normal under the cursor. The lack of that feature has always been one of my pet peeves about Maya.
By the way, severe anorexia kills quicker than severe obesity, and both are considered to have similar underlying causes.
Don't discount the Mii channel and 'mingling' miis. I like having cartoon versions of my friends in other cities (and their friends and significant others) show up in Wii baseball. And the news thing is pretty cool and surprisingly well-designed from a usability standpoint too, although I still don't understand why all news from Baghdad seems to be blacked out.
How about "Autodesk and Intuit are doing it, why can't I?"
Credit? What country do you live in? In the US, it's a deduction - big difference.
Wow, the feds are really running roughshod over the constitution - bigamy should be a state charge.
The soviets used to send a bill for the cost of the bullet to families of people who were executed for political reasons.
That's how you handle a credible threat of regularly placed terrorist bombs. Without terror.
Well, in a situation where the terrorists are going to land the plane somewhere and make demands, it's not a terrible idea to cooperate, and that's what had happened every time before - if they wanted to kill you they'd have used a bomb, right? People on the jet that crashed in PA caught on pretty quick when they heard via cell phone what was going on.
Gee, if only there were a way to communicate to a child that violent behavior is unacceptable without resorting to violence, or a nonviolent way to punish a child...
(OT: is it even possible to get a walk in Wii baseball? The computer's thrown like 2 balls the entire time I've had the Wii, and the computer batters swing at everything.)
You know, it's extremely probable he licensed the song for his videos, it's not so terribly expensive to do for small runs. The character video is great ammunition for an unclean hands defense should one be needed, however.
But no playing while driving or until after you do the dishes.
The important difference betweent those functions and the PS3, though, is that they feel like simple auxilliary features, and don't get in the way of the gaming experience.
Oh, and NTSC can be 640x480 (low-end/old gear), 720x480 (DVD), and 720x486 (D1); again because it doesn't actually have horizontal pixels and you really want to have the image a little smeared vertically across those 525 lines to avoid interlace strobing of fine horizontal detail.
Oh, and when broadcasters degrade the signal, you see more MPEG artifacting, not lower resolution, BTW.
To us pretty-pictures guys, a better-looking solution in the same amount of time IS a speedup, because otherwise we crank up the quality higher and slow down the calculation in order to get the results we want.
(Or fake it some other way - for example, Blizzard made a trailer for warcraft 3 that showed two dead characters' blood mixing in standing water. Instead of killing themselves with a CFD solution, they shot white latex paint dissolving in a black kiddie pool on video, and used the footage as a mask to do the effect in post.)
Incidentally, that's the origin of the term "green line" to refer to the border between Israel proper and the west bank - from the air, it really is a green line where the trees abruptly stop.
Even more incidentally, one reason there were so few trees in the first place is that the Ottomans imposed a tax on having a tree on one's property at some point.
Hmm, who has a vested interest and a few million bucks? Oh, that's right, the mafia does...