"...not by supressing people's rights to do stupid things."
So we shouldn't suppress peoples "right" to do something stupid, like... say, drink 8 pints of beer then drive a 4 tonne truck whilst reading a newspaper and combing their hair.
People buying stuff from spam has consequences for the rest of us. The most obvious being that we also recieve increasing amounts of spam. There may also be a link between spam and criminal gangs (however, I can't provide hard evidence for this).
You appear to be challenging Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Unless you can come up with some substantial evidence that Einstein was totally wrong, I will continue to assume that macroscopic objects cannot travel faster than the speed of light, no matter where they are in the Universe.
I'm not religiously devoted to Google, I use it because I reckon it's the best search engine available. If something better comes along, I'd switch straight away.
Losers, dorks and morons are the ones buying stuff from spam emails. They don't won't anyone or anything filtering out the excellent purchasing opportunities they recieve hundreds of times every day.
Since this phenomenom only lasts for a short period after the beer is poured, they must have had to pour a lot of beers to allow detailed analysis. It would have been a shame to let it go to waste wouldn't it?
Next we'll see an academic doing a research paper on the marketing techniques used by pr0n sites.
Has your penile growth rate slowed? Did you miss your daily dose of hot sex with lesbian teens? Are you now low on credit? I think you could sue Microsoft if you answered yes to any of these.
Remember that they started with a vehicle with good mechanical durability, but then maid loads of modifications. I would guess that a mechanical failures occured at the interface between the electronic control system and the mechanical system.
+5, Insightful! more like +5, tin foil hat wearer.
So what if a vehicle is vulnerable to EMP? Your enemy (in conventional warfare) is unlikely to use one as it will also damage his equipment. Terrorists are more likely to try to use EMP against civilian systems. If the phone/internet network was brought down by an EMP there would be chaos, but no-one is going to pay to make it invulnerable to an EMP.
"Does it make sense to put an MP3 player in a phone or pda, if you are limited to 256 MB of music?"
I have a Sony PDA with a 256Mb Memory Stick full of MP3s. That's about 2 hours with excellent sound reproduction. Every night the MS goes into a reader and half the songs are replaced by other ones from my HDD by a bash script (the first half consists of my favourites). Since I only listen to 1-2 hours of music a day, I have as much variety as I would have with a 40Gb iPod. This way I only have to carry around one little box that can play music and games but also do useful things like definite integration (and it cost less than an iPod).
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Once a week I get a promotional email (which I agreed to recieve) from a PC components company. I trust them not to sell my email address to spammers, and occasionally I buy one of the items offered in the email.
"Don't have to pay for the stories if no longer copyrighted."
They do have to pay someone to write a film script of the story. I don't know how expensive this is, but it's probably still cheaper than making a film of a copyrighted work.
What happens on the equator? Does the drive not spin at all? In what order is data read from memory, is it just read in one big chunk? These are questions that need answering!
Before heart pacemakers become common (at least in the developed world), slashdotters probably worried about the effect of EMPs on such devices, or people using powerful magnets to kill people who've had them implanted. However, there are a lot of people who aren't permenantly in hospital hooked up to machines because of these little devices. There is potential for missuse but there is also great potential for vast improvements in quality of life for some people.
"So you're saying that because someone found a bug in windows (surprise fucking surprise), then everything should be open?",
No, I'm just saying that bug finding/fixing is better/quicker with open source software. I don't no how much would be revealed to competitors by opening up the source (or how much they already know from reverse engineering), so I can't comment on whether it would be a sensible business move, but I'm fairly confident more bugs would be found and fixed if the drivers were open.
P.S. I'm not as much of a Linux Zealot/Communist as you infered from my original post, although I do run Gentoo.
Remember the Win2000 source leak. Someone noticed a fairly simple programming error (signed instead of unsigned variable IIRC). That person didn't have an initimate knowledge of Windows 2000, but they still found a bug. This is the type of situation where more eyes make for better code.
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There is the video of a BSOD appearing on a big screen behind Gates at some Microsoft demo (Win98 IIRC).
With pencil and paper it's easier to give explicit details of what constitutes a vote and make it clear to the voters what they need to do. Example: Each candidate has a box directly to the right of their name (for the really stupid the correct way up is indicated on the slip). A cross (other marks aren't acceptable) must be placed within the box for the candidate you wish to vote for. Marks made outside the box or in multiple boxes invalidate the voting slip.
This may seem a little strict, but provided the voters are properly informed there really shouldn't be any problems. But this is the real world, so of course there would be:)
I would have thought radiation would be the last of your worries if you found yourself in open space. The low pressure and lack of oxygen would be a bigger problem.
What you're saying is that when online it's your brain power, reactions and hand-eye coordination that are important. IANAB (biologist), but I'm fairly sure that there are bit differences between men and women's brains (e.g. women can multitask/men can't (gross generalization)). However, I don't know whether this affects online game ability.
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"...not by supressing people's rights to do stupid things."
So we shouldn't suppress peoples "right" to do something stupid, like... say, drink 8 pints of beer then drive a 4 tonne truck whilst reading a newspaper and combing their hair.
People buying stuff from spam has consequences for the rest of us. The most obvious being that we also recieve increasing amounts of spam. There may also be a link between spam and criminal gangs (however, I can't provide hard evidence for this).
"Mr. Soto says he also has bought some adult DVDs and videos via spam, but never got around to marketing them.
Yeah right! I wonder if his wife believes him.
You appear to be challenging Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Unless you can come up with some substantial evidence that Einstein was totally wrong, I will continue to assume that macroscopic objects cannot travel faster than the speed of light, no matter where they are in the Universe.
And remember: The Earth has 2 moons, not one.
I'm not religiously devoted to Google, I use it because I reckon it's the best search engine available. If something better comes along, I'd switch straight away.
Losers, dorks and morons are the ones buying stuff from spam emails. They don't won't anyone or anything filtering out the excellent purchasing opportunities they recieve hundreds of times every day.
Since this phenomenom only lasts for a short period after the beer is poured, they must have had to pour a lot of beers to allow detailed analysis. It would have been a shame to let it go to waste wouldn't it?
Next we'll see an academic doing a research paper on the marketing techniques used by pr0n sites.
Has your penile growth rate slowed? Did you miss your daily dose of hot sex with lesbian teens? Are you now low on credit? I think you could sue Microsoft if you answered yes to any of these.
Remember that they started with a vehicle with good mechanical durability, but then maid loads of modifications. I would guess that a mechanical failures occured at the interface between the electronic control system and the mechanical system.
+5, Insightful! more like +5, tin foil hat wearer.
So what if a vehicle is vulnerable to EMP? Your enemy (in conventional warfare) is unlikely to use one as it will also damage his equipment. Terrorists are more likely to try to use EMP against civilian systems. If the phone/internet network was brought down by an EMP there would be chaos, but no-one is going to pay to make it invulnerable to an EMP.
"Does it make sense to put an MP3 player in a phone or pda, if you are limited to 256 MB of music?"
I have a Sony PDA with a 256Mb Memory Stick full of MP3s. That's about 2 hours with excellent sound reproduction. Every night the MS goes into a reader and half the songs are replaced by other ones from my HDD by a bash script (the first half consists of my favourites). Since I only listen to 1-2 hours of music a day, I have as much variety as I would have with a 40Gb iPod. This way I only have to carry around one little box that can play music and games but also do useful things like definite integration (and it cost less than an iPod).
Once a week I get a promotional email (which I agreed to recieve) from a PC components company. I trust them not to sell my email address to spammers, and occasionally I buy one of the items offered in the email.
"Don't have to pay for the stories if no longer copyrighted."
They do have to pay someone to write a film script of the story. I don't know how expensive this is, but it's probably still cheaper than making a film of a copyrighted work.
What happens on the equator? Does the drive not spin at all? In what order is data read from memory, is it just read in one big chunk? These are questions that need answering!
Before heart pacemakers become common (at least in the developed world), slashdotters probably worried about the effect of EMPs on such devices, or people using powerful magnets to kill people who've had them implanted. However, there are a lot of people who aren't permenantly in hospital hooked up to machines because of these little devices. There is potential for missuse but there is also great potential for vast improvements in quality of life for some people.
"Maturity is achieved when you realise the volume control goes down as well as up." - Someone whose name I forget.
"This cookbook has been a tecchie staple for years!"
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Oh, I see, that's why you posted as an AC.
"So you're saying that because someone found a bug in windows (surprise fucking surprise), then everything should be open?",
No, I'm just saying that bug finding/fixing is better/quicker with open source software. I don't no how much would be revealed to competitors by opening up the source (or how much they already know from reverse engineering), so I can't comment on whether it would be a sensible business move, but I'm fairly confident more bugs would be found and fixed if the drivers were open.
P.S. I'm not as much of a Linux Zealot/Communist as you infered from my original post, although I do run Gentoo.
Remember the Win2000 source leak. Someone noticed a fairly simple programming error (signed instead of unsigned variable IIRC). That person didn't have an initimate knowledge of Windows 2000, but they still found a bug. This is the type of situation where more eyes make for better code.
There is the video of a BSOD appearing on a big screen behind Gates at some Microsoft demo (Win98 IIRC).
I think it's a typo, it should read: ...except their own customer.
With pencil and paper it's easier to give explicit details of what constitutes a vote and make it clear to the voters what they need to do. Example: Each candidate has a box directly to the right of their name (for the really stupid the correct way up is indicated on the slip). A cross (other marks aren't acceptable) must be placed within the box for the candidate you wish to vote for. Marks made outside the box or in multiple boxes invalidate the voting slip.
This may seem a little strict, but provided the voters are properly informed there really shouldn't be any problems. But this is the real world, so of course there would be :)
I would have thought radiation would be the last of your worries if you found yourself in open space. The low pressure and lack of oxygen would be a bigger problem.
Google automatically searches for derivatives of a word. Example. Search for "dog" and "dog's" is highlighted.
What you're saying is that when online it's your brain power, reactions and hand-eye coordination that are important. IANAB (biologist), but I'm fairly sure that there are bit differences between men and women's brains (e.g. women can multitask/men can't (gross generalization)). However, I don't know whether this affects online game ability.