One of the reasons I stopped going to theaters to watch movies was that after I paid to get in, I was sitting through commercials (not just trailers, but commercials). I decided that I might as well stay home and wait for the movies on non-premium cable.
According to the MPAA and RIAA, the licenses are only valid for the specific device for which it was purchased. Playing on a different device requires an additional license. The DMCA is a tool for enforcing that distinction at their whim.
Ripping, decrypting, and recoding a DVD to store it on your own in-home server and play it on other than a licensed DVD player is a felonious act in the United States. right up there with rape and murder.
Since card counting not cheating, by simply intelligent play, I think there should be a national law (so the bought-and-paid for Nevada Legislature isn't a factor) that anyone asked not to play a game or escorted from a casino, no matter how politely, gets a $10,000,000 payment from the casino, and the casino is fined an additional $10,000,000 to defray enforcement costs.
Anyone who attempts to block card counting is a cheating thief and deserves serious financial pain.
As a motorcyclist with gray in my beard, too, I totally disagree.
Two wheels, power other than human-generated applied through a wheel to the surface (not jet thrust); that's as much a motorcycle as there is. Sure it's purpose is limited, but that's true for all motorsports-specific bikes.
No way is a supermoto racer as useful a street bike as any of the ones I have at home. The MotoGP and World Superbikes are too small and cramped for a lot of people, and can't even be left unattended without a stand that isn't part of the bike. Drag race and hill climb bikes have wheelbases that are utterly impractical on the street. There are customs that are beautiful sculpture, but uncomfortable, to sit on, yet they have engines driving wheels and CAN be ridden. All of them are motorcycles. Just because the low-drag fairing is closed and the rider/pilot needs assistance getting seated (road racers have to have assistants steady their bikes while mounting, too), doesn't disqualify that as a motorcycle.
Got watch "World's Fastest Indian" and stop flaunting your narrow, overrated opinion of what constitutes a "motorcycle".
Very few of us down here have any choice for broadband other than the duopoly of telco/cable, and both providers are usually some combination of pillaging our wallets and skimping on service.
Blame incompetence and cost-cutting. There is no inherent problem in RoHS (been using it for years), but you CANNOT cut corners in the PCB design or use cut-rate production facilities.
I sometimes keep "while sleep 10; do host www.google.com; done" running in a window so I know when the DNS servers die, which is a frequent occurrence. They have two, but they both die at the same time. Sometimes I can ping them, but still not get DNS responses.
If there were any competent network/system engineers at TWC (or any that are competent weren't managed by idiots/a*holes), they would keep the DNS servers on different segments of the network and only do maintenance on one at a time.
While I wouldn't mind using LED as replacements when the existing CFL wear out, particularly if they are less toxic when discarded, what I really need is a replacement for halogen small US base and bayonet, along with a few "candelabra" small base bulbs. Dimming would be a plus.
You really do have it wrong. I rarely look at the screen when typing.
For coding or creating a document, I write looking at the keyboard, then read it back from the screen at some sort of break point.
I simply do not have the kinesthetic sense to touch-type, nor have I ever been able (despite many lessons over many years) been able to learn a musical instrument. I have to see what I'm doing for that kind of task.
Not everyone can learn to touch type; you either have the necessary talent, or you don't. Why penalize students who cannot touch type when it just isn't that useful or necessary, just like calculus and 10-sec 100 meter dash.
I've been a programmer for longer than I care to remember. I took typing in high school, but never managed to be a touch typist (I memorize enough at a glance to keep my fingers busy for copying and compose on the fly for text and programming). I also took calculus in high school (and college), but have rarely used it since graduate school. I played American football in high school, too, but have rarely needed to sprint for a 100 yards since leaving the military.
Using a tiny, well-conserved region of DNA to extrapolate genome-wide mutation activity is almost meaningless.
Are there more, fewer, or the same proportion of "jumping genes" on that chromosome as the larger genome?
What are the relative proportions of the DNA bases? Some base substitutions are more common than others in SNPs, so if the selected region of the genome is more, or less, rich than the overall genome it will be more, or less, likely to experience mutation.
If the advertisement is showing WHILE the participant commits "murder", which is known to have visceral links for virtual actions, then there's much more brain storage going on than when watching a "murder", particularly when the advertisement comes at some time removed from the action.
This is not to say that the test shouldn't have been performed, but it mostly adds a minor corollary to what was already known.
Of course, this is a gold mine for product placement advertising.
Typical female astronaut is healthy and fit (therefore sexually desirable), and high-achieving and intelligent. She would want you as a sexual partner WHY?
If I want to run an OSX app, it's probably faster on Snow Leopard than either Windows 7 or Ubuntu 9.10 (since it doesn't run on them, AFAIK), and an Ubuntu binary is probably faster on it than Snow Leopard or Windows 7.
The real question, to me, if how well the odd Windows 7 app, that "simply cannot be avoided", for whatever reason, runs on Ubuntu 9.10 and Snow Leopard, whether in WINE, Parallels,..., and if that is usable compared to its performance in its native Windows.
FPSs and MMO clients, for example, have generally been faster in their native Windows or simply don't run the other OSs. What about something like SolidWorks?
Since most of the home computers on the net are operated by ignorant (at best), stupid, and/or delusional people (else why would so many of them be part of 'bot nets and be picking up other malware?), why not a real license, like a European, NOT US, driving license. After all, their lack of competence impacts all of us, just as incompetent driving does.
Demonstrate competence to set up and run a properly secured computer on the 'net, or pay someone else to do it, as a chauffeur or taxi driver. The equivalent of public transportation would be at libraries.
Floating point should be sent as a string, and, if the game programmers, or their bosses, weren't such idiots, they'd have solved this years ago. Still pisses me off that the Mac and Windows machines could go head-to-head in Star raft because they used native integer representations on both the X86 and PPC. That's trivial, too. Network byte ( hton*()/ntoh*() ) order matches the PPC, but it would not have been hard, just intelligent, to have htoSC*() and SCtoh*() macros to map integers on both to the more popular X86 platform.
#include
double strtod(const char *nptr, char **endptr);
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600/* or #define _ISOC99_SOURCE */
#include
There's no answer there, except a "keep your money, 'cause we don't give a damn about customers that we can't nickel and dime over the 'net" in the subtext.
"... but we're still trying to identify all of those and decide which cases are legitimate and which are not"?
LAN play for purchased games/licenses is ALWAYS legitimate you corporate weasel.
A fission reactor emits enough radiation that, over time, the very materials from which it was made become something else. The stainless steel, for example, becomes a different alloy because the carbon atoms absorb alpha particles and change into oxygen atoms. Gamma rays split other atoms into (often radioactive) lighter elements. Absorbed neutrons make some atoms radioactive (carbon-14, for example), enough so that they may fission, but usually emitting alpha particles.
Carriers keep their radioactive material on board until refueling/refitting.
Aircraft cannot afford heavy shielding (otherwise they are very slow awkward ground vehicles), so the radiation will directly impact the atoms in the air and there will be a radioactive trail behind the aircraft.
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One of the reasons I stopped going to theaters to watch movies was that after I paid to get in, I was sitting through commercials (not just trailers, but commercials). I decided that I might as well stay home and wait for the movies on non-premium cable.
Quite wrong.
According to the MPAA and RIAA, the licenses are only valid for the specific device for which it was purchased. Playing on a different device requires an additional license. The DMCA is a tool for enforcing that distinction at their whim.
Ripping, decrypting, and recoding a DVD to store it on your own in-home server and play it on other than a licensed DVD player is a felonious act in the United States. right up there with rape and murder.
Since card counting not cheating, by simply intelligent play, I think there should be a national law (so the bought-and-paid for Nevada Legislature isn't a factor) that anyone asked not to play a game or escorted from a casino, no matter how politely, gets a $10,000,000 payment from the casino, and the casino is fined an additional $10,000,000 to defray enforcement costs.
Anyone who attempts to block card counting is a cheating thief and deserves serious financial pain.
If you're still playing it (too), what platform (Loki here)?
1986 Taurus 3.0 L V6 with 18 Gallon tank had a real-world highway range of over 500 miles.
Filled up in Phoenix and drive it home to Orange County, CA, then didn't bother to fill for a few days.
300 miles is piss-poor range for a mid-size sedan.
As a motorcyclist with gray in my beard, too, I totally disagree.
Two wheels, power other than human-generated applied through a wheel to the surface (not jet thrust); that's as much a motorcycle as there is. Sure it's purpose is limited, but that's true for all motorsports-specific bikes.
No way is a supermoto racer as useful a street bike as any of the ones I have at home. The MotoGP and World Superbikes are too small and cramped for a lot of people, and can't even be left unattended without a stand that isn't part of the bike. Drag race and hill climb bikes have wheelbases that are utterly impractical on the street. There are customs that are beautiful sculpture, but uncomfortable, to sit on, yet they have engines driving wheels and CAN be ridden. All of them are motorcycles. Just because the low-drag fairing is closed and the rider/pilot needs assistance getting seated (road racers have to have assistants steady their bikes while mounting, too), doesn't disqualify that as a motorcycle.
Got watch "World's Fastest Indian" and stop flaunting your narrow, overrated opinion of what constitutes a "motorcycle".
Signed, the USofA.
Very few of us down here have any choice for broadband other than the duopoly of telco/cable, and both providers are usually some combination of pillaging our wallets and skimping on service.
Just maybe, you can head this off.
Good Luck!
Anyone else ever do any development on the Inmos Transputer?
The ones I used had four relatively high-speed serial links for message-passing between CPUs.
I suppose that something similar could be done with AMD CPUs on their high speed bus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
BS.
Blame incompetence and cost-cutting. There is no inherent problem in RoHS (been using it for years), but you CANNOT cut corners in the PCB design or use cut-rate production facilities.
I sometimes keep "while sleep 10; do host www.google.com; done" running in a window so I know when the DNS servers die, which is a frequent occurrence. They have two, but they both die at the same time. Sometimes I can ping them, but still not get DNS responses.
If there were any competent network/system engineers at TWC (or any that are competent weren't managed by idiots/a*holes), they would keep the DNS servers on different segments of the network and only do maintenance on one at a time.
FWIW, /etc/resolv.conf:
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search socal.rr.com
nameserver 209.18.47.61
nameserver 209.18.47.62
While I wouldn't mind using LED as replacements when the existing CFL wear out, particularly if they are less toxic when discarded, what I really need is a replacement for halogen small US base and bayonet, along with a few "candelabra" small base bulbs. Dimming would be a plus.
Anyone making those yet?
You really do have it wrong. I rarely look at the screen when typing.
For coding or creating a document, I write looking at the keyboard, then read it back from the screen at some sort of break point.
I simply do not have the kinesthetic sense to touch-type, nor have I ever been able (despite many lessons over many years) been able to learn a musical instrument. I have to see what I'm doing for that kind of task.
Not everyone can learn to touch type; you either have the necessary talent,
or you don't. Why penalize students who cannot touch type when it just isn't
that useful or necessary, just like calculus and 10-sec 100 meter dash.
I've been a programmer for longer than I care to remember. I took typing
in high school, but never managed to be a touch typist (I memorize enough
at a glance to keep my fingers busy for copying and compose on the fly for
text and programming). I also took calculus in high school (and college),
but have rarely used it since graduate school. I played American football
in high school, too, but have rarely needed to sprint for a 100 yards since
leaving the military.
Offer the option, yes. Mandatory, no.
Using a tiny, well-conserved region of DNA to extrapolate genome-wide mutation activity is almost meaningless.
Are there more, fewer, or the same proportion of "jumping genes" on that chromosome as the larger genome?
What are the relative proportions of the DNA bases? Some base substitutions are more common than others in SNPs, so if the selected region of the genome is more, or less, rich than the overall genome it will be more, or less, likely to experience mutation.
If the advertisement is showing WHILE the participant commits "murder", which is known to have visceral links for virtual actions, then there's much more brain storage going on than when watching a "murder", particularly when the advertisement comes at some time removed from the action.
This is not to say that the test shouldn't have been performed, but it mostly adds a minor corollary to what was already known.
Of course, this is a gold mine for product placement advertising.
Typical female astronaut is healthy and fit (therefore sexually desirable), and high-achieving and intelligent. She would want you as a sexual partner WHY?
If I want to run an OSX app, it's probably faster on Snow Leopard than either Windows 7 or Ubuntu 9.10 (since it doesn't run on them, AFAIK), and an Ubuntu binary is probably faster on it than Snow Leopard or Windows 7.
The real question, to me, if how well the odd Windows 7 app, that "simply cannot be avoided", for whatever reason, runs on Ubuntu 9.10 and Snow Leopard, whether in WINE, Parallels, ..., and if that is usable compared to its performance in its native Windows.
FPSs and MMO clients, for example, have generally been faster in their native Windows or simply don't run the other OSs. What about something like SolidWorks?
Since most of the home computers on the net are operated by ignorant (at best), stupid, and/or delusional people (else why would so many of them be part of 'bot nets and be picking up other malware?), why not a real license, like a European, NOT US, driving license. After all, their lack of competence impacts all of us, just as incompetent driving does.
Demonstrate competence to set up and run a properly secured computer on the 'net, or pay someone else to do it, as a chauffeur or taxi driver. The equivalent of public transportation would be at libraries.
Floating point should be sent as a string, and, if the game programmers, or their bosses, weren't such idiots, they'd have solved this years ago. Still pisses me off that the Mac and Windows machines could go head-to-head in Star raft because they used native integer representations on both the X86 and PPC. That's trivial, too. Network byte ( hton*()/ntoh*() ) order matches the PPC, but it would not have been hard, just intelligent, to have htoSC*() and SCtoh*() macros to map integers on both to the more popular X86 platform.
#include
double strtod(const char *nptr, char **endptr);
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 /* or #define _ISOC99_SOURCE */
#include
float strtof(const char *nptr, char **endptr);
long double strtold(const char *nptr, char **endptr);
home-brew apps or off-the-shelf package?
if OTS, whose is it?
Federal funding is based on attendance, not instruction. In CA the state does the same thing. Dunno about Maryland.
For those uses, wouldn't a virtual machine make more sense?
Parallels, at least, supports both Linux and Windows clients.
SC2 LAN play?
There's no answer there, except a "keep your money, 'cause we don't give a damn about customers that we can't nickel and dime over the 'net" in the subtext.
"... but we're still trying to identify all of those and decide which cases are legitimate and which are not"?
LAN play for purchased games/licenses is ALWAYS legitimate you corporate weasel.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-runner-side21-2009aug21,0,3926576.story
Not FUD; simply a packaging difference.
A fission reactor emits enough radiation that, over time, the very materials from which it was made become something else. The stainless steel, for example, becomes a different alloy because the carbon atoms absorb alpha particles and change into oxygen atoms. Gamma rays split other atoms into (often radioactive) lighter elements. Absorbed neutrons make some atoms radioactive (carbon-14, for example), enough so that they may fission, but usually emitting alpha particles.
Carriers keep their radioactive material on board until refueling/refitting.
Aircraft cannot afford heavy shielding (otherwise they are very slow awkward ground vehicles), so the radiation will directly impact the atoms in the air and there will be a radioactive trail behind the aircraft.