Yes and no. If you accept the terms, weird or not, you are bound. If you didn't like "or later," you had the option to decline the terms at that time. Enforcement is another matter. The courts are not likely to enforce outrageous terms, if you can convince them of that fact.
Unfortunately MS can't claim GPL3 terms are outrageous very easily. "Or later" had been used with lots of software AND a draft of later terms was being circulated. Maybe they could say that the draft did not contain the exact wording that traps them. But if anyone suggested anything along those lines (and I'd be comfortable betting someone publicly proposed very broad patent language) they'd be back to saying "We knew what we were signing, but we changed our minds."
Personally, I think people have neglected the point that it says "or." That could be where a legal decision is decided. Does it mean the later version is in effect, or that one is bound by one's choice of versions? Call it the Bill Clinton defense. Who knows, maybe that's what MS means by "not bound by GPL3." They've chosen anything but...
I'm betting that a little digging will show that the original 10+ years quote came from some dog posting anonymously (and shamelessly re-quoted by humans). We just need to divide by 7. Still, I wouldn't be shocked if someone cracked the DRM in 10 dog hours.
Let's be clear: You want people to know about your nuclear capability. It's not much of a deterrence if no one knows you have it. In fact, people thinking you have a capability is almost as good as having one*.
* Example: Saddam's ambiguity eventually bit him on the rear (or neck), but he was quite willing to let his neighbors assume he could produce all sorts of nasty things.
Apparently in the days of Echelon, there was an actual case where some mom said something along the lines of "Little Tommy bombed at the school play." The automated system flagged her as requiring a case file, and she was investigated and her future calls monitored. In this case, she was innocent, Tommy was innocent (except for bad acting), but the government decided it was worth expending resources to spy on her. Doesn't give me much confidence no matter how you look at it.
Just image what they'd do if you told someone you were going to nuke a tv dinner, pound it down, and crash for the night.
Iron is the at the bottom of the fusion/fission energy curves. Or in other words, producing iron (by fusion or fission) is exothermic, but converting iron to anything else is endothermic.
Thus the universe is fated to turn into a vast pile of iron (ignoring black holes, photons, proton decay, etc etc).
I've found that most people don't know units at all. Sure, 12 inches in a foot, 10 mm in a cm, stuff like that. But ask people to hold their fingers 1 cm or 1/4 inch apart. For non-integer or fraction sizes, it's worse (3.3 cm for example). Even with technical people, it's hit or miss. If someone comes close, it's because they try to match something known.
For comparing relative sizes, you could probably get away with a mix of cubits, angstroms, and width of a human hair... as long as you were consistent. Most people, though not all, can still figure out number A is bigger than number B.
The complete list of objectives being: 1) Make money 2) Self Promote 3) Make more money 4) Self fulfillment through the art of film 5) Self fulfillment through spending money . . . n) get the audience to think about the topic and discuss it
Just read about piezo efficiency the other day. 60% is pretty common for polycrystalline. 90+% for single crystal. I'll hunt down the link if you're dieing to read about it yourself.
A funny aside: years ago the company I worked for launched an initiative asking for energy saving ideas. I suggested that every time corporate headquarters comes up with a new initiative, we shut off their HVAC for a week.
Piezos work well when motions are small or in a compact area. They can put out fairly high voltages for the motion involved. Coils handle large motions better. It may just be that piezos are better in this case. Or maybe they got a good deal and had a bunch laying around.
Another reason may be that the motion of a diaphram/coil means you are continuously changing the resonant tube length, creating non-linearities. In other words, you couldn't set up a decent resonance because the dang chamber keeps changing shape on you. Piezos would deform less and create less non-linearity.
This is Slashdot, which means we have to double check whether you are actually married or what you mean by hot. Let's hope you mean online "wife" and not that you set your real wife on fire.
As an anecdote to your comment: I was graduating with an engineering grad degree when I had a job offer from Bloomberg (the company). Even got taken to lunch by the future mayor. Great money, but I decided not to take the job. I didn't go to school for 7 years to crunch numbers in Manhattan (and maybe end up sucking on the barrel of a gun some day to escape). Turned them down without any backup offers.
So you say they can't export, but the price is going up because of demand? If they can't export, then they are disconnected from the demand. Prices won't go up. Maybe you mean imports are more expensive. But for the last several decades third world countries have claimed their food production problems come from having to compete with cheap imports. So now that they don't have to compete, it should be a good thing.
What I find odd is how many Europeans died from the heat vs the US. 35,000 Europeans in 2003 vs 3,442 Americans in 1999-2003 (yes, a 5 year total). Maybe some of the difference in attitude towards global warming can be explained by the difference in mortality rates.
Nice! Someone else who actually knows about Gruet. I like buying the stuff because it's from my home turf and cheap for the level of quality. Plus I get a kick asking the staff at the wine store about it and watching them get excited.
A better way of putting it is that a Qubit has all states simultaneously. For example, both zero and one. You can talk about the probability that it will collapse to zero or one, but you can't average the probability to say that it is between 0 and 1 since there aren't any states between 0 and 1.
Actually we do have a communist party. I know someone who joined because they get free trips out of it. They got to go to Venezuela recently (it's a small party and someone has to go to rallies). So I guess even members of our communist party are happy to live a bourgeois lifestyle.
If the registrar or higher in the DNS food chain has something in the terms of service that mentions the data will be public, does agreeing to the TOS constitute permission? Possibly written permission?
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Yes and no. If you accept the terms, weird or not, you are bound. If you didn't like "or later," you had the option to decline the terms at that time. Enforcement is another matter. The courts are not likely to enforce outrageous terms, if you can convince them of that fact.
Unfortunately MS can't claim GPL3 terms are outrageous very easily. "Or later" had been used with lots of software AND a draft of later terms was being circulated. Maybe they could say that the draft did not contain the exact wording that traps them. But if anyone suggested anything along those lines (and I'd be comfortable betting someone publicly proposed very broad patent language) they'd be back to saying "We knew what we were signing, but we changed our minds."
Personally, I think people have neglected the point that it says "or." That could be where a legal decision is decided. Does it mean the later version is in effect, or that one is bound by one's choice of versions? Call it the Bill Clinton defense. Who knows, maybe that's what MS means by "not bound by GPL3." They've chosen anything but...
I'm betting that a little digging will show that the original 10+ years quote came from some dog posting anonymously (and shamelessly re-quoted by humans). We just need to divide by 7. Still, I wouldn't be shocked if someone cracked the DRM in 10 dog hours.
Let's be clear: You want people to know about your nuclear capability. It's not much of a deterrence if no one knows you have it. In fact, people thinking you have a capability is almost as good as having one*.
* Example: Saddam's ambiguity eventually bit him on the rear (or neck), but he was quite willing to let his neighbors assume he could produce all sorts of nasty things.
Apparently in the days of Echelon, there was an actual case where some mom said something along the lines of "Little Tommy bombed at the school play." The automated system flagged her as requiring a case file, and she was investigated and her future calls monitored. In this case, she was innocent, Tommy was innocent (except for bad acting), but the government decided it was worth expending resources to spy on her. Doesn't give me much confidence no matter how you look at it.
Just image what they'd do if you told someone you were going to nuke a tv dinner, pound it down, and crash for the night.
I think the real question on everyone's minds is: Will he be allowed to continue software development while behind bars?
Iron is the at the bottom of the fusion/fission energy curves. Or in other words, producing iron (by fusion or fission) is exothermic, but converting iron to anything else is endothermic.
Thus the universe is fated to turn into a vast pile of iron (ignoring black holes, photons, proton decay, etc etc).
I've found that most people don't know units at all. Sure, 12 inches in a foot, 10 mm in a cm, stuff like that. But ask people to hold their fingers 1 cm or 1/4 inch apart. For non-integer or fraction sizes, it's worse (3.3 cm for example). Even with technical people, it's hit or miss. If someone comes close, it's because they try to match something known.
... as long as you were consistent. Most people, though not all, can still figure out number A is bigger than number B.
For comparing relative sizes, you could probably get away with a mix of cubits, angstroms, and width of a human hair
The complete list of objectives being:
1) Make money
2) Self Promote
3) Make more money
4) Self fulfillment through the art of film
5) Self fulfillment through spending money
.
.
.
n) get the audience to think about the topic and discuss it
Too bad the dude didn't paint the rocks blue and print "System error" on them. Give Gates some competition....
Everyone just considered PC's a passing fad. Like electrical pet rocks. With a billion of them, pc's might just be here to stay.
Just read about piezo efficiency the other day. 60% is pretty common for polycrystalline. 90+% for single crystal. I'll hunt down the link if you're dieing to read about it yourself.
A funny aside: years ago the company I worked for launched an initiative asking for energy saving ideas. I suggested that every time corporate headquarters comes up with a new initiative, we shut off their HVAC for a week.
Sadly, it wasn't implemented.
Piezos work well when motions are small or in a compact area. They can put out fairly high voltages for the motion involved. Coils handle large motions better. It may just be that piezos are better in this case. Or maybe they got a good deal and had a bunch laying around.
Another reason may be that the motion of a diaphram/coil means you are continuously changing the resonant tube length, creating non-linearities. In other words, you couldn't set up a decent resonance because the dang chamber keeps changing shape on you. Piezos would deform less and create less non-linearity.
This is Slashdot, which means we have to double check whether you are actually married or what you mean by hot. Let's hope you mean online "wife" and not that you set your real wife on fire.
So how long before someone finds a Martian sunbathing?
As an anecdote to your comment: I was graduating with an engineering grad degree when I had a job offer from Bloomberg (the company). Even got taken to lunch by the future mayor. Great money, but I decided not to take the job. I didn't go to school for 7 years to crunch numbers in Manhattan (and maybe end up sucking on the barrel of a gun some day to escape). Turned them down without any backup offers.
Ah, but the money sure would have been good!
So you say they can't export, but the price is going up because of demand? If they can't export, then they are disconnected from the demand. Prices won't go up. Maybe you mean imports are more expensive. But for the last several decades third world countries have claimed their food production problems come from having to compete with cheap imports. So now that they don't have to compete, it should be a good thing.
If by "we" you mean the studios, I think you're right. Otherwise I think the likes of Pirate Bay are the winners of this format war.
(for the record, I don't download movies, but I love PB's moxie)
You are mistaken. A study by the Jbeaupre Group shows you can't create a biased study.
What I find odd is how many Europeans died from the heat vs the US. 35,000 Europeans in 2003 vs 3,442 Americans in 1999-2003 (yes, a 5 year total). Maybe some of the difference in attitude towards global warming can be explained by the difference in mortality rates.
Nice! Someone else who actually knows about Gruet. I like buying the stuff because it's from my home turf and cheap for the level of quality. Plus I get a kick asking the staff at the wine store about it and watching them get excited.
A better way of putting it is that a Qubit has all states simultaneously. For example, both zero and one. You can talk about the probability that it will collapse to zero or one, but you can't average the probability to say that it is between 0 and 1 since there aren't any states between 0 and 1.
Actually we do have a communist party. I know someone who joined because they get free trips out of it. They got to go to Venezuela recently (it's a small party and someone has to go to rallies). So I guess even members of our communist party are happy to live a bourgeois lifestyle.
If the registrar or higher in the DNS food chain has something in the terms of service that mentions the data will be public, does agreeing to the TOS constitute permission? Possibly written permission?
You could easily defeat the system by wearing a burqa or other type of veil. Then you'll never be mistaken for a terrorist. Right?