MicroSoft's (heh) first (or at least very early) product was, indeed, a BASIC interpreter.
IIRC the first PCs shipped with MS BASIC on ROM, which loaded if no boot disk was present. Hence "No ROM BASIC" messages once that mis-feature was removed from later PCs.
That's right. Until now you could only get instant recordings of pre-recorded concerts. Now, with our cutting-edge "live concert" technology you can get instant recordings of live concerts.
I think it's time to get a new retarded monkey to write the headlines. This one's busticated.
I think that they do have a right to exclude unofficial clients from connecting to their server (or network).
I don't think they have a right to prevent anyone from making or distributing a compatible client.
Here's the kicker; I don't think they have a right to prevent people from using a compatible client to connect to instances of the client they provide.
The question is, what is "their network?" Is it anything other than a bunch of people running their P2P software on the public Internet? If so, I think they have no rights at all.
Please note that this is my analysis of the ethics involved, not my analysis of the laws involved.
You took the words right out of my mouth. This story is supposed to have a bunch of comments about "stupid, prudish, litigious, usaians" posted by indignant, self-righteous Europeans.
I expect to step out of my office and find that everyone has a "goatee" (vandyke).
Ft. Benning is the largest permanent military installation anywhere in the world, taking up a full Georgia county.
I was stationed at both Ft. Benning and Ft. Hood. Hood is bigger. Hood actually contains a live-fire aerial bombing range(!).
I think your idea of counties is a little off as well. Benning is a federal reservation. It exists in no state, and, therefore, in no county. If memory serves, more than half of it is in what would otherwise be Alabama. The developed portion is in what would be Georgia. This includes the post office, hence the GA address.
We are coming out of an ice age. I imagine that it will continue getting hotter until such time as it starts becoming colder. I suppose this will be marketed as a global crisis as well.
The vast majority of species we know to have existed were extinct before the first model-T rolled off the line.
I'm glad that we are all taking the opportunity today to relish our prejudices;-)
Perhaps you've never read a newspaper before? This is a common journalistic method of inserting a fact without dedicating a whole sentence to it.
It also states that in over 400 investments they have never done this before. So while the history isn't exactly epic there is enough to show that, to date, they have resorted to this sort of action in fewer than one quarter of one percent (.25%) of cases. This strikes me as fairly significant.
I have very mixed feelings about unions. There have been times in history when unions did tremendous good. There will probably be such times again.
OTOH, unions, like governments, inevitably grow out of control.
Now to the topic at hand.
So don't join the union. If you think you can make it on your own, go ahead.
I replied to mention that your advice only applies in states with "right to work" laws. I encourage you to look the term up.
An auto-worker's union, for example, supports many different people with diverse job functions that may only be indirectly related to building automobiles.
I don't know that much about auto-worker's unions, but I have the impression that, for example, the engineers who design cars aren't typically members. I think that is correct, and I think that it follows your analogy.
You can write a shell script for most tasks that you already know how to do from the command line trivially. Others can be a bit tricky, but tools such as expect usually make it possible.
Scripting a gui is usually only possible with special applications that scrape the screen and allow you to make macros. Some gui apps (notably KDE) have built-in scriptablity, but only to the extent that the developer goes out of his way to add it.
2. Efficiency.
For a good discussion see "The Pragmatic Programmer."
While textual interfaces have an inherently steeper learning curve, they are far more efficient for the experienced user.
This manifests in several ways. For example; all command line functionality is at the "top level" of the interface. One needn't click start before invoking grep, or click a pull-down to get to the case-insensitivity option.
If you tape yourself that could be subpoenaed. The government doesn't force you to videotape yourself in this case.
Anyway, I'm not making a legal argument, but a philosophical one. What I am saying is that if the government is going to compel citizens to put themselves under surveillance, which it shouldn't, they should have to decency to not use the fruits of treating you like a criminal against you in court.
There is a (yes, extremely fine) distinction. If a camera catches you doing something, that's evidence. If you record yourself doing something, that's evidence.
But if "safety regulations" require you to record yourself in the course of normal daily activities it strikes me that it is equivalent to self-incrimination to use it against a person.
Maybe you're right. It makes sense in my head, but I am having trouble expressing it.
I know that this happened in Canada, but in the States it could be construed as a 5th amendment issue. Can a persons property be compelled to testify against him?
On the other hand The Law is not something handed down from God.
Ideally, it is a public agreement to restrict ourselves in certain ways for common benefit. In practice it more often degrades into power-hungry groups imposing their will on their fellow man.
Consider respecting your fellow man instead of respecting the law.
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I just skimmed the article and it is abundantly clear from the text (in addition to the photo) that she is not a lesbian.
-Peter
Is this really your first exposure to Socailism?
-Peter
MicroSoft's (heh) first (or at least very early) product was, indeed, a BASIC interpreter.
IIRC the first PCs shipped with MS BASIC on ROM, which loaded if no boot disk was present. Hence "No ROM BASIC" messages once that mis-feature was removed from later PCs.
-Peter
It is notoriously easy to create off-by-one bugs in BASIC :-(
-Peter
Try here.
/. trolls branching out like that. :-/
Lovely to see the
-Peter
That's right. Until now you could only get instant recordings of pre-recorded concerts. Now, with our cutting-edge "live concert" technology you can get instant recordings of live concerts.
I think it's time to get a new retarded monkey to write the headlines. This one's busticated.
-Peter
You'd think that "Being an avid writer" this dude would know better than to double the recommened maximum of 66 characters per line.
Christ that page is hard on the eyes.
-Peter
I think that they do have a right to exclude unofficial clients from connecting to their server (or network).
I don't think they have a right to prevent anyone from making or distributing a compatible client.
Here's the kicker; I don't think they have a right to prevent people from using a compatible client to connect to instances of the client they provide.
The question is, what is "their network?" Is it anything other than a bunch of people running their P2P software on the public Internet? If so, I think they have no rights at all.
Please note that this is my analysis of the ethics involved, not my analysis of the laws involved.
-Peter
You took the words right out of my mouth. This story is supposed to have a bunch of comments about "stupid, prudish, litigious, usaians" posted by indignant, self-righteous Europeans.
I expect to step out of my office and find that everyone has a "goatee" (vandyke).
-Peter
I was stationed at both Ft. Benning and Ft. Hood. Hood is bigger. Hood actually contains a live-fire aerial bombing range(!).
I think your idea of counties is a little off as well. Benning is a federal reservation. It exists in no state, and, therefore, in no county. If memory serves, more than half of it is in what would otherwise be Alabama. The developed portion is in what would be Georgia. This includes the post office, hence the GA address.
All the Way,
Peter
Hey, those instructions are from the school that Eminem's nemisis in "8 Mile," Papa Doc, attended.
I didn't even know that place was real.
-Peter
We are coming out of an ice age. I imagine that it will continue getting hotter until such time as it starts becoming colder. I suppose this will be marketed as a global crisis as well.
;-)
The vast majority of species we know to have existed were extinct before the first model-T rolled off the line.
I'm glad that we are all taking the opportunity today to relish our prejudices
-Peter
Perhaps you've never read a newspaper before? This is a common journalistic method of inserting a fact without dedicating a whole sentence to it.
It also states that in over 400 investments they have never done this before. So while the history isn't exactly epic there is enough to show that, to date, they have resorted to this sort of action in fewer than one quarter of one percent (.25%) of cases. This strikes me as fairly significant.
-Peter
I have very mixed feelings about unions. There have been times in history when unions did tremendous good. There will probably be such times again.
OTOH, unions, like governments, inevitably grow out of control.
Now to the topic at hand.
I replied to mention that your advice only applies in states with "right to work" laws. I encourage you to look the term up.
I don't know that much about auto-worker's unions, but I have the impression that, for example, the engineers who design cars aren't typically members. I think that is correct, and I think that it follows your analogy.
-Peter
1. Scriptablity.
You can write a shell script for most tasks that you already know how to do from the command line trivially. Others can be a bit tricky, but tools such as expect usually make it possible.
Scripting a gui is usually only possible with special applications that scrape the screen and allow you to make macros. Some gui apps (notably KDE) have built-in scriptablity, but only to the extent that the developer goes out of his way to add it.
2. Efficiency.
For a good discussion see "The Pragmatic Programmer."
While textual interfaces have an inherently steeper learning curve, they are far more efficient for the experienced user.
This manifests in several ways. For example; all command line functionality is at the "top level" of the interface. One needn't click start before invoking grep, or click a pull-down to get to the case-insensitivity option.
-Peter
You must be an Ivy Leaguer. Bunch of prudes.
-Peter
See this comment.
If you tape yourself that could be subpoenaed. The government doesn't force you to videotape yourself in this case.
Anyway, I'm not making a legal argument, but a philosophical one. What I am saying is that if the government is going to compel citizens to put themselves under surveillance, which it shouldn't, they should have to decency to not use the fruits of treating you like a criminal against you in court.
-Peter
Because the government forces you to put yourself under surveillance in this case.
-Peter
The box may be purely evidence, though I am unconvinced.
In any case, search warrants overcome 4th amendment protections. There is no warrant that can compel a person to testify against himself.
You might take a look at The Bill of Rights.
-Peter
There is a (yes, extremely fine) distinction. If a camera catches you doing something, that's evidence. If you record yourself doing something, that's evidence.
But if "safety regulations" require you to record yourself in the course of normal daily activities it strikes me that it is equivalent to self-incrimination to use it against a person.
Maybe you're right. It makes sense in my head, but I am having trouble expressing it.
-Peter
I'm not sure this is a privacy issue either.
I know that this happened in Canada, but in the States it could be construed as a 5th amendment issue. Can a persons property be compelled to testify against him?
-Peter
You need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
The first line of my post was, " I agree that camming is pretty hard to defend."
Not that I really expect more from AC.
-Peter
I agree that camming is pretty hard to defend.
On the other hand The Law is not something handed down from God.
Ideally, it is a public agreement to restrict ourselves in certain ways for common benefit. In practice it more often degrades into power-hungry groups imposing their will on their fellow man.
Consider respecting your fellow man instead of respecting the law.
-Peter
The N.W.A. song, or the G&R album?
-Peter
That RFID gets the kind of traction that bluetooth has. It certainly has a similar pre-rollout hype.
Still can't get a f*%#ing bluetooth phone from verizon.
-Peter