It's no coincidence that most mass-killings occur in "gun free zones".
Nope. Most mass-killings occur in the United-States of America, also known as the kingdom of gun-ownership (with something around 0.9 gun per capita). There is no place in the US that I consider a gun-free zone, as 9 out of 10 people I meet might own one.
But the point is that driving fast does not necessarily mean driving dangerously. If you're alert, matching traffic, keeping your eye on the road and leaving adequate space between you and other vehicles you can drive quite fast and still be completely safe.
However, you are aware that most people aren't alert, keeping their eyes on the road and leaving adequate space between them and other vehicles, right?
Seriously, why would someone care about suicide being illegal? They're gonna be dead afterwards, so there's really no effective punishment to threaten them with. It's only those who might want to assist someone else committing suicide who you can deter.
Self suicide is another issue, but if you are left crippled enough that you can't do it yourself, that's when legislation on suicide kicks in.
While I have seen HD-rips in Divx or Xvid, most of them, by far, has been done in H264. And two hours of video nicely fits a single 4.7gb DVD-R with acceptable quality.
The big space-saver (and CPU as well) is resizing that 1920x1080 stream down to a more reasonable (and closer to your average laptop resolutions) of 1280x720.
Buy expensive Blu-Ray hardware to enjoy all the pretties of high-definition
Rip Blu-Ray movie to hard drive
Resize the whole movie from its high-def 1920x1080 to a lower def 1280x720
Re-encode the whole thing to compress it further to bring its size down to 4.7Gb (equivalent of a regular DVD-R)
Watch lower-resolution and lower-quality movie on your expensive high-resolution hardware and realize you really got your money's worth
How did this go from Pakistan to a discussion on circumcision?
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Probably the same way this article on Jack Thompson became a discussion on gun control and the American Revolution (not counting the whole "if you could have killed Hitler in 1925" part), on the second comment! That was the fastest going off-topic I've seen. On the whole first page of comments, only the very first comment is remotely related to Thompson.
Take the three and turn it to a 3
capitalize the nouns: Mice and They
That would turn to: 3bMshTr
Then, next month, when you learn that "they" is not a noun (as it is a pronoun), you get locked out of your computer because you can't type the password correctly anymore.
That's like the third time someone's posted an XKCD comic in reply to one of my comments in the last few days. I guess I should be flattered. Either that or I'll forever be in the shadow of that guy and his damned stickmen. His damned, awesome, sexy stickmen._.
I just browsed XKCD for about half an hour looking for a comic that would fit as a reply, but couldn't find anything. I'll just post this random comic link then and hope it fits the discussion. Let me know how it goes.
I wonted to point that out two. It's so dafty cult trying to police every in-edu catered person on the internets throw. While I'd lie cthu pick every one of their dirty malaproprism-ing asses into bolivian, I'm war heed that one of them mite act tooly be burger then me and I'll get my ass picked in-spread. Be carefool, it's a doggy-dog world out there pee-poll.
We dont pay the Queen anything, she is simply a Figurehead
While we don't pay Elizabeth II anything (other than all her expenses when she comes to visit), we do pay a hefty sum of money to have a vice-regal that represents the Queen and is just as useless. So we do pay to have a powerless monarch.
What about the controller for the ColecoVision? Now THAT was a controller!
......... that breaks easily, unfortunately. I got a couple of those going unused because broken. I guess I should open them up and see if I could fix it....
Hmmm... maybe I should...
Ok, you just ruined my weekend, and this is valentine's day... the wife is gonna complain:-(
Hell, I was 12 when I played teh original DN. To my adolescent sensibilities, it was pretty cool.
But now? I can't imagine that kind of shtick competing with modern-day fare. Maybe the 30-to-45-year old "man-child" market would be all over it, but not The Rest of the World.
And this game won't be marketed to "the rest of the world" either. Their target audience is people who played Duke Nukem 3D 12 years ago and have been waiting for the sequel since then.
To the general public, this is yet another first-person shooter, with a rude and macho protagonist. To us, it's good ol' Duke.
"Computer Science" is not a science.
Therefore, applied "Computer Science" cannot be Engineering.
Therefore, "Software Engineering" cannot be Engineering.
However, "Software Engineering" is not "Computer Science", just as "Chemical Engineering" is not "Test-tube Science", and "Electrical Engineering" is not "Copper-wire Science". Software Engineering is a whole lot more.
I was unable to read the article, due to Slashdottery, but from the quote, I think Mr. Wise is failing to understand what "engineer" means.
I don't think you understand either.
You can teach a civil engineer to make a bridge that will stand for 200 years, but there is no educational program in existence that can even begin teach a software engineer to design flawless software. That discipline simply doesn't exist. I can use mathematics to design a concrete structure that is 100% guaranteed to float. I cannot use mathematics to design billing system software that is 100% guaranteed to address all requirements.
Yesthereis (I won't list everything here). The problem is that people think "Software engineering" means "programming". Software engineers don't (have to) program. They can if they want to, but engineering isn't about programming. A civil engineer isn't the same as a carpenter, just as a software engineer isn't the same thing as a programmer.
no, that is a private business and not based in canada- just because a store pays property/sales/operating tax you can't go into it and take whatever you want for free, what this is saying is that non-comercial sharing would be non-punishable
Then what's the point of iTunes after this tax? Instead of paying $1 for each song I want, I only need to wait till someone else pays $1 for the song and then shares it. I'll download it for free.
If it passes I wish that I had enough money to hire a lawyer and take this law to the Supreme Court as I do believe that somewhere in some old document called the Constitution it say something about not passing laws ex post facto. It's not like it'd be hard to win either, it's pretty clear about that in the Constitution, unless everything is truly corrupted and there's just no hope left.
I'm no specialist in US Constitution, but I'd be curious to see where that is said. I always thought that the constitution prevented you to be accused of a crime that was commited before it was legally a crime, but I never thought it applied to the opposite, as in, if it was a crime then and you weren't tried yet, and it's not a crime anymore, you might be off the hook. Basically, a new law can't make you "more guilty" for what you've done, but it could make you "less guilty".
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Nope. Most mass-killings occur in the United-States of America, also known as the kingdom of gun-ownership (with something around 0.9 gun per capita). There is no place in the US that I consider a gun-free zone, as 9 out of 10 people I meet might own one.
What's that again? I thought we were all on /. just to prevent that kind of behavior...
You're talking about different penalties for different levels of non-compliance. 35 in a 30 zone is still non-compliant, just less so than 90.
However, you are aware that most people aren't alert, keeping their eyes on the road and leaving adequate space between them and other vehicles, right?
Heck, I work 40 hours a day!
What if you want to read the data on a computer that doesn't have TrueCrypt installed?
Self suicide is another issue, but if you are left crippled enough that you can't do it yourself, that's when legislation on suicide kicks in.
In many places, both suicide and assisted suicide are illegal.
I call that version 1.0, and preload isn't there yet.
Wake me up when it reaches 1.0, it's just a pre-beta release for now.
Probably the same way this article on Jack Thompson became a discussion on gun control and the American Revolution (not counting the whole "if you could have killed Hitler in 1925" part), on the second comment! That was the fastest going off-topic I've seen. On the whole first page of comments, only the very first comment is remotely related to Thompson.
Then, next month, when you learn that "they" is not a noun (as it is a pronoun), you get locked out of your computer because you can't type the password correctly anymore.
Nothing. We use hydroelectricity instead.
I just browsed XKCD for about half an hour looking for a comic that would fit as a reply, but couldn't find anything. I'll just post this random comic link then and hope it fits the discussion. Let me know how it goes.
Duty Calls
Ah damn, you caught me. I committed a crime against spelling.
Pffff... that's bullshit, and to prove you wrong, here are ten sentences :
See, nothing wrong in there... ... ... ... oh crap...
While we don't pay Elizabeth II anything (other than all her expenses when she comes to visit), we do pay a hefty sum of money to have a vice-regal that represents the Queen and is just as useless. So we do pay to have a powerless monarch.
Hmmm... maybe I should...
Ok, you just ruined my weekend, and this is valentine's day... the wife is gonna complain :-(
And this game won't be marketed to "the rest of the world" either. Their target audience is people who played Duke Nukem 3D 12 years ago and have been waiting for the sequel since then.
To the general public, this is yet another first-person shooter, with a rude and macho protagonist. To us, it's good ol' Duke.
However, "Software Engineering" is not "Computer Science", just as "Chemical Engineering" is not "Test-tube Science", and "Electrical Engineering" is not "Copper-wire Science". Software Engineering is a whole lot more.
I don't think you understand either.
Yes there is (I won't list everything here). The problem is that people think "Software engineering" means "programming". Software engineers don't (have to) program. They can if they want to, but engineering isn't about programming. A civil engineer isn't the same as a carpenter, just as a software engineer isn't the same thing as a programmer.
Then what's the point of iTunes after this tax? Instead of paying $1 for each song I want, I only need to wait till someone else pays $1 for the song and then shares it. I'll download it for free.
I'm no specialist in US Constitution, but I'd be curious to see where that is said. I always thought that the constitution prevented you to be accused of a crime that was commited before it was legally a crime, but I never thought it applied to the opposite, as in, if it was a crime then and you weren't tried yet, and it's not a crime anymore, you might be off the hook. Basically, a new law can't make you "more guilty" for what you've done, but it could make you "less guilty".