Assuming the FCC is similar to the ACMA in Australia, it regulates things like radio spectrum use. Preventing an entire industry's contingent of RF engineers from being involved in the preparation of such regulations would not be such a clever move.
There's also the issue of moving memory around, though I'm not sure exactly how this works with multicore processors (I'm pretty sure that you can't have more than one core working on some part of the cache).
Try buying a second-hand game. Half-life might have predated Steam at first, but if it's been previously registered with Steam, you can't update, and multiplayer goes out the window.
Not to mention this wonderful quote from their support forums:
Your account got banned because VAC detected a cheat being used with your account. Period. It didn't make a mistake.
We will not un-ban your account regardless of the reason.
Certainly a graceful way to respond to people who have had up to hundreds of dollars worth of software destroyed. It's not happened to me, but those words have stuck with me, and are, in my opinion, indicative of the spirit in which such software behaves.
My understanding is that binary is used because it makes the circuitry simpler and minimises noise (switching to base-3 cuts the difference between signal voltage/current/whatever in half).
While we could make circuits that use arbitrary bases now, there is little point because the circuitry would be a pain in the arse to design, more expensive to build, and be less reliable.
You can copy from an iPod to a computer with iTunes now. I expect it's merely so that the name is of a fixed length, allowing everything to be allocated statically.
And after they've finished, they still can't fix a computer. You wouldn't give someone asking to learn to fix cars a book on statistical mechanics; a book on electronics wouldn't teach them what they need to know.
Shared media work like that; I'm sure that you could muck up a tapped 10Mb ethernet network by making the proper changes to an NIC's firmware.
Not to defend the parent, as I'm not an RF engineer, and cannot comment, but "don't trust the client" doesn't help all that much when a handset clogs the band with almost-nonsense traffic at power levels above mandated limits.
There's a difference between legally barring someone from seeking legal assistance and having them voluntarily act more reasonably than responding to everything with lawsuits.
Britain had also promised that the whole area was to become a unified Arab state in return for support against the Ottoman empire. They made similar promises to the Zionist movement. Needless to say, most involved would not have been particularly happy when Palestine became a British mandate.
Or you could just have a soft-quota, reducing to a slow (128/64k) speed after hitting it. That's how it works down my way (Internode, in Australia), though you can pay to get some extra quota if you so desire.
As well as what the other guy said, it could be that they wanted a minimum value of 10m +/- 1m---it's not unusual for uncertainties to be quoted that way, after all.
Maybe, but the vast majority of people, from my experience, buy their games. Maybe it's a bit different here, in Australia, where we actually pay different amounts for our internet connections depending on the quota, but I'd be surprised if they were having trouble selling anything. Most people like to have a real copy of their games, and those that don't probably can't be bothered downloading them anyway.
Presumably if the effect occurs at the parts-per-billion order of magnitude, we wouldn't be using enough to put that much into the water supply to begin with.
There are plans to produce hydrogen directly from the thermal output of a nuclear reactor using the sulphur-iodine process, so if you want no carbon emissions, it will be possible. It's possible now, just more expensive than using natural gas.
If it's compromised, you can just turn it off. The OpenID system is decentralised, and each site sends a request off to the user's server asking it to authenticate by whatever means it considers necessary. The site *never* has access to your password, and you never have to give it to any site. You could make it send off some sort of request to your desktop and pop up a password box on an OpenGL cube if you really wanted to be sure that it wasn't a cleverly-disguised phishing attempt.
Do they? I notice that most businesses are clearly marked with their name, logo, and, if they are not well-known, the goods/services that they offer, often with the hope of enticing people to enter and (perhaps) make a purchase. How is that any different than click-throughs?
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Assuming the FCC is similar to the ACMA in Australia, it regulates things like radio spectrum use. Preventing an entire industry's contingent of RF engineers from being involved in the preparation of such regulations would not be such a clever move.
There's also the issue of moving memory around, though I'm not sure exactly how this works with multicore processors (I'm pretty sure that you can't have more than one core working on some part of the cache).
Try buying a second-hand game. Half-life might have predated Steam at first, but if it's been previously registered with Steam, you can't update, and multiplayer goes out the window.
Not to mention this wonderful quote from their support forums:
Certainly a graceful way to respond to people who have had up to hundreds of dollars worth of software destroyed. It's not happened to me, but those words have stuck with me, and are, in my opinion, indicative of the spirit in which such software behaves.
My understanding is that binary is used because it makes the circuitry simpler and minimises noise (switching to base-3 cuts the difference between signal voltage/current/whatever in half).
While we could make circuits that use arbitrary bases now, there is little point because the circuitry would be a pain in the arse to design, more expensive to build, and be less reliable.
You can copy from an iPod to a computer with iTunes now. I expect it's merely so that the name is of a fixed length, allowing everything to be allocated statically.
And after they've finished, they still can't fix a computer. You wouldn't give someone asking to learn to fix cars a book on statistical mechanics; a book on electronics wouldn't teach them what they need to know.
Shared media work like that; I'm sure that you could muck up a tapped 10Mb ethernet network by making the proper changes to an NIC's firmware.
Not to defend the parent, as I'm not an RF engineer, and cannot comment, but "don't trust the client" doesn't help all that much when a handset clogs the band with almost-nonsense traffic at power levels above mandated limits.
There's a difference between legally barring someone from seeking legal assistance and having them voluntarily act more reasonably than responding to everything with lawsuits.
That was just a change of definition---it was most definitely correct at the time.
Britain had also promised that the whole area was to become a unified Arab state in return for support against the Ottoman empire. They made similar promises to the Zionist movement. Needless to say, most involved would not have been particularly happy when Palestine became a British mandate.
Ermm....what would they be doing in a computer science building?
I think everyone freaks out when they see COBOL, working or not.
I heard yesterday (on the radio, so no link) that in Australia, both Vodafone and Optus are to carry it.
Or you could just have a soft-quota, reducing to a slow (128/64k) speed after hitting it. That's how it works down my way (Internode, in Australia), though you can pay to get some extra quota if you so desire.
Is it really unusual for a third of accidents to happen at night? Sounds about the proportion of the day that's spent in darkness.
As well as what the other guy said, it could be that they wanted a minimum value of 10m +/- 1m---it's not unusual for uncertainties to be quoted that way, after all.
Maybe, but the vast majority of people, from my experience, buy their games. Maybe it's a bit different here, in Australia, where we actually pay different amounts for our internet connections depending on the quota, but I'd be surprised if they were having trouble selling anything. Most people like to have a real copy of their games, and those that don't probably can't be bothered downloading them anyway.
Presumably if the effect occurs at the parts-per-billion order of magnitude, we wouldn't be using enough to put that much into the water supply to begin with.
From the preface:
Light, I believe, isn't considered to be RF---it may be electromagnetic, but its frequency is too high to be considered "Radio Frequency".
Removing all penalty from violating wouldn't be ex post facto, though.
Next you'll be objecting to putting strychnine in the pina coladas...
There are plans to produce hydrogen directly from the thermal output of a nuclear reactor using the sulphur-iodine process, so if you want no carbon emissions, it will be possible. It's possible now, just more expensive than using natural gas.
If it's compromised, you can just turn it off. The OpenID system is decentralised, and each site sends a request off to the user's server asking it to authenticate by whatever means it considers necessary. The site *never* has access to your password, and you never have to give it to any site. You could make it send off some sort of request to your desktop and pop up a password box on an OpenGL cube if you really wanted to be sure that it wasn't a cleverly-disguised phishing attempt.
Do they? I notice that most businesses are clearly marked with their name, logo, and, if they are not well-known, the goods/services that they offer, often with the hope of enticing people to enter and (perhaps) make a purchase. How is that any different than click-throughs?