>If I wish to discuss fashion designs the only real effective dialog to do so would be in pictures of the fashion designs
Picture =! Photo
You could make a pencil drawing of the subject and that is free, as in artistic impression.
That court photo ban isn't considered a violation of the 1st amendment
That's not a great analogy. In courts the ban is on taking the photos. This case is about publishing them. If the company had wanted to stop photos being taken at its fashion show, then I would have no problem with that, but they are allowing photos and want to stop anyone publishing then without a license.
That's unfeasible. If a certain model of Blu-Ray player sells 200,000 units, and a single person cracks the player, the manufacturer can't just disable all 200,000 units. If I buy a $200 Blu-Ray player, and it just stops working one day for no apparent reason, the manufacturer will have a lot of explaining to do. It just wouldn't fly.
That's because it isn't per player model, it's per each individual player.
And there should be a third read only chip containing the original bios, which could somehow be loaded in the case of an emergency/mistake. BIOS chips can't really be that expensive, so putting extra security measures in place to not get your system hosed are important.
Gigabyte have had this for a few years now. They call it Dual Bios.
If they could be magically moved to the inner solar system, they would no doubt form huge oceans of water.
I read an article in last months National Geographic (I can't immediately find it online) which gave a theory about how gas giants could be formed in the outer reaches of a solar system and then pulled in closer to the star by the action of friction from the remainder of the accretion disk.
This is, I believe, how the "hot, close Jupiters" refered to by the GGP are formed.
Given a set speed limit for a particular road (realistic or not) a system where all cars drive at or under the speed limit will always be safer than a system where some drive over it.
Ummm... not necessarily. A road (e.g. outside a school) where everyone always drives at 30mph may have more accidents than if people sometimes drive at 40 and sometimes drive at 20. Granted there may be fewer accidents still if people never drove above 30 and still sometimes drove at 20, but there is a degree of compromise in any speed limit between the safety of road users and the time spent driving (otherwise we'd all be going at 5mph:-) but there tends to be an incination for drivers to reach the limit as quickly as possible and maintain it beacuse it's allowed regardless of whether it's safe or not.
Basically people feel safer so they drive faster/aren't as careful.
I always thought that an interesting experiment would be to remove the driver's seatbelt and fix a large spike to the steering wheel. I suspect the number of accidents would go down;-)
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Whilst I agree that some breaking of the speed limit is obviously dangerous (e.g. going >60mph in a 30 zone) I disagree that a strict adherence to the speed limit is necessarily good or safe.
For instance, going 40 (in a 30 limit) on a clear straight road, on a bright Sunday afternoon is probably going to be safer than doing 30 on a rainy Monday morning, down a winding road in front of a school, despite the fact that the speed limit is nominally the same.
I would be wary of any system which was incabable of taking these varying factors into account (not, in theory, difficult - weather sensors, tyre grip sensors, visibilty distance monitors, pedestrian detectors etc).
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The GP was, at least to me, implying that without money no-one would do anything. I was just (in a roundabout, sarcastic manner:-) giving a counter-example that people do, in certain circumstances, do just that. (Eric Raymond gives a plausible explanation of why, in "Homesteading the Noosphere", his followup to "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", but I'm not enough of a sociologist to say whether he's right or not.)
Regardless of that, I don't think we disagree:-)
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Ummm...
If software was free, there would be no reason for ANYONE to give back to society, to work and produce software, and then there would be no software to give for free.
That explains the whole Open Source/Free software idea then...
Oh, I completely agree that the story-line, and a lot of the ideas in Halo were very original. Also some of the game play ideas were new and different (e.g. being able to work with other marines, carry them in the warthog etc., driving & flying, limited weapons) But it was let down by a complete lack of imagination in other areas:
Why were there only 3 Covenant body shapes? Surely there's a better way to differentiate between aliens with different abilities/characters than just colouring them differently. (I realise that that could be all that differentiates humans from an alien perspective. Maybe the Covenant had racism issues with the purple ones persecuting the red ones:-)
The level design was woefully unimaginitive. I forget the level names (it's been a year since I played it) but it wasn't just the library. There was a sequence of octagonal rooms, all pretty much identical where you churn through the Covenant, and then you're forced to come all the way back again through all these identical rooms, churning through the Flood. Yawn.
Now I've got to admit that I'm a single player only (I've just never got into multiplayer, don't know why) so I realise that a huge number of people gain a lot of fun from playing the game with others, but for me it was lacking when it could have been so much better.
halo's not about running through dark corridor after dark corridor killing the same guys over and over again
I have to say that pretty much describes the level where you're climing up a tower, following a little floaty robot with an irritating attitude.
Wander along a corridor; shoot a bunch of mutants; wander a bit more; shoot some more; go up a level; wander down exactly the same corridor; shoot some more etc. etc.
humans were never designed to eat Atkins crap and live
Gotta love those ACs who talk out of their arses.
You have no idea what humans were designed to eat. Try thinking for a second about what humans ate in the 2 million years prior to the invention of agriculture 20,000 years ago. Guess what, it wasn't a Big Mac with fries and a coke.
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Wimbeldon, IIRC, has a limit of 3 appeals. Just as an example.
Three unsuccessful appeals. The players can successfully appeal as many times as they want.
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Suppose you start a business. Suppose it becomes a successful business, and you become rich. Suppose now you die.
Suppose the state grants you a monopoly over your product on the basis that it gives you an incentive to produce more product.
What is the point of giving your heirs the same monopoly when they cannot generate the same product?
(FWIW I don't have a problem with a short extension after death, as "providing for one's heirs" may be part of the incentive to produce more product)
Dave
That'd be MRSA then...
Dave
Picture =! Photo
You could make a pencil drawing of the subject and that is free, as in artistic impression.
That court photo ban isn't considered a violation of the 1st amendment
That's not a great analogy. In courts the ban is on taking the photos. This case is about publishing them. If the company had wanted to stop photos being taken at its fashion show, then I would have no problem with that, but they are allowing photos and want to stop anyone publishing then without a license.
Dave
That's because it isn't per player model, it's per each individual player.
The wikipedia page for AACS explains it.
Dave
Gigabyte have had this for a few years now. They call it Dual Bios.
Dave
Ummm... they're the same person. From Wikipedia:
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<yawn, stretch>
Dave
I for one welcome our tiny nanolords.
and then I hit myself for it, sorry.
Dave
"Anal fisting" sounds a bit too much like invading somenone anyway <wince>
Dave
I read an article in last months National Geographic (I can't immediately find it online) which gave a theory about how gas giants could be formed in the outer reaches of a solar system and then pulled in closer to the star by the action of friction from the remainder of the accretion disk.
This is, I believe, how the "hot, close Jupiters" refered to by the GGP are formed.
Dave
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/112/ntl-broadb and-speed-changes-update-2
The change is official. But then I didn't get a letter :-(
Dave
Ummm... not necessarily. A road (e.g. outside a school) where everyone always drives at 30mph may have more accidents than if people sometimes drive at 40 and sometimes drive at 20. Granted there may be fewer accidents still if people never drove above 30 and still sometimes drove at 20, but there is a degree of compromise in any speed limit between the safety of road users and the time spent driving (otherwise we'd all be going at 5mph :-) but there tends to be an incination for drivers to reach the limit as quickly as possible and maintain it beacuse it's allowed regardless of whether it's safe or not.
Dave
I always thought that an interesting experiment would be to remove the driver's seatbelt and fix a large spike to the steering wheel. I suspect the number of accidents would go down ;-)
Dave
major cause[s] of death and destruction on the road
Whilst I agree that some breaking of the speed limit is obviously dangerous (e.g. going >60mph in a 30 zone) I disagree that a strict adherence to the speed limit is necessarily good or safe.
For instance, going 40 (in a 30 limit) on a clear straight road, on a bright Sunday afternoon is probably going to be safer than doing 30 on a rainy Monday morning, down a winding road in front of a school, despite the fact that the speed limit is nominally the same.
I would be wary of any system which was incabable of taking these varying factors into account (not, in theory, difficult - weather sensors, tyre grip sensors, visibilty distance monitors, pedestrian detectors etc).
Dave
Regardless of that, I don't think we disagree :-)
Dave
If software was free, there would be no reason for ANYONE to give back to society, to work and produce software, and then there would be no software to give for free.
That explains the whole Open Source/Free software idea then...
Dave
Why were there only 3 Covenant body shapes? Surely there's a better way to differentiate between aliens with different abilities/characters than just colouring them differently. (I realise that that could be all that differentiates humans from an alien perspective. Maybe the Covenant had racism issues with the purple ones persecuting the red ones :-)
The level design was woefully unimaginitive. I forget the level names (it's been a year since I played it) but it wasn't just the library. There was a sequence of octagonal rooms, all pretty much identical where you churn through the Covenant, and then you're forced to come all the way back again through all these identical rooms, churning through the Flood. Yawn.
Now I've got to admit that I'm a single player only (I've just never got into multiplayer, don't know why) so I realise that a huge number of people gain a lot of fun from playing the game with others, but for me it was lacking when it could have been so much better.
Dave
I have to say that pretty much describes the level where you're climing up a tower, following a little floaty robot with an irritating attitude.
Wander along a corridor; shoot a bunch of mutants; wander a bit more; shoot some more; go up a level; wander down exactly the same corridor; shoot some more etc. etc.
(and that wasn't the only example)
Dave
Certainly in his anthology "The River of Time" there was a story called " The Crystal Spheres"
Gotta love those ACs who talk out of their arses.
You have no idea what humans were designed to eat. Try thinking for a second about what humans ate in the 2 million years prior to the invention of agriculture 20,000 years ago. Guess what, it wasn't a Big Mac with fries and a coke.
Ummm... Surely only in Soviet Russia...