Well, certain models of first-gen ICBM had a region 'hard coded' into them by virtue of their silos being tilted towards intended targets. For a modern-ish submarine-launched missle, there is no problem, however.
Hear hear! For an inexperienced home user, Win98 is rather safer than 2K/XP. Its also much easier to grab files off of a FAT32 partition when it dies than to mess with getting the machine booted to a state where you can see the NTFS structure. Average users wind up being given root accounts on 2K and XP anyhow, simply because so much software requires it. 47 days is plenty of uptime for someone who only uses their computer a couple of hours a day tops.
I'm figuring that either a) your signal hits the traditional infrastructure at some point or b) you have a very small circle of contacts. As your signal got to slashdot, I'm going to assume the answer is a.
They were forced to work there by virtue of there being nothing else. They were prevented from leaving by there being no economically feasable way for them to move very far geographically. You've heard of a water-monopoly emipre, yes? The company provided the only source of food, water, and shelter that these people could find. At the wages they were paid, the only option was the company provided system. Even the children of those who lived in these towns were denied the option of bettering themselves; from day 1 the only thing they knew was serfdom under their corporate masters.
I think that the debate on the exact time of the end of life is as vague as the debate of the exact beginning of life. As such, its really a matter of personal beliefs, and unfortunately in both cases the individual involved has no practical means of communication with those outside.
At the turn of the last century, companies in the US employed whole villages. In fact, they built the villages for the people. One problem: there were no worker protections, no OSHA, and barely enough pay to keep the people living in the employer-financed villages. In short, it was slavery, as all of the money paid out in wages went back to the employer in the form of housing and food payments. The reason that we outsource is that while this is no longer allowed in the US, some countries still permit their populations to be enslaved, provided that the proper premiums are paid.
Why do server class boards need multiple graphics card slots? Or are there ultra-high-speed network/compression/encryption cards than can take advantage of the bandwidth?
I find it amusing that liberals are the only ones who say we went to Iraq for oil. We were big customers of Iraq before the war, and we still are. We don't really care all that much about the regime of a country we buy from.
As for WMDs, the millions of Iraqi dead during Husseins reign as 'president' of Iraq don't bother you? Oh right - malevolent dictators can do no wrong!
You mean there's a way for me to make those god-awful IBM 'helper' programs stop working? Hurrah! For the thousandth time, I don't want to disable my CD burner by using your software, nor do I want you to try and fight with Windows over what wireless network my 802.11 card is associated with.
You've hit precisely where the assembly line metaphor for programming breaks down. If I need to make 20 cars, I need to make 20 engines. If I want to make 20 FPSs, I really only need to make 1 engine and include it in all three. There are fairly good parallels between the problems inherent in applying property laws to knowledge and the problems inherent in appyling assembly line techniques to software production: mainly that reproduction of information is free.
No no... an MS 'upgrade' CD always costs just slightly more than what you might expect manufacturing and shipping would be (especially since its really just something that makes the product almost work as advertised)
For most people, a gun is part of a sport the goal of which is to see who can point a length of pipe with the most accuracy at a spot on the wall a distance away. This is rather similar to something like the kaber, which is a sport the goal of which to see who can drop a telephone pole closest to a line on the ground. If you shoot the gun at someone or drop the telephone pole on someone, they are equally dead, but the same is true if you hack someone's throat with a steak knife rather than cutting a side of beef (or, for the vegetarians, cutting someone's throat with a utility knife rather than cutting the tape on a box)
All of this new battle gear seems to be shown as a black suit... sure, I guess that works good sneaking into some terrorist's bedroom in the dark of the desert night, but it seems that the more likely scenario for needing that stuff would be outside, probably with a bit of light around...
THe problem with this logic is that the parties will not change what they do, just what they say they will do. Rhetoric is cheap; you tell the populace on TV that you will do as they wish, right after selling them out to foreign and corporate interests backstage.
Not to mention that the sound of the bomb falling and then exploding shortly after is a pretty dead giveaway... not that those on the ground can do a whole lot about it; perhaps sound-guided missles might be an idea?
That's because your cell phone accepts incoming connections from anybody. If you could configure a set of rules by which the phone would decide if an incoming call was valid, then you'd actually have a firewalled cell phone
And yet some people still went out and bought them? Clueless.
So clueless! What fool does not heed the word of the middle manager supervising an anonymous game programmer? Seriously, 'my boss said it was dead, so it was' has to be the most insane thing I have heard today.
The idea is that if the sum of the 'sales' recorded here are approximately equal to the quoted losses, then the various copyright holders should be looking elsewhere. The thing is, those losses are really evidence of an economic recession (some people have even done the math and found that companies against filesharing were hit proportionaly LESS by the recession than other industries)
Lets carry this further. Suppose that I have a giant television facing a window, and an ear-shattering sound system that can be heard a mile away. If a group of people were to congregate on my lawn, they could see the image and hear the sound, but are they actually spectators? What about someone stuck in traffic outside the house? The line between a public and private performance seems rather fuzzy, and fuzziness is rarely the catalyst for sane legislation... (what next, televisions with IR cameras and computer vision software that demand a DVD be inserted by each person in the room before playing?)
You forget that this is Apple. They think that you should be running Apple software in your Apple assembled computer containing Apple parts on top of an Apple OS. Its like Microsoft, except that they already have the hardware lockin on customers. Other people selling things that have to do with Apple devices? HERESY! If forced to choose, I'd probably have to say that MS is friendlier; at least they never sued the pants off of anyone who wrote a codec for WMP.
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Well, certain models of first-gen ICBM had a region 'hard coded' into them by virtue of their silos being tilted towards intended targets. For a modern-ish submarine-launched missle, there is no problem, however.
More likely that you're feeling the heat off the side of your laptop ... electronic components DO tend to heat up under operation.
Hear hear! For an inexperienced home user, Win98 is rather safer than 2K/XP. Its also much easier to grab files off of a FAT32 partition when it dies than to mess with getting the machine booted to a state where you can see the NTFS structure. Average users wind up being given root accounts on 2K and XP anyhow, simply because so much software requires it. 47 days is plenty of uptime for someone who only uses their computer a couple of hours a day tops.
I'm figuring that either a) your signal hits the traditional infrastructure at some point or b) you have a very small circle of contacts. As your signal got to slashdot, I'm going to assume the answer is a.
They were forced to work there by virtue of there being nothing else. They were prevented from leaving by there being no economically feasable way for them to move very far geographically. You've heard of a water-monopoly emipre, yes? The company provided the only source of food, water, and shelter that these people could find. At the wages they were paid, the only option was the company provided system. Even the children of those who lived in these towns were denied the option of bettering themselves; from day 1 the only thing they knew was serfdom under their corporate masters.
I think that the debate on the exact time of the end of life is as vague as the debate of the exact beginning of life. As such, its really a matter of personal beliefs, and unfortunately in both cases the individual involved has no practical means of communication with those outside.
At the turn of the last century, companies in the US employed whole villages. In fact, they built the villages for the people. One problem: there were no worker protections, no OSHA, and barely enough pay to keep the people living in the employer-financed villages. In short, it was slavery, as all of the money paid out in wages went back to the employer in the form of housing and food payments. The reason that we outsource is that while this is no longer allowed in the US, some countries still permit their populations to be enslaved, provided that the proper premiums are paid.
Why do server class boards need multiple graphics card slots? Or are there ultra-high-speed network/compression/encryption cards than can take advantage of the bandwidth?
Not only Yugos, I'm betting that if they'd been T-boned by a twin of their own car they still would've been pretty messed up.
I find it amusing that liberals are the only ones who say we went to Iraq for oil. We were big customers of Iraq before the war, and we still are. We don't really care all that much about the regime of a country we buy from.
As for WMDs, the millions of Iraqi dead during Husseins reign as 'president' of Iraq don't bother you? Oh right - malevolent dictators can do no wrong!
Or the mental capacity to craft wings. Its what it means to be a tool user.
Oh, if only I had a dollar for every instance of 'diskcopy a: a:' that was running in the lab the first time I saw that video ...
You mean there's a way for me to make those god-awful IBM 'helper' programs stop working? Hurrah! For the thousandth time, I don't want to disable my CD burner by using your software, nor do I want you to try and fight with Windows over what wireless network my 802.11 card is associated with.
You've hit precisely where the assembly line metaphor for programming breaks down. If I need to make 20 cars, I need to make 20 engines. If I want to make 20 FPSs, I really only need to make 1 engine and include it in all three. There are fairly good parallels between the problems inherent in applying property laws to knowledge and the problems inherent in appyling assembly line techniques to software production: mainly that reproduction of information is free.
No no ... an MS 'upgrade' CD always costs just slightly more than what you might expect manufacturing and shipping would be (especially since its really just something that makes the product almost work as advertised)
For most people, a gun is part of a sport the goal of which is to see who can point a length of pipe with the most accuracy at a spot on the wall a distance away. This is rather similar to something like the kaber, which is a sport the goal of which to see who can drop a telephone pole closest to a line on the ground. If you shoot the gun at someone or drop the telephone pole on someone, they are equally dead, but the same is true if you hack someone's throat with a steak knife rather than cutting a side of beef (or, for the vegetarians, cutting someone's throat with a utility knife rather than cutting the tape on a box)
All of this new battle gear seems to be shown as a black suit ... sure, I guess that works good sneaking into some terrorist's bedroom in the dark of the desert night, but it seems that the more likely scenario for needing that stuff would be outside, probably with a bit of light around ...
Less blinding than the current whitescreen effect during a film projector crash, though ...
THe problem with this logic is that the parties will not change what they do, just what they say they will do. Rhetoric is cheap; you tell the populace on TV that you will do as they wish, right after selling them out to foreign and corporate interests backstage.
Not to mention that the sound of the bomb falling and then exploding shortly after is a pretty dead giveaway ... not that those on the ground can do a whole lot about it; perhaps sound-guided missles might be an idea?
That's because your cell phone accepts incoming connections from anybody. If you could configure a set of rules by which the phone would decide if an incoming call was valid, then you'd actually have a firewalled cell phone
And yet some people still went out and bought them? Clueless.
So clueless! What fool does not heed the word of the middle manager supervising an anonymous game programmer? Seriously, 'my boss said it was dead, so it was' has to be the most insane thing I have heard today.
The idea is that if the sum of the 'sales' recorded here are approximately equal to the quoted losses, then the various copyright holders should be looking elsewhere. The thing is, those losses are really evidence of an economic recession (some people have even done the math and found that companies against filesharing were hit proportionaly LESS by the recession than other industries)
Lets carry this further. Suppose that I have a giant television facing a window, and an ear-shattering sound system that can be heard a mile away. If a group of people were to congregate on my lawn, they could see the image and hear the sound, but are they actually spectators? What about someone stuck in traffic outside the house? The line between a public and private performance seems rather fuzzy, and fuzziness is rarely the catalyst for sane legislation ... (what next, televisions with IR cameras and computer vision software that demand a DVD be inserted by each person in the room before playing?)
You forget that this is Apple. They think that you should be running Apple software in your Apple assembled computer containing Apple parts on top of an Apple OS. Its like Microsoft, except that they already have the hardware lockin on customers. Other people selling things that have to do with Apple devices? HERESY! If forced to choose, I'd probably have to say that MS is friendlier; at least they never sued the pants off of anyone who wrote a codec for WMP.