IIRC someone in the UK came up with the mathmatic formula for parallel parking a car perfectly.
i'm pretty sure that everything in math is repeatable.
link here
well, that would be perfectly fine, as long as you made the source code for the OS available to the public. last time i checked, linux was not copyrighted.
a good method for finding programs that don't belong is looking for names that aren't the usual 8.3 name (name.extention). all windows system stuff is 8.3 , as are most programs i have running at anytime. some names are shorter, but anything longer usually sets off the alarms, unless i know exactly what it is.
well, when i was moving my computer down to the basement, i dropped the subwoofer for my speaker system, bounced down the stairs. it still lived, until about 2 months back when the speakers started to static. got it replaced on warrenty.
right after the new speakers arrived my moniter started acting strange. it kept fading in and out of focus, smacking it in the top-center of the front brought i back into focus for bout 10 min before it went blurry again. eventually it developed a blue color cast. it still works, but it goes blurry and has that color cast still. no warrenty for this one though.
i personally don't even buy any software anymore, besides games. i have a (legal, it came with the burner)copy of nero 5, a copy of MSoffice (got it free at the local computer shop. they didn't need it as they had updated to office 2003), and most of the other software i use regularly is free. i make good use of GIMP. my music player is Winamp. i have numerious pieces of software that are trial versions (non time limited) like getright and such as they are free and do what i need them to do.
frankly the BSA's "29 billion dollar loss" is BS. if i go to the library and take out a set of books worth $100 and read them, and return them to the library, then by the BSA's reasoning, the publishers just lost $100. i know this was mentioned before, but it bears repeating.
this kind of issue started a day-long debate in my economics class last year. my reasoning won
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going by this, from what i have read so far. under this law, your brain would be illegal. think about it.
you read/watch/listen to a copyrighted book/movie/song and you then copy that illeagally(under this law) to your memory. and thus under that you can share that memory with others though talking and whatnot.
i know this is likely pushing it, but this points out that the law is WAY to broad.
damn am i glad i live in Cananda. at least until the US stupidity infects out goverment.
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TMK, no one has actually taken those to court. all the suits have been settled out-of-court.
thats what is screwed up with the us lawsuit system. you can ruin someone with a lawsuit, even if your suit has no grounds. they get crushed by the legal fees.
1024x768 will replace 800x600 when win9x based OSs vanish. IMO things never looked decent at above that res on my old box. everything was too small, even with large fonts and such. but it is just right on winxp. dunno why.
i agree with this in theory, as EVERYONE should have AV software. but if it is being made by MS, i might be kinda worried.
IME, i haven't had any problems with the major (read: MSBLAST, Sasser, etc.) virii as the patches are for the most part out long before the virii are. i was infected with both but they couldn't do a GD thing as i had the patches, then my AV (norton(shadup)) quickly removed them.
i would like if MS licenced the software from someone else (norton) and included it with the OS but seperate from the os (core of it, but it would still install with windows).
i don't really mind SPAM most of the time, with a few exceptions.
1. why in the **** is my sister getting SPAMs for penis enlargement?
2. no, i don't want to look at jenna's web cam.
and those are about the only ones that annoy me. and those are pretty rare. most of the junk i get is old email newsletters that won't unsubscribe. (walmart sale alert, etc.)
all the stuff is put straight into the spam folder. i check though it daily for anything i want and hit "empty spam". takes me nomore then 2 min. it takes longer for the page to load than it takes me to read the subject lines and delete the junk
well, in my house, i have everything one would need to make a fairly good bomb; batteries, suitcase, rat poison (anti-coagulitive), various nails and bits of metal, a few household chemicals that make a nice eplosive when mixed, wire, timer, gunpowder(starter charge), and thats about all you need. make a few of those, place them liberaly around an area (say, the olympic games) then set them off remotely. boom, the whole world is freaked.
also more on the topic, the specific things he's setting up could be "a threat to homeland security" as, who knows that he is planning to take pics of? an air force base? some other high-security area?
times like these can make people parinoid. things can be done simply without people noticing, apearing to be ligitimate activies.
If I give away copies of your stuff for free I deprive you of potential sales. Thats reason enough for todays witch hunt on fair use and any other leeway ordinary people used to have...
well, the one flaw in the logic is that i would lay bets that a good quanity of the people on P2P networks wouldn't be getting the music in the first place if it wasn't free (me included, as i am cronicly broke and spend most of my money on nessesities (food, clothes(cheap ones), etc.), thus they are losing $0 as they wouldn't have made those sales anyway.
as the other guy said, if you are on someone elses ship and you are not in the same COC then he is in charge unless he conceeded that you are.
if an Army General is on a Navy ship the commander of the ship is in charge of the general unless the general has orders from higher up on the navy command or above to the point where it is all one command (DOD)
i think the main reason why they don't do this is that security is the problem. there sin't muhc to stop the crack from say, sending in an other video in place of the render. that would make problems having to seperate the wheat from the chaff
the problem isn't that there isn't enough power coming from the sun, it's just we can't (yet) covert it into electricy efficently enough for it to be practical as an all-encompassing solution.
i can name a nubmer of little wrong items in STE (photon torpedos shouldn't exist yet for example) but i generaly don't notice them. i happen to be one of the seemingly few that like enterprise.
TMK, linux was initally based in MINIX following the first post by Linus about Linux being "What would you like to see most in MINIX". i've got the exact text of that first post somewhere around, but also TMK the MINIX code was removed and rewriten by Linus before the first public release.
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IIRC someone in the UK came up with the mathmatic
formula for parallel parking a car perfectly.
i'm pretty sure that everything in math is repeatable.
link here
i would mod you up, but i used up all my mod points yesterday.
seems that Cananda is the only country to have the sense to tell the music industry to shove it...
well, that would be perfectly fine, as long as you made the source code for the OS available to the public. last time i checked, linux was not copyrighted.
yep. they've opened a large can o' worms with this BS. more MS BS/FUD. more along, move along. next story please.
a good method for finding programs that don't belong is looking for names that aren't the usual 8.3 name (name.extention). all windows system stuff is 8.3 , as are most programs i have running at anytime. some names are shorter, but anything longer usually sets off the alarms, unless i know exactly what it is.
well, when i was moving my computer down to the basement, i dropped the subwoofer for my speaker system, bounced down the stairs. it still lived, until about 2 months back when the speakers started to static. got it replaced on warrenty.
right after the new speakers arrived my moniter started acting strange. it kept fading in and out of focus, smacking it in the top-center of the front brought i back into focus for bout 10 min before it went blurry again. eventually it developed a blue color cast. it still works, but it goes blurry and has that color cast still. no warrenty for this one though.
April 5th, 2063. we will meet ETs then.
i personally don't even buy any software anymore, besides games. i have a (legal, it came with the burner)copy of nero 5, a copy of MSoffice (got it free at the local computer shop. they didn't need it as they had updated to office 2003), and most of the other software i use regularly is free. i make good use of GIMP. my music player is Winamp. i have numerious pieces of software that are trial versions (non time limited) like getright and such as they are free and do what i need them to do.
frankly the BSA's "29 billion dollar loss" is BS. if i go to the library and take out a set of books worth $100 and read them, and return them to the library, then by the BSA's reasoning, the publishers just lost $100. i know this was mentioned before, but it bears repeating.
this kind of issue started a day-long debate in my economics class last year. my reasoning won
going by this, from what i have read so far. under this law, your brain would be illegal. think about it. you read/watch/listen to a copyrighted book/movie/song and you then copy that illeagally(under this law) to your memory. and thus under that you can share that memory with others though talking and whatnot. i know this is likely pushing it, but this points out that the law is WAY to broad. damn am i glad i live in Cananda. at least until the US stupidity infects out goverment.
TMK, no one has actually taken those to court. all the suits have been settled out-of-court.
thats what is screwed up with the us lawsuit system. you can ruin someone with a lawsuit, even if your suit has no grounds. they get crushed by the legal fees.
1024x768 will replace 800x600 when win9x based OSs vanish. IMO things never looked decent at above that res on my old box. everything was too small, even with large fonts and such. but it is just right on winxp. dunno why.
i agree with this in theory, as EVERYONE should have AV software. but if it is being made by MS, i might be kinda worried. IME, i haven't had any problems with the major (read: MSBLAST, Sasser, etc.) virii as the patches are for the most part out long before the virii are. i was infected with both but they couldn't do a GD thing as i had the patches, then my AV (norton(shadup)) quickly removed them. i would like if MS licenced the software from someone else (norton) and included it with the OS but seperate from the os (core of it, but it would still install with windows).
beacuse this is old news perhaps?
i have seen this so many times and places....
but some of the comments on "secure data erapure" methods are nice.
most popular seems to be Drill+reallybighammer=secure data deletion
i don't really mind SPAM most of the time, with a few exceptions.
1. why in the **** is my sister getting SPAMs for penis enlargement?
2. no, i don't want to look at jenna's web cam.
and those are about the only ones that annoy me. and those are pretty rare. most of the junk i get is old email newsletters that won't unsubscribe. (walmart sale alert, etc.)
all the stuff is put straight into the spam folder. i check though it daily for anything i want and hit "empty spam". takes me nomore then 2 min. it takes longer for the page to load than it takes me to read the subject lines and delete the junk
well, in my house, i have everything one would need to make a fairly good bomb; batteries, suitcase, rat poison (anti-coagulitive), various nails and bits of metal, a few household chemicals that make a nice eplosive when mixed, wire, timer, gunpowder(starter charge), and thats about all you need. make a few of those, place them liberaly around an area (say, the olympic games) then set them off remotely. boom, the whole world is freaked.
also more on the topic, the specific things he's setting up could be "a threat to homeland security" as, who knows that he is planning to take pics of? an air force base? some other high-security area?
times like these can make people parinoid. things can be done simply without people noticing, apearing to be ligitimate activies.
just my $0.02
well, the one flaw in the logic is that i would lay bets that a good quanity of the people on P2P networks wouldn't be getting the music in the first place if it wasn't free (me included, as i am cronicly broke and spend most of my money on nessesities (food, clothes(cheap ones), etc.), thus they are losing $0 as they wouldn't have made those sales anyway.
as the other guy said, if you are on someone elses ship and you are not in the same COC then he is in charge unless he conceeded that you are.
if an Army General is on a Navy ship the commander of the ship is in charge of the general unless the general has orders from higher up on the navy command or above to the point where it is all one command (DOD)
i think the main reason why they don't do this is that security is the problem. there sin't muhc to stop the crack from say, sending in an other video in place of the render. that would make problems having to seperate the wheat from the chaff
try the Queen Elizibeth 2. it gets better GPM than his car. the thing moves 17 feet per gallon of diesel it burns.
are you implying that a beverage having caffine is a bad thing?
*ducks*
the problem isn't that there isn't enough power coming from the sun, it's just we can't (yet) covert it into electricy efficently enough for it to be practical as an all-encompassing solution.
i can name a nubmer of little wrong items in STE (photon torpedos shouldn't exist yet for example) but i generaly don't notice them. i happen to be one of the seemingly few that like enterprise.
TMK, linux was initally based in MINIX following the first post by Linus about Linux being "What would you like to see most in MINIX". i've got the exact text of that first post somewhere around, but also TMK the MINIX code was removed and rewriten by Linus before the first public release.
the metric system is still advancing 2.5cm at a time.
FIGHT HARDER!!