Vagueness can also make laws unenforceable. For example, there has never been a test case (to my knowledge) of a record company suing an artist for using a sample in another song. Everything has always been settled out of court or dealt with before any lawsuits were threatened. This is because 'fair use' is not precisely defined. There was a guy who said he would under no circumstances pay licensing fees for a sample in his track and the record company balked since they were so afraid of a test case.
actually, i meant to say nintendo 64 above, which actually is a 64-bit system (supposedly).
The Gamecube is actually a 32-bit processor. A PowerPC in fact! with ATI video! I guess if you want to slap together a superdeduper system with a superdeduper card for a good $1000, go for it, but it seems silly to me, especially since I hate FPS's
plenty of people don't think programming is a useful skill. i certainly don't, but i like not being homeless and hungry, so if somebody wants to pay me for it, than AWESOME
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GAH THE WORD IS 'VAGUE'
Vagueness can also make laws unenforceable. For example, there has never been a test case (to my knowledge) of a record company suing an artist for using a sample in another song. Everything has always been settled out of court or dealt with before any lawsuits were threatened. This is because 'fair use' is not precisely defined. There was a guy who said he would under no circumstances pay licensing fees for a sample in his track and the record company balked since they were so afraid of a test case.
i don't think i'll buy this book. it looks pretty useless.
:)
still beats reading the usual press release review though
how is that judicial tyranny? it's congress that made the law!
how is that illegal?
only if it's ABE VIGODA'S urine, baby!
"They usually ask for contact details."
So don't give them your contact details.
hey, guess what? you don't have to buy a top-of-the-line, just-came-out mac for decent performance! apple still sells g4's!
what is a compiler if not a translator from a given language to machine code?
thank you mario!
but teh funney is in another article!
cause sorting a phone book by number is REALLY friggin hard.
Looks like he just lost any chance of a Chameleon discount...
Yes, I had meant to say Nintendo 64 (which has a MIPS 64-bit core, right? i forget)
ps. Your username is most excellent. Party on, dude.
I was not expected that sig, but:
EZ SAY HO!
Yes, mod me offtopic, I deserve it. I can take it.
Don't ask about what happens to that last 0.1 of a finger/toe.
XXHXML? sounds kinky...
READ the article? What's that mean?
could care less = caring more than the minimum possible
couldn't care less = caring exactly the minimum possible
so which one do you actually mean?
actually, i meant to say nintendo 64 above, which actually is a 64-bit system (supposedly).
The Gamecube is actually a 32-bit processor. A PowerPC in fact! with ATI video! I guess if you want to slap together a superdeduper system with a superdeduper card for a good $1000, go for it, but it seems silly to me, especially since I hate FPS's
How much is an Opteron system? How much is a GameCube?
$29.95/month is not metered access. $29.95/GB or something is metered.
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Actually, Citibank has (had?) a system for storing all of your various logins and viewing all of your accounts on one page. The URL is myciti.com
plenty of people don't think programming is a useful skill. i certainly don't, but i like not being homeless and hungry, so if somebody wants to pay me for it, than AWESOME
If it displays random SMS messages, why bother hacking it?
Unless constantly flooding it with references to RANDOM CRAP(tm) is considered hacking...
(1) China
(2) Cuba
(3) North Korea
(4) the Communist party in France at least is quite active. Perhaps in other places as well.
(1) The Soviet Union dissolved mostly because Gorbachev didn't know how to run the country
(2) Communism is still alive and well