Nope. Under the US common-law system, legislation is *supposed* to happen from the bench. Laws are only made where they're necessary, precedent and tradition are more important. Go try and find the stature that makes murder a crime. You won't, because it doesn't exist. It's there solely under the enormous weight of precedent. What defines what is and isn't murder isn't the stature books, it's the precedents, and when a situation without a precedent comes up, it's the judge's *job* to make one. To make the law.
The only reason to use torrents at all is because they're sexy. They're new and popular. People who actually care about getting the files, which are the only ones who wouldn't turn their noses up at "old tech" like gnutella, aren't using bittorrent.
We don't have a separate constitution. But we do have constitutional rights through various acts, common law, and Europe. The right to a competent speedy hearing to decide if your arrest is lawful, and proper defense and trial if it is, does exist in Britain, you just have to dig a bit deeper. It would be nice to have a single document we could point to, but we get by.
I disagree with you on toy story. The animation may look dated, but hey, black and white looks dated and it doesn't stop good movies. It's a very well done story, clichéd disney but it does it better than any of their other films.
Fuck that. The only decent art you see is stuff that was done before "artists" decided they didn't have to try and look like anything. Give me a leonardo or turner or some random kid on a street corner over what passes for "proper" art these days.
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Just change layout to DVORAK in software. You'll either learn to touchtype it or go insane.
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Dvorak doesn't make you faster. The keys are much better placed in relation to the home keys, but this is equalled by the disadvantage from common pairs not alternating around the keyboard. Someone needs to come up with a new layout combining both these advantages.
You mean you expect the backslash on the physical keyboard to actually type a backslash? I've given up on that, I just know the common places, try the key nestled in the enter (whatever it may appear to be) before the one with an actual backslash on.
I think it's because flash doesn't need to spin to the right place, but is slower overall reading. So it can start the read faster, but the maximum throughput is lower than a HD.
The line gets blurred, but there's still a need to separate "data we need to keep" and "data we're using right now". You could use the same chips for both, but you probably wouldn't because if you need them logically separate anyway you could probably get chips optimised for memory or long term storage. A different way of doing programs could let you merge HD and memory, but it would take a real shift before we didn't need two logically separate stores, even if they're actually the same hardware.
For the second thing, it's certainly possible. Have a play with puppy linux or similar. Performance means it's no replacement for a proper installed OS, but it certainly shows it's doable.
It's not entirely pointless. If you could get the performance of normal RAM and not too much more cost, it would be worth doing. Of course flash is nowhere near that at the moment.
I think he might have been. Why not replace ram with non-volatile stuff, then if you get a powercut it doesn't cause problems? The only reason we use volatile RAM is price and performance.
People have been talking about moving to an object model for about as long as OOP has been around. Zope actually implements it, I think. People don't seem to use it, or see big advantages to it. But that could just be inertia.
Two of my friends have built flamethrowers. It was awesome. I think they've grown out of it.
Seriously, this is the sort of thing teenagers do all the time. I don't think it shows exceptional stupidity, exceptional lack of common sense, or anything really. Just teenagers taking stupid risks like they always do.
Sure it's philosophy, but that doesn't make it any less important or valid a debate. Vibrations in the air are only "sounds" because humans perceive them as such, without anyone to hear it how can it meaningfully be a sound?
The me I am now has as much connection to the copy as the "original". Once the copy has been made, the two become distinct beings - but neither of them will be any more me than the other.
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Nope. Under the US common-law system, legislation is *supposed* to happen from the bench. Laws are only made where they're necessary, precedent and tradition are more important. Go try and find the stature that makes murder a crime. You won't, because it doesn't exist. It's there solely under the enormous weight of precedent. What defines what is and isn't murder isn't the stature books, it's the precedents, and when a situation without a precedent comes up, it's the judge's *job* to make one. To make the law.
The only reason to use torrents at all is because they're sexy. They're new and popular. People who actually care about getting the files, which are the only ones who wouldn't turn their noses up at "old tech" like gnutella, aren't using bittorrent.
I don't think that necessarily follows. Exploit it, get a shell, then just exit it. How many admins are going to watch the logs that closely?
That is a lie that apple zealots keep repeating. iTMS makes an absolute killing.
We don't have a separate constitution. But we do have constitutional rights through various acts, common law, and Europe. The right to a competent speedy hearing to decide if your arrest is lawful, and proper defense and trial if it is, does exist in Britain, you just have to dig a bit deeper. It would be nice to have a single document we could point to, but we get by.
I disagree with you on toy story. The animation may look dated, but hey, black and white looks dated and it doesn't stop good movies. It's a very well done story, clichéd disney but it does it better than any of their other films.
You mean you're not thinking of running linux on this thing? Turn in your geek card immediately.
Fuck that. The only decent art you see is stuff that was done before "artists" decided they didn't have to try and look like anything. Give me a leonardo or turner or some random kid on a street corner over what passes for "proper" art these days.
Just change layout to DVORAK in software. You'll either learn to touchtype it or go insane.
Dvorak doesn't make you faster. The keys are much better placed in relation to the home keys, but this is equalled by the disadvantage from common pairs not alternating around the keyboard. Someone needs to come up with a new layout combining both these advantages.
That's because they're actual plastic rather than just ink on the surface.
You mean you expect the backslash on the physical keyboard to actually type a backslash? I've given up on that, I just know the common places, try the key nestled in the enter (whatever it may appear to be) before the one with an actual backslash on.
In all seriousness, the bottom row on mine is worn off through use.
The line gets blurred, but there's still a need to separate "data we need to keep" and "data we're using right now". You could use the same chips for both, but you probably wouldn't because if you need them logically separate anyway you could probably get chips optimised for memory or long term storage. A different way of doing programs could let you merge HD and memory, but it would take a real shift before we didn't need two logically separate stores, even if they're actually the same hardware.
For the second thing, it's certainly possible. Have a play with puppy linux or similar. Performance means it's no replacement for a proper installed OS, but it certainly shows it's doable.
It's not entirely pointless. If you could get the performance of normal RAM and not too much more cost, it would be worth doing. Of course flash is nowhere near that at the moment.
I think he might have been. Why not replace ram with non-volatile stuff, then if you get a powercut it doesn't cause problems? The only reason we use volatile RAM is price and performance.
People have been talking about moving to an object model for about as long as OOP has been around. Zope actually implements it, I think. People don't seem to use it, or see big advantages to it. But that could just be inertia.
Seriously, this is the sort of thing teenagers do all the time. I don't think it shows exceptional stupidity, exceptional lack of common sense, or anything really. Just teenagers taking stupid risks like they always do.
Wait...there's a female involved? What hospital was this?
Means are important as well as ends. Supporting the invasion doesn't mean you have to support lying to get support for it.
I don't know, it was kinda funny. I can imagine an AI starting out that way.
Sure it's philosophy, but that doesn't make it any less important or valid a debate. Vibrations in the air are only "sounds" because humans perceive them as such, without anyone to hear it how can it meaningfully be a sound?
Why? What makes the person who died "you"?
The me I am now has as much connection to the copy as the "original". Once the copy has been made, the two become distinct beings - but neither of them will be any more me than the other.