Sort of. They don't have a written constitution, but they do have constitutional law. This is derived from a collection of laws, traditions, and precedents that dictate how the UK government runs. They don't have a system where an Act of Parliament can be declared unconstitutional, as far as I know, so it's not like the US Constitution in that respect.
Spanish has had successful spelling reforms. As a result, Spanish is incredibly easy to pronounce. There are some regional variations to pronounciation, but these are fairly easy to remember since there really only the z/soft c and y/ll sounds vary much. This makes it so people that would be illiterate in English can stumble through Spanish (although some have a hard time retaining anything because they have to concentrate so hard).
On the other hand Spanish isn't necessarily easy to spell since several letters have the same sound (especially in Latin America/Andalucia). If you go to a hospital or school in the Western US where they have signs in Spanish as well as English then the chances are excellent that there are several spelling errors on the sign.
Less than half a percent of Mormons are missionaries at any given time. Now that's a lot compared to other churches, but it's not a lot as a fraction of the whole group. The Catholic priest thing is a good comparison because it's a uniform worn by a very small percentage of a much larger group and it's easily identifiable.
And sure where you live there aren't that many Mormons, but there are a lot more Mormons there than Mormons who are missionaries. You just don't know it because they don't dress any different than most people, just like you don't know if people are Catholic for the most part. Your implication is like me saying you must eat lots of cheese because you're from Wisconsin. Maybe you do and maybe you don't, but I won't argue with you about whether you like cheese or not.
The college in question in run by the Mormon church and about 95% of the students are Mormons. The reason I brought it up is that it's a convenient and representative (for a certain age group) place for pictures of Mormons.
Your comments imply that you imagine that most of the male population of Utah runs around in suits and ties on bicycles which is ridiculous.
It's not a big deal, really. I just saw what you wrote and did a double take and like most of Slashdot, I find it hard not to correct other people's mistakes.
How do you know? You can't pick one off the street any more than you can a Catholic. Mormons really do dress normally. Go to http://www.byu.edu/ and scroll through the 4 or so pictures on the top of the front page. Most of the students there are Mormons. Again, Mormon missionaries--who dress like you are saying--are a small subset of Mormons.
Mormon missionaries dress up in suits and ties all the time, but missionaries are a rather small subset of Mormons. It's like saying that all Catholics have to have wear funny collars (although I would imagine that a higher percentage of Mormons are missionaries at any given time than Catholics are priests).
Errors because of unit mistakes are indicative of deeper problems that will manifest in other areas if not there. Proper record keeping and simple math are really not that onerous. If an engineer can't handle either of those, then he shouldn't be an engineer.
Sure lots of scientists use SI (although depending on the field they may use cgs instead), but many engineers in the US use the standard American units.
There are several reasons for this: 1) tradition, 2) tooling (especially on the manufacturing scale) is hard to change, and 3) engineers can handle the simple math required to convert between units.
Plus some units should never change. Who wants to know an automobile's horsepower in kilowatts?
The maximum density of water of any phase is 4 degrees C (corresponds to 39 degrees F), however, the minimum liquid phase density is still higher than the maximum solid phase density (at an reasonable ice temperature anyway).
The size of the iceberg doesn't matter to what percent of it sticks out of the water, it's always the same. Bigger icebergs have more sticking out on an absolute basis.
The ice that sticks out of the water is the "excess volume" caused by the density difference. As the ice melts, the iceberg gets lower in the water (keeping the same percentage of it above). The liquid water level doesn't go down, although the overall level does.
The ice displace an equal mass of water. Since the ice is less dense, the "volume overrun" sticks out of the water. As the ice below the water line melts, the waterline would go down except that it's balanced by the ice sinking to compensate. The waterline is steady because the extra volume is "stored" above the water line. Ice above the waterline melting would raise the waterline, except that if this happened without the ice below melting the ice would go up to compensate.
However the level of the overall ice/water mixture goes down as the ice melts for two reasons: 1) the bulk density of the mixture is lower than pure water, so it takes up more space, 2) the ice surface isn't level--there is a lot of air between the top of the water and the top of the ice.
Independent of this particular topic, your conclusion does not follow:
Special intrest groups and causes are their own industry. Spokespeople get paid to speak and even non-profit groups are allowed to pay salaries. At the very least, fame is its own reward for some people. And of course, some well-meaning people are just wrong.
I think you've more or less hit it, but I think they're contention goes farther:
They're obliquely claiming that that genetic information belongs to the people who live in the area that the plants/animals live and so therefore giving it away for free is also "piracy."
Don't install software that uses it. Until Intel requires a DRM-only OS for their chips this is a non-issue for the savvy.
Same with Vista really. Vista will only force DRM on software that has the hooks for it. Use DRM-free content and players.
The bottom line is that there's a difference between DRM-aware and DRM-mandated. The one is fine (if a little disconcerting) and the other is dispicable. At this point customers won't stand for players that only play DRM content. Let's hope it stays that way.
I tried Lineage 2 for a couple of months and the frustration there was just how much leveling up depended on your gear and yet the gear was hard to get through normal means. You couldn't level without gear and you couldn't get gear without leveling.
One of the reasons I like City of Heroes/Villains is that there is no "mad loot." There isn't the farming problem because you don't have to have exceptional gear to level up.
By secretly patented code, I mean't code/stuff that i have myself patented without telling you.
Or more probably, I am a major contributor to an open source project and am involved in high-level discussions about plans for future API implementations, I then rush off and patent the obvious implementations to such APIs. The software is then developed and used by many people and i suddenly announce that actually you all owe me royalties because i patented the idea 2 years ago.
Since I can be involved in discusions and contribute code to a BSD or GPLv2 project without granting you royalty free permission to use any relavent patents I can appear to be "helping" you but actually ambush you with a lawsuite further down the line.
GPLv3 wouldn't stop someone from doing this either since they wouldn't be the submitter of the code in question. Releasing the code yourself under most OS licenses would probably constitute permision to use the patent.
You mean Internet Explorer mode, of course. You also have to enable Active X for that site if you've managed to disable it by default (which is a good idea). You can do this by using the site control icon next to the tab close button on each tab.
To make it do it automagically you need to have v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com and v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com in your site control prefrences entered correctly (if you have XP with SP2; other windows versions may vary). This should happen after you do it the first time.
Actually you have to use Internet Explorer mode and if you've managed to make it so Active X is disabled by default, you have to turn that on too. There's a little "site control" icon on the tab next to the close button that you can click to make these changes.
To make it work with no fiddling you need to have v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com and v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com with the right settings in your site control list (if you have XP with SP2 other OSes might require different stuff).
What you said is true except for the way this Netscape prototype handles gecko vs. IE and other security factors. It maintains a list of security settings for each site that you don't want to handle like the default such as whether to allow popups, javascript, Java, and Active X. This same setting specifies whether you view it as "Netscape" (gecko) or Internet Explorer. Active X is only available to the IE setting (grayed out in "Netscape"). The advanced javascript settings are only available in the Netscape setting.
By default (at least the way I tweaaked things) you have to turn Active X on for a site. Just switching it to IE won't do it.
Active X exploits probably account for most of the IE security flaws (although not all), so it's not as hazardous you imply.
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Sort of. They don't have a written constitution, but they do have constitutional law. This is derived from a collection of laws, traditions, and precedents that dictate how the UK government runs. They don't have a system where an Act of Parliament can be declared unconstitutional, as far as I know, so it's not like the US Constitution in that respect.
Spanish has had successful spelling reforms. As a result, Spanish is incredibly easy to pronounce. There are some regional variations to pronounciation, but these are fairly easy to remember since there really only the z/soft c and y/ll sounds vary much. This makes it so people that would be illiterate in English can stumble through Spanish (although some have a hard time retaining anything because they have to concentrate so hard). On the other hand Spanish isn't necessarily easy to spell since several letters have the same sound (especially in Latin America/Andalucia). If you go to a hospital or school in the Western US where they have signs in Spanish as well as English then the chances are excellent that there are several spelling errors on the sign.
Spanish uses accent marks to distinguish between some simple words that otherwise have the same spelling.
Less than half a percent of Mormons are missionaries at any given time. Now that's a lot compared to other churches, but it's not a lot as a fraction of the whole group. The Catholic priest thing is a good comparison because it's a uniform worn by a very small percentage of a much larger group and it's easily identifiable. And sure where you live there aren't that many Mormons, but there are a lot more Mormons there than Mormons who are missionaries. You just don't know it because they don't dress any different than most people, just like you don't know if people are Catholic for the most part. Your implication is like me saying you must eat lots of cheese because you're from Wisconsin. Maybe you do and maybe you don't, but I won't argue with you about whether you like cheese or not. The college in question in run by the Mormon church and about 95% of the students are Mormons. The reason I brought it up is that it's a convenient and representative (for a certain age group) place for pictures of Mormons. Your comments imply that you imagine that most of the male population of Utah runs around in suits and ties on bicycles which is ridiculous. It's not a big deal, really. I just saw what you wrote and did a double take and like most of Slashdot, I find it hard not to correct other people's mistakes.
How do you know? You can't pick one off the street any more than you can a Catholic. Mormons really do dress normally. Go to http://www.byu.edu/ and scroll through the 4 or so pictures on the top of the front page. Most of the students there are Mormons. Again, Mormon missionaries--who dress like you are saying--are a small subset of Mormons.
Mormon missionaries dress up in suits and ties all the time, but missionaries are a rather small subset of Mormons. It's like saying that all Catholics have to have wear funny collars (although I would imagine that a higher percentage of Mormons are missionaries at any given time than Catholics are priests).
Except that it means the same thing in Spanish as it does in Portuguese and I'd bet over half of California took at least Spanish 1 in High School.
Oh and the million people in San Jose, Costa Rica might argue that your statement doesn't make any sense.
Errors because of unit mistakes are indicative of deeper problems that will manifest in other areas if not there. Proper record keeping and simple math are really not that onerous. If an engineer can't handle either of those, then he shouldn't be an engineer.
Sure lots of scientists use SI (although depending on the field they may use cgs instead), but many engineers in the US use the standard American units.
There are several reasons for this: 1) tradition, 2) tooling (especially on the manufacturing scale) is hard to change, and 3) engineers can handle the simple math required to convert between units.
Plus some units should never change. Who wants to know an automobile's horsepower in kilowatts?
The maximum density of water of any phase is 4 degrees C (corresponds to 39 degrees F), however, the minimum liquid phase density is still higher than the maximum solid phase density (at an reasonable ice temperature anyway).
The size of the iceberg doesn't matter to what percent of it sticks out of the water, it's always the same. Bigger icebergs have more sticking out on an absolute basis. The ice that sticks out of the water is the "excess volume" caused by the density difference. As the ice melts, the iceberg gets lower in the water (keeping the same percentage of it above). The liquid water level doesn't go down, although the overall level does.
More or less correct.
The ice displace an equal mass of water. Since the ice is less dense, the "volume overrun" sticks out of the water. As the ice below the water line melts, the waterline would go down except that it's balanced by the ice sinking to compensate. The waterline is steady because the extra volume is "stored" above the water line. Ice above the waterline melting would raise the waterline, except that if this happened without the ice below melting the ice would go up to compensate.
However the level of the overall ice/water mixture goes down as the ice melts for two reasons: 1) the bulk density of the mixture is lower than pure water, so it takes up more space, 2) the ice surface isn't level--there is a lot of air between the top of the water and the top of the ice.
Independent of this particular topic, your conclusion does not follow:
Special intrest groups and causes are their own industry. Spokespeople get paid to speak and even non-profit groups are allowed to pay salaries. At the very least, fame is its own reward for some people. And of course, some well-meaning people are just wrong.
I think you've more or less hit it, but I think they're contention goes farther:
They're obliquely claiming that that genetic information belongs to the people who live in the area that the plants/animals live and so therefore giving it away for free is also "piracy."
Don't install software that uses it. Until Intel requires a DRM-only OS for their chips this is a non-issue for the savvy.
Same with Vista really. Vista will only force DRM on software that has the hooks for it. Use DRM-free content and players.
The bottom line is that there's a difference between DRM-aware and DRM-mandated. The one is fine (if a little disconcerting) and the other is dispicable. At this point customers won't stand for players that only play DRM content. Let's hope it stays that way.
I tried Lineage 2 for a couple of months and the frustration there was just how much leveling up depended on your gear and yet the gear was hard to get through normal means. You couldn't level without gear and you couldn't get gear without leveling.
One of the reasons I like City of Heroes/Villains is that there is no "mad loot." There isn't the farming problem because you don't have to have exceptional gear to level up.
Anyone else consider that Bill was attempting a joke, but the interviewer couldn't tell? I mean only nerds get nerd humor, right?
You mean Internet Explorer mode, of course. You also have to enable Active X for that site if you've managed to disable it by default (which is a good idea). You can do this by using the site control icon next to the tab close button on each tab. To make it do it automagically you need to have v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com and v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com in your site control prefrences entered correctly (if you have XP with SP2; other windows versions may vary). This should happen after you do it the first time.
Actually you have to use Internet Explorer mode and if you've managed to make it so Active X is disabled by default, you have to turn that on too. There's a little "site control" icon on the tab next to the close button that you can click to make these changes. To make it work with no fiddling you need to have v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com and v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com with the right settings in your site control list (if you have XP with SP2 other OSes might require different stuff).
What you said is true except for the way this Netscape prototype handles gecko vs. IE and other security factors. It maintains a list of security settings for each site that you don't want to handle like the default such as whether to allow popups, javascript, Java, and Active X. This same setting specifies whether you view it as "Netscape" (gecko) or Internet Explorer. Active X is only available to the IE setting (grayed out in "Netscape"). The advanced javascript settings are only available in the Netscape setting.
By default (at least the way I tweaaked things) you have to turn Active X on for a site. Just switching it to IE won't do it.
Active X exploits probably account for most of the IE security flaws (although not all), so it's not as hazardous you imply.