The people walking down the street talking via bluetooth seem odd to you because they prefer the conversation with a distant person to dealing with you. If your need for attention weren't so acute this wouldn't bother you at all.
That is quite an assumption.
Perhaps it is because you can't tell if they are talking or a person or to themselves unless you see the headset. You know, crazy people talk to themselves. And other people tend to stay away from them, since they are relatively unpredictable.
Until Mozilla implements the MS Internet Explorer API, Microsoft is kind of stuck with IE as a subsystem. Or do you want them to stop using HTML for rendering operating system components? Why should they?
You speak of tyranny of the majority only, and it is something this country has a long tradition of carefully and systematically resisting. The law is meant to serve all the people, and artists and creators are members of that broader group. The mob rule effect of jealous cheapskates does not outweigh the interests of the minority whose unique and deliberate act of creation is so desperately craved by the masses. That work was shared on the condition that a copyright permitted exclusive control of the doing and authorizing of reproduction, distribution, and adaptation rights. That simply cannot be ignored. The rights of the people include the right to hold and exclusively exploit a copyright. They are not required to make it available for distribution at all during the period of copyright, though it serves their interests to do so since they want to be monetarily reimbursed.
This argument would fly if it wasn't for the proven constitutionality of indefinitely many copyright extensions. We are already at 70 years after the death of the author. "Artists" and "creators" are long dead when their "rights" expire. And this is at our cost.
Who cares whether it's called "AP" or "Associated Press"? Do you demand people to expand IBM for you too? HP? Radar? Lasers? AP has being using "AP" for branding for a few years now anyway.
The real hard part is navigating by instrument. You can point a plane at a building pretty easily. You can land it with a little more effort. Finding a building or airport from hundreds of miles away is not so trivial.
Agreed, except I consider OS X to be a Unix with a pretty UI and crippled CLI. KDE is a much more functional GUI and when combined with compiz-fusion+emerald/beryl it's much prettier than even OS X.
How is OS X's "CLI" crippled? It uses the BSD user land. You can pretty trivially get a FSF/GNU user land installed too.
Typically, by setting file permissions so that anyone can read from the library hierarchies, but are unable to write to them without sufficient privileges. Other schemes are possible. For example, OS X does a bit more for some classes of files, in that it requires new versions of these kinds of files to be cryptographically signed and registered in the system. The user has complete control here, through the terminal at least. I think the KeyChain allows access to this kind of stuff too. Very few OS X users need to mess around with this, but launchd potentially works on any Unix.
OS X has done this for some classes of files since Leopard came out, though the implementation is transparent to (most) users.
If you go in and mess around with a.plist you aren't "supposed" to -- like the launchd plist set, the change will be reverted when you reboot. You can get around that by cryptographically signing the new.plist yourself, using the provided tools and your administrator credentials.
The likelihood of any two satellites colliding in orbit is very low, the odds of two submarines colliding in the vast ocean are also unlikely.
Not when (1) China was testing an anti-satellite weapon and (2) the submarines were patrolling the same trade route (or, more likely, silently monitoring the same ship)
Canadian Bobcats are only slightly larger (1.25x) the size of a standard tomcat, and will not eat humans.. They do like rats, however.
Bobcats, mountain lions, pumas, and panthers are all the same animal. And they're about two feet tall at the shoulder when on all fours. (or about twice the size of a "tomcat"), which comes to about 8+ times the weight of a domesticated cat. They are big enough to attack and kill humans.
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Isn't a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis necessarily non-constructive? If so, a computer can't answer your question.
You look for an answer until you find it or give up.
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The people walking down the street talking via bluetooth seem odd to you because they prefer the conversation with a distant person to dealing with you. If your need for attention weren't so acute this wouldn't bother you at all.
That is quite an assumption.
Perhaps it is because you can't tell if they are talking or a person or to themselves unless you see the headset. You know, crazy people talk to themselves. And other people tend to stay away from them, since they are relatively unpredictable.
Sounds like you want one, and are seeking validation.
Dude, I say go for it.
I suggest you hit those books, because provable security is not only possible, it is expected in many contexts.
Until Mozilla implements the MS Internet Explorer API, Microsoft is kind of stuck with IE as a subsystem. Or do you want them to stop using HTML for rendering operating system components? Why should they?
Open your eyes. Visualize all the four-dimensional space you want.
That depends on whether there's any causal link between the tide and magma flow. (There is)
This would cannibalize iMac sales, with no gain for Apple.
Dude, that's a serious arbitrage opportunity. If I was in France, I'd be selling them their own power.
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One of those could work.
You speak of tyranny of the majority only, and it is something this country has a long tradition of carefully and systematically resisting. The law is meant to serve all the people, and artists and creators are members of that broader group. The mob rule effect of jealous cheapskates does not outweigh the interests of the minority whose unique and deliberate act of creation is so desperately craved by the masses. That work was shared on the condition that a copyright permitted exclusive control of the doing and authorizing of reproduction, distribution, and adaptation rights. That simply cannot be ignored. The rights of the people include the right to hold and exclusively exploit a copyright. They are not required to make it available for distribution at all during the period of copyright, though it serves their interests to do so since they want to be monetarily reimbursed.
This argument would fly if it wasn't for the proven constitutionality of indefinitely many copyright extensions. We are already at 70 years after the death of the author. "Artists" and "creators" are long dead when their "rights" expire. And this is at our cost.
Who cares whether it's called "AP" or "Associated Press"? Do you demand people to expand IBM for you too? HP? Radar? Lasers? AP has being using "AP" for branding for a few years now anyway.
Don't confuse us with facts.
The real hard part is navigating by instrument. You can point a plane at a building pretty easily. You can land it with a little more effort. Finding a building or airport from hundreds of miles away is not so trivial.
Agreed, except I consider OS X to be a Unix with a pretty UI and crippled CLI. KDE is a much more functional GUI and when combined with compiz-fusion+emerald/beryl it's much prettier than even OS X.
How is OS X's "CLI" crippled? It uses the BSD user land. You can pretty trivially get a FSF/GNU user land installed too.
Typically, by setting file permissions so that anyone can read from the library hierarchies, but are unable to write to them without sufficient privileges. Other schemes are possible. For example, OS X does a bit more for some classes of files, in that it requires new versions of these kinds of files to be cryptographically signed and registered in the system. The user has complete control here, through the terminal at least. I think the KeyChain allows access to this kind of stuff too. Very few OS X users need to mess around with this, but launchd potentially works on any Unix.
Indeed, it is a good thing.
OS X has done this for some classes of files since Leopard came out, though the implementation is transparent to (most) users.
If you go in and mess around with a .plist you aren't "supposed" to -- like the launchd plist set, the change will be reverted when you reboot. You can get around that by cryptographically signing the new .plist yourself, using the provided tools and your administrator credentials.
The likelihood of any two satellites colliding in orbit is very low, the odds of two submarines colliding in the vast ocean are also unlikely.
Not when (1) China was testing an anti-satellite weapon and (2) the submarines were patrolling the same trade route (or, more likely, silently monitoring the same ship)
Pff. 1920 x 1200
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It is a mathematical fact that no voting system is fair if there are more than two candidates, regardless of what the Founding Fathers wanted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow's_impossibility_theorem
Canadian Bobcats are only slightly larger (1.25x) the size of a standard tomcat, and will not eat humans.. They do like rats, however.
Bobcats, mountain lions, pumas, and panthers are all the same animal. And they're about two feet tall at the shoulder when on all fours. (or about twice the size of a "tomcat"), which comes to about 8+ times the weight of a domesticated cat. They are big enough to attack and kill humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar