After all, the theory behind gravity itself is that the gravitational pull is infinite at the center of gravity
Not sure what you're smoking on that one.
If you were at the center of the earth, you would feel no net gravitational pull from the earth (i.e., you would experience weigtlessness), however, the earth would feel your gravitational pull.
"Maybe, but right now the US is asserting control over everyone else's networks."
No, they are providing an indexing service whereby a host's IP address can be obtained from a very large hierarchical look-up table.
The only thing that makes this particular index "the" index, is that everyone has agreed to use it. If anyone doesn't want to use it, they are free to make an alternate one. Alternates exist, but no one uses them, because the current system is good enough.
Personally, I wouldn't mind it if DNS was restructured to look something like this:
There's no reason that someone accessing web content should care which part of a URL is the host and which part is the directory, and it would blur the artificial status barrier that exists between hosting a domain, a subdomain, and a directory within a domain.
I don't see why the whole ".xxx" thing is such a big deal. Why don't we all just agree that the following are flagged as porn:
1) These drives wouldn't become unuseable if you lost the key: they would simply be incapable of giving you the original unencrypted data. This is not a problem if you want to re-initialize the drive with a new key.
2) If the encryption is good enough, this will not be an option. If the encryption isn't, then this drive isn't worth much in the first place.
3) Again: you are under the impression that once the original key has been lost, it will render the drive unuseable. There is simply no need for this to be the case.
I'm pretty sure there are a few microbes in spore form on Mars: the first few missions we weren't too careful about not contaminating our probes, and so there have been stow-away bacteria on mars (from Earth). I doubt that life has thrived, given the harsh conditions. In fact, they will almost certainly eventually die out and become extinct unless we send more or go down there and change the environment.
This is known as a "music subscription." It's a business model employed by Napster and others. It's one of the very few tolerable usages of DRM, since you're clearly not "buying" the music, you're just renting access to it for a period of time.
That's true. I have one in my car that plays MP3/WMA, but it doesn't play DRM'd music.
I think the record companies need to wake up to the fact that distribugting CDs that people turn around and rip (but usually don't redistribute) is the same thing as distributing DRM-free music digitally, only if the record companies distributed the digital music, they would have a chance to embed an ID3 tag with a uniquely-identifying serial number binding it to that user. This tag could be easily removed, but it's inconvenient enough to be a speed bump to casual online redistribution, which is more than can be said for CDs.
There would actually be less risk of unauthorized online redistribution, but the tracks would be just as useful to the consumers as CD-ripped tracks.
What's more, it would break the intentional incompatibility (read DRM) that exists between the different digital content systems (iTMS, Zune, PlaysForSure, etc.).
Once that barrier is gone, there would be a truly free market for the consumer: he can mix and match any music source with any music player without worrying about arbitrary incompatibility. This will be a huge watershed for digital distribution, as DRM is the main thing keeping most people who want digital distribution, but thus far have not moved in that direction.
I don't want to be beholden to Apple, Microsoft, Real, or anyone else for being able to play my music on the best hardware on the market not just for the forseeable future (~5 years), but for the un-forseeable future as well. I don't care if the iPod is the best player on the market right now. I want the freedom to arbitrarily switch at any time. The mere possibility that I could switch like that will keep these companies competitive. Remove the competition, and there is no incentive to innovation, improvement, and price reduction.
Can I only turn them off for MSN and not for Yahoo or AIM? Because I like the smilies, it's the retarded custom ones that people I need to talk to install that go along with MSN that I hate...
You can override their annoying smilies with any theme you want, including one that only contains a basic set.
And the new Gaim supports all those custom (retarded) icons as well. It's just amazing how bad MS does it's text replacement... if they have the word "hi" replaced with a custom icon, then you get messages like "Do you think that this spec can be pumped [CUSTOMICON]gher, or is it where it belongs?"
Gaim supports exactly the icons that your active smiley theme contains. If you don't like smilies, turn them off by selecting no theme.
Sort of the Henry Ford line of thinking:
"You can have any color Model T you want... as long as you want black."
Which is EXACTLY what Apple has been doing from day 1. They aren't about consumer choice, they're about giving you a "system" that "just works." If you want choices in digital music players, go with PlaysForSure. If you want choices in applications, go with Windows or Linux. Apple is about a well-engineered one-size-fits-all "solution."
Then again, they actually sold you a CD, not a license to play the music on it. Physical CDs come with Fair Use rights and the right of first sale (i.e., you can transfer ownership to anyone you want at any time). A license, if you buy in to Apple's philisophy, comes with no rights except those specifically enumerated.
Yes, the original for that passage was in Hebrew. The origin for the NT is primarily Greek & Latin. In no case, is the KJ version considered to be a linguisticly accurate translation.
Wow.
We were discussing the meaning of a particular passage in the old testament: Ex 22:18. Your statements, while factually correct, has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with what was being discussed on this thread.
We weren't discussing the NT at all (and btw, it's all Greek. The Latin NT is a translation from the Greek, and KJV is a translation from the Latin).
I believe you misread. The trial took place in Norway, and that's where he used to live at the time of the trial, but the article does specifically say that he now lives in the USA.
Still, it's pretty clear that the Pentateuch was originally written in Hebrew, and that the Greek and Latin (and Early Modern English) were derived from it, directly or indirectly, not the other way around.
I supect that is one reason why the GPL v3 making any signed binaries for any reason against the licence is not seen as a problem.
Yes, that's right. Keep repeating the lie, and eventually, enough people will believe you that it won't matter that it's not true.
Signed binaries are quite useful for the purpose of verifying that they came from a specific trusted source. This can be useful information to the human user, who can use it to determine which binaries are okay to run on his system. What RMS doesn't like is when the hardware tries to be smarter than the user and refuse to trust anyone but the original manufacturer of the hardware, no matter what the human (who owns the machine) says.
The authors of two out of four gospels (Mark and Luke) were not eye-witnesses of what they wrote, and so they probably got what they wrote orally from the apostles, but aside from that, the new testament is not an oral tradition at all.
No exceptions are made for self-defense, war, euthanasia, suicide, or any other lame excuse. Thou Shall Not Kill and period.
Have you ever heard of the book of Deuteronomy? Leviticus? Numbers? The rest of Exodus?
Moses made it pretty clear what was and was not meant by that commandment, and in modern English, it translates to 'murder' not 'kill.'
In the case of self-defense or accidental manslaughter, the offending party would proceed (on pain of death) to one of several 'cities of refuge,' where he would be safe until a fair trial could be conducted. Killing enmies in war was perfectly okay, and Noah was specifically told that it was his responsibility (as ruler) to put murderers to death.
It's called a taskbar, and this effect can be achieved by opening multiple instances of a tabbed browser.
If you really want this feature within the same window, you should write an extension for it, and then see how many other people like it as much as yourself.
Slashdot Mirror
Not sure what you're smoking on that one.
If you were at the center of the earth, you would feel no net gravitational pull from the earth (i.e., you would experience weigtlessness), however, the earth would feel your gravitational pull.
The next generation of console gaming. Duh!
It'll go nicely with the $500 PS3 and $400 Xbox 360 that you didn't buy.
"Maybe, but right now the US is asserting control over everyone else's networks."
No, they are providing an indexing service whereby a host's IP address can be obtained from a very large hierarchical look-up table.
The only thing that makes this particular index "the" index, is that everyone has agreed to use it. If anyone doesn't want to use it, they are free to make an alternate one. Alternates exist, but no one uses them, because the current system is good enough.
Personally, I wouldn't mind it if DNS was restructured to look something like this:
http://us/org/slashdot/
http://uk/co/amazon/
http://com/ebay/
etc.
There's no reason that someone accessing web content should care which part of a URL is the host and which part is the directory, and it would blur the artificial status barrier that exists between hosting a domain, a subdomain, and a directory within a domain.
I don't see why the whole ".xxx" thing is such a big deal. Why don't we all just agree that the following are flagged as porn:
xxx.domain.com
domain.com/xxx
1) These drives wouldn't become unuseable if you lost the key: they would simply be incapable of giving you the original unencrypted data. This is not a problem if you want to re-initialize the drive with a new key.
2) If the encryption is good enough, this will not be an option. If the encryption isn't, then this drive isn't worth much in the first place.
3) Again: you are under the impression that once the original key has been lost, it will render the drive unuseable. There is simply no need for this to be the case.
Songs? What songs?
I'm pretty sure there are a few microbes in spore form on Mars: the first few missions we weren't too careful about not contaminating our probes, and so there have been stow-away bacteria on mars (from Earth). I doubt that life has thrived, given the harsh conditions. In fact, they will almost certainly eventually die out and become extinct unless we send more or go down there and change the environment.
This is known as a "music subscription." It's a business model employed by Napster and others. It's one of the very few tolerable usages of DRM, since you're clearly not "buying" the music, you're just renting access to it for a period of time.
That's true. I have one in my car that plays MP3/WMA, but it doesn't play DRM'd music.
I think the record companies need to wake up to the fact that distribugting CDs that people turn around and rip (but usually don't redistribute) is the same thing as distributing DRM-free music digitally, only if the record companies distributed the digital music, they would have a chance to embed an ID3 tag with a uniquely-identifying serial number binding it to that user. This tag could be easily removed, but it's inconvenient enough to be a speed bump to casual online redistribution, which is more than can be said for CDs.
There would actually be less risk of unauthorized online redistribution, but the tracks would be just as useful to the consumers as CD-ripped tracks.
What's more, it would break the intentional incompatibility (read DRM) that exists between the different digital content systems (iTMS, Zune, PlaysForSure, etc.).
Once that barrier is gone, there would be a truly free market for the consumer: he can mix and match any music source with any music player without worrying about arbitrary incompatibility. This will be a huge watershed for digital distribution, as DRM is the main thing keeping most people who want digital distribution, but thus far have not moved in that direction.
I don't want to be beholden to Apple, Microsoft, Real, or anyone else for being able to play my music on the best hardware on the market not just for the forseeable future (~5 years), but for the un-forseeable future as well. I don't care if the iPod is the best player on the market right now. I want the freedom to arbitrarily switch at any time. The mere possibility that I could switch like that will keep these companies competitive. Remove the competition, and there is no incentive to innovation, improvement, and price reduction.
You can override their annoying smilies with any theme you want, including one that only contains a basic set.
Gaim supports exactly the icons that your active smiley theme contains. If you don't like smilies, turn them off by selecting no theme.
What's wrong, never unmasked a package?
/etc/portage/package.unmask /etc/portage/package.keywords
I've been using the RC releases on x86_64 with no problems for a while now.
Here you go:
echo ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0_rc3" >>
echo "=www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0*" >>
Happy emerging!
Which is EXACTLY what Apple has been doing from day 1. They aren't about consumer choice, they're about giving you a "system" that "just works." If you want choices in digital music players, go with PlaysForSure. If you want choices in applications, go with Windows or Linux. Apple is about a well-engineered one-size-fits-all "solution."
What about my car's CD player? It supports MP3 and WMA, but nu DRM.
Other OSs like, say Windows? Anyway, this whole line of thinking doesn't take into account the fact that this is at best lossy trans-coding.
Then again, they actually sold you a CD, not a license to play the music on it. Physical CDs come with Fair Use rights and the right of first sale (i.e., you can transfer ownership to anyone you want at any time). A license, if you buy in to Apple's philisophy, comes with no rights except those specifically enumerated.
Wow.
We were discussing the meaning of a particular passage in the old testament: Ex 22:18. Your statements, while factually correct, has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with what was being discussed on this thread.
We weren't discussing the NT at all (and btw, it's all Greek. The Latin NT is a translation from the Greek, and KJV is a translation from the Latin).
I believe you misread. The trial took place in Norway, and that's where he used to live at the time of the trial, but the article does specifically say that he now lives in the USA.
Still, it's pretty clear that the Pentateuch was originally written in Hebrew, and that the Greek and Latin (and Early Modern English) were derived from it, directly or indirectly, not the other way around.
Last I checked (which admittedly was a long time ago) you could sign on to AOL with BYO-access using the AOL program for free.
Yes, that's right. Keep repeating the lie, and eventually, enough people will believe you that it won't matter that it's not true.
Signed binaries are quite useful for the purpose of verifying that they came from a specific trusted source. This can be useful information to the human user, who can use it to determine which binaries are okay to run on his system. What RMS doesn't like is when the hardware tries to be smarter than the user and refuse to trust anyone but the original manufacturer of the hardware, no matter what the human (who owns the machine) says.
That text was written in Hebrew, not Greek.
Furthermore, I think you are wrong or misinformed.
You were taught wrong.
The authors of two out of four gospels (Mark and Luke) were not eye-witnesses of what they wrote, and so they probably got what they wrote orally from the apostles, but aside from that, the new testament is not an oral tradition at all.
Have you ever heard of the book of Deuteronomy? Leviticus? Numbers? The rest of Exodus?
Moses made it pretty clear what was and was not meant by that commandment, and in modern English, it translates to 'murder' not 'kill.'
In the case of self-defense or accidental manslaughter, the offending party would proceed (on pain of death) to one of several 'cities of refuge,' where he would be safe until a fair trial could be conducted. Killing enmies in war was perfectly okay, and Noah was specifically told that it was his responsibility (as ruler) to put murderers to death.
It's called a taskbar, and this effect can be achieved by opening multiple instances of a tabbed browser.
If you really want this feature within the same window, you should write an extension for it, and then see how many other people like it as much as yourself.
...and then there's the LastTab extension, which does exactly what I expect it to do. It even controlls Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab.