'' No they don't. They just can't lie about it, but they sure can tapdance around it. ''
It is absolute legal for a cop to lie about it. If you are say a drug dealer, and you ask a potential customer "are you a cop", that cop can lie about it, straight to your face, in front of a dozen witnesses, and when you try to sell him drugs, he can then arrest you. Perfectly legal.
If I understand this correctly, this is something completely different from entrapment and likely to get the RIAA into serious trouble.
First, if I download copyrighted files from a site run by the RIAA, then this is _completely legal_. What is illegal is downloading such material without permission of the copyright holder. The way this was described, I would have the _permission of the copyright holder.
Second, if the RIAA installs spyware on my computer, they are in deep shit. Especially if there is nothing illegal on my computer that they could use to blackmail me.
Why stop with GPL software? If you suspect, without giving any reason, that Apple might have stolen GPL'd software and is using it in the iPhone without license, then you should suspect that they might have stolen software from anyone else as well. Not that there is any reason for any such suspicion except paranoia, but you can be paranoid as much as you like.
Absolutely. Use the video camera that the iPhone doesn't have, then use the video editing software that the iPhone doesn't have, then use the iPhone to upload the results that you couldn't create to Youtube. That's a killer app. Not.
I remember one test that millions and millions of people had to pass. Here's the rules:
25 questions. Each question has three or four answers. There can be no right answer, one right answer or multiple right answers. You need to check exactly all the right answers. Any right answer not checked and any wrong answer checked gives you penalty points. So if there is a right answer and you check a wrong one, that is two penalty points. If there are two right answers and you pick only one, that is one penalty point. Each question has a multiplier of 2, 3 or 4; many have four. Up to seven penalty points you pass. So getting the wrong answer on a question with a multiplier of four means failure.
On the positive side, there is a total of 1200 possible questions, and the 25 you get are picked at random out of these 1200, and you can buy books with all 1200 questions and all the correct answers.
'' I haven't had many exams with multiple choice, but my university statistics course was one of them.
Each question had 5 options, and only one was correct. A correct answer gave 5 points, an incorrect answer gave -1 point.
Now, as the smart reader can guess, 4 x -1 + 5 = 1, so guessing still pays off... especially if one or more of the questions are very unlikely to be correct. ''
If you were very confident about the questions where you thought you knew the right answer, then guessing would slightly increase the expected value, but largely increase the variance. So the question would be: Do you think you can pass without guessing? If the answer is yes, then don't guess - it increases the variance and therefore your chance of failure. But if you didn't know enough right answers to pass, then you should guess.
'' There is no contest in life for which the unprepared have the advantage. ''
Apparently, being unprepared increases your chances of surviving traffic accidents. Being drunk helps even more. The reason is that being unprepared and/or drunk you are more relaxed, and your muscles are more relaxed, and that can reduce the amount of injuries slightly.
'' I was debating buying the iPhone and not getting a service--using it as a PDA only. There goes that hope. Thanks, Apple. ''
I think you mean "Thanks, unknown AT&T store manager, who certainly has all the information in his hands to inform us, unlike all the other AT&T store managers who haven't heard a word yet, and who was willing to talk anonymously to a blog that I have never heard of, and who surely wouldn't have made this up to make himself feel important or anything like that. "
'' Intel's processors are extremely well documented and you can get everything you need. ''
I would prefer getting the low level details from Intel (who should know them) instead of getting them from Agner Fog (whose tremendous work in figuring out lots of details I really really appreciate).
'' From the viewpoint of Intel, this is actually good practice. They don't know what features that AMD actually supports (through possibly intentional ignorance), and they don't want to cause someone's system to lock up. While I'd rather see my AMD CPU be supported by Intel's compiler, I can understand why they might be reticent to support certain features, even though the CPU reports support for that feature. ''
This is actually not true. If AMD chips were incompatible say with SSE2 even though they set the SSE2 flag in the processor, then Intel would _want_ any AMD system to lock up and point to that incompatibility. Since the code _works_ on AMD chips, Intel does what is the second best thing for Intel and makes the code run slow on AMD instead.
'' It astounds me that Apple flips the bird to all of the Windows UI conventions for marketing purposes and nobody seems to care. Everything from their own anti-aliasing algorithm for text, their own custom widgets, to windows that you can only resize from the right corner. Of course, many legit Windows applications do the same thing, but it seems highly hypocritical of Apple to say, "you should stick to conventions when designing UIs" and then hardcode their own ideas in when developing on another platform. ''
Depends on the target audience. The target audience seem to be Mac users who are forced to use a Windows PC for some reason, and developers who want to make their webpages iPhone-ready.
'' Every single dialog box and effect is Aqua style. Even though both OS X and Windows XP / Vista have theme engines meaning there should be absolutely no reason at all for doing this. ''
But there is a very good reason to do this. Apple wants Windows users who don't think about looking at a Mac to have a good look at MacOS X.
'' Assuming this organization gets off the ground, I wonder if there would be any grounds for a lawsuit against them for "damages sustained" while a vendor is arguing over the price for a fix. ''
I would be more wondering whether they would go to jail immediately, as the information in the patent application, which has to be publicly available, will give hackers the means to attack machines, and publishing such information seems to be for example against British laws.
'' This is very ironic because in many states, no-competes aren't enforcible, the company isn't allowed to keep you from earning a living. ''
In Germany, non-competes in employment contracts are enforcible - but only as long as the previous employer gives you reasonable compensation. Like paying the same amount you could earn, without you having to work for it:-) As a result, enforcement is very, very, very rare.
I don't think you have ever programmed using HFS+. The problems that you imagine just don't exist.
In a case-sensitive file system, or to be more precise, in a file system where any file names containing two different letters are considered different, you compare filenames by comparing individual letters. In HFS+, each letter is mapped to a code using some table lookup, and then the codes are compared to see if two filenames are different or not, and how they are ordered; some characters are even ignored. This makes the comparison code slightly more complicated, but not much. The number of filename comparisons is unchanged.
Second, there is no issue with internationalization at all. In HFS+, the tables used in the table lookup described above are independent of any locale, and they are independent of any changes in the Unicode standard as well. HFS+ doesn't care about internationalisation at all. And since every bit of code that looks for the existence of a file uses the same algorithm (for example "stat" which one might use to determine whether a file exists, and "fopen" which also needs to determine whether a file exists), your last scenario cannot happen.
'' So when can I get a 2-button trackpad? Come on, Apple, that's just one mouse button per core. I want a real button, not a clever software simulation of two buttons. Just humor me, I'm dying to buy one of these babies. ''
If you want one button per core, Apple will indeed humor you. Install the developer tools, and you can turn off one core.
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'' No they don't. They just can't lie about it, but they sure can tapdance around it. ''
It is absolute legal for a cop to lie about it. If you are say a drug dealer, and you ask a potential customer "are you a cop", that cop can lie about it, straight to your face, in front of a dozen witnesses, and when you try to sell him drugs, he can then arrest you. Perfectly legal.
If I understand this correctly, this is something completely different from entrapment and likely to get the RIAA into serious trouble.
First, if I download copyrighted files from a site run by the RIAA, then this is _completely legal_. What is illegal is downloading such material without permission of the copyright holder. The way this was described, I would have the _permission of the copyright holder.
Second, if the RIAA installs spyware on my computer, they are in deep shit. Especially if there is nothing illegal on my computer that they could use to blackmail me.
Why stop with GPL software? If you suspect, without giving any reason, that Apple might have stolen GPL'd software and is using it in the iPhone without license, then you should suspect that they might have stolen software from anyone else as well. Not that there is any reason for any such suspicion except paranoia, but you can be paranoid as much as you like.
Absolutely. Use the video camera that the iPhone doesn't have, then use the video editing software that the iPhone doesn't have, then use the iPhone to upload the results that you couldn't create to Youtube. That's a killer app. Not.
I remember one test that millions and millions of people had to pass. Here's the rules:
25 questions. Each question has three or four answers. There can be no right answer, one right answer or multiple right answers. You need to check exactly all the right answers. Any right answer not checked and any wrong answer checked gives you penalty points. So if there is a right answer and you check a wrong one, that is two penalty points. If there are two right answers and you pick only one, that is one penalty point. Each question has a multiplier of 2, 3 or 4; many have four. Up to seven penalty points you pass. So getting the wrong answer on a question with a multiplier of four means failure.
On the positive side, there is a total of 1200 possible questions, and the 25 you get are picked at random out of these 1200, and you can buy books with all 1200 questions and all the correct answers.
'' I haven't had many exams with multiple choice, but my university statistics course was one of them.
Each question had 5 options, and only one was correct. A correct answer gave 5 points, an incorrect answer gave -1 point.
Now, as the smart reader can guess, 4 x -1 + 5 = 1, so guessing still pays off... especially if one or more of the questions are very unlikely to be correct. ''
If you were very confident about the questions where you thought you knew the right answer, then guessing would slightly increase the expected value, but largely increase the variance. So the question would be: Do you think you can pass without guessing? If the answer is yes, then don't guess - it increases the variance and therefore your chance of failure. But if you didn't know enough right answers to pass, then you should guess.
'' Also, 2X as smart == 2X right answers? What the hell? My IQ is 140, find me somebody with an IQ of 70 and give us a test on anything. ''
Anyone who really has an IQ of 140 would know that IQ = 140 doesn't mean "twice as smart" as someone with an IQ of 70.
IQ is an adjusted measurement; adjusted in such a way that it is normal distributed with an average of 100 and a standard deviation of 10.
'' It still has a bug that makes the text blurry. Please let me turn off anti-aliasing! ''
Preferences menu, Appearance tab.
'' does anyone else get the completely-unusable-font-version of Safari after they install? I had this problem with 3 and now with 3.0.1. ''
When I tried it, I couldn't see anything wrong with any fonts.
I also couldn't see anything right with any fonts.
There was just no text whatsoever!
However, "Find" works, and it does this really nice Core Animation-style highlighting, except that you can't see the text that it highlights!
'' There is no contest in life for which the unprepared have the advantage. ''
Apparently, being unprepared increases your chances of surviving traffic accidents. Being drunk helps even more. The reason is that being unprepared and/or drunk you are more relaxed, and your muscles are more relaxed, and that can reduce the amount of injuries slightly.
'' I was debating buying the iPhone and not getting a service--using it as a PDA only. There goes that hope. Thanks, Apple. '' I think you mean "Thanks, unknown AT&T store manager, who certainly has all the information in his hands to inform us, unlike all the other AT&T store managers who haven't heard a word yet, and who was willing to talk anonymously to a blog that I have never heard of, and who surely wouldn't have made this up to make himself feel important or anything like that. "
'' Intel's processors are extremely well documented and you can get everything you need. ''
I would prefer getting the low level details from Intel (who should know them) instead of getting them from Agner Fog (whose tremendous work in figuring out lots of details I really really appreciate).
'' From the viewpoint of Intel, this is actually good practice. They don't know what features that AMD actually supports (through possibly intentional ignorance), and they don't want to cause someone's system to lock up. While I'd rather see my AMD CPU be supported by Intel's compiler, I can understand why they might be reticent to support certain features, even though the CPU reports support for that feature. ''
This is actually not true. If AMD chips were incompatible say with SSE2 even though they set the SSE2 flag in the processor, then Intel would _want_ any AMD system to lock up and point to that incompatibility. Since the code _works_ on AMD chips, Intel does what is the second best thing for Intel and makes the code run slow on AMD instead.
'' It astounds me that Apple flips the bird to all of the Windows UI conventions for marketing purposes and nobody seems to care. Everything from their own anti-aliasing algorithm for text, their own custom widgets, to windows that you can only resize from the right corner. Of course, many legit Windows applications do the same thing, but it seems highly hypocritical of Apple to say, "you should stick to conventions when designing UIs" and then hardcode their own ideas in when developing on another platform. ''
Depends on the target audience. The target audience seem to be Mac users who are forced to use a Windows PC for some reason, and developers who want to make their webpages iPhone-ready.
'' Because they haven't released Safari 3 (beta) for Mac (yet).''
Actually, they have. Guess what I'm typing this in.
'' Every single dialog box and effect is Aqua style. Even though both OS X and Windows XP / Vista have theme engines meaning there should be absolutely no reason at all for doing this. ''
But there is a very good reason to do this. Apple wants Windows users who don't think about looking at a Mac to have a good look at MacOS X.
The surprise is that "Print to PDF" will create a PDF file that cannot be printed at all.
'' My files were stolen. Prove me wrong. ''
I don't have to. You lost.
'' Do they "allow" printing? If so, print to "pdf". haha ''
And get a surprise.
Things to watch out for when you think you got "same specs": How many of the 4 GB can you actually use on the Dell and how many on the MacBook Pro?
'' Not to mention I actually get millions of colors...
Did I mention that already? ''
How many millions of colours on your Gateway computer? 16.2 million?
'' Assuming this organization gets off the ground, I wonder if there would be any grounds for a lawsuit against them for "damages sustained" while a vendor is arguing over the price for a fix. ''
I would be more wondering whether they would go to jail immediately, as the information in the patent application, which has to be publicly available, will give hackers the means to attack machines, and publishing such information seems to be for example against British laws.
'' This is very ironic because in many states, no-competes aren't enforcible, the company isn't allowed to keep you from earning a living. ''
:-) As a result, enforcement is very, very, very rare.
In Germany, non-competes in employment contracts are enforcible - but only as long as the previous employer gives you reasonable compensation. Like paying the same amount you could earn, without you having to work for it
I don't think you have ever programmed using HFS+. The problems that you imagine just don't exist.
In a case-sensitive file system, or to be more precise, in a file system where any file names containing two different letters are considered different, you compare filenames by comparing individual letters. In HFS+, each letter is mapped to a code using some table lookup, and then the codes are compared to see if two filenames are different or not, and how they are ordered; some characters are even ignored. This makes the comparison code slightly more complicated, but not much. The number of filename comparisons is unchanged.
Second, there is no issue with internationalization at all. In HFS+, the tables used in the table lookup described above are independent of any locale, and they are independent of any changes in the Unicode standard as well. HFS+ doesn't care about internationalisation at all. And since every bit of code that looks for the existence of a file uses the same algorithm (for example "stat" which one might use to determine whether a file exists, and "fopen" which also needs to determine whether a file exists), your last scenario cannot happen.
'' So when can I get a 2-button trackpad? Come on, Apple, that's just one mouse button per core. I want a real button, not a clever software simulation of two buttons. Just humor me, I'm dying to buy one of these babies. ''
If you want one button per core, Apple will indeed humor you. Install the developer tools, and you can turn off one core.