... and why do they not publish the full server name? Couldn't I then use my hosts file to redirect that name to 127.0.0.1? And for numeric IP addressing couldn't I set up my ARP cache appropriately?
Just wondering; I'm no net wizard and am sure there's a good reason we're not being told the whole story. Feel free to "correct"...
You might even discover that your movie cannot be transferred or doesn't even work because the service was cancelled. It's happened with PlaysForSure and might happen to Amazon Unbox too some day.
And don't forget DIVX (Digital Video Express) format, not to be confused with the popular DivX codec. Introduced late 1998, discontinued mid-2001 leaving movie owners high and dry.
I think SCOTUS is more powerful by far than the President and the Congress combined. Neither of those branches have the power to void the Constitution with an opinion, with the stroke of a pen.
Oddly enough, nowhere in the Constitution does it say the Supreme Court has the power to declare laws unconstitutional. And for good reason. The Founders debated this issue [citation needed] and concluded pretty much what has happened would happen, so left the concept out of the Constitution. In Marbury v. Madison SCOTUS went ahead and declared itself almighty anyway, and apparently they got away with it. Even though almost everybody had firearms back then...
... the dev team has hashed this whole thing out amongst themselves in a "bikeshed" style debate, and they've come up with this fricking solution which they had to sweat blood to get everyone to agree to, and then it turns out that users don't like it?
Sounds like somebody should have a chat with Paul Graham. Or maybe just (1) read some of his essays, (2) climb down off their high horsies, and (3) profit.
Your wish has been granted. Well, as far as public funding goes. Stopped long ago. Google "SETI funding" or just look
here. Arecibo no longer looks for little green men. SETI has moved to Hat Creek, California, mostly thanks to Paul Allen's private contributions. If that bothers you, just observe how close the name "Allen" is to the term "Alien".
I've been to Arecibo. It's just like it looks in the movies (don't forget "Contact"). But aside from looking like you'd expect it to look, I also got a feeling of grandeur standing there and imagining all the work that went into the construction. Not exactly the pyramids, but still impressive.
Any website that requires the installation of yet another shitty plugin(tm) can piss off.
I'm not quite that dogmatic, but I am reluctant to download plugins (especially media-related) without knowing a lot about who I'm downloading from. And who wrote the plugin.
I disagree. More workers is more of a workaround than a solution, and doesn't scale well.
A better approach is to make IT software smarter so you don't need so many employees.
(But I also agree having talented immigrants is invariably good for the host country, even though it's taking my job away or cutting my salary. Creative destruction and all that).
...the report is disseminated widely, causing the intended decline
in the price of the target company's stock...
It's also interesting that this "report" came out a couple days before December stock options expiration, right when options are the cheapest so any stock moves give the greatest profit. The SEC could investigate large block options transactions in the past week, but probably won't. Too many things to do before xmas, y'know.
A 10% carbon dioxide atmosphere will lead to loss of conciousness and death for some. When the air reaches 20% carbon dioxide, you will be dead, and the gas burner will still be happily burning
Well, there is the matter of how much O2 is available to burn. I have used one of these 99.7% efficient propane burners for many years now, with no fan nor vent. Propane has a fairly narrow tolerance for the incoming oxygen level. Roughly between 10% and 20% oxygen is suitable, as I found from a Google search. Above that or (more likely) below that there isn't enough O2 to sustain combustion. The flames go out and the thermocouple cools down, cutting off the gas supply.
So there's some safety inherent in the process. Sadly I don't know the CO2 level that corresponds to having burned unventilated atmosphere down to a 10% O2 concentration, but if your burner is in the basement you're probably OK.
Whether media was left wing or right wing, the message was always that 'leaders are out there to shaft you'.
The Left and the Right are both Statist, ergo the never-ending growth in government. What you want are legislators willing to reduce the size of the State. Sadly that's almost an oxymoron. Today's children are tomorrow's... subjects.
Speaking of Phil Hartman, Have The Simpsons producers approached you about voicing Troy McClure, or conversely have you approached them? Phil's death, while tragic, should not be the end of Troy McClure any more than (say) Yeardley Smith's death (heaven forbid!) would mean the end of Lisa Simpson. Put another way Would you voice Troy McClure if The Simpsons producers offered you the role?
Eisenhower was a Lt. Colonel in WWI. Shortly after that war he participated in an Army experiment: moving a motorized convoy across the U.S, East to West. It took something like 68 days, with innumerable breakdowns and washouts. In his report, Ike mentioned there were some roads that had been well-built but not maintained, and had thus deteriorated badly.
After the Normandy invasion Ike's troops were again slogging, this time through French hedgerows. Finally when he got to Germany and could use the Autobahn, well, you know the rest of the story...
based on a sophisticated algorithm called "Triple-ROT52"
Wow -- this is the exact algorithm I use when shuffling cards! I didn't know the Aussies got there first. Then again, I did lose my shirt in a poker game in Sydney a while back...
be sure to know which one you are talking about when you claim verizon is a common carrier
Come on. A wire that goes to my telephone cannot, by my logic, belong to both a common carrier and an independent, exempt entity. I would buy that line of reasoning if Verizon ran one wire for telephone and a separate one for Internet. Outside my house there's only one wire for two services.
As was pointed out earlier, they are a "common carrier" which, according to this definition must
"serve indifferently all potential users". Obviously this doesn't work if you are serving yourself preferentially.
Not really. You can drive without a license -- just not legally. And it happens all the time. This is different from the "prior restriant" form of air travel.
And in any event you don't have to travel to Washington to petition for redress. You have a Member of Congress with a relatively local office, not to mention mail, phone and email access, all monitored by paid staffers.
But I agree it's more fun to argue about presenting papers than discuss the obvious.
I've been a bit put off, too, by the lack of books which actually teach you, run you through some comprehensive exercises so you then can figure out your best approach and tools to use.
Go here and select Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, 2nd edition. I've found it quite helpful in learning how to touch up photos.
OBdisc: I've no relation to the author, publisher, Adobe, etc. In fact, I'm switching to Gimp because it seems to have the same power, but is free. I don't see how Adobe can keep up with the pace of Gimp development. The techniques in Eisman's book apply to Gimp as well, but obviously the specific commands are going to differ.
When you pin your company's profits on over estimating contracts and "finishing early", all you're doing is lying to your clients and screwing them out of their money.
In which case he won't be getting any repeat business from those clients. And in time he'll develop a negative reputation and won't get any business. Just a wild guess, but I bet that's not the case here...
95% confidence... the survey answers are correct and apply to people who were not surveyed... provided that the people surveyed where a random sample of the US population.
3) Point out factual examples of how this report's sampling is wrong.
From the PDF's "Methodology" section:
The sample for each of our tracking surveys is a random digit sample of telephone numbers selected from telephone exchanges in the continental United States.
Wouldn't a telephone survey tend to rule out a lot of low-income people? And possibly skew the numbers that are broken down by race? (On the assumption that minorities are more likely not to have telephones.) And therefore widen the confidence intervals? There's a section at the end of the PDF about trying to account for "non-participation" but it is based on Census Data for households that have telephones, so I don't think that's an attempt to correct for not having a phone. And there are many higher-income families (like mine) that use caller ID and never answer the phone if the caller is not identified, or is an 800 number. Not clear if this biases the sample much, but it's possible.
I have another issue with the income breakdown. There should be a distinction drawn between the "chronically" low-income group and the "student" low-income group. I hypothesize that some fraction of low-income respondents are students using mostly school-based Internet access for a few years, while some other fraction of low-income respondents are the working and unemployed poor who have little hope of seeing their incomes jump substantially. These are two wildly different demographics, lumped together by what appears to be inadequate methodology. I'll bet 98% of the "student" group uses the Internet, while under 25% of the rest of the low-income group do not. Isn't this a distinction worth making?
I don't mean to sound ungrateful to Pew for publishing this work as a public service. But either they are allowing some biased sampling or I failed to understand where and how they correct for it.
Ahh... but the fine print in the article said that the ONLY files that are allowed to be shared are bad french discoteque remixes and Jerry Lewis movies.
That's one point I've not seen mentioned here. Widespread downloading of American movies and CDs will cause further erosion of French "national identity". This of course cannot be allowed to happen, and is the real reason the legislation will never become law.
I have a Sager from http://powernotebooks.com/category.php?catId=25#id 1089 that looks and weighs just like the one shown. And an el cheapo "laptop pad" that you set the thing on, so you have a solid surface for the fans (the PC has little feeties to raise it off the surface), and padding on the other side so it doesn't hurt your lap.
With the "laptop pad" I actually do sit on the couch in my living room and use the PC. It has wireless networking but, alas, I require the (long-wire) AC adapter because the battery life is limited to ~1 hour. Most poker games, I mean, "coding sessions" take longer than that.
I don't think it was mentioned in the review but among the "ports" are all the popular digital camera interfaces. So you can take the CF or SD or whatever out of your camera and mount it from XP and get your pictures directly instead of via USB/serial link.
And yes, a good bag helps to carry it. I think a heavy-duty shoulder pad is the secret.
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Just wondering; I'm no net wizard and am sure there's a good reason we're not being told the whole story. Feel free to "correct"...
You might even discover that your movie cannot be transferred or doesn't even work because the service was cancelled. It's happened with PlaysForSure and might happen to Amazon Unbox too some day.
And don't forget DIVX (Digital Video Express) format, not to be confused with the popular DivX codec. Introduced late 1998, discontinued mid-2001 leaving movie owners high and dry.
Oddly enough, nowhere in the Constitution does it say the Supreme Court has the power to declare laws unconstitutional. And for good reason. The Founders debated this issue [citation needed] and concluded pretty much what has happened would happen, so left the concept out of the Constitution. In Marbury v. Madison SCOTUS went ahead and declared itself almighty anyway, and apparently they got away with it. Even though almost everybody had firearms back then...
Sounds like somebody should have a chat with Paul Graham. Or maybe just (1) read some of his essays, (2) climb down off their high horsies, and (3) profit.
Your wish has been granted. Well, as far as public funding goes. Stopped long ago. Google "SETI funding" or just look here. Arecibo no longer looks for little green men. SETI has moved to Hat Creek, California, mostly thanks to Paul Allen's private contributions. If that bothers you, just observe how close the name "Allen" is to the term "Alien".
I've been to Arecibo. It's just like it looks in the movies (don't forget "Contact"). But aside from looking like you'd expect it to look, I also got a feeling of grandeur standing there and imagining all the work that went into the construction. Not exactly the pyramids, but still impressive.
I'm not quite that dogmatic, but I am reluctant to download plugins (especially media-related) without knowing a lot about who I'm downloading from. And who wrote the plugin.
A better approach is to make IT software smarter so you don't need so many employees.
(But I also agree having talented immigrants is invariably good for the host country, even though it's taking my job away or cutting my salary. Creative destruction and all that).
It's also interesting that this "report" came out a couple days before December stock options expiration, right when options are the cheapest so any stock moves give the greatest profit. The SEC could investigate large block options transactions in the past week, but probably won't. Too many things to do before xmas, y'know.
Well, there is the matter of how much O2 is available to burn. I have used one of these 99.7% efficient propane burners for many years now, with no fan nor vent. Propane has a fairly narrow tolerance for the incoming oxygen level. Roughly between 10% and 20% oxygen is suitable, as I found from a Google search. Above that or (more likely) below that there isn't enough O2 to sustain combustion. The flames go out and the thermocouple cools down, cutting off the gas supply.
So there's some safety inherent in the process. Sadly I don't know the CO2 level that corresponds to having burned unventilated atmosphere down to a 10% O2 concentration, but if your burner is in the basement you're probably OK.
The Left and the Right are both Statist, ergo the never-ending growth in government. What you want are legislators willing to reduce the size of the State. Sadly that's almost an oxymoron. Today's children are tomorrow's ... subjects.
How about Professor of Computer Science?
Speaking of Phil Hartman, Have The Simpsons producers approached you about voicing Troy McClure, or conversely have you approached them? Phil's death, while tragic, should not be the end of Troy McClure any more than (say) Yeardley Smith's death (heaven forbid!) would mean the end of Lisa Simpson. Put another way Would you voice Troy McClure if The Simpsons producers offered you the role?
After the Normandy invasion Ike's troops were again slogging, this time through French hedgerows. Finally when he got to Germany and could use the Autobahn, well, you know the rest of the story...
based on a sophisticated algorithm called "Triple-ROT52" Wow -- this is the exact algorithm I use when shuffling cards! I didn't know the Aussies got there first. Then again, I did lose my shirt in a poker game in Sydney a while back...
Why not issue tinfoil hats to everyone, eh? Up there in Thunder Bay it's cold enough to require headgear, during the school year anyway ...
Come on. A wire that goes to my telephone cannot, by my logic, belong to both a common carrier and an independent, exempt entity. I would buy that line of reasoning if Verizon ran one wire for telephone and a separate one for Internet. Outside my house there's only one wire for two services.
As was pointed out earlier, they are a "common carrier" which, according to this definition must "serve indifferently all potential users". Obviously this doesn't work if you are serving yourself preferentially.
4. Illegal aliens must pay the sales tax, but are ineligible for a "prefund", leading to:
Not really. You can drive without a license -- just not legally. And it happens all the time. This is different from the "prior restriant" form of air travel.
And in any event you don't have to travel to Washington to petition for redress. You have a Member of Congress with a relatively local office, not to mention mail, phone and email access, all monitored by paid staffers.
But I agree it's more fun to argue about presenting papers than discuss the obvious.
Do we "know" this, or is it simply possible that we can more easily find those black holes that emit X-rays?
Go here and select Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, 2nd edition. I've found it quite helpful in learning how to touch up photos.
OBdisc: I've no relation to the author, publisher, Adobe, etc. In fact, I'm switching to Gimp because it seems to have the same power, but is free. I don't see how Adobe can keep up with the pace of Gimp development. The techniques in Eisman's book apply to Gimp as well, but obviously the specific commands are going to differ.
In which case he won't be getting any repeat business from those clients. And in time he'll develop a negative reputation and won't get any business. Just a wild guess, but I bet that's not the case here...
3) Point out factual examples of how this report's sampling is wrong.
From the PDF's "Methodology" section:
Wouldn't a telephone survey tend to rule out a lot of low-income people? And possibly skew the numbers that are broken down by race? (On the assumption that minorities are more likely not to have telephones.) And therefore widen the confidence intervals? There's a section at the end of the PDF about trying to account for "non-participation" but it is based on Census Data for households that have telephones, so I don't think that's an attempt to correct for not having a phone.
And there are many higher-income families (like mine) that use caller ID and never answer the phone if the caller is not identified, or is an 800 number. Not clear if this biases the sample much, but it's possible.
I have another issue with the income breakdown. There should be a distinction drawn between the "chronically" low-income group and the "student" low-income group. I hypothesize that some fraction of low-income respondents are students using mostly school-based Internet access for a few years, while some other fraction of low-income respondents are the working and unemployed poor who have little hope of seeing their incomes jump substantially. These are two wildly different demographics, lumped together by what appears to be inadequate methodology. I'll bet 98% of the "student" group uses the Internet, while under 25% of the rest of the low-income group do not. Isn't this a distinction worth making?
I don't mean to sound ungrateful to Pew for publishing this work as a public service. But either they are allowing some biased sampling or I failed to understand where and how they correct for it.
That's one point I've not seen mentioned here. Widespread downloading of American movies and CDs will cause further erosion of French "national identity". This of course cannot be allowed to happen, and is the real reason the legislation will never become law.
With the "laptop pad" I actually do sit on the couch in my living room and use the PC. It has wireless networking but, alas, I require the (long-wire) AC adapter because the battery life is limited to ~1 hour. Most poker games, I mean, "coding sessions" take longer than that.
I don't think it was mentioned in the review but among the "ports" are all the popular digital camera interfaces. So you can take the CF or SD or whatever out of your camera and mount it from XP and get your pictures directly instead of via USB/serial link.
And yes, a good bag helps to carry it. I think a heavy-duty shoulder pad is the secret.