And I hope I can rally enough people to work toward a CDMA version. It shouldn't be too hard - just have to find a good CDMA modem and write libcdma to replace their libgsmd. Or am I missing something? I know I can't do GSM - I really don't know how AT&T (Cingular) can possibly claim to have the largest network in America without qualifying that it's the largest GSM network, given that it covers hardly anywhere I spend any amount of time whereas CDMA has never left me without service anywhere in the continental USA.
Maybe you missed that the name of that one and only insurance company for the entire province of Manitoba (not just for the city) is Manitoba Public Insurance. It's not only a mandatory monopoly, but as far as I'm aware it's fully owned and operated by the provincial government. (IANAC, although I spent 21 years of my life within hours of Winnipeg.)
That's pretty Anglocentric and is exactly the thing that people bitch about Americans for. When an American says "fag," he doesn't mean cigarette. When a Brit says "crisp," he's not describing his vegetables. It's called context and it's a big part of effective communication. Here, the context was an American website posting an American news item - the context is going to be American English. I don't go into London pubs and get upset when someone offers me chips and refuses to call them fries for my benefit alone. I especially don't get upset about it after he politely explains that chips are fries and gives me a friendly lesson on why that is. Is that what you're doing here, or is it just the way it appears to people not locked inside your head?
I apologize. I was unaware of the rule that it is absolutely necessary to include a glossary of all American terms every time a US-hosted news aggregator posts a US news item.
Yes, in the literal sense of the word "imprisoned," but you are not "in prison." Technically, a jail is a variety of prison, but in common usage the two are distinct concepts. See prison and jail on Wikipedia for some more explanation. In summary, though, the original comment that started this was pretty much right on: you generally go to jail when you are arrested or when you are sentenced for less than a year and you go to prison when you are sentenced to a year or more or to death.
The one-year distinction actually comes from further back, though: a felony is any offense punishable by a year or more of confinement while a misdemeanor is anything with a lesser penalty. Therefore, you generally don't do prison time for misdemeanors.
There's more to it than that. In most of the U.S., you are forced to go into court with a shotgun because you are only allowed one shot. Rather than taking your chances on one well-placed shot, you want to hit all potential targets at once to increase your overall expected outcome.
A second language, indeed. The blurb has too many articles and other needless words left in. I hope this helps:
"At meeting of college librarians, experts tell they need start thinking way video game producers think and provide library services make sense to those play computer games. 'In era when most students go museum see old-fashioned card catalog, there no doubt libraries have embraced technology. But speakers said larger split between students -- "digital natives," popular way classifying people experience with technology -- and librarians, more likely be "digital immigrants." They may learned language, but it second language.'"
Do you have anything to back up Moore calling his films "op-ed pieces"? I have only seen him refer to them as "documentaries" and would be curious to see him being more honest about it, especially since, to my knowledge, his movies themselves don't actually present themselves as anything short of the truth.
Whatever their tactic may be in general, this order was issued as part of an actual lawsuit, Capitol Records, Inc., et al. v. Does 1-16, Civil No. 07-485 WJ/LFG (D. N.M.). The order is available online, for instance. Note the language "Plaintiffs, companies who own copyrights in various sound recordings, bring an action against unnamed Defendants, Does 1-16, for copyright infringement."
You're on the right track, but remember that this isn't a case of an anonymous plaintiff, but rather of unknown defendants. Part of what the RIAA is trying to find out through discovery seems to be the identity of the people they are suing.
I have been wondering this for awhile now and I finally have a relevant story to ask it on: Is ZFS 128-bit or not? It claims to be 128-bit, but Wikipedia gives:
2^48 - Number of snapshots in any file system (2 × 1014)
2^48 - Number of files in any individual file system (2 × 1014)
16 EiB (2^64 bytes) - Maximum size of a file system
16 EiB - Maximum size of a single file
16 EiB - Maximum size of any attribute
256 ZiB (2^78 bytes) - Maximum size of any zpool
2^56 - Number of attributes of a file (actually constrained to 2^48 for the number of files in a ZFS file system)
2^56 - Number of files in a directory (actually constrained to 2^48 for the number of files in a ZFS file system)
2^64 - Number of devices in any zpool
2^64 - Number of zpools in a system
2^64 - Number of file systems in a zpool
What is it about ZFS that leads to it being a 128-bit filesystem?
You forgot the supply side of the Canadian system. If you are a good doctor who wants to earn real money, you move to the States. This especially works well if you are willing to live in a relatively small town when you get there.
Okay, so they do it for free. Just sign up for your free Windows Update account. Please enter your name, address, phone number, CD key, Social Security number, mother's maiden name, first pet's name, fingerprint, and first 8 million base pairs of your DNA. Charging money for it isn't the only, or even the best, way to stop people without legitimate copies of Windows from downloading the updates.
This might put an end to Microsoft using current techniques to control who gets their updates. If you push them hard enough, they will end up making the whole process a lot more intrusive than WGA already is. After all, they don't have to give you free updates at all and, if they care enough about this, they'll start charging you monthly fees for your Windows Update account.
The MPRE (Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam) is a multiple-choice test that most states use to qualify potential lawyers for the practice of law. It's separate from the bar exam and tests exclusively on knowledge and application of the lawyer ethics rules. (No jokes, please.) Most practicing lawyers would fail the test miserably, because to do well on it you have to know exactly where the line is between ethical and unethical and be able to precisely walk that line on the exam, whereas the majority of practicing lawyers are too paranoid of professional responsibility hearings and malpractice suits to walk the line that closely (and the small minority never pay heed to the line and also end up not knowing where it is). But the exam does effectively test knowledge and application of the law. (I won't get into the actual bar exam right now. Don't talk to me about the bar exam until at least the end of July.:P That said, many people think that the bar exam is antiquarian at best and not useful for aspiring lawyers - these people fit within what I'm about to say.)
The truth is that, by and large, people who think that difficult tests are fallacious tend not to understand why those tests are given. The specific things you write on the exam may or may not have real-world application, but that's not the real point of the exam. If it was, you wouldn't have internships and residencies - you'd take a test and then start saving lives when you got your passing score.
That's just it... "goes solar" implies that this is the first set of solar panels on the station, which is patently false. Nothing in the blurb corrects the misstatement, either. That's annoying.
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And I hope I can rally enough people to work toward a CDMA version. It shouldn't be too hard - just have to find a good CDMA modem and write libcdma to replace their libgsmd. Or am I missing something? I know I can't do GSM - I really don't know how AT&T (Cingular) can possibly claim to have the largest network in America without qualifying that it's the largest GSM network, given that it covers hardly anywhere I spend any amount of time whereas CDMA has never left me without service anywhere in the continental USA.
I suspect that you have conflated the US and NYC. I wouldn't get too worried - the two are not on speaking terms.
Maybe you missed that the name of that one and only insurance company for the entire province of Manitoba (not just for the city) is Manitoba Public Insurance. It's not only a mandatory monopoly, but as far as I'm aware it's fully owned and operated by the provincial government. (IANAC, although I spent 21 years of my life within hours of Winnipeg.)
Congratulations, your life is now complete. :P
That's pretty Anglocentric and is exactly the thing that people bitch about Americans for. When an American says "fag," he doesn't mean cigarette. When a Brit says "crisp," he's not describing his vegetables. It's called context and it's a big part of effective communication. Here, the context was an American website posting an American news item - the context is going to be American English. I don't go into London pubs and get upset when someone offers me chips and refuses to call them fries for my benefit alone. I especially don't get upset about it after he politely explains that chips are fries and gives me a friendly lesson on why that is. Is that what you're doing here, or is it just the way it appears to people not locked inside your head?
I apologize. I was unaware of the rule that it is absolutely necessary to include a glossary of all American terms every time a US-hosted news aggregator posts a US news item.
Yes, in the literal sense of the word "imprisoned," but you are not "in prison." Technically, a jail is a variety of prison, but in common usage the two are distinct concepts. See prison and jail on Wikipedia for some more explanation. In summary, though, the original comment that started this was pretty much right on: you generally go to jail when you are arrested or when you are sentenced for less than a year and you go to prison when you are sentenced to a year or more or to death.
The one-year distinction actually comes from further back, though: a felony is any offense punishable by a year or more of confinement while a misdemeanor is anything with a lesser penalty. Therefore, you generally don't do prison time for misdemeanors.
I give you three and a half stars. For full points, you would have needed to work it "The fools! If only they had..." to be fully Futurama compliant.
Maybe if they thought of outside developers as outside contributors rather than amateurs, more people would be willing to put in some effort.
You're right. The much more orthodox opener "So, did you do it?" would have been much more polite.
I hope you don't bill $250/hour for your arithmetic time.
There's more to it than that. In most of the U.S., you are forced to go into court with a shotgun because you are only allowed one shot. Rather than taking your chances on one well-placed shot, you want to hit all potential targets at once to increase your overall expected outcome.
Do you have anything to back up Moore calling his films "op-ed pieces"? I have only seen him refer to them as "documentaries" and would be curious to see him being more honest about it, especially since, to my knowledge, his movies themselves don't actually present themselves as anything short of the truth.
No apology necessary - people with 4-digit Slashdot IDs aren't even allowed to RTFA if they wanted to. :)
Whatever their tactic may be in general, this order was issued as part of an actual lawsuit, Capitol Records, Inc., et al. v. Does 1-16, Civil No. 07-485 WJ/LFG (D. N.M.). The order is available online, for instance. Note the language "Plaintiffs, companies who own copyrights in various sound recordings, bring an action against unnamed Defendants, Does 1-16, for copyright infringement."
You're on the right track, but remember that this isn't a case of an anonymous plaintiff, but rather of unknown defendants. Part of what the RIAA is trying to find out through discovery seems to be the identity of the people they are suing.
So ZFS supports a smooth expansion from a current limit of 2^64 bytes per filesystem to a future limit of 2^128 bytes per filesystem?
Define "address." That was the thought I had, but I couldn't find anything that actually specified a 128-bit pointer to data in ZFS.
I have been wondering this for awhile now and I finally have a relevant story to ask it on: Is ZFS 128-bit or not? It claims to be 128-bit, but Wikipedia gives:
What is it about ZFS that leads to it being a 128-bit filesystem?
You forgot the supply side of the Canadian system. If you are a good doctor who wants to earn real money, you move to the States. This especially works well if you are willing to live in a relatively small town when you get there.
Okay, so they do it for free. Just sign up for your free Windows Update account. Please enter your name, address, phone number, CD key, Social Security number, mother's maiden name, first pet's name, fingerprint, and first 8 million base pairs of your DNA. Charging money for it isn't the only, or even the best, way to stop people without legitimate copies of Windows from downloading the updates.
This might put an end to Microsoft using current techniques to control who gets their updates. If you push them hard enough, they will end up making the whole process a lot more intrusive than WGA already is. After all, they don't have to give you free updates at all and, if they care enough about this, they'll start charging you monthly fees for your Windows Update account.
The MPRE (Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam) is a multiple-choice test that most states use to qualify potential lawyers for the practice of law. It's separate from the bar exam and tests exclusively on knowledge and application of the lawyer ethics rules. (No jokes, please.) Most practicing lawyers would fail the test miserably, because to do well on it you have to know exactly where the line is between ethical and unethical and be able to precisely walk that line on the exam, whereas the majority of practicing lawyers are too paranoid of professional responsibility hearings and malpractice suits to walk the line that closely (and the small minority never pay heed to the line and also end up not knowing where it is). But the exam does effectively test knowledge and application of the law. (I won't get into the actual bar exam right now. Don't talk to me about the bar exam until at least the end of July. :P That said, many people think that the bar exam is antiquarian at best and not useful for aspiring lawyers - these people fit within what I'm about to say.)
The truth is that, by and large, people who think that difficult tests are fallacious tend not to understand why those tests are given. The specific things you write on the exam may or may not have real-world application, but that's not the real point of the exam. If it was, you wouldn't have internships and residencies - you'd take a test and then start saving lives when you got your passing score.
That's just it ... "goes solar" implies that this is the first set of solar panels on the station, which is patently false. Nothing in the blurb corrects the misstatement, either. That's annoying.