That reminds me - I am from the only state to have Broderbund make a special version of Carmen Sandiego for it: Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego. We played that one in elementary school on the Apples a bit, but where we really had fun with it was in 7th and 8th grade science (Earth Science and Biology), where the teacher was ancient (how many of you had the same football coach as your father did?) and had an Apple II stuck in the corner of the room without the sense of hearing to care that we were playing games.
But the real games I grew up with were Sargon III (on the IBM, a port that Wikipedia doesn't acknowledge exists) and Flight Simulator 4, and then a plethora of games that our computer vendor put on the computer, most of which I don't remember (some of your list was there, though). Those that I played were a helicopter game and then a few GW-BASIC games... and when my EE uncle taught me how to escape out of those, print the code, and edit it, I got into programming. The lunar lander game was so much easier when it displayed 9 relevant variables in numeric form instead of just 1, and I easily spent more time and thought hunting the Wumpus on printed source listings than in the game.
My kids will probably get a Nintendo. I'll claim to be some sort of Zen master and insist that only when they appreciate the Nintendo will they truly be ready for a Wii, or whatever exists by the time I have kids.
Just so we're all clear on this: You couldn't afford to drop a quarter on DK but you could afford to keep three full-size cabinet arcade games in your basement.
I know little about taxes. Do you mean that the IRS assumes a basis of $0 in any property you sell unless you have a receipt for the original purchase, and thus that any sale you make without a purchase receipt on hand is fully taxable as income? That sucks.
You're not paying sales tax when you sell it. (Well, you may have to in some cases but your buyer should be paying you for that.) You are, however, paying income tax on the gain you realize when you sell. If you buy something for $10 and sell it for $20, that's $10 of income. That said, I haven't RTFA or anything and don't really see why the IRS wants to track eBay sales: how many sales on eBay are really going to realize taxable gains?
I didn't say that police can't do their business without their lights flashing. But when it comes to breaking traffic laws, it's not like they're suddenly inconspicuous when they run red lights at 120mph compared to having the light bar active.
Here's my rule: If the lights aren't flashing, every law applies just as it would to me. If the lights are flashing, then a radio call is mandatory to have a record of why they're flashing and all traffic laws are suspended so long as you drive within reason given the circumstances. But if the lights aren't flashing, follow the laws.
We're supposed to be a nation of laws, not of men. As soon as certain men are exempt from laws because of their status as government officers, we're a nation of men. That's bad.
You should have picked a language with strict word order rules. Latin is one of the most flexible languages out there in terms of word order. However, the more common word orderings from Latin seem to have become rules in some of the Romance languages. For instance, 'te amo' in most of them where there are probably 12 ways to order the words for the same sentence in Latin.;)
Learn how UNIX stores files. This revolutionary new article will show you how to use ls and cd, and you will walk away with a complete understanding of how files are stored. More magic demystified, indeed!
I was with Superb for a leased server for a few years. I was very pleased with it and only moved on because I decided to colocate a server of my own construction. The trick is to watch for specials. They'll frequently have slightly-underpowered hardware (mine had an 80GB hard drive, a 1.4GHz Celeron, and 512MB of RAM) on special. I paid $80/month for 1,000GB of transfer, and the latency was phenomenally low. Their customer service always treated me well and answered the phone when I called, and when I needed it they have a nice Java KVM setup to give you console access.
When I realized the possibility that Alanis was actually being ironic, I thought I would have to start respecting her. It turns out that she's still obnoxious as hell, so I'm safe. But you can bet I'll never stop saying "No, Alanis, this is ironic." anytime the opportunity presents itself. (Quote stolen from a lesbian stand-up comedian I saw on Comedy Central years ago. I wish I could remember her name.)
That's not why I complained about the idiotic Y2K bit in the blurb. A flop is a product that is so badly timed, badly designed, badly received, or badly something else that it fails. Y2K isn't a product. It's that simple. The polio vaccine could be a flop (such as if the polio virus were already extinct by the time it was marketed). But y2k can't be a flop any more than "off by one errors" can be. Or maybe I'm wrong. How much did you guys pay to buy your y2ks?
To be further pedantic of the GP comment, unanimous juries are still required in civil cases in most states (of course, only when the parties request a jury trial). The difference is the standard of proof: in criminal cases, guilt must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, whereas in civil cases, the standard is the preponderance of the evidence (although some issues have an intermediate standard, clear and convincing evidence). Some jurisdictions may allow a jury decision in a civil case to be less than unanimous, but at least some of them still require unanimity. When the members of the jury cannot agree on a verdict, you have a hung jury in those jurisdictions. And the losing side usually has the right to poll the jury, meaning ask each juror "Is this your verdict?" and if one of them says "no" you get a new trial.
One time, I was going to install Windows for dual booting on a box that had FreeBSD, so I thought I'd be smart and back up my partition table and boot sector:
dd of=/dev/hd0 if=bootblock.bak bs=512 count=1
Oops. Should have had some coffee so I would have noticed my zombie-esque typo. I didn't realize what I had done until I had already typed "reboot." Granted, I could probably have recovered my data, but that was before I learned how to do that.
That information was certainly not in the article blurb, and you are around 18 years old so you should be wise enough in the ways of the world to know that nobody here reads the articles. And no, I never used this service, because I graduated high school before it existed. Might I ask what the consequences would have been had you refused to agree to what you call "an EULA/TOS"? (I am thinking it's possibly TOS but not EULA, except in the most perverse sense of the term EULA.)
The same can be said of bookstores, except that some will let you read the entire book without buying it. Especially given that the works in question are high school papers, I think that the reduced profit from distribution factor is less important here.
Yeah, that. You don't get statutory damages or attorney's fees, or something like that, right? So they'd have to show actual damages, which seems rather pointless here. Mea culpa.
Here's an important difference: Google Books takes the entire work and makes it available for reading, and with many of those it only makes part of the work available for reading as far as I am aware. Turnitin, by contrast, takes the entire work and does not make any part of it available for others to read, but uses it purely to check against other incoming works. Google's use is more fair because it gives the work a wider audience. Turnitin's use is less fair because its use has no benefits outside its own profits.
The problem with that is that the students aren't submitting anything to Turnitin - they aren't the "you" in the Turnitin usage terms and they are not party to those terms. The school and teachers are doing that. The students probably didn't give the school or teachers a license to do that, I'm guessing.
As to the bit in the story blurb about them formally copyrighting their papers prior to submission to Turnitin, that isn't at all clear to me from scanning the article. What is much more probable is that the students formally registered their copyrights prior to filing the lawsuit, which is a requirement for suing on a copyright in the U.S. (Your work is automatically protected by copyright law, even without a copyright notice these days, but in order to sue for infringement you have to register your copyright.)
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That reminds me - I am from the only state to have Broderbund make a special version of Carmen Sandiego for it: Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego. We played that one in elementary school on the Apples a bit, but where we really had fun with it was in 7th and 8th grade science (Earth Science and Biology), where the teacher was ancient (how many of you had the same football coach as your father did?) and had an Apple II stuck in the corner of the room without the sense of hearing to care that we were playing games.
... and when my EE uncle taught me how to escape out of those, print the code, and edit it, I got into programming. The lunar lander game was so much easier when it displayed 9 relevant variables in numeric form instead of just 1, and I easily spent more time and thought hunting the Wumpus on printed source listings than in the game.
But the real games I grew up with were Sargon III (on the IBM, a port that Wikipedia doesn't acknowledge exists) and Flight Simulator 4, and then a plethora of games that our computer vendor put on the computer, most of which I don't remember (some of your list was there, though). Those that I played were a helicopter game and then a few GW-BASIC games
My kids will probably get a Nintendo. I'll claim to be some sort of Zen master and insist that only when they appreciate the Nintendo will they truly be ready for a Wii, or whatever exists by the time I have kids.
Just so we're all clear on this: You couldn't afford to drop a quarter on DK but you could afford to keep three full-size cabinet arcade games in your basement.
I know little about taxes. Do you mean that the IRS assumes a basis of $0 in any property you sell unless you have a receipt for the original purchase, and thus that any sale you make without a purchase receipt on hand is fully taxable as income? That sucks.
You're not paying sales tax when you sell it. (Well, you may have to in some cases but your buyer should be paying you for that.) You are, however, paying income tax on the gain you realize when you sell. If you buy something for $10 and sell it for $20, that's $10 of income. That said, I haven't RTFA or anything and don't really see why the IRS wants to track eBay sales: how many sales on eBay are really going to realize taxable gains?
I didn't say that police can't do their business without their lights flashing. But when it comes to breaking traffic laws, it's not like they're suddenly inconspicuous when they run red lights at 120mph compared to having the light bar active.
What, one? Any odd number greater than 1 would be foolish investing at best. :P
Here's my rule: If the lights aren't flashing, every law applies just as it would to me. If the lights are flashing, then a radio call is mandatory to have a record of why they're flashing and all traffic laws are suspended so long as you drive within reason given the circumstances. But if the lights aren't flashing, follow the laws.
We're supposed to be a nation of laws, not of men. As soon as certain men are exempt from laws because of their status as government officers, we're a nation of men. That's bad.
You should have picked a language with strict word order rules. Latin is one of the most flexible languages out there in terms of word order. However, the more common word orderings from Latin seem to have become rules in some of the Romance languages. For instance, 'te amo' in most of them where there are probably 12 ways to order the words for the same sentence in Latin. ;)
Dude...what the heck kind of managerese is "overalmost"? What does it mean? I'm so lost.
Learn how UNIX stores files. This revolutionary new article will show you how to use ls and cd, and you will walk away with a complete understanding of how files are stored. More magic demystified, indeed!
No, that's poor planning. At most, coincidental. Unless you care to explain the irony explicitly for us naysayers. :)
I was with Superb for a leased server for a few years. I was very pleased with it and only moved on because I decided to colocate a server of my own construction. The trick is to watch for specials. They'll frequently have slightly-underpowered hardware (mine had an 80GB hard drive, a 1.4GHz Celeron, and 512MB of RAM) on special. I paid $80/month for 1,000GB of transfer, and the latency was phenomenally low. Their customer service always treated me well and answered the phone when I called, and when I needed it they have a nice Java KVM setup to give you console access.
When I realized the possibility that Alanis was actually being ironic, I thought I would have to start respecting her. It turns out that she's still obnoxious as hell, so I'm safe. But you can bet I'll never stop saying "No, Alanis, this is ironic." anytime the opportunity presents itself. (Quote stolen from a lesbian stand-up comedian I saw on Comedy Central years ago. I wish I could remember her name.)
That's not why I complained about the idiotic Y2K bit in the blurb. A flop is a product that is so badly timed, badly designed, badly received, or badly something else that it fails. Y2K isn't a product. It's that simple. The polio vaccine could be a flop (such as if the polio virus were already extinct by the time it was marketed). But y2k can't be a flop any more than "off by one errors" can be. Or maybe I'm wrong. How much did you guys pay to buy your y2ks?
Get your lawyers off me, you damn dirty ape!
To be further pedantic of the GP comment, unanimous juries are still required in civil cases in most states (of course, only when the parties request a jury trial). The difference is the standard of proof: in criminal cases, guilt must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, whereas in civil cases, the standard is the preponderance of the evidence (although some issues have an intermediate standard, clear and convincing evidence). Some jurisdictions may allow a jury decision in a civil case to be less than unanimous, but at least some of them still require unanimity. When the members of the jury cannot agree on a verdict, you have a hung jury in those jurisdictions. And the losing side usually has the right to poll the jury, meaning ask each juror "Is this your verdict?" and if one of them says "no" you get a new trial.
NCC-1701E was TNG ship.
Yours is the second Geek Card I've hard to revoke this week. The NCC-1701E is, of course, post-TNG, despite being crewed largely by TNG characters.
Oops. Should have had some coffee so I would have noticed my zombie-esque typo. I didn't realize what I had done until I had already typed "reboot." Granted, I could probably have recovered my data, but that was before I learned how to do that.
That information was certainly not in the article blurb, and you are around 18 years old so you should be wise enough in the ways of the world to know that nobody here reads the articles. And no, I never used this service, because I graduated high school before it existed. Might I ask what the consequences would have been had you refused to agree to what you call "an EULA/TOS"? (I am thinking it's possibly TOS but not EULA, except in the most perverse sense of the term EULA.)
You mean there's a side of Princess Leia you don't want to lick? Hand over your geek card right now, imposter!
The same can be said of bookstores, except that some will let you read the entire book without buying it. Especially given that the works in question are high school papers, I think that the reduced profit from distribution factor is less important here.
Yeah, that. You don't get statutory damages or attorney's fees, or something like that, right? So they'd have to show actual damages, which seems rather pointless here. Mea culpa.
Here's an important difference: Google Books takes the entire work and makes it available for reading, and with many of those it only makes part of the work available for reading as far as I am aware. Turnitin, by contrast, takes the entire work and does not make any part of it available for others to read, but uses it purely to check against other incoming works. Google's use is more fair because it gives the work a wider audience. Turnitin's use is less fair because its use has no benefits outside its own profits.
The problem with that is that the students aren't submitting anything to Turnitin - they aren't the "you" in the Turnitin usage terms and they are not party to those terms. The school and teachers are doing that. The students probably didn't give the school or teachers a license to do that, I'm guessing.
As to the bit in the story blurb about them formally copyrighting their papers prior to submission to Turnitin, that isn't at all clear to me from scanning the article. What is much more probable is that the students formally registered their copyrights prior to filing the lawsuit, which is a requirement for suing on a copyright in the U.S. (Your work is automatically protected by copyright law, even without a copyright notice these days, but in order to sue for infringement you have to register your copyright.)
If you do the same thing as everyone else but do it better, you don't have to come up with anything new. What new things do you really want in a CPU?