Right, because time and time again, terms of service have been found to superceed legislation, case law, and reasonable expectations. Courts just do whatever the companies print on the outside of the box. I mean, that's what it says they're for in the Constitution, don'tcha know?
Oh, I guess for logo, it is pretty "direct" to step. Your commands produce visual output so seeing which are doing what seems reasonable. I wonder if what is really wanted is some kind of.. movie view. Forward, rewind, step, backup.
I'd pay as much as 14 dollars for a full-quality download of a recording I'm prety sure I'd like.
For a lossy-compressed recording I am unsure about? I paid them 3 british pounds (a little over 6 dollars, 7 with service charge). Heck, I can always "buy" it again.
If you use SBC-line DSL, you can almost certainly get internet service from Sonic.net which is an upsstanding organization, and has never monkeyed with my data at all. It is possible to directly communicate with staff via email or their local usenet groups, to get information on policy and technical issues.
I do, however, avoid overusing my link in consideration of their costs. That is to say, I do not have torrents running 24x7, or I would either be sucking money out of them. They may have some procedure in place to address such problems, and I would expect it to be respectful and sane, but I've never heard about it being invoked.
Your position is something other than what I stated.
Money spent on public works is considered to be in the public good. Money spent to acquire licenses for a operational necessity from a private corporation or other entity is not in the public good. It is necessary or unnecessary operational spending. If unnecessary it is waste. Perhaps it is necessary! Perhaps it is the most efficient path. I make no claims about that at this time, but it still is not similar to expenditures on parks, hospitals, education, etc.
Personally I find the use patterns of a debugger pretty effortful to pick up. It's a powerful tool and what it does is fairly obvious but how to use it is kind of a long climb. printf-type debugging (some call this tombstones) seems really obvious though, and easy to grasp. Essentially I'm not sure a learning environment needs a debugger.
His or her surmise was totally reasonable. The chance that they were not secret agents is staggeringly high. The chance that the were not secret agents acting in their official capacity is overwhelmingly high. Describing them as not secret agents can be read by normal people who are not acting as an avatar of the old god Nitpick McGinty as a comparison with the other situation under discussion.
Yeah, you can try to level 30-46 without going into Stranglethorn Vale but it's damn near impossible. The other areas of the game (Desolace, Arathi highlands, etc) have nowhere near the same quest density that STV does. Everyone says this but it's just not true. I really dislike stranglethorn, and so I don't do it. Arathi and Desolace have plenty of content to get you to 35, at which point Dustwallow Marsh, Badlands, and Aterac Mountains all open up, giving you plenty of content to get to 40, whereupon Tanaris, Feralas, and the Hinterlands are available to you.
There's no need to spend any time at all in Stranglethorn if you aren't interested in it. Stranglethorn does have the highest quest density, so if your goal is to get to 70 as fast as possible, I guess it's the place for you. I don't really understand why so many people have this goal, but the time to achieve that is being cut by around 20-30% in the near future, so rejoice.
With the rest, I agree. The later-azeroth stuff has too much round-the-world silliness. Late 50s is ignored by most (although in my second character to do this I'm deliberately choosing to run scholomance, etc, because they're GREAT!).
As for class balance it's quite fiddly, it takes some time for classes to level so there are very different populations of classes at different levels. Healers for example are on the upswing (wow census data). I also haven't really encountered much of a lack of tanks, although I've certainly encountered players who insist certain class/specs can't tank who can! Eg. booting arms warriors from ramparts groups then finding they can't get a "proper" tank.
Traditionally there were no configurable display options on any console games. With the advent of higher resolution television this has been changing. I do not own one of these higher resolution televisions and cannot comment on how the various games behave. However, because the hardware is a closed system, "tuning" the game to run at a reasonable, non-bothersome, steady framerate on the hardware is an achievable goal, and in my (non-HD) experience is nearly always (over 99% of the time) achieved.
The commentary on Groklaw was that he had a reputation for spectacular losing cases. If you have a case you're pretty sure you'll lose but you want to make a big song and dance out of it, Boies seems to be your man. I think that seems to fit with some of his clients lately.
Fisting isn't really so much a practice of male homosexuals as an unusual kink. The vast majority of gay men do not fist or get fisted. Some straight men enjoy being penetrated (often by their female partner, but some find other avenues), some even enjoy being fisted and seek it out.
Various straight compatriots of mine find fisting sufficiently unusual and frankly on the face of it, funny-sounding, that it is a topic of discussion from time to time. Of course, we do not go into grisly detail, partially because I doubt any of the males in my usual circles have actually been fisted (although I have not taken any surveys). Certainly if someone was to go into extensive "gory" detail over the topic I would suspect they were obsessed.
a website like this one that mods someone as flamebait for daring to suggest that an argument about business models does not hold up under scrutiny is clearly one-sided and wrong, yes. Well, you've backpedaled some, but you need to do some more.
Your statement that it's one-sided, while stretching the truth, is more or less accurate. That it is necessarily wrong doesn't follow. That was your error.
I set up a cacheing proxy (squid) and it's the single biggest improvment to my browsing experience ever. I give it around 6 gigabytes (powers of 2) to play with, in a combination of the file stores and the experimental newer object store (for the bigger crap), and tweaked the expiration times to meet my single-user needs (keep the data for weeks folks). Pages just come up kablam.
The huge number of incidental stupid little bitmaps on sites are all a local socket away.
What's interesting is to look at the performance characterstics of copying 300kb - a few megs of graphics over a local socket vs mmapping it in or whatever. It's a nontrivial additional amount of time to do all those memcpys and context switches. But it beats the HELL out of any browser cache. I don't understand why the browser people can't, in the worst case, just use the guts of a decent http caching proxy. Some of them are open source guys!
It's hard to engage company principals when the company won't take your calls. (Or your emails. And signs for a fedex containing your complaint and your contact info, but haven't replied at all a week later.) The message board shows they aware of the issue internally and that they are capable of responding.
Ok, hypothetical: When a company is confronted by users, they talk trash. Afterwards, when confronted by lawyers, they clam up. Is this a recipe for avoiding a lawsuit?
The SFLC may not quite be at IBM's "blacken the skies of Utah with lawyers" level, but they're not empty cease and desist letters with no resources to back it up either.
To quote lolcats: They are serious lawyers, this is serious lawsuit. (Against invisible defendant at the time...)
As for venue, the SFLC is located in New York, so it's convenient for them to ask for that as the venue. (There was some legal case noticing that the internet is everywhere that's precedent for this, they explained it to me on the phone but it's not my area.) Since copyright is federal this seems to me as much a matter of convenience as anything, but IANAL.:) (Yeah, I know, different precedents in different circuit courts. Not my area. This is why one _has_ lawyers. I happily defer to their expertise in matters of appropriate venue...)
P.S. Thank PJ for all this, she introduced Erik and me to the SFLC back when we declared the "hall of shame" a failure and turned to her for suggestions. We're pretty happy so far...:)
The valuable part of the old days is that the number of pointless comments (like this one) were small, and without even moderation you could spot the comment from the engineer who actually was working on the product or technology discussed. The comment would typically contain 4-10 corrections of the article and a discussion for the rationale of the thing and their direction in making it.
It was really the most efficient technology news discussion system around. 1 - Post woefully flawed tidbit on upcoming technology or product. 2 - Engineer/developer working on said thing posts intelligent, informative and interesting report on same. 3 - Everyone reads said comment.
A combination of factors has destroyed this. Slashdot no longer appeals to the types of people who actually build and design such systems; the comment system and field is much noisier due to popularity, trolls, and other miscellany; there is more corporate awareness about "blogs" posting key information about upcoming things without explicit corporate blessing is generally frowned upon.
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Right, because time and time again, terms of service have been found to superceed legislation, case law, and reasonable expectations. Courts just do whatever the companies print on the outside of the box. I mean, that's what it says they're for in the Constitution, don'tcha know?
Great, now convince the computer users of the world to all use passwords one letter longer than they are currently using.
If you succeed I will buy you a unicorn.
It's totally snotty. Given.
But it's not really a reversal. We're all sad.
I would prefer B, because it is more untenable, and thus more likely to fail, as it should.
Oh, I guess for logo, it is pretty "direct" to step. Your commands produce visual output so seeing which are doing what seems reasonable. I wonder if what is really wanted is some kind of .. movie view. Forward, rewind, step, backup.
To be clear, for a full quality recording with a portable, physical backup medium included (a CD), I've been known to pay well over 20 dollars.
The actual CD has real utility and real costs. I expect to pay less for downloads and even less for lossy.
I'd pay as much as 14 dollars for a full-quality download of a recording I'm prety sure I'd like.
For a lossy-compressed recording I am unsure about? I paid them 3 british pounds (a little over 6 dollars, 7 with service charge). Heck, I can always "buy" it again.
If you use SBC-line DSL, you can almost certainly get internet service from Sonic.net which is an upsstanding organization, and has never monkeyed with my data at all. It is possible to directly communicate with staff via email or their local usenet groups, to get information on policy and technical issues.
I do, however, avoid overusing my link in consideration of their costs. That is to say, I do not have torrents running 24x7, or I would either be sucking money out of them. They may have some procedure in place to address such problems, and I would expect it to be respectful and sane, but I've never heard about it being invoked.
Your position is something other than what I stated.
Money spent on public works is considered to be in the public good. Money spent to acquire licenses for a operational necessity from a private corporation or other entity is not in the public good. It is necessary or unnecessary operational spending. If unnecessary it is waste. Perhaps it is necessary! Perhaps it is the most efficient path. I make no claims about that at this time, but it still is not similar to expenditures on parks, hospitals, education, etc.
I'm confused. Squeek is a smalltalk implementation. I cannot find a scheme variant by this name.
I believe you that there is a thing like what you describe, and I'm sort of interested in it, all I have found is http://www.colorstudy.com/static/ianb/old/logo-scheme/
Personally I find the use patterns of a debugger pretty effortful to pick up. It's a powerful tool and what it does is fairly obvious but how to use it is kind of a long climb. printf-type debugging (some call this tombstones) seems really obvious though, and easy to grasp. Essentially I'm not sure a learning environment needs a debugger.
His or her surmise was totally reasonable. The chance that they were not secret agents is staggeringly high. The chance that the were not secret agents acting in their official capacity is overwhelmingly high. Describing them as not secret agents can be read by normal people who are not acting as an avatar of the old god Nitpick McGinty as a comparison with the other situation under discussion.
He or she was right too.
Those things are generally considered to be for the public good.
rtorrent runs happily on a 486.
this is plenty of horsepower for even utorrent.
emule... likes to eat more ram than this has.
nitpick: osx has multiple versions.
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/
It's the new "bsd is dying". They needed a new topic to make totally nonsense claims about.
There's no need to spend any time at all in Stranglethorn if you aren't interested in it. Stranglethorn does have the highest quest density, so if your goal is to get to 70 as fast as possible, I guess it's the place for you. I don't really understand why so many people have this goal, but the time to achieve that is being cut by around 20-30% in the near future, so rejoice.
With the rest, I agree. The later-azeroth stuff has too much round-the-world silliness. Late 50s is ignored by most (although in my second character to do this I'm deliberately choosing to run scholomance, etc, because they're GREAT!).
As for class balance it's quite fiddly, it takes some time for classes to level so there are very different populations of classes at different levels. Healers for example are on the upswing (wow census data). I also haven't really encountered much of a lack of tanks, although I've certainly encountered players who insist certain class/specs can't tank who can! Eg. booting arms warriors from ramparts groups then finding they can't get a "proper" tank.
Traditionally there were no configurable display options on any console games. With the advent of higher resolution television this has been changing. I do not own one of these higher resolution televisions and cannot comment on how the various games behave. However, because the hardware is a closed system, "tuning" the game to run at a reasonable, non-bothersome, steady framerate on the hardware is an achievable goal, and in my (non-HD) experience is nearly always (over 99% of the time) achieved.
The commentary on Groklaw was that he had a reputation for spectacular losing cases. If you have a case you're pretty sure you'll lose but you want to make a big song and dance out of it, Boies seems to be your man. I think that seems to fit with some of his clients lately.
This is getting pretty far off topic but....
Fisting isn't really so much a practice of male homosexuals as an unusual kink. The vast majority of gay men do not fist or get fisted. Some straight men enjoy being penetrated (often by their female partner, but some find other avenues), some even enjoy being fisted and seek it out.
Various straight compatriots of mine find fisting sufficiently unusual and frankly on the face of it, funny-sounding, that it is a topic of discussion from time to time. Of course, we do not go into grisly detail, partially because I doubt any of the males in my usual circles have actually been fisted (although I have not taken any surveys). Certainly if someone was to go into extensive "gory" detail over the topic I would suspect they were obsessed.
Your statement that it's one-sided, while stretching the truth, is more or less accurate. That it is necessarily wrong doesn't follow. That was your error.
Browser caches suck, you're right.
I set up a cacheing proxy (squid) and it's the single biggest improvment to my browsing experience ever. I give it around 6 gigabytes (powers of 2) to play with, in a combination of the file stores and the experimental newer object store (for the bigger crap), and tweaked the expiration times to meet my single-user needs (keep the data for weeks folks). Pages just come up kablam.
The huge number of incidental stupid little bitmaps on sites are all a local socket away.
What's interesting is to look at the performance characterstics of copying 300kb - a few megs of graphics over a local socket vs mmapping it in or whatever. It's a nontrivial additional amount of time to do all those memcpys and context switches. But it beats the HELL out of any browser cache. I don't understand why the browser people can't, in the worst case, just use the guts of a decent http caching proxy. Some of them are open source guys!
If a site is anti-copyright it must be wrong?
Sorry it still isn't theft, no matter how many times you say it so. The term in both vernacular and legalese is incorrect.
I have heard tell that we are not currently capable of manufacturing apollo rockets. I haven't investigated.
The valuable part of the old days is that the number of pointless comments (like this one) were small, and without even moderation you could spot the comment from the engineer who actually was working on the product or technology discussed. The comment would typically contain 4-10 corrections of the article and a discussion for the rationale of the thing and their direction in making it.
It was really the most efficient technology news discussion system around. 1 - Post woefully flawed tidbit on upcoming technology or product. 2 - Engineer/developer working on said thing posts intelligent, informative and interesting report on same. 3 - Everyone reads said comment.
A combination of factors has destroyed this. Slashdot no longer appeals to the types of people who actually build and design such systems; the comment system and field is much noisier due to popularity, trolls, and other miscellany; there is more corporate awareness about "blogs" posting key information about upcoming things without explicit corporate blessing is generally frowned upon.