If the government hadn't granted the companies certain rights (protection of copyrights, patents and trade secrets) the companies would have almost nothing to protect. It's highly absurd to say that a government should have no say whatsoever when it comes to limiting the very rights they themselves have bestowed. You can't both have a cake an eat it.
They also wouldn't have anything to protect because they wouldn't have developed anything in the first place without the guarantee of protection.
If the government grants rights and then takes them away, it's the one trying to have its cake and eat it, too. The company is just operating under the assumption that the government is acting under good faith. Without this assumption, anarchy would ensue.
Actually... only Linux can do it with half the hardware.
For OS X to run somewhat comfortably you need at least 1 Gig of RAM, which is comparable to Vista's requirements, with the single difference that OS X needed so much years ago, when Vista didn't even see a beta release and when RAM was costlier. The usual Mac fan responses on this memory hunger were things like "Get another 1GB bar, dont be a cheapo!" negating the fact that the requirements Vista ist blamed for today, OS X has basically had since 10.0.
Do you actually run OS X? I've run every version, 10.0 to 10.4. I started with a 500 MHz iMac with 10.0.4, and 128 MB RAM. I upgraded to 10.1 when that came out, and finally upgraded to 384 MB about a year later. It ran just fine. In fact, it still runs just fine today, now with 10.2.
I bet if you switch to wearing your watch on your right hand, it keeps its charge better the more you use your computer.
That's true, but it takes a bit of practice before you get used to using a mouse with your left hand. Alternatively, I guess you could keep your watch on the left hand, and just learn to do it left handed.
Oh, he was talking about using a mouse? I thought it would be kept charged by other means...
I use font smoothing on OS X, which if I recall is based on PDF display technology. It works the same on CRTs and LCDs, not being based on sub-pixel access.
MS's ClearType, on the other hand, is based on sub-pixel access. I don't like it because it gives the letters funky tinges of color (at least on my Dell LCD), which I guess is due to each sub-pixel being a particular color (red, green, or blue), not the full spectrum mix available to an entire pixel.
The result is that font smoothing on OS X does not affect the color, so I leave it on. ClearType does affect the color, which I do not appreciate, so I leave it off.
It has nothing to do with "control of the media"... it's about evidence in criminal investigation. It's not like he was even protecting any sources, anyway, he was just filming a bunch of random people.
So in a few months, how will Vista compare? Will it have to have a lot of patches that take awhile to develop, because it's new? According to this metric, that would make it less secure than XP, contradicting MS's claims.
But, hey, maybe it won't need lots of patches, after all.
To be honest, you only really need a calculator until you leave high school. Getting anything fancier than a TI-89 is a waste of money. In college, a simple scientific calculator will suffice for lower division classes. If you go into engineering you will be doing serious math by hand and serious calculations by computer (MATLAB or FORTRAN). No more "graphing" in the sense of the primitive capabilities of graphing calculators. Once you've learned about all the things they can do, you move onto more complex functions and calculations, more complex data sets, and you just don't need to use a calculator to figure out what y = x^2 looks like. I imagine science and mathematics is the same, except maybe with Maple or something.
Quite true. I went through Aerospace Engineering just fine with a TI-82. You mostly just need the calculator for doing simple math, but with lots of digits. For the actual complicated math, I would solve the equations on paper, and reduce to an algebraic expression of known numbers.
A lot of people liked the fancier calculators, but honestly, if you need the calculator to solve your equations for you, you should probably spend a bit more time studying to learn how the equations work.
Yes it does, 1000cm^3 = 1dm^3 = 1 liter, and by definition 1 liter of pure water weights 1kg (== 1000g) at sea level.
Metrics just pwned you, good sir.
Unfortunately, it seems the difference between weight and mass has just eluded you.
1 kg has exactly 1 kg of mass, whether you are at sea level, or on the moon. But the weight of that 1 kg of mass varies considerably. Weight is measured in Newtons in the metric system, whereas grams are a measure of mass.
This is definitely an advantage over the English system, where you have to specify lbm or lbf, and may need to use slugs for intermediate conversions from one to the other.
Obviously, however, using the metric system does not automatically give you understanding of the difference between weight and mass...
Strangely, it didn't require any email address when I filled it out. I put in my first name, and my comments. No email, no phone... and it submitted just fine.
It's not just the encryption and decryption, either. Due to Einstein's relativity, things moving very quickly, like the rim of a high-RPM disk, will be distorted in the direction of motion. Consequently, the location of the music on your hard drive will make it play shorter or faster, thereby altering the pitch. And when you take into account the fact that the bits are undergoing continuous rotational acceleration, it just makes things worse...
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What happened to "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need"? That's hardly reaping the benefits of your own efforts.
Actually, both are there to protect the rights of the content creators/publishers. The GPL protects certain rights by a license (the right to demand that your code always be freely available). DRM does it by technology (the right to keep people from making your product freely available).
They'll have them sign NDA's, saying they won't show each other any confidential information. Then if either side does, no one can complain because of the NDA they signed.
it's widely known and accepted that the US acts as the world's police force.
... whether the world likes it or not.
Rapists, murders, and other thugs probably don't much like the police, either. In fact, if everyone was nice and liked everyone else, there would be no need for police or soldiers!
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Here's another comparison between Ubuntu and Vista for you guys: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2007/04/ubuntu-vs-vista .html :)
They also wouldn't have anything to protect because they wouldn't have developed anything in the first place without the guarantee of protection.
If the government grants rights and then takes them away, it's the one trying to have its cake and eat it, too. The company is just operating under the assumption that the government is acting under good faith. Without this assumption, anarchy would ensue.
For OS X to run somewhat comfortably you need at least 1 Gig of RAM, which is comparable to Vista's requirements, with the single difference that OS X needed so much years ago, when Vista didn't even see a beta release and when RAM was costlier. The usual Mac fan responses on this memory hunger were things like "Get another 1GB bar, dont be a cheapo!" negating the fact that the requirements Vista ist blamed for today, OS X has basically had since 10.0.
Do you actually run OS X? I've run every version, 10.0 to 10.4. I started with a 500 MHz iMac with 10.0.4, and 128 MB RAM. I upgraded to 10.1 when that came out, and finally upgraded to 384 MB about a year later. It ran just fine. In fact, it still runs just fine today, now with 10.2.
Are you sure you belong on this website?
That's true, but it takes a bit of practice before you get used to using a mouse with your left hand. Alternatively, I guess you could keep your watch on the left hand, and just learn to do it left handed.
Oh, he was talking about using a mouse? I thought it would be kept charged by other means...You're right... I was wrong. I've had font smoothing on ever since QuickDrawGL on System 7, and never noticed a change moving to an LCD screen.
It makes me wonder why MS even bothered patenting their crap, since it looks so horrible compared to OS X.
I use font smoothing on OS X, which if I recall is based on PDF display technology. It works the same on CRTs and LCDs, not being based on sub-pixel access.
MS's ClearType, on the other hand, is based on sub-pixel access. I don't like it because it gives the letters funky tinges of color (at least on my Dell LCD), which I guess is due to each sub-pixel being a particular color (red, green, or blue), not the full spectrum mix available to an entire pixel.
The result is that font smoothing on OS X does not affect the color, so I leave it on. ClearType does affect the color, which I do not appreciate, so I leave it off.
It has nothing to do with "control of the media"... it's about evidence in criminal investigation. It's not like he was even protecting any sources, anyway, he was just filming a bunch of random people.
Actually, I think he said the other papers were really great. But keep up the great reading!
So in a few months, how will Vista compare? Will it have to have a lot of patches that take awhile to develop, because it's new? According to this metric, that would make it less secure than XP, contradicting MS's claims. But, hey, maybe it won't need lots of patches, after all.
Funny... you see a lot of Macs in the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Michigan.
Quite true. I went through Aerospace Engineering just fine with a TI-82. You mostly just need the calculator for doing simple math, but with lots of digits. For the actual complicated math, I would solve the equations on paper, and reduce to an algebraic expression of known numbers.
A lot of people liked the fancier calculators, but honestly, if you need the calculator to solve your equations for you, you should probably spend a bit more time studying to learn how the equations work.
Yes it does, 1000cm^3 = 1dm^3 = 1 liter, and by definition 1 liter of pure water weights 1kg (== 1000g) at sea level.
Metrics just pwned you, good sir.
Unfortunately, it seems the difference between weight and mass has just eluded you.
1 kg has exactly 1 kg of mass, whether you are at sea level, or on the moon. But the weight of that 1 kg of mass varies considerably. Weight is measured in Newtons in the metric system, whereas grams are a measure of mass.
This is definitely an advantage over the English system, where you have to specify lbm or lbf, and may need to use slugs for intermediate conversions from one to the other.
Obviously, however, using the metric system does not automatically give you understanding of the difference between weight and mass...
Psssh! I once wrote the entire game of Monololroflopoly.
Hmm, their server seems to be holding up pretty well!
Strangely, it didn't require any email address when I filled it out. I put in my first name, and my comments. No email, no phone... and it submitted just fine.
How about Blender? I don't know what sorts of bugs it has, but it has gone from closed to open source.
It's not just the encryption and decryption, either. Due to Einstein's relativity, things moving very quickly, like the rim of a high-RPM disk, will be distorted in the direction of motion. Consequently, the location of the music on your hard drive will make it play shorter or faster, thereby altering the pitch. And when you take into account the fact that the bits are undergoing continuous rotational acceleration, it just makes things worse...
What happened to "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need"? That's hardly reaping the benefits of your own efforts.
It runs just fine on my 1 GHz G4, too. OK, so the apps take a couple seconds to open, but once they're open, they run just fine.
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I have also installed Linux (YDL) on this machine. I didn't notice any significant improvements. And it was ugly.
Actually, both are there to protect the rights of the content creators/publishers. The GPL protects certain rights by a license (the right to demand that your code always be freely available). DRM does it by technology (the right to keep people from making your product freely available).
Only public domains gives away all rights.
Oh, wait, that's right, I'm not that stupid.
So... why'd you click it, exactly?
They'll have them sign NDA's, saying they won't show each other any confidential information. Then if either side does, no one can complain because of the NDA they signed.
I've never had any problems with Safari...
Rapists, murders, and other thugs probably don't much like the police, either. In fact, if everyone was nice and liked everyone else, there would be no need for police or soldiers!