Second, there is no presumption of innocence in our Constitution.
The words "presumption of innocence" are not in the U.S. constitution, but it does guarantee "due process" in the fifth amendment.
Also, there's "reasonable doubt" in the US constitution, and in 1895 the Supreme Courst of the United States estabilished (Coffin v. United States) that "reasonable doubt" implies the presumption of innocence.
I mean, seriously, who doesn't like those shiny boxes with the manual, maps and stuff like that? And having the original packaging even many years later? We're talking about some serious bragging rights here.
Due to the client-side script nature of JavaScript, I am struggling to be able to imagine a situation where it makes sense to release jQuery or any other JavaScript web library as closed source.
I think one of the most important aspects of Software Engineering - and Engineering in general - is to choose the right tool for the task. There is no silver bullet in Computer Science. There is no "one size fits all" platform - every platform has its own set of advantages and setbacks, and its up to Software Engineers to decide the "least worst solution" to stick to. Sticking to a single platform is going to lead to wasting resources since the company often won't be able to use the best available solution.
Also, it is going to seriously decrease the technical elasticity of the company; most of the trendy platforms out there today, like Java or.NET will become obsolete eventually, and the migration to a modern platform will really hurt if the whole company is tied to a single platform.
In one line: This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. (Bill Gates)
Not a solution to defeat ISPs attempts to control, what's going through their network.
Do you understand that ISPs are not exactly charity organizations, don't you? I am paying for their service and I expect it to work as it was advertised in their offer.
Copyright infringement is still a civil tort, and even though you won't be hauled off in handcuffs for trading songs, you can still be sued for it.
Copyright infringement is a crime in quite a lot of EU countries, including the one I used to live in. That means yes you can get to jail because of sharing Die Hard 3 on BitTorrent.
You see, the majority of the programmers out there don't know much about parallelism. They don't understand what synchronization, mutexes or semaphores are. And the thing is that these concepts are quite complex. They require a much steeper learning curve than hacking a "Web 2.0" application together with PHP, Javascript and maybe MySQL. So if now everybody will start writing multithreaded or otherwise parallel programs, that's going to result in an endless chain of race conditions, mysterious crashes and so on. Rembember, race conditions already killed people.
... Linux has fairly high levels of user/admin separation, and windows has been burned enough times...
Come on, OS X supposed to be a Unix. A real one with capital U. A Unix box should have a "fairly high level of user/admin separation" by design. Still, it was the first platform in the contest to fail.
Would anyone care to speculate for logical reasons why Microsoft would take this approach? I'm really out of ideas on this matter. Most people can agree that they dislike the idea... even people who LOVE Vista can't actually approve of Microsoft forcing people out of something they like can they? (Don't answer that, I know they can...)
My guess is that XP is a 6 years old OS which is pretty much in the world of IT. Just for comparison, it is as old as the 2.4 Linux kernel, which is quite outdated now. They ceased supporting Windows 95 in 2001, 6 years after the initial release, and if you think about it, that sounds reasonable. Maybe they just want to move on.
In case you forgot, there is an almost 800-years-old law that is still in force today:
(1215 Magna Carta)
XXIX. NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right. i.e. due process
I am sorry, I didn't want to offend the Scottish, of course the Scottish have a civil law system. I didn't want to mention that since my original comment was about the rest of Europe and not the UK so it would have been a little bit irrelevant here. Anyway the rest of the UK AFAIK has common law (I am not sure about Gibraltar though). And the rest of Europe doesn't (except the Republic of Ireland, and probably Malta and maybe Cyprus but honestly I'm not sure about those two and too lazy to check out Wikipedia). Based on your comment one could say that the US is not a common law country either because Louisiana has civil law as well.
Not only for themselves, but also for every anti-filesharing organisation in Europe. This means that every anti-filesharing organisation will have a MUCH harder time suing people for God knows what. Meanwhile, the Dutch anti-fs org. is trying to act like nothing is wrong by saying that national law trumps European law. Unfortunately for them the opposite is true.
Keep in mind that there is a civil law system in most EU countries (I think the only exceptions are the UK and the Republic of Ireland), so there are no precedents here. This case does not have any effect on any other similar cases in the EU.
Windows is not a predictable OS. Yes, NT-derived versions are a whole lot better than Windows 98, but nevertheless they have their problems in situations where you can't tolerate a malfunction.
I'm glad that my Debian box is not going to crash due to a hard disk failure at the wrong place and wrong time. Wait, what's that clicking nois^H
No, it can't, unless you have the 965 chipset. It is a hardware limitation. You still can't have more than 4gb though even with the 965 (remember, since it's supposed to be a 64 bit system technically it should be able to support more than 2^32 bytes (=4gb) of physical ram), because of the (hardware) limitations introduced by Apple (without any apparent reason).
You are aware that computers can only generate pseudo-random numbers, right? The random number generator in C# actually doesn't generate random numbers but numbers that look random. These numbers are generated by a 'seed'. If you give the same seed to the computer, it will generate the same set of numbers. The C# implementation (if you don't supply a seed yourself) uses the system clock as seed, hence if you start your random-number-generation session in the same millisecond on same computers, they will generate the same numbers! The rest of the hardware & software is irrelevant here. If you need a REAL random number generator, you should connect your computer to something naturally random, e.g. a Geiger device, because your external DLL from an other language just uses a different model to generate the default seed but it is still predetermined.
Switzerland's flag is a white cross on a red background.
If you want to talk about a flag that contains a red cross on a white background then look at the Cross of St. George, which is the Inational flag of England (and thus part of the Union Flag), as well as its derivatives, including the national flags of Northern Ireland and Malta.
According to the Wikipedia:
The Red Cross on white background was the original protection symbol declared at the 1864 Geneva Convention. It is, in terms of its color, a reversal of the Swiss national flag, a meaning which was adopted to honor Swiss founder Henry Dunant and his home country.
The Red Cross flag is indeed a derivate of the Swiss national flag.
This can't be regular old polyethylene. Just about every plastic is some form of polyethylene (e.g. HDPE). Is there something special about the structure of the chains?
Not every plastic is related to polyethylene (PE). HDPE (high-density PE) and LDPE (low-density PE) are both PE-based, both of their monomers (the basic thing that plastics and other polymers are made up by) is CH2=CH2, the difference between the two is in the technology of their production. There are a lot of other plastics/polymers which aren't related to PE at all, like PVC (polyvinyl chloride), PUR (polyurethane), PA (polyamide), PP (polypropylene), and most importantly, PS (polystyrene).
Some words about polymers for people who aren't familiar with them: First of all, plastics are polymers. There are natural polymers like cellulose, but most of them are produced artificially. Every kind of polymer has a monomer, which is basically the low-level element that mades up polymers. The physical properties of a plastic mainly depend on the monomer, but on a smaller extent on a lot of things like structure as well. Now there are special materials called composites which are macroscopic mixtures of two or more distinct materials. Fiber (carbon or glass or something else) stuff like the wings of airplanes or kevlar are composites. I believe that TFA is about a PE-and-somehting-else composite, but I haven't RTFA. Composites have a lot of nice features and some not-so-nice-one as well, like nearly impossible recycling and vulnerability to tensions orthagonal to the fibers. But if used wisely they can be really efficient.
Actually, not exactly. According to the Big Bang Theory, after the Bing Bang nucleosynthesis, almost no elements heavier than lithium have been formed. Most of the 'fundamental elements' as the parent said like carbon were not created until the formation of the first stars. According to the Wikipedia:
These stars fused heavier elements through stellar nucleosynthesis during their lives and through supernova nucleosynthesis as they died. The seeding of the interstellar medium by heavy elements eventually allowed the formation of terrestrial planets like the Earth.
Communism and democracy is not each others opposites. You can very well have a communist country where you have your right to free speech, where you can choose your leaders and so on.
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Also, there's "reasonable doubt" in the US constitution, and in 1895 the Supreme Courst of the United States estabilished (Coffin v. United States) that "reasonable doubt" implies the presumption of innocence.
I mean, seriously, who doesn't like those shiny boxes with the manual, maps and stuff like that? And having the original packaging even many years later? We're talking about some serious bragging rights here.
... as long as there is a crowbar at hand at the LHC.
Due to the client-side script nature of JavaScript, I am struggling to be able to imagine a situation where it makes sense to release jQuery or any other JavaScript web library as closed source.
I think one of the most important aspects of Software Engineering - and Engineering in general - is to choose the right tool for the task. There is no silver bullet in Computer Science. There is no "one size fits all" platform - every platform has its own set of advantages and setbacks, and its up to Software Engineers to decide the "least worst solution" to stick to. Sticking to a single platform is going to lead to wasting resources since the company often won't be able to use the best available solution.
Also, it is going to seriously decrease the technical elasticity of the company; most of the trendy platforms out there today, like Java or .NET will become obsolete eventually, and the migration to a modern platform will really hurt if the whole company is tied to a single platform.
In one line: This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. (Bill Gates)
Do you understand that ISPs are not exactly charity organizations, don't you? I am paying for their service and I expect it to work as it was advertised in their offer.
You see, the majority of the programmers out there don't know much about parallelism. They don't understand what synchronization, mutexes or semaphores are. And the thing is that these concepts are quite complex. They require a much steeper learning curve than hacking a "Web 2.0" application together with PHP, Javascript and maybe MySQL. So if now everybody will start writing multithreaded or otherwise parallel programs, that's going to result in an endless chain of race conditions, mysterious crashes and so on. Rembember, race conditions already killed people.
I agree with the parent, but I would like to note that Bulgaria is in fact not a direct neighbor of Hungary.
(1215 Magna Carta)
XXIX. NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right. i.e. due process
I am sorry, I didn't want to offend the Scottish, of course the Scottish have a civil law system. I didn't want to mention that since my original comment was about the rest of Europe and not the UK so it would have been a little bit irrelevant here. Anyway the rest of the UK AFAIK has common law (I am not sure about Gibraltar though). And the rest of Europe doesn't (except the Republic of Ireland, and probably Malta and maybe Cyprus but honestly I'm not sure about those two and too lazy to check out Wikipedia). Based on your comment one could say that the US is not a common law country either because Louisiana has civil law as well.
Keep in mind that there is a civil law system in most EU countries (I think the only exceptions are the UK and the Republic of Ireland), so there are no precedents here. This case does not have any effect on any other similar cases in the EU.
No, it can't, unless you have the 965 chipset. It is a hardware limitation. You still can't have more than 4gb though even with the 965 (remember, since it's supposed to be a 64 bit system technically it should be able to support more than 2^32 bytes (=4gb) of physical ram), because of the (hardware) limitations introduced by Apple (without any apparent reason).
I suppose you're not living in the UK... The parent was a reference to a popular UK TV show called Fonejacker.
You are aware that computers can only generate pseudo-random numbers, right? The random number generator in C# actually doesn't generate random numbers but numbers that look random. These numbers are generated by a 'seed'. If you give the same seed to the computer, it will generate the same set of numbers. The C# implementation (if you don't supply a seed yourself) uses the system clock as seed, hence if you start your random-number-generation session in the same millisecond on same computers, they will generate the same numbers! The rest of the hardware & software is irrelevant here. If you need a REAL random number generator, you should connect your computer to something naturally random, e.g. a Geiger device, because your external DLL from an other language just uses a different model to generate the default seed but it is still predetermined.
According to the Wikipedia: The Red Cross flag is indeed a derivate of the Swiss national flag.
Some words about polymers for people who aren't familiar with them: First of all, plastics are polymers. There are natural polymers like cellulose, but most of them are produced artificially. Every kind of polymer has a monomer, which is basically the low-level element that mades up polymers. The physical properties of a plastic mainly depend on the monomer, but on a smaller extent on a lot of things like structure as well. Now there are special materials called composites which are macroscopic mixtures of two or more distinct materials. Fiber (carbon or glass or something else) stuff like the wings of airplanes or kevlar are composites. I believe that TFA is about a PE-and-somehting-else composite, but I haven't RTFA. Composites have a lot of nice features and some not-so-nice-one as well, like nearly impossible recycling and vulnerability to tensions orthagonal to the fibers. But if used wisely they can be really efficient.
So we are children of stars indeed.
You know, there is a HUGE difference between a communist and a socialist government. Believe me, I had the chance to live under both.
Well, we're yet to see an example...