While I'm not keen on missile defense either, the ABM treaty does have a provision for unilateral withdrawal with a six month warning. The Constitution is unclear on whether the President can do this without congressional approval.
This is why there are international copyright laws.
No there aren't, there are international copyright *agreements.* And these aren't necessarily signed by everyone. Moreover, you and I are bound by laws, not by treaties; it is up to the individual governments to pass laws to enforce the treaty conditions. A server based in Sealand is subject to Sealand's laws, and if they're not a signatory to the Berne Convention, the RIAA is SOL legally.
if you don't agree with the technology in place to prevent your fair use of the media simply don't acquire the media in the first place.
That would fine *if* there was an easy way to tell any CD I might ever want to purchase is unrippable. But I think it unlikely used CD websites are going to have that information, etc. Given that almost all of my music is obtained from SecondSpin.com, ripped, and then the CDs go into a box in the basement, this is a problem for me.
If I was an MP3 pirater, I wouldn't care; I'd just get a copy of a file someone else has ripped via their soundcard.
And then tap our ruby slippers together and wish that the criminals only buy the fingerprint reading guns.
Why in tarnation would that be relevant? Oh, you think we're talking about guns that magically encode the fingerprint on the bullet. No no no.
Lots of guns possessed by criminals were originally stolen. Steal a signature gun and the only thing you can do is hit someone on the head with it. Ditto if a kid gets hold of his parents' gun.
Could anyone provide a source and/or some context behind this quote?
Reagan said it in the 80's, when the Afghans were fighting the Soviet invasion. In March of 2000, Reagan's Alzheimer's was already fairly advanced. Recently Nancy said he can no longer read the paper, and doesn't know about his daughter's recent death.
The quoter may be referring to a "Times of India" article, and improperly giving the date of the article as the date of the quote.
At $1000, I'd rather have a laptop or one of the upcoming Tablet PCs (running Linux).
Hasn't it been at least a year since these things have been "upcoming"? I'm worried they may be another Device Bay... Seriously, if anyone has seen one of these becoming a real, consumer market product, I'd be interested in any info.
Where the hell are you doing your banking??? I sure as hell would NEVER give my bank my fingerprints
My bank, Bank Of America, uses hand pressure biometrics (or whatever it's called). That is, you put your fingers on a pad with rods sticking out and push, and it measures pressure on the rods. I think it's only for safety deposit boxes.
According to www.theregister.co.uk, 10.1 is still slow. Can anyone please confirm or deny? Possibly, an unbiased opinion?
I have an iMac G3/266 as my secondary development machine (primary is a Dell P3/1000 running W2K), and I just installed 10.1 this morning, so here's my answer:
It's definitely noticeably improved. I still disabled the "genie" docking effect, but scrolling in the finder is smoother, etc. There's still substantial room for improvement, however. For example, there's a pause before a window will minimize. It also doesn't scroll as fast as a Windows explorer window.
I'm also profiling a section of an app with no UI calls, and it runs about twice as slowly under OS X as OS 9. It doesn't seem to be from allocation calls, which would be my first suspicion. From the profile results, certain functions are dramatically slower, others are nigh-identical -- yet I can't find a pattern in the ones that are slower. Weird.
How the hell did we end up with a system where the employer controls our access to health care?
Assuming you're not asking this rhetorically, the answer is World War II. Employers had wage and price controls and a tight labor market, so they started offering non-wage benefits as an enticement for new workers. The primary non-wage benefit was health insurance.
Rush Limbaugh often went off about not wanting to nationale 13% of our economy, at least back when national health insurance was being considered. Seems to me that missed the point that with Medicare and Medicaid, we were half-way there already and all the way there as far as the bureaucracy was concerned.
Conceivably you could try to design planes with a built-in autopilot and radar system that would detect collisions and avoid them despite the pilot's efforts. But it would be complex and might erroneously see a crash where none is forthcoming, and cause problems rather than fix them.
Food, clothing and medical supplies start falling, parachuting to the ground.
Especially red, white, and blue blankets with "A gift from the United States of America" written in Pashto and Dari. Winter is coming up in Afghanistan; think of 10 million Afghanis wrapping their kids in the colors of the USA.
Certainly possible, but seeing as this is an attack that Osama bin Laden explicitly supports, why not stay within the network and reap the benefits? What would they have to gain by breaking off?
It may not be so much breaking off as independent planning. That is, ObL gives them funds to strike a blow for al-Quaeda, and they figure out what, where, when, how, etc. That way there aren't big links back to him, it gives him plausible deniability (at least with the Taliban, and lessens the chance the plot is broken up (no interception of messages to and from Afghanistan.)
The GPL guarantees one thing which BSDL, MIT, etc. won't guarantee (AFAIK) and that is that the code will remain available to the user, freely redistributable and without patent restrictions, information collection rules, etc. that hinder the user's usage.
Why do you think that? Even if someone creates a proprietary program from BSD code, the original BSD code is still available. I'm not advocating either license here, just pointing out that's not necessarily an advantage of the GPL.
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Even beyond that...how would that work? Ok..you killed a few thousand of our people
Namely, the ones who have been pushing you around the last few years, driving you into starvation conditions. We'll make sure you're well-fed, clothed, provide medical care, improve your housing, clean your water.
Who do you think they would end up liking better?
Not one dime for the terrorists (DUH!), but for the millions whose poor conditions allow the terrorists to live there unchecked.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A471 93-2001Sep17.html quotes a DJ mentioning specific songs from that list ("Crash into Me", "I'm on Fire") as ones that won't be played for at least a year.
From my interpretation of the situation, Apple has established essentially a two-tier system. There's the low-end machines, the iMacs and iBooks, which are priced competitively with Intel machines to compete on price. Then there are the high-end machines, where the expected customers are Mac devotees who wouldn't buy a Wintel machine and are spending company money. So Apple competes on price where it has to, and makes more profit where it doesn't.
Just to add my 0.02:
There really is one thing that I care most deeply about: making this world a better world for my kids. I don't care about revenge. I care about figuring out exactly what it will take to reach my goal, and doing it. Part of that No doubt requires wiping out the ultra-loonies with the evil and resources necessary to do this monstrosity, as they will no doubt strike again. But part of it may also mean reassessing what we're doing in the world, and whether we are advancing or hindering the cause of justice. And if and where we're hindering it, we need to change our policy. It may be that the injustices we do provoke the anger that provides the support so that a few scattered loonies can come together and do so much. We need to cut off that air supply.
My right shoulder hurts from mouse use. Does anyone know of a good way to cure this?
Use the mouse with your left hand?
Seriously, when might right arm was in a sling, I switched the mouse to the left side and got pretty comfortable with it in short order. Add a USB mouse and you can have two mice, and switch between them.
So this stuff doesn't actually exist? [microsoft.com]
Not really, no. I work with Visual C++ 5 days a week, and there are real limitations in its scripting. I haven't explored it that fully simply because of those limitations, but as I recall, you can't do anything else (like edit a file) while a script is running. So you can't script a build unless you don't need to do anything else. Oh, and to run a build at low priority, there's a binary hack of vcspawn.exe one needs to do. Otherwise, you can't do a multi-file search during a build, it'll take about as long as your build.
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While I'm not keen on missile defense either, the ABM treaty does have a provision for unilateral withdrawal with a six month warning. The Constitution is unclear on whether the President can do this without congressional approval.
This is why there are international copyright laws.
No there aren't, there are international copyright *agreements.* And these aren't necessarily signed by everyone. Moreover, you and I are bound by laws, not by treaties; it is up to the individual governments to pass laws to enforce the treaty conditions. A server based in Sealand is subject to Sealand's laws, and if they're not a signatory to the Berne Convention, the RIAA is SOL legally.
if you don't agree with the technology in place to prevent your fair use of the media simply don't acquire the media in the first place.
That would fine *if* there was an easy way to tell any CD I might ever want to purchase is unrippable. But I think it unlikely used CD websites are going to have that information, etc. Given that almost all of my music is obtained from SecondSpin.com, ripped, and then the CDs go into a box in the basement, this is a problem for me.
If I was an MP3 pirater, I wouldn't care; I'd just get a copy of a file someone else has ripped via their soundcard.
And then tap our ruby slippers together and wish that the criminals only buy the fingerprint reading guns.
Why in tarnation would that be relevant? Oh, you think we're talking about guns that magically encode the fingerprint on the bullet. No no no.
Lots of guns possessed by criminals were originally stolen. Steal a signature gun and the only thing you can do is hit someone on the head with it. Ditto if a kid gets hold of his parents' gun.
Could anyone provide a source and/or some context behind this quote?
Reagan said it in the 80's, when the Afghans were fighting the Soviet invasion. In March of 2000, Reagan's Alzheimer's was already fairly advanced. Recently Nancy said he can no longer read the paper, and doesn't know about his daughter's recent death.
The quoter may be referring to a "Times of India" article, and improperly giving the date of the article as the date of the quote.
At $1000, I'd rather have a laptop or one of the upcoming Tablet PCs (running Linux).
Hasn't it been at least a year since these things have been "upcoming"? I'm worried they may be another Device Bay... Seriously, if anyone has seen one of these becoming a real, consumer market product, I'd be interested in any info.
How will lifting the 24,000-ton Kirsk off the bottom of the Barents Sea kill all 118 crewmembers?
Aren't you familiar with Schrodinger's cat? Until you actually open the box...
Where the hell are you doing your banking??? I sure as hell would NEVER give my bank my fingerprints
My bank, Bank Of America, uses hand pressure biometrics (or whatever it's called). That is, you put your fingers on a pad with rods sticking out and push, and it measures pressure on the rods. I think it's only for safety deposit boxes.
According to www.theregister.co.uk, 10.1 is still slow. Can anyone please confirm or deny? Possibly, an unbiased opinion?
I have an iMac G3/266 as my secondary development machine (primary is a Dell P3/1000 running W2K), and I just installed 10.1 this morning, so here's my answer:
It's definitely noticeably improved. I still disabled the "genie" docking effect, but scrolling in the finder is smoother, etc. There's still substantial room for improvement, however. For example, there's a pause before a window will minimize. It also doesn't scroll as fast as a Windows explorer window.
I'm also profiling a section of an app with no UI calls, and it runs about twice as slowly under OS X as OS 9. It doesn't seem to be from allocation calls, which would be my first suspicion. From the profile results, certain functions are dramatically slower, others are nigh-identical -- yet I can't find a pattern in the ones that are slower. Weird.
You can also look at Wired's version here, with a few more pics than NYT.
How the hell did we end up with a system where the employer controls our access to health care?
Assuming you're not asking this rhetorically, the answer is World War II. Employers had wage and price controls and a tight labor market, so they started offering non-wage benefits as an enticement for new workers. The primary non-wage benefit was health insurance.
Rush Limbaugh often went off about not wanting to nationale 13% of our economy, at least back when national health insurance was being considered. Seems to me that missed the point that with Medicare and Medicaid, we were half-way there already and all the way there as far as the bureaucracy was concerned.
Whatever their marketing department is smoking
$100 bills, I think...
Conceivably you could try to design planes with a built-in autopilot and radar system that would detect collisions and avoid them despite the pilot's efforts. But it would be complex and might erroneously see a crash where none is forthcoming, and cause problems rather than fix them.
They should hate Boeing, too, then, and the construction engineers who figured out how to build a 100-story building.
Food, clothing and medical supplies start falling, parachuting to the ground.
Especially red, white, and blue blankets with "A gift from the United States of America" written in Pashto and Dari. Winter is coming up in Afghanistan; think of 10 million Afghanis wrapping their kids in the colors of the USA.
It might work...
Certainly possible, but seeing as this is an attack that Osama bin Laden explicitly supports, why not stay within the network and reap the benefits? What would they have to gain by breaking off?
It may not be so much breaking off as independent planning. That is, ObL gives them funds to strike a blow for al-Quaeda, and they figure out what, where, when, how, etc. That way there aren't big links back to him, it gives him plausible deniability (at least with the Taliban, and lessens the chance the plot is broken up (no interception of messages to and from Afghanistan.)
The GPL guarantees one thing which BSDL, MIT, etc. won't guarantee (AFAIK) and that is that the code will remain available to the user, freely redistributable and without patent restrictions, information collection rules, etc. that hinder the user's usage.
Why do you think that? Even if someone creates a proprietary program from BSD code, the original BSD code is still available. I'm not advocating either license here, just pointing out that's not necessarily an advantage of the GPL.
Even beyond that...how would that work? Ok..you killed a few thousand of our people
Namely, the ones who have been pushing you around the last few years, driving you into starvation conditions. We'll make sure you're well-fed, clothed, provide medical care, improve your housing, clean your water.
Who do you think they would end up liking better?
Not one dime for the terrorists (DUH!), but for the millions whose poor conditions allow the terrorists to live there unchecked.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A471 93-2001Sep17.html quotes a DJ mentioning specific songs from that list ("Crash into Me", "I'm on Fire") as ones that won't be played for at least a year.
From my interpretation of the situation, Apple has established essentially a two-tier system. There's the low-end machines, the iMacs and iBooks, which are priced competitively with Intel machines to compete on price. Then there are the high-end machines, where the expected customers are Mac devotees who wouldn't buy a Wintel machine and are spending company money. So Apple competes on price where it has to, and makes more profit where it doesn't.
I expect this to be a real war, not the type that has previously been declared against Drugs, Communists, Poverty and Drugs.
"You said drugs twice."
"We like drugs."
--With apologies to Mel Brooks and "Blazing Saddles"...
Just to add my 0.02:
There really is one thing that I care most deeply about: making this world a better world for my kids. I don't care about revenge. I care about figuring out exactly what it will take to reach my goal, and doing it. Part of that No doubt requires wiping out the ultra-loonies with the evil and resources necessary to do this monstrosity, as they will no doubt strike again. But part of it may also mean reassessing what we're doing in the world, and whether we are advancing or hindering the cause of justice. And if and where we're hindering it, we need to change our policy. It may be that the injustices we do provoke the anger that provides the support so that a few scattered loonies can come together and do so much. We need to cut off that air supply.
"If you want peace, work for justice."
My right shoulder hurts from mouse use. Does anyone know of a good way to cure this?
Use the mouse with your left hand?
Seriously, when might right arm was in a sling, I switched the mouse to the left side and got pretty comfortable with it in short order. Add a USB mouse and you can have two mice, and switch between them.
He calls it a "transcript" of the interview, and the linked story also mentions that they only got a 15 minute phone call.
Right, he'd spent the rest of his change at the arcade...
So this stuff doesn't actually exist? [microsoft.com]
Not really, no. I work with Visual C++ 5 days a week, and there are real limitations in its scripting. I haven't explored it that fully simply because of those limitations, but as I recall, you can't do anything else (like edit a file) while a script is running. So you can't script a build unless you don't need to do anything else. Oh, and to run a build at low priority, there's a binary hack of vcspawn.exe one needs to do. Otherwise, you can't do a multi-file search during a build, it'll take about as long as your build.