So why should you be likely to have an ongoing conversation with a fictitious person through MySpace to the point that you think of them as your boyfriend?
I trust mail MORE, not less, than I'd trust a MySpace boyfriend. And I don't trust mail for shit.
Now, why would you be signing up to a website you don't feel safe giving a valid name and address to?
Because I feel safe signing up to it with a fake name and address...?
If it's not accepted behavior, it's very much the status quo that any information given on the internet is only sometimes true. Occasionally pains are made to verify identity to a degree (banks, credit cards), but MySpace isn't (and shouldn't be) one of them.
You lost me again. Why should it be a law that you can't make up a name on a website? And why is it the government's business? Why is it even the website's business (though they're within their rights to enforce it)?
There's something weird about the summary... there's an undercurrent of 'well people don't think it's wrong, but it is'
Hell yes it's wrong. Where do you draw the line? Why do you draw the line?
Especially because in this case it contained conversations with her lawyer. Why would anybody be going 'oh, well, we need to be careful to not overpunish here'...? I'd be worried about underpunishing.
It's like reading someone else's snail mail without their permission (a felony IIRC) except worse because you (almost) can't trace it and you can do it for every email
I hope he gets butthurt for this, and I still don't see why this is a question.
In fact, it has been tested and struck down. It needs to be explicitly inciting violence (e.g. a riot) to be illegal.
Schenck was later limited by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which ruled that speech could only be banned when it was directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot), the test which remains until this day.
his technological incompetence is the least of anybody's problems (yes, he's on the committee for regulating our future livelihoods and should understand this stuff..)
He's the guy who wanted the bridge to nowhere.... let's be frank that's a much larger problem than his blustering.
This is good - maybe the system works? It's too early to see
Didn't he use it to get out of that building in China?
Fine, you want content? Seesh.
Cheap access to space is good, but maybe this is too cheap. We don't just let any dude buy and fly a plane, a car, or even a boat. Except space is different: you're so high up that if you fuck up it can affect people literally halfway around the world.
Just look at the pain it is to travel between countries by plane. Governments will be foaming at the mouth if this ever turns into something useful (OMG MISSLES) and we can barely hold back from blowing each other up as it is.
Still, this is too light to be useful. But it won't be for long...
Fine then. Would you rather have a 'pay more for high-bandwidth no-throttled connection' or 'ultra fast connection cheap! (note: we won't let you use it in ways we don't like)'
It's just a coincidence they came one after another, but I think companies are going to quickly realize that there's no benefit to keeping things locked up.
Suddenly they won't need to pay to write drivers, just release the documentation to write them (of course, it would be nice if they gave us a base). The OSS community will make the drivers more stable, cleaner, and faster. We will use the drivers for things they didn't imagine. All of this will save them money and sell their hardware (features added for free? added incentive to buy my stuff? sign me up!)
I think we may have reached critical mass, at least on the driver side.
It's so easy to criticize behind computer screens.
We judge based on actions. With what magical metric do you judge by?
I'm judging that a man, causing minor irritation to almost everybody with email (and a massive headache to most sysadmins), killed his wife and three year old daughter after escaping from prison, before killing himself.
And to tell you the truth, I feel pretty qualified to say that he is a jackass.
Perhaps. But threads are far more versatile - if they're done well.
So our video app has a sound-processing thread, a video processing thread, and a UI thread. If it's implemented well (don't read or write twice, have a common buffer), it'll run with the same or near performance as a one-threaded program on a one-processor/core system.
But on a multicore/processor system no extra work is needed to take advantage of the cores. If we have three cores, it'll run automatically across cores for a massive performance gain. And we automatically take advantage of scheduling improvements.
Yes, it can be done crappily. But threads exist for a very good reason and writing your program in one thread is more complex and far, far less flexible
I'm pretty sure the Linux (you really mean Compiz) plugin architecture is a hella more flexible. It's basically, here's a texture and have fun morphing it, give it back when you're done.
So you could install a program to do, well, anything at all. If I understand it right.
No, seriously. You can write some shit code, and it's not very powerful, but it's easy to do stuff with (just not complex stuff)
I don't like the.NET one, but version 6 learns nicely. It was my first actual language (aside from like HTML).
The thing that's nice about it is you can draw your window and run it. It'll work, but not do anything. Changing properties is also a GUI - no.setVisible(false) or anything like that.
Then, when he's made a window that suits him (take two minutes to explain the basics of ergonomics - ok and cancel go bottom-right, etc), have him double-click a button and explain that this will run when you click, etc.
Very simple to learn and use, and decently useful.
The drive in the Wii is NOT a DVD drive. In a DVD drive, the speed changes so the laser reads at the same speed all throughout the disk. This puts a strain on the motor (different speed and etc)
A Wii drive does NOT spin at different speeds, only one. The laser reads at variable speeds all throughout the disk. This makes the drive like a tank.
One is not the other, at least not without a firmware mod.
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So why should you be likely to have an ongoing conversation with a fictitious person through MySpace to the point that you think of them as your boyfriend?
I trust mail MORE, not less, than I'd trust a MySpace boyfriend. And I don't trust mail for shit.
Well, yes, actually, but that's not the point. I'm pretty sure sending mail delibrately deceptively is in fact mail fraud, but correct me if I'm wrong
Now, why would you be signing up to a website you don't feel safe giving a valid name and address to?
Because I feel safe signing up to it with a fake name and address...?
If it's not accepted behavior, it's very much the status quo that any information given on the internet is only sometimes true. Occasionally pains are made to verify identity to a degree (banks, credit cards), but MySpace isn't (and shouldn't be) one of them.
You lost me again. Why should it be a law that you can't make up a name on a website? And why is it the government's business? Why is it even the website's business (though they're within their rights to enforce it)?
A plastic surgeon? :P I kid, I kid.
There's something weird about the summary... there's an undercurrent of 'well people don't think it's wrong, but it is'
Hell yes it's wrong. Where do you draw the line? Why do you draw the line?
Especially because in this case it contained conversations with her lawyer. Why would anybody be going 'oh, well, we need to be careful to not overpunish here'...? I'd be worried about underpunishing.
It's like reading someone else's snail mail without their permission (a felony IIRC) except worse because you (almost) can't trace it and you can do it for every email
I hope he gets butthurt for this, and I still don't see why this is a question.
Dumbass. IOW he learned to have a reasoned argument and built up karma for the posts that karma was designed to reward.
As was this post, aside from my initial comment. But I stand by it ;)
In fact, it has been tested and struck down. It needs to be explicitly inciting violence (e.g. a riot) to be illegal.
Schenck was later limited by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which ruled that speech could only be banned when it was directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot), the test which remains until this day.
we get signal
his technological incompetence is the least of anybody's problems (yes, he's on the committee for regulating our future livelihoods and should understand this stuff..)
He's the guy who wanted the bridge to nowhere.... let's be frank that's a much larger problem than his blustering.
This is good - maybe the system works? It's too early to see
I'm pretty sure he meant buy. Like, why would you pay for something that you can't use on Linux or your other MP3 player?
Of course, there could be multiple levels of sarcasm that I'm missing
lost the lead they had to a convicted monopolist.
Now I agree with you, but think about that sentence for a bit... the lost the lead to a monopolist... seems they weren't a monopolist at the time
Didn't he use it to get out of that building in China?
Fine, you want content? Seesh.
Cheap access to space is good, but maybe this is too cheap. We don't just let any dude buy and fly a plane, a car, or even a boat. Except space is different: you're so high up that if you fuck up it can affect people literally halfway around the world.
Just look at the pain it is to travel between countries by plane. Governments will be foaming at the mouth if this ever turns into something useful (OMG MISSLES) and we can barely hold back from blowing each other up as it is.
Still, this is too light to be useful. But it won't be for long...
Fine then. Would you rather have a 'pay more for high-bandwidth no-throttled connection' or 'ultra fast connection cheap! (note: we won't let you use it in ways we don't like)'
I know what I want.
It's just a coincidence they came one after another, but I think companies are going to quickly realize that there's no benefit to keeping things locked up.
Suddenly they won't need to pay to write drivers, just release the documentation to write them (of course, it would be nice if they gave us a base). The OSS community will make the drivers more stable, cleaner, and faster. We will use the drivers for things they didn't imagine. All of this will save them money and sell their hardware (features added for free? added incentive to buy my stuff? sign me up!)
I think we may have reached critical mass, at least on the driver side.
I know I'm feeding a troll, but I don't care.
If I saw you, you'd be dead. And I'm not joking. You see, I'm getting "the rest of those waste of genes out of the human pool". You should understand.
Touchy feely sensitive types?
Bullshit. If I saw you and you're like this in real life, I'd probably lay you out.
Not so touchy feely, eh?
It's so easy to criticize behind computer screens.
We judge based on actions. With what magical metric do you judge by?
I'm judging that a man, causing minor irritation to almost everybody with email (and a massive headache to most sysadmins), killed his wife and three year old daughter after escaping from prison, before killing himself.
And to tell you the truth, I feel pretty qualified to say that he is a jackass.
Is that a joke? I was reading it and laughing, especially at the gray, dark picture of the sad-looking kid holding a cellphone up to his head.
But then I got this sinking feeling...
If they're serious that's fucking scary.
um, I'd rather have the phone. I don't talk much on it - maybe all those 'omg my bff jill' people will learn :p
But a full watt of power is not dangerous. And it dissipates very quickly.
For reference, your microwave oven is usually over 1000 watts.
Perhaps. But threads are far more versatile - if they're done well.
So our video app has a sound-processing thread, a video processing thread, and a UI thread. If it's implemented well (don't read or write twice, have a common buffer), it'll run with the same or near performance as a one-threaded program on a one-processor/core system.
But on a multicore/processor system no extra work is needed to take advantage of the cores. If we have three cores, it'll run automatically across cores for a massive performance gain. And we automatically take advantage of scheduling improvements.
Yes, it can be done crappily. But threads exist for a very good reason and writing your program in one thread is more complex and far, far less flexible
I'm pretty sure the Linux (you really mean Compiz) plugin architecture is a hella more flexible. It's basically, here's a texture and have fun morphing it, give it back when you're done.
So you could install a program to do, well, anything at all. If I understand it right.
No, seriously. You can write some shit code, and it's not very powerful, but it's easy to do stuff with (just not complex stuff)
I don't like the .NET one, but version 6 learns nicely. It was my first actual language (aside from like HTML).
The thing that's nice about it is you can draw your window and run it. It'll work, but not do anything. Changing properties is also a GUI - no .setVisible(false) or anything like that.
Then, when he's made a window that suits him (take two minutes to explain the basics of ergonomics - ok and cancel go bottom-right, etc), have him double-click a button and explain that this will run when you click, etc.
Very simple to learn and use, and decently useful.
Quite. I'd propose to meet you in a fortnight for some crumpets, if you would have it be.
Naturally, we'll need the olive oil as usual.
Let's get this straight.
The drive in the Wii is NOT a DVD drive. In a DVD drive, the speed changes so the laser reads at the same speed all throughout the disk. This puts a strain on the motor (different speed and etc)
A Wii drive does NOT spin at different speeds, only one. The laser reads at variable speeds all throughout the disk. This makes the drive like a tank.
One is not the other, at least not without a firmware mod.
when the authors update them?
of course, you could google for a couple of seconds and fix it yourself (hint: you can force it to ignore the version)