I don't know where you got the idea he qualifies for a free licence, since the software's web site clear states: "Government/Political bodies will need to purchase, we cannot provide free license for these installations."
We already have several methods for removing caffeine from coffee much more efficiently than this, so what is the point. I would have much more respect for work on GMOs if the scientists concentrated more on areas which would benefit mankind rather than business interests.
Top tip of the day: Don't start of your tract by mis-quoting influential thinkers. Quoting it correctly doesn't prove you've understood it, but mis-quoting it removes all doubt. Clausewitz was commenting on 'politics' not 'policy' and his point was that war was an extension of politics where politics by other means had failed, and that war has no inherent purpose beyond it.
As it stands, civilians, necessarily mostly unprotected from the benefits of technology, are going to represent the majority of casualties in 'armed conflict'. I'm the only one to think that this is perverse?
No; not even remotely, and I don't know why people keep harping on about it. Could you play a VHS recorded tape in a Beta player? Of course not. Can you play both DVD-R and DVD+R discs in a standard DVD player? 85% of the time, yes. So, there is no comparison; nothing to see; move right along. The only relevance is in this debate is the type of media you buy; not the playback. Its not an issue.
It could of course also be that your microwave has a serious leak! I'd test if I was you.
Re:The 'word' which goes before is the Foreword!
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There are two significant differences which would make me hate to see this battle lost:
1) 'Forward' is primarily an adjective or adverb and rarely used as a noun. The definition cited above is for the adverb/adjective whereas here it is clearly used as a noun. 'Foreword' is unambigiously a noun. 2) Forword describes the purpose of the section, not the placement! The same is true of other parts of books: Table of Contents, Chapter, Index etc. There is nothing wrong with consistency!
The 'word' which goes before is the Foreword!
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For Pete's sake: It's "foreword" (ie. fore-word). Defined as "A word said before something else; hence, an introduction, a preface." (OED).
Why the heck would it be called 'forward'? Do people who make this mistake think it is the suggested reading direction?
BSA represents that the information in this notification is accurate and states, under penalty of perjury, that it is authorized to act in this matter on behalf of the copyright owners listed above.
So the BSA has perjured itself; now what is the penalty?
You are right in pointing out that Norway wasn't it neutral, but wrong in claiming it was part of the Nazi war effort. Norway was at war with Nazi Germany, and an Allied country. The country was occupied by the Germans and the only legitimate government was in exile in London. There were collaborators in Norway who sided with the illegitimate government installed by the Germans, but the civilian population as a whole considered their representative government to be that operting from London on the Allied side. Many payed a very high price for this.
The whole point of the SmartCard is that the data is on the card. The card contains the money and the digital signatures and encryption logic to make it secure. In susch an off-line system the only thing that needs to work is the card and the device which makes the transaction. It can be battery powered and doesn't need to communicated without anything external to it. This is a significant part of what anonymises the system: only the parties to the transaction know anything about it.
That's an argument that I've heard a few times, and my follow-up question is "have you bother to find out how they handle positive results?" "Nah, I don't do drugs, it doesn't bother me". "So you think not doing drugs means your results will come back negative?" "Funny thing is, in an environment where most people don't do drugs, you shouldn't be surprised if there are more false positives than real ones".
It is really in you interest to find out how positive results are handled even if you haven't ever taken any drugs.
This is also the company that came up with a web site that doesn't work in their own web browser! IE2, which came as the default install with Windows 95 can't access the Microsoft web site, especially not the IE download pages where you would go to update to a newer version. It doesn't even have the smarts to throw up a 'you must download a newer version from here' link. It simply fails with a scripting error. The only way to upgrade IE on a Windows 95 machine from the default install was to use IE2 to download Netscape, which could then be used to download a new version of IE. Nuts.
Next week we will be arguing that the best music ever composed is that which has sold the most, and that the best movie is the one which has been the highest grossing.
In summary, the best approach to creating the best new and exciting products is to recycle old ones in new packaging and market the hell out of them.
Amazing! I can't spot find anything even remotely accurate in that description of the role of the RADAR in WWII. Where on earth did you get this?
RADAR was, as the name suggests, designed for Detection and Ranging, and very luckily for Britain a significant number were integrated into Fighter Command, the sophisticated command and control network which received raw information from radar plots and rapidly assessed it to determine numbers and trajectories of incoming enemy aircraft. This allowed them to direct the use of Britains scarce resources of pilots and aircraft to the best possible effect. It played a huge part in the Battle of Britain where the Brits were greatly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, but could respond by putting up the right number of fighters at the rigth time. Before the RADAR they would have had to guess.
While VAP does count some people who are ineligible to vote, it also excludes some citizens who are eligble (like those living abroad), so it is not inevitiable that it will be an overcount. Illegal aliens are probably not included in the VAP, because the data it is based on is collected from official sources.
As for the VAP vs. registered voter statistics, I don't think there is any doubt that as a measure of the democratic process (one person; one vote) the only meaningful number is the percentage of the population with a right to vote actually make use of it.. In a specific election the voter turnout as a percentage of VAP is a lot more telling than the one for registered voters. The latter number is really not that interesting (other than for publicity purposes and purely technical reasons). What is far more interesting from a 'democratic measure' perspective, but very rarely reported is the VAP to registered voter percentage (and changes in it). I believe the latest figures indicate it is around 66%, which means that 1/3 of the population have decided not to vote, regardless of who the candidates are!
Actually, the commentary on this GNU page is for all practical purposes irrelevant since it only properly addresses a version of the licence which has been superceeded. Apple made some significant changes to APSL to specifically address the reservations the open souce community had about their first attempt at an open source licence. I believe the authors of this comment need to rewrite it make it relevant to the current version of APSL, and if they don't, I suggest people stop referring to this out-dated material.
Simple analysis. Ask yourself "does keeping a gun within the four walls of a home increase or decrease the chances of someone living in the household being victim of gun violence?" Don't be distracted by figures for other societies; concentrate on where you live; if you don't live in Norway, Canada or Switzerland, their figures are not going to be applicable to you.
Not quite. Its not all that hard to find 'creatively' designed serial products which break the normal standard. Anything which assumes it can draw power from the serial port, for example, assumes a PC type RS-232 port. A lot of cheap data-cables for mobile phones power the TLL-232 chip from the 'wrong' end (ie. the serial port end).
Not sure why I'm bothering to sink this into a void in the middle of thread, but sometime corrections are called for:
1) Its not about the eyes! Its the visual processing of the brain which is used to distinguish motion rather than individual frames.
2) 24fps clearly isn't the minimum. The first films where shot and ran in 16fps (as did home format films). Most cartoons from the 24fps era where double-framed ie. 12fps fps frame-doubled to 24fps.
3) It is correct that the brain can process much higher frame-rates. I've seen somewhere that you need to be well above 70fps to be able to insert an alien frame in a sequence and not have it consciously observed (so much for the subliminal message claims)! However, what the maximum is, is a moot point when the issue is really what is satisfactory.
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I don't know where you got the idea he qualifies for a free licence, since the software's web site clear states:
"Government/Political bodies will need to purchase, we cannot provide free license for these installations."
We already have several methods for removing caffeine from coffee much more efficiently than this, so what is the point. I would have much more respect for work on GMOs if the scientists concentrated more on areas which would benefit mankind rather than business interests.
Top tip of the day: Don't start of your tract by mis-quoting influential thinkers. Quoting it correctly doesn't prove you've understood it, but mis-quoting it removes all doubt. Clausewitz was commenting on 'politics' not 'policy' and his point was that war was an extension of politics where politics by other means had failed, and that war has no inherent purpose beyond it.
How about a review of the new model rather than the old one? Here is one:
Cnet Color Hiptop Review
As it stands, civilians, necessarily mostly unprotected from the benefits of technology, are going to represent the majority of casualties in 'armed conflict'. I'm the only one to think that this is perverse?
No; not even remotely, and I don't know why people keep harping on about it. Could you play a VHS recorded tape in a Beta player? Of course not. Can you play both DVD-R and DVD+R discs in a standard DVD player? 85% of the time, yes. So, there is no comparison; nothing to see; move right along. The only relevance is in this debate is the type of media you buy; not the playback. Its not an issue.
It could of course also be that your microwave has a serious leak! I'd test if I was you.
There are two significant differences which would make me hate to see this battle lost:
1) 'Forward' is primarily an adjective or adverb and rarely used as a noun. The definition cited above is for the adverb/adjective whereas here it is clearly used as a noun. 'Foreword' is unambigiously a noun.
2) Forword describes the purpose of the section, not the placement! The same is true of other parts of books: Table of Contents, Chapter, Index etc. There is nothing wrong with consistency!
For Pete's sake: It's "foreword" (ie. fore-word). Defined as "A word said before something else; hence, an introduction, a preface." (OED).
Why the heck would it be called 'forward'? Do people who make this mistake think it is the suggested reading direction?
From the letter:
BSA represents that the information in this notification is accurate and states, under penalty of perjury, that it is authorized to act in this matter on behalf of the copyright owners listed above.
So the BSA has perjured itself; now what is the penalty?
You are right in pointing out that Norway wasn't it neutral, but wrong in claiming it was part of the Nazi war effort. Norway was at war with Nazi Germany, and an Allied country. The country was occupied by the Germans and the only legitimate government was in exile in London. There were collaborators in Norway who sided with the illegitimate government installed by the Germans, but the civilian population as a whole considered their representative government to be that operting from London on the Allied side. Many payed a very high price for this.
The whole point of the SmartCard is that the data is on the card. The card contains the money and the digital signatures and encryption logic to make it secure. In susch an off-line system the only thing that needs to work is the card and the device which makes the transaction. It can be battery powered and doesn't need to communicated without anything external to it. This is a significant part of what anonymises the system: only the parties to the transaction know anything about it.
I didn't mind because I don't do drugs
That's an argument that I've heard a few times, and my follow-up question is "have you bother to find out how they handle positive results?" "Nah, I don't do drugs, it doesn't bother me". "So you think not doing drugs means your results will come back negative?" "Funny thing is, in an environment where most people don't do drugs, you shouldn't be surprised if there are more false positives than real ones".
It is really in you interest to find out how positive results are handled even if you haven't ever taken any drugs.
This is also the company that came up with a web site that doesn't work in their own web browser! IE2, which came as the default install with Windows 95 can't access the Microsoft web site, especially not the IE download pages where you would go to update to a newer version. It doesn't even have the smarts to throw up a 'you must download a newer version from here' link. It simply fails with a scripting error. The only way to upgrade IE on a Windows 95 machine from the default install was to use IE2 to download Netscape, which could then be used to download a new version of IE. Nuts.
VHS was better because it became more popular.
Next week we will be arguing that the best music ever composed is that which has sold the most, and that the best movie is the one which has been the highest grossing.
In summary, the best approach to creating the best new and exciting products is to recycle old ones in new packaging and market the hell out of them.
RADAR was, as the name suggests, designed for Detection and Ranging, and very luckily for Britain a significant number were integrated into Fighter Command, the sophisticated command and control network which received raw information from radar plots and rapidly assessed it to determine numbers and trajectories of incoming enemy aircraft. This allowed them to direct the use of Britains scarce resources of pilots and aircraft to the best possible effect. It played a huge part in the Battle of Britain where the Brits were greatly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, but could respond by putting up the right number of fighters at the rigth time. Before the RADAR they would have had to guess.
While VAP does count some people who are ineligible to vote, it also excludes some citizens who are eligble (like those living abroad), so it is not inevitiable that it will be an overcount. Illegal aliens are probably not included in the VAP, because the data it is based on is collected from official sources.
As for the VAP vs. registered voter statistics, I don't think there is any doubt that as a measure of the democratic process (one person; one vote) the only meaningful number is the percentage of the population with a right to vote actually make use of it.. In a specific election the voter turnout as a percentage of VAP is a lot more telling than the one for registered voters. The latter number is really not that interesting (other than for publicity purposes and purely technical reasons). What is far more interesting from a 'democratic measure' perspective, but very rarely reported is the VAP to registered voter percentage (and changes in it). I believe the latest figures indicate it is around 66%, which means that 1/3 of the population have decided not to vote, regardless of who the candidates are!
Acknowledgments
Portions of this Apple Software may utilize the following copyrighted material, the use of which is hereby acknowledged.
Lars Knoll, et al. ( khtml ) [snip]
Lucent Technologies ( dtoa.cpp ) [snip]
Netscape Communications Corporation ( arena files ) [snip]
Harri Porten, et al. ( kjs - JavaScriptCore based on kjs ) [snip]
University of Cambridge ( PCRE ) [snip]
Actually, the commentary on this GNU page is for all practical purposes irrelevant since it only properly addresses a version of the licence which has been superceeded. Apple made some significant changes to APSL to specifically address the reservations the open souce community had about their first attempt at an open source licence. I believe the authors of this comment need to rewrite it make it relevant to the current version of APSL, and if they don't, I suggest people stop referring to this out-dated material.
The plural of 'anecdote is not:
'data'
Simple analysis. Ask yourself "does keeping a gun within the four walls of a home increase or decrease the chances of someone living in the household being victim of gun violence?" Don't be distracted by figures for other societies; concentrate on where you live; if you don't live in Norway, Canada or Switzerland, their figures are not going to be applicable to you.
A simple 'ps ux' suggest IE runs as the user who launched it, not root. Something else must be going on here.
Then there's serial. Serial is serial is serial
Not quite. Its not all that hard to find 'creatively' designed serial products which break the normal standard. Anything which assumes it can draw power from the serial port, for example, assumes a PC type RS-232 port. A lot of cheap data-cables for mobile phones power the TLL-232 chip from the 'wrong' end (ie. the serial port end).
1) Its not about the eyes! Its the visual processing of the brain which is used to distinguish motion rather than individual frames.
2) 24fps clearly isn't the minimum. The first films where shot and ran in 16fps (as did home format films). Most cartoons from the 24fps era where double-framed ie. 12fps fps frame-doubled to 24fps.
3) It is correct that the brain can process much higher frame-rates. I've seen somewhere that you need to be well above 70fps to be able to insert an alien frame in a sequence and not have it consciously observed (so much for the subliminal message claims)! However, what the maximum is, is a moot point when the issue is really what is satisfactory.
that should have been less than MacOS 10 (slashdot ate my less than character :-( )