Why bother doing that when you can just write a sound card driver that writes the stream fed to it to disk. That wouldn't even violate the DMCA (IANAL).
It does so help. There are two masses in the gravitational force equation: that of the object and that of the planet. In this case, the planet's mass is smaller, so there is less gravitational force. Lower gravitational force means you need less force to counteract it.
What happens in America is the start of a wave that will happen in other countries. America will use it's economic power to sanction against other countries that don't tow the line of its own industry. This is what globalization means. This is why people protest the WTO.
And in the end, the Americans will look around and say "why do they hate us"?
Similarly, if I decode a DVD and make a copy of the content, then DMCA or no DMCA, it's still a copyright breach the same as if I copy a music CD onto a CD-R.
This simply isn't true. I'm sure you are tired of people yelling "Fair Use" at you but you really have to realise that there are cases that allow you to make mix tapes and whatnot under fair use. It is not a copyright breack if I make a copy of a CD for the car (where CDs are more likely to be stolen from than my house). It is not a copyright breach is I encode my CDs onto MP3s so that I can burn them onto a CD and play in my MP3 player. Furthermore, it won't be a copyright breach when I eventually copy my DVDs to a later media or to the same media, with the hope of continued preservation of them. There are reasons we have Fair Use: because it's fair.
The nerve of some people, eh? I know if I was working a minimum wage + 25 cents/hr job I would memorize the troubleshooting characteristics of every product the megacompany I work for sells. Then would happily distribute this information to the people who should have been told how to get their game our when they called the customer service line for the product. Then I would complement the customer service line.
I can't speak to the other claims in your post but this certainly isn't true. I used to take class notes on my palm and the one thing I thought was great about it was that I could look at the professor while writing.
"According to Desler, Microsoft has rigorous processes in place during the development of Windows to ensure the security and integrity of source code."
Yeah, but not the security and integrity of Windows
Right now I can't moderate until someone finds something else of mine worthy of modding up.
Are you saying that if you aren't at 50, you can't be in the moderator pool? This hasn't been my experience (I've been dinged down but still given moderator access), but/. may have changed recently. I couldn't find anything in the FAQ about this, though.
I'd be willing to bet that Bill Gates actually believes that people buy Windows because they think it is a great product. Not because they are tied in with no other feasible choices, but because they genuinely prefer Windows to any of the alternatives. In a cyclical way, he is right. Windows is the best choice for most consumers and developers because most people choose it.
Still, less and less people are going to keep upgrading. I remember the rush to 2000, it was on everyone's minds. We have no plan for moving to XP. I'm not saying we won't, but there isn't any frenzy, no meetings starting 6 months before the release to discuss strategy. While I'm sure this happened some places, I'd be surprised if it is happening as much. Maybe it's a down economy, or many people are happy with what they have.
I think an equitable solution to the antitrust case is to force microsoft to offer licenses for their old software. Not necessarily support, but licenses. Once 2K is not offered, how are we going to expand (we do have about 20 extra licenses right now, but we could go through those easily)?
Well sue me. I'm at 50 karma, and I decided to try out this trolling thing (yes, darling, the karma cap does encourage trolling). It really didn't help that you were both inflamatory and ambiguously incorrect. So I used that abmiguity and your "high and mighty" attidude to get a rise out of you.
However, the only known algorigthm to factor non-primes runs in exponential time
Yay! I just discovered a new algorithm! Take the number to be factored and call it n. Then, for i=2 to n/2, see if i divides n. This is much faster than exponential time.
You've got to love it when a clueless poster follows another clueless poster and tries to show how fucking great they are.
In addition to what the other poster stated, just because two problems are NP-Complete, it doesn't mean they have the same run-time. One problem can be thought to be O(n*e^n) and another O(e^n). Find a O(n) for the second, and the first maybe O(n^2). Note that then both are then in P. Finding a linear problem for one NP-complete problem with only bring all other problems into P. But some can still be O(n^1000).
I tried "law +of indeterminacy" encryption and other combinations on google, but it all came up blank. Does anyone have a link describing how to use this for encryption?
This difference is that your addiction to programming ended up with a useful skill that compensated for the damage it was doing to your life. Contrast this to a person who failed classes because they played StarCraft. Their life is hindered as they will have less choices for schools and unless aliens attack earth there aren't many job options.
And yes, you may have been addicted. People (myself, even) have gotten addicted to work (so called workaholics) which doesn't destroy the financial life but the social parts of life (in my case my wife and I never saw each other).
This all being said, I certainly think that people should have the right to make their own choices. If doing something makes them feel good, then they should be allowed to. When the other parts of their life are missing, they'll find them again (even in the case of the StarCraft player, a long lifetime can still yeild a good career).
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Why bother doing that when you can just write a sound card driver that writes the stream fed to it to disk. That wouldn't even violate the DMCA (IANAL).
It does so help. There are two masses in the gravitational force equation: that of the object and that of the planet. In this case, the planet's mass is smaller, so there is less gravitational force. Lower gravitational force means you need less force to counteract it.
What happens in America is the start of a wave that will happen in other countries. America will use it's economic power to sanction against other countries that don't tow the line of its own industry. This is what globalization means. This is why people protest the WTO.
And in the end, the Americans will look around and say "why do they hate us"?
Similarly, if I decode a DVD and make a copy of the content, then DMCA or no DMCA, it's still a copyright breach the same as if I copy a music CD onto a CD-R.
This simply isn't true. I'm sure you are tired of people yelling "Fair Use" at you but you really have to realise that there are cases that allow you to make mix tapes and whatnot under fair use. It is not a copyright breack if I make a copy of a CD for the car (where CDs are more likely to be stolen from than my house). It is not a copyright breach is I encode my CDs onto MP3s so that I can burn them onto a CD and play in my MP3 player. Furthermore, it won't be a copyright breach when I eventually copy my DVDs to a later media or to the same media, with the hope of continued preservation of them. There are reasons we have Fair Use: because it's fair.
Crap. I thought I turned Jon Katz off.
Or to broadcast licensing information to Windows XP, which then relays it to Microsoft over the internet.
The nerve of some people, eh? I know if I was working a minimum wage + 25 cents/hr job I would memorize the troubleshooting characteristics of every product the megacompany I work for sells. Then would happily distribute this information to the people who should have been told how to get their game our when they called the customer service line for the product. Then I would complement the customer service line.
it requires you to look at the device
I can't speak to the other claims in your post but this certainly isn't true. I used to take class notes on my palm and the one thing I thought was great about it was that I could look at the professor while writing.
In addition to winlin.com being taken, I doubt the Win4Lin people would like that either.
you spoke:
This is my last post.
then later:
I never said this would be my last post
No you said that would be your last post.
then in the same post:
I can still troll
Ah, IHBT
"According to Desler, Microsoft has rigorous processes in place during the development of Windows to ensure the security and integrity of source code."
Yeah, but not the security and integrity of Windows
He said FFX, as in Final Fantasy 10.
Congress is reading their e-mail these days
They cartainly aren't opening their mail
Right now I can't moderate until someone finds something else of mine worthy of modding up.
/. may have changed recently. I couldn't find anything in the FAQ about this, though.
Are you saying that if you aren't at 50, you can't be in the moderator pool? This hasn't been my experience (I've been dinged down but still given moderator access), but
I'd be willing to bet that Bill Gates actually believes that people buy Windows because they think it is a great product. Not because they are tied in with no other feasible choices, but because they genuinely prefer Windows to any of the alternatives. In a cyclical way, he is right. Windows is the best choice for most consumers and developers because most people choose it.
Still, less and less people are going to keep upgrading. I remember the rush to 2000, it was on everyone's minds. We have no plan for moving to XP. I'm not saying we won't, but there isn't any frenzy, no meetings starting 6 months before the release to discuss strategy. While I'm sure this happened some places, I'd be surprised if it is happening as much. Maybe it's a down economy, or many people are happy with what they have.
I think an equitable solution to the antitrust case is to force microsoft to offer licenses for their old software. Not necessarily support, but licenses. Once 2K is not offered, how are we going to expand (we do have about 20 extra licenses right now, but we could go through those easily)?
Well sue me. I'm at 50 karma, and I decided to try out this trolling thing (yes, darling, the karma cap does encourage trolling). It really didn't help that you were both inflamatory and ambiguously incorrect. So I used that abmiguity and your "high and mighty" attidude to get a rise out of you.
;)
Or in short YHBT
However, the only known algorigthm to factor non-primes runs in exponential time
Yay! I just discovered a new algorithm! Take the number to be factored and call it n. Then, for i=2 to n/2, see if i divides n. This is much faster than exponential time.
You've got to love it when a clueless poster follows another clueless poster and tries to show how fucking great they are.
In addition to what the other poster stated, just because two problems are NP-Complete, it doesn't mean they have the same run-time. One problem can be thought to be O(n*e^n) and another O(e^n). Find a O(n) for the second, and the first maybe O(n^2). Note that then both are then in P. Finding a linear problem for one NP-complete problem with only bring all other problems into P. But some can still be O(n^1000).
I tried "law +of indeterminacy" encryption and other combinations on google, but it all came up blank. Does anyone have a link describing how to use this for encryption?
Yeah. There was even a /. article referencing it at the time.
Note to moderators: Just because you disagree with this post, that doesn't mean it's flamebait.
But you don't get the right to change and/or redistribute the books.
And don't get me started on e-books, especially adobe ones.
If you always used .beats, you would have to think about when light was, you'd know, the same way you don't have to think about when it is light now.
When you go east or west, however, you may have problems
Pining for the fjords? What kind of talk is that?
This difference is that your addiction to programming ended up with a useful skill that compensated for the damage it was doing to your life. Contrast this to a person who failed classes because they played StarCraft. Their life is hindered as they will have less choices for schools and unless aliens attack earth there aren't many job options.
And yes, you may have been addicted. People (myself, even) have gotten addicted to work (so called workaholics) which doesn't destroy the financial life but the social parts of life (in my case my wife and I never saw each other).
This all being said, I certainly think that people should have the right to make their own choices. If doing something makes them feel good, then they should be allowed to. When the other parts of their life are missing, they'll find them again (even in the case of the StarCraft player, a long lifetime can still yeild a good career).