Why would I ever need to buy a book with the Java api? They aren't updated, don't have hyperlinks, don't support copy/paste, don't open to the correct page when I press help, and aren't free.
I had imagined the staircases moving when no one was looking. You would try to take a staircase and find that it has goes somewhere else. The ones in the movie looked like mechanical contraptions. Personally, I really didn't like that part of the interpretation.
Region coding was used to preserve the business model of selling distribution rights to different markets. When a movie is distributed internationally, different companies pay money for the rights to sell the movie in different counties. They pay millions of dollars for these rights and it is a huge part of the income for a movie. Of course, these companies want guarantees that sales from other distribution regions won't overlap the areas they were given. The distribution companies also set the prices according the what their markets will bear. There is often a disparity of pricing between marketing regions. Without region encoding the whole thing falls apart. International distributors aren't willing to pay for the rights so the movie, so the movies don't make it to internation markets. The studios aren't making as much money from selling the international distribution rights, so they charge even more for movies locally. Everybody loses.
Fantastic! Now someone just needs to write free drop in replacements for the pieces MS is providing. MS can spend their resources on requirement analysis and setup, and when it is time to collect revenue, discover that they have been replaced. Maybe a large company with an interest in denying MS income would be willing to sponsor such a project.
They must use some sort of quantum cloaking technology based on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. They are only visible when there are no instruments that can accurately record their presence.
You do have a remedy if they wrongfully attacked you and caused "Economic damages" in excess of $250.
The solution: Make a CD or an independent movie. Offer it for sale. Share it on your machine. If you are DOSed by the MPAA, sue them for lost sales (including sale of distribution rights).
Of course, you would might need to show that you had sales in the first place. I am not a lawyer so I wouldn't know.
Unfortunately, CDs explode into bits of metal and plastic shrapnal if spun too fast. This isn't like burning out a CPU from over clocking./. had an article a while back about a guy testing the spin limits of CDs.
You know you've read something good when the author includes a mini-disclaimer to the effect of "if you try this at home kids, I and the publisher are not responsible."
Not if the corporate researchers have access to the open work too. You would need a group of researchers who share information only amongst themselves, but then it wouldn't be "open research".
I don't think they were doing it because they could get away with it. The researchers told subjects that they HAD to press the button and that the researchers would take all responsibility for their actions. The show I saw about it made a connection to Nazi Germany. People will do horrific things if they think they are compelled follow orders and do not have any personal responsibility.
The XBox has no libraries installed on it. All of the libs are statically compiled into the programs. The idea was to prevent the DLL hell that when newer versions come out. It makes sense that MS can stop the unauthorized distribution of their software.
Anyway, I was told that MS wants to put MAME on the XBox with their online service. They will probably license the games too so that you can play them legally (without owning the actual machine that is).
For those of you who don't know what leonbrooks is talking about:
I hiked the Grand Canyon a few years ago with some people who believe the Grand Canyon is a result of Noah's flood. The basic idea is that the great flood as described in the Bible covered the entire Earth. As it receded, it left sediment everywhere. A lot of water was trapped north of the grand canyon in a huge lake. After some time, the dam holding the lake burst and the entire lake carved the Grand Canyon out of the soft sediment in a geologically short time (hours to months). Over the next thousand or so years the sediment hardened into the stone we see today. They pointed out evidence that, supposedly, modern geologic theory can't explain. One was how you can see the same rock strata all the way around the canyon. They claimed if it was formed over millions of years, much of the land would have shifted and the strata lines would not be so straight. Another bit they pointed to was the closed clam shell fossils. They claimed clams open when they die and closed fossils are evidence of a catastrophic event.
Personally, I don't know enough about geology to support or refute the theories, so I tend to believe the mainstream scientific theory.
I suppose this relates to the Mars story since it claims a large lake overflowed and carved a huge canyon. Although the article never says anything about how long it took to carve the martian canyon.
void someFunction() {
initializerName = aTask.getUiInitializerClassName();
if( isDefinedForThisUi(initializerName) ) { ... do something...
} ...
}
As another person pointed out, you could get a null pointer exception when you set isNotEmpty. The approach above avoids that and keeps your understandable names. This also follows a school of thought that tries to avoid local variables. I would probably consider this example overkill.
Did you know that a theater can show a single print on multiple screens? They run the film out of one projector and into the next one. There is generally at 15 minute delay between the two. This is why the same show on multiple screens start at similar times. If there are 7500 prints it could be on many more screens.
Slashdot Mirror
Read the rest of the story. I think the point of the story IS that "human social controls are not something we dream to live without".
The government has been using this for years in their orbital mind control lasers.
fnord
There they go again. Trying to take credit for someone else's work.
Why would I ever need to buy a book with the Java api? They aren't updated, don't have hyperlinks, don't support copy/paste, don't open to the correct page when I press help, and aren't free.
I had imagined the staircases moving when no one was looking. You would try to take a staircase and find that it has goes somewhere else. The ones in the movie looked like mechanical contraptions. Personally, I really didn't like that part of the interpretation.
I have heard that if you sign up for one of those plans it lowers your credit rating. I guess they figure you are either stupid or are planning fraud.
Palladium
oh wait, then we'd have to trust Microsoft.
That is not why they have region coding.
Region coding was used to preserve the business model of selling distribution rights to different markets. When a movie is distributed internationally, different companies pay money for the rights to sell the movie in different counties. They pay millions of dollars for these rights and it is a huge part of the income for a movie. Of course, these companies want guarantees that sales from other distribution regions won't overlap the areas they were given. The distribution companies also set the prices according the what their markets will bear. There is often a disparity of pricing between marketing regions. Without region encoding the whole thing falls apart. International distributors aren't willing to pay for the rights so the movie, so the movies don't make it to internation markets. The studios aren't making as much money from selling the international distribution rights, so they charge even more for movies locally. Everybody loses.
Fantastic! Now someone just needs to write free drop in replacements for the pieces MS is providing. MS can spend their resources on requirement analysis and setup, and when it is time to collect revenue, discover that they have been replaced. Maybe a large company with an interest in denying MS income would be willing to sponsor such a project.
They must use some sort of quantum cloaking technology based on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. They are only visible when there are no instruments that can accurately record their presence.
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You do have a remedy if they wrongfully attacked you and caused "Economic damages" in excess of $250.
The solution: Make a CD or an independent movie. Offer it for sale. Share it on your machine. If you are DOSed by the MPAA, sue them for lost sales (including sale of distribution rights).
Of course, you would might need to show that you had sales in the first place. I am not a lawyer so I wouldn't know.
Intersting. It might be possible using MEMS mirrors.
Unfortunately, CDs explode into bits of metal and plastic shrapnal if spun too fast. This isn't like burning out a CPU from over clocking. /. had an article a while back about a guy testing the spin limits of CDs.
You also know you've read bad grammar.
When questioned about the filter, Yahoo claimed the filter was "double plus good".
Not if the corporate researchers have access to the open work too. You would need a group of researchers who share information only amongst themselves, but then it wouldn't be "open research".
Researchers reverse engineered the alloy from a mysterious robotic arm found in a manufacturing plant.
I don't think they were doing it because they could get away with it. The researchers told subjects that they HAD to press the button and that the researchers would take all responsibility for their actions. The show I saw about it made a connection to Nazi Germany. People will do horrific things if they think they are compelled follow orders and do not have any personal responsibility.
You need a modded XBox to run non-authenticated software on the XBox.
Anyway, I was told that MS wants to put MAME on the XBox with their online service. They will probably license the games too so that you can play them legally (without owning the actual machine that is).
However, if you buy a satellite receiver and use it as a door stop you will still be charged for the satellite service you never actually purchased.
I hiked the Grand Canyon a few years ago with some people who believe the Grand Canyon is a result of Noah's flood. The basic idea is that the great flood as described in the Bible covered the entire Earth. As it receded, it left sediment everywhere. A lot of water was trapped north of the grand canyon in a huge lake. After some time, the dam holding the lake burst and the entire lake carved the Grand Canyon out of the soft sediment in a geologically short time (hours to months). Over the next thousand or so years the sediment hardened into the stone we see today. They pointed out evidence that, supposedly, modern geologic theory can't explain. One was how you can see the same rock strata all the way around the canyon. They claimed if it was formed over millions of years, much of the land would have shifted and the strata lines would not be so straight. Another bit they pointed to was the closed clam shell fossils. They claimed clams open when they die and closed fossils are evidence of a catastrophic event.
Personally, I don't know enough about geology to support or refute the theories, so I tend to believe the mainstream scientific theory.
I suppose this relates to the Mars story since it claims a large lake overflowed and carved a huge canyon. Although the article never says anything about how long it took to carve the martian canyon.
boolean isNull( Object reference ) {
return reference==null;
}
boolean isEmpty( String str ) {
return inializerName.equals( "" );
}
boolean isDefinedForThisUi( String uiInitializerClassName ) {
return !isNull(uiInitializerClassName) && !isEmpty(uiInitializerClassName);
}
void someFunction() {
... do something ...
...
initializerName = aTask.getUiInitializerClassName();
if( isDefinedForThisUi(initializerName) ) {
}
}
As another person pointed out, you could get a null pointer exception when you set isNotEmpty. The approach above avoids that and keeps your understandable names. This also follows a school of thought that tries to avoid local variables. I would probably consider this example overkill.
Did you know that a theater can show a single print on multiple screens? They run the film out of one projector and into the next one. There is generally at 15 minute delay between the two. This is why the same show on multiple screens start at similar times. If there are 7500 prints it could be on many more screens.
Which is really weird since I've been out of high school for a while now.