If you have an Allen Bradley Logix series PLC, its firmware must match your version of RSLogix all the way down to the point release.
Untrue, and I've run RSLogix5000 for years, starting way back at version 7 I think. The major version of the software & firmware must match to go online to a processor or open its program, but not the minor & point releases.
Rockwell is evil for many reasons, but this is not one of them.
Also, with the exception of one quest, I never had to write anything down.
Let me guess: Liara's mission where she wants you to find out who one of the Shadow Broker's agents is? It makes you think it's a logic puzzle but it's really just a swerve, which I realized only after I flubbed it. I won't write any more lest I spoil it.
HFT dramatically improves liquidity and price discovery.
Two HFT supercomputers passing the same 100 shares back and forth all day making fractions of a penny every time isn't liquidity. There's no valid reason that a solid business like IBM typically trades a few million shares per day in volume while a bailed-out insolvent shell like Citigroup trades in the hundreds of millions, sometimes even billions. That's the "liquidity" HFT provides.
Why do you think the spreads are so tight on a lot of these markets? HFT. Believe me, the institutional brokers would like nothing better than to make very wide markets and charge you for the privilege.
Fuck, to listen to HFT defenders spout this nonsense, you'd think the stock markets were completely functionless before they came along, that the previous century were full of crooks out to hose investors until the white knights of HFT came along. All the HFT big boys really do is siphon off all the difference in the spreads for themselves.
I'm with the commenter below; this shit is not "insightful". It's a lot of pretty words meant to look insightful, but all it did was suck up otherwise good mod points. Just like HFT is a lot of trading meant to look valuable, but all it does is suck up a lot of otherwise good money from the real investors.
What this means is that if you and your friend each own a copy of the same album, you may feel it is reasonable to copy data from his disk when convenient, since you legally own a copy with the exact same contents. In the eyes of the law, however, those song files are NOT the same, because they have different histories. The rights you have to your copy do not extend to all other instances of that file, even if they are indistinguishable or not.
Interesting you linked to a Canadian article to explain that, because Canada (in a rare moment of government sanity) actually legalized exactly this situation several years ago. Private non-commercial copying is legal so long as you don't distribute the copies. Who knows if it will stay legal with this new POS copyright bill being discussed, mind you..
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that many other KDE users right up through KDE 3.x switched to GNOME with the KDE4 release.
/Raises hand!
To this day I don't know what the KDE (and Amarok!) developers were thinking in blowing apart their fantastic software, rebuilding it from the ground up, and choosing to throw out all the great functionality they had and replace it with "Look isn't this shiny!".
I switched to Ubuntu from Mandriva after the first KDE4 Mandriva release came out and haven't looked back. I never particularly liked GNOME but KDE took a flying leap backward and put GNOME in the lead by default.
Not at all; I'm saying the apparent stance of the GP poster, that because DNA matching is not 100% accurate it should not be used by the police/courts, is flat-out stupid. It's a tool, sometimes a very valuable tool, and sometimes subject to abuse, just as any other police power can be. That does not mean you take it away from them, now and forever.
That said, whether or not the police should have a perpetual DNA database of anyone they ever get DNA samples from is a legitimate public policy debate. I'd probably lean toward "no" on privacy grounds, but I'd like to see metrics such as: cases solved using said database that otherwise would not have been, false positives leading to false arrests and/or false convictions, cost of the database, etc.
Studies have been done on small sections of some DNA databases, comparing every profile with every other profile, and found this to simply be false. In Arizona 65 493 profiles were made available - 122 pairs matched at nine loci, 20 at ten, 1 at eleven and 1 more at twelve. In Illinois 220 000 were checked, and 903 pairs matched at nine or more loci, and in Maryland 30 000 were checked, providing 32 matching pairs.
Add to this the problem that eyelashes, skin fragments etc can be carried on the wind, or from a random frottage, and we have some important cases being 'solved' with what amounts to deeply circumstantial evidence. With any luck this fascination with DNA being used as the be all and end all, the assayer of truth, will end as soon as possible.
You say all this as if the police walk into a crime scene having absolutely no clue who the perpetrator could possibly be, taking some DNA samples, running it through the computer, then arresting the resultant match and passing it on to the courts. In reality the list of suspects is going to be considerably narrowed by old-fashioned police work: finding witnesses, finding out the victim's history, looking for motive, etc.
In other words, fat lot of good it's going to do you to claim, "But there's a 0.1% chance that DNA isn't mine!" when you've been spotted leaving the crime scene by a witness, were seen having an argument with the victim a couple days prior, he owed you money, etc. Not to mention that if you go to find those other, say, 30 DNA matches, you find out that 21 of them live hundreds of miles away, 3 of them are in nursing homes, 1 is a kid, 2 are already in prison and have been for years...
VANOC trademarked the line, "With Glowing Hearts", which comes directly out of Canada's national anthem.
Today's Olympics are all about whoring themselves out to corporate sponsors, being absolute dicks to anyone who isn't one, and stiffing local taxpayers with the bills for years if not decades on end. If you're the type who worships at the altar of the free market, you've got to admire their ruthlessly perfect exploitation of it.
Terrorists will always find a way to get explosives on planes if they feel they need to.
I keep thinking that it's only a matter of time before they figure out they don't need to. Forget defeating the security lineup; just strap on some old-fashioned bombs, walk into said security lineup, and before being searched, blow themselves to hell and take a hundred or so innocents with them. Coordinate that at a few different airports around the world, and watch the entire airline industry collapse overnight.
Anyone who responds to a criticism of any country with a rant about how bad the United States is has immediately lost the argument
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The American Empire is broadly speaking evil. Everything thinking person agrees with this.
Wow. Just
When speculation has done its worst, two plus two still equals four. -- S. Johnson