According to law, they are doing nothing illegal and are even protecting their own legal rights. This is what happens when law dictates human behaviour, instead of morals. Precisely this situation Plato envisioned when he said that good men need no laws to tell them how to behave, and evil men will find ways around the laws.
...the robots move shelves with popular items closer to the workers... That's going to have to be a huge warehouse to make any kind of difference. I've worked in warehouses, and the limiting factor in delivering items was often finding them. Thus, the more popular an item was the faster it got delivered, as I knew right where it would be. Moving things around based on what's popular this week will only slow down the workers by forcing them to check where things are on a map- something that probably will take more time than actually walking the average hundred meters or so to the proper shelf.
Babelfish didn't 'spark' anything. Idiot journalists did. What's new about that? As Napoleon had said (not exact, as I don't speak Italian or French), one thousand journalists are more dangerous than four trained soldiers.
Because if they have to relearn an interface, many will switch to Gimp. Gimp 2.4 is just fine for over 99% of what is done in Photoshop, even for professionals. The only reason that people continue using Photoshop is familiarity with the UI. Same with MS Office vs. Open Office and IE6 vs. [Firefox||IE7]. Each suite has it's merits, the paid for suites aren't nesseccarily (how the fuck do you spell that?) better (or worse) than the free ones, yet they are continually bought and pirated.
If you manage to write an app that crashes the phone OS, then the phone OS cannot be that good, can it? Why bother? Windows Mobile already comes with apps that do that. Speaking as a very experienced Mio and Dell Axim owner, of course.
Fedora on a public server? You are aware that Fedora is a bleeding edge, near unstable distro, aren't you? Don't get me wrong, it's my distro of choice, but things break regularly for me. Regularly, that's about once every two weeks. Why do you need something so bleeding edge on a server?
This wouldn't be slashdot without a car analogy. You have keys for your car, but clearly they wouldn't be necessary if not for the people who steal cars. Saying you should have keys for your car is like blaming the bullet instead of the killer. In Soviet Russia, the car keys you.
Because I intend to continue listening to it. It's not that I hate In Rainbows, it's just that it's not as good as I was hoping. Like much music of the last decade, it's nowhere near as good as the stuff of yesteryear. Still, it's not that bad. I just had too high expectations. Now, had it been an album that I really didn't like, and never intend on hearing again, then I would not have paid for it.
When I bought Load I payed $20 for an album that I didn't like. At that time, we could not listen to the music before purchasing. And there is a chance that I'll listen to In Rainbows more, so I think that paying is fair.
For the record, I'm the idiot that downloads With Teeth, decides that he likes it, and then goes to the store to buy the album that I've already downloaded for free (pirated, of course). For me, P2P is a way to test drive an album before buying. That's why the RIAA is scared of downloads. It holds them to a minimum acceptable standard before they get a crack at my money.
And apt-get can be an alias for yum. So what? You can customize it all you want, but then it's no longer Fedora. The site had instructions for Fedora and there was a minor, minor, minor error that I caught. I'm certain that 50 thousand other/.ers caught the error as well, decided that it was so minor that it was not even worth mentioning, and went on with their lives.
Truth is, I didn't like the album. So I paid $5 because I might want to listen to it more in the future. If I would have liked it I would have given $10. And if I see that I'm listening to it a lot, I will most certainly go and 'buy' it again in order to make my $5 purchase into $10.
[snip]...and could also be used in remote regions (especially in developing nations) where the local population cannot support having highly-specialized doctors in their area. Not to be a dick, but why do you think that a doctor is needed in the sick, isolated, poor parts of the world? So that the population will grow at an even faster rate than it already does? They don't have the food or resources to sustain themselves now, why create a situation in which they will have to distribute their few resources about even more people?
Or do you want to send them your food and your money as well? Including paying for the doctors who are ensuring that they will live to need it?
Ack! Mac users suffer that? My condolences to them...
Correct, I've never used PS on a Mac. I've only had limited exposure to Macs as until recently they did not support Hebrew very well. Well, neither does Windows (right arrow goes left, text aligned to wrong side, lots of gibberish encoding problems), but at least the supposed support was built in and not third-party. Not to troll or anything, but Hebrew support was one of the first things that drew me to KDE.
Back on topic, what _are_ the benefits of the multiple window interface? Does anybody really prefer it that way? Can PS on the Mac be configured as a single window?
Before implementing your plan, though, they have to get enough disk space to back up changes in civilization every hour. It's recursive, thus easily compressible:
Lindsay, Britney, Paris. A simple --i should do it.
Actually, I've been using the Gimp for about four or five months now, as my new laptop doesn't have enough room for a Windows partition. Maybe once a week or two I open an XP virtual machine to work with Photoshop, but that's becoming less and less. The Gimp 2.4 (I'm still on RC1) really is a good program, once I've relearned things. I cannot get used to the damned multiple window interface, though, and that's the real reason why people give up on Gimp I think.
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According to law, they are doing nothing illegal and are even protecting their own legal rights. This is what happens when law dictates human behaviour, instead of morals. Precisely this situation Plato envisioned when he said that good men need no laws to tell them how to behave, and evil men will find ways around the laws.
Been known to happen
Actually, I understood that the launch wasn't so great.
...the robots move shelves with popular items closer to the workers... That's going to have to be a huge warehouse to make any kind of difference. I've worked in warehouses, and the limiting factor in delivering items was often finding them. Thus, the more popular an item was the faster it got delivered, as I knew right where it would be. Moving things around based on what's popular this week will only slow down the workers by forcing them to check where things are on a map- something that probably will take more time than actually walking the average hundred meters or so to the proper shelf.Babelfish didn't 'spark' anything. Idiot journalists did. What's new about that? As Napoleon had said (not exact, as I don't speak Italian or French), one thousand journalists are more dangerous than four trained soldiers.
Could you please reword that, without accusations or obscenities, so that your complaints may be addressed? I'll even file the bugs if you'd like.
Because if they have to relearn an interface, many will switch to Gimp. Gimp 2.4 is just fine for over 99% of what is done in Photoshop, even for professionals. The only reason that people continue using Photoshop is familiarity with the UI. Same with MS Office vs. Open Office and IE6 vs. [Firefox||IE7]. Each suite has it's merits, the paid for suites aren't nesseccarily (how the fuck do you spell that?) better (or worse) than the free ones, yet they are continually bought and pirated.
It's all in the UI, baby.
Fedora on a public server? You are aware that Fedora is a bleeding edge, near unstable distro, aren't you? Don't get me wrong, it's my distro of choice, but things break regularly for me. Regularly, that's about once every two weeks. Why do you need something so bleeding edge on a server?
Grid computing, that's what they call it now?
Because I intend to continue listening to it. It's not that I hate In Rainbows, it's just that it's not as good as I was hoping. Like much music of the last decade, it's nowhere near as good as the stuff of yesteryear. Still, it's not that bad. I just had too high expectations. Now, had it been an album that I really didn't like, and never intend on hearing again, then I would not have paid for it.
On his Mac
When I bought Load I payed $20 for an album that I didn't like. At that time, we could not listen to the music before purchasing. And there is a chance that I'll listen to In Rainbows more, so I think that paying is fair.
For the record, I'm the idiot that downloads With Teeth, decides that he likes it, and then goes to the store to buy the album that I've already downloaded for free (pirated, of course). For me, P2P is a way to test drive an album before buying. That's why the RIAA is scared of downloads. It holds them to a minimum acceptable standard before they get a crack at my money.
And apt-get can be an alias for yum. So what? You can customize it all you want, but then it's no longer Fedora. The site had instructions for Fedora and there was a minor, minor, minor error that I caught. I'm certain that 50 thousand other /.ers caught the error as well, decided that it was so minor that it was not even worth mentioning, and went on with their lives.
That's why his company is called micro-soft. Which 5¼-incher did you think that he was playing with when he came up with that name?
$ su -
# yum install pygtk2 gnome-python2-gconf gnome-python2-extras pygtk2-libglade
Note the hash before the command, as opposed to the dollarsign. The hash indicates that we are root.
That's what I did. So I got counted twice.
Truth is, I didn't like the album. So I paid $5 because I might want to listen to it more in the future. If I would have liked it I would have given $10. And if I see that I'm listening to it a lot, I will most certainly go and 'buy' it again in order to make my $5 purchase into $10.
Or do you want to send them your food and your money as well? Including paying for the doctors who are ensuring that they will live to need it?
It's still on their homepage. Three days since expire. Maybe it's on a server behind a reinforced wall and the tech misplaced his powersaw.
Ack! Mac users suffer that? My condolences to them...
Correct, I've never used PS on a Mac. I've only had limited exposure to Macs as until recently they did not support Hebrew very well. Well, neither does Windows (right arrow goes left, text aligned to wrong side, lots of gibberish encoding problems), but at least the supposed support was built in and not third-party. Not to troll or anything, but Hebrew support was one of the first things that drew me to KDE.
Back on topic, what _are_ the benefits of the multiple window interface? Does anybody really prefer it that way? Can PS on the Mac be configured as a single window?
Actually, I've been using the Gimp for about four or five months now, as my new laptop doesn't have enough room for a Windows partition. Maybe once a week or two I open an XP virtual machine to work with Photoshop, but that's becoming less and less. The Gimp 2.4 (I'm still on RC1) really is a good program, once I've relearned things. I cannot get used to the damned multiple window interface, though, and that's the real reason why people give up on Gimp I think.