Yea we all love to laugh at poo jokes. However it is actually a good idea. These plant eating animals do most of the work for us of breaking down vegetable matter into the raw fiber. The paper making process is in essence a big digestion system. So we just fill it in and clean out the nasty stuff, you probably have a good material.
How does buying physical media make such products more DRM Free? There is still DRM the CD/DVDs. When you copy the game from CD to your PC in essence the same thing happens. High and Low Bits from one media are communicated to an other. Wither it is Computer to Computer with a TCP/IP Layer or from CD to Computer with a IDE/SCSI or whatever communication protocols that you use.
Sure there isn't Physical DRM's on Music CD like there is on downloaded Music. That is because the technology at the time didn't have DRM and you would break a lot of compatibility by adding such. But for games they have been doing DRM on Physical Media for about 20 years in one form or an other. Self Booting Games formatted in their own format to make it hard to copy using DOS Commands. Or putting in Bad sectors on the disks in particular spots and running a check to make sure they are still there. Then when Hard drives became popular on PC's they did a stop to this just because the advantage of the extra size out weighted the risk of piracy. Then when the CDs became popular again and before people had burners they started to make games that were partially installed on the Computer and then it must have the CD to read from. (I remember messing with Loopback mounting in Linux when it was still a new feature to trick Quake for Linux to think it was reading from a real CD not the actual drive) Now that burners are common and Doing ISO Loopbacks in one form or an other they put time back into DRM again. But now most people have an always on Internet connection so they took advantage of that.
Companies liked Physical Media in the Past because it was their DRM. Now that transferring Media is really easy they need to DRM their Media. Being that they are putting all this effort in DRM Media they might as well skip the expense of publishing and just go for direct download.
You are not fighting the DRM wars by saying I will only by Physical Media... You are only keeping software costs high, without effecting DRM.
I remember being that age and working with motorized constructs. They were great. Different belts on different size flywheels creating different speeds. Connecting a bar to a hinge and part of the fly wheel allows you to make simple robots with arms that go up and down.
Hubris, mostly. Civil Disobedience by breaking the law is still against the law. Citing you are breaking bad laws will only make you guilty of breaking such law. Now if you think you are all that and the world will protest your prosecution create new laws and get you out of jail and be welcomed back to society as a hero, then you might do so. However for the most part what will happen you will get a couple of people bitching about it, a couple nasty letters to the politicians and then nothing will happen and you spend all your time in jail when you leave everything you fought against is still in place.
Media Piracy is a lot like Porn. Most people are guilty of it. However they will not speak up for it as it will make them look bad.
That is a good point. I can't talk about Portugal but I can talk about New York State (Which has just under twice the population and is about 50% larger in area).
Most of the State Technology Bids (Be aware that most non-technology bids you will not have to many full Open Source shops, as the small ones will usually use the OS that comes with the computer) are for Windows Development either fully or partially. So if you are going to be an Open Source Nut and really push them hard they will just fight back, make your project fail on you and make you look bad.
Secondly you really think this bidding process is actually fare and competitive. As an Ex-Consultant this is how it works (most of the time). 1. A. A Consulting firm approaches a State Agency and says you could really use X and pitches it to them.
B. State Agency has a need for a project and approaches a trusted consulting firm and gives them the requirements.
2. Firm creates specs and a quote as well as the Resumes of the people who will be working on it.
3. State takes those quotes and the resume and crafts a bid to fit the company they want perfectly. So for example 10 years of software developer experience, Experience on VMS, UNIX, Linux and Windows and with the languages.NET (2 yrs), VB 6 (5 yrs), FORTRAN (5 years) and Python (9 Years) or whatever. Even if the project doesn't need those skill sets where a Jr. Developer with a year of.NET is needed to do the job.
4. When they put the bid out they may get a bunch of bids but none match exactly except for the firm that they wanted the bid to go to.
For the most part when the people do real outdoor pursuits (I am not talking about campers and the like) Light Weight is key, A lot of these products for the developing countries are a bit heavy and hard to move. Also if they are too convenient then you get rid of the point of camping. The point of camping is starting a nice fire and slow roasting your food. Or use a small and light backpacker stove where you fill with a Light Gas Pump it up light it and whoosh you burn off you eyebrows but have a nice little cooking stove. That philips wood stove which is good for home use isn't really useful for the outdoor people, it is to big and heavy for backpackers and not as fun as an open flame for the others.
What about Macs, and Moonlight. Granted Using Silverlight is a stupid move done by STUPID Developers, and braindead PHB. But still if you wanted to do bidding you had ways.
Sequels, when done well, allow for the characters to evolve and become more complex. Normally for a Movie a good chunk is establishing the character. Then less time with actual plot in the 1 1/2 - 3 hour block of time. Sequels allow for the character to go from where they left off, or further down where their character background is already known.
Prequels, on the other hand are for more dangerous, As the plot usually stinks as they need to establish the characters again for their younger self, and try to make these new characters to try to fit into the later ones, and if the character is that well established before hand your view may not mesh with the imagination. Like Darth Vader being a whinny little brad.
But for these stories it is important to understand when it is good to make an end or when to allow for sequels. If there is room for more character growth then it may be good for a Sequel. But in such as Austin Powers sequels will not expand the character any further just the same old in a different environment.
I grant that it is expensive though. I also grant that governments are bad at large IT projects and always give it to the lowest bidder.
Not as expensive as you think. These real solutions not the cheesy hacks also handle the billing and reduce the need for expensive transcriptionist. Normally after they get a service they can save thousands per month. Even more if they get it threw a reputable SaaS who will intern keep proper backups and insure the data security.
at a At a performance of around 1/(n*1.05) the speed of the origional CPU where n is the number of visualization.
So without and vm = n=0 we get the speed of a single device. When you have a millions VS running you get 1000000*1/(1000000*1.05) = 1000000/1050000 = roughly 0.95 so with a Beowulf you loose 5% performance.
No there are other rules and a lot very by state. Such as managing their COBRA, or 401k, Responsibility for the company profit sharing. large companies have a lot of rules. And also the state for unemployments has rules on what terms you have left.
Do your job as well as you can, and don't bring attention to the fact that you are female. They guys will know that. But bringing it up all the times makes it difficult to have a good professional relation with the other guys. Problems happened when you compensate in two ways become to passive and seem like you don't know what you are doing or too aggressive where they try to avoid you, and afraid that they will need to walk on eggshells where every decision you make needs to be second guessed. Have work with a fair amount of IT professionals who are woman, the main trick is to be professional and not put attention to you difference.
14.4 was a huge leap you can download 1MB in 10 Minutes! Thats means you could download Doom 1 in about 1/2 an hour. Before that I had a 2400 bps modem so it was 1MB in 1 hour. So if you wanted to get doom 1/4 of your day would be gone before you had it.
I don't think this will effect your recommendations as much as it will effect severance or unemployment benefits. If this small company failed or you get laied off or fired because you weren't a good match. They will say you left on bad terms which may make getting unemployment benefits much harder. For a large company that means they will still need to pay for such benefits. All these HR Regulations are a feeble attempt to make a company responsible for the employees however all it does is force companies to use the loopholes which end up screwing the employee more, to protect themselves from extra liabilities.
Most of the laws are for the employee but due to politics the "Bad Employee" gets less rights. As no one want to pay taxes to support the lazy bum who jumps from job to job and does nothing.
A lot of these laws were based a generation ago where people were expected to do the same job for life. There is little change to todays echonomy where people are expected to be in the same company for 10 years or so max.
Actually back then that was the bulk what I was using the internet for. As some BBS's were going TCP/IP so you can telnet (days before encryption of you communication wasn't a big deal) in and go to these BBS's online without having to pay long distance, and Play Doors and downloads software world wide. As for world wide messaging that is what the FidoNet was for. Heck you can even send internet emails with horrible email addresses threw FidoNet.
Telnet and FTP was the big way of doing things back then. Gopher and Web were less so.
Except or the fact it will look like a fuzzy dot. If I had a good telescope it may be worth it. However Ill just wait to see it from the Astronomers on the Web. (Its cold up here)
There NY City and Upstate NY. Update NY are relatively good drivers. The Capital District (Albany, NY) areas where i90 and i87 meet actually have the best traffic for a city/population. The people who mess it up are the Snobs from Saratoga going down for their nice cushy state jobs. And they NYC guys driving up.
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Yea we all love to laugh at poo jokes. However it is actually a good idea. These plant eating animals do most of the work for us of breaking down vegetable matter into the raw fiber. The paper making process is in essence a big digestion system. So we just fill it in and clean out the nasty stuff, you probably have a good material.
How does buying physical media make such products more DRM Free? There is still DRM the CD/DVDs. When you copy the game from CD to your PC in essence the same thing happens. High and Low Bits from one media are communicated to an other. Wither it is Computer to Computer with a TCP/IP Layer or from CD to Computer with a IDE/SCSI or whatever communication protocols that you use.
Sure there isn't Physical DRM's on Music CD like there is on downloaded Music. That is because the technology at the time didn't have DRM and you would break a lot of compatibility by adding such. But for games they have been doing DRM on Physical Media for about 20 years in one form or an other.
Self Booting Games formatted in their own format to make it hard to copy using DOS Commands. Or putting in Bad sectors on the disks in particular spots and running a check to make sure they are still there.
Then when Hard drives became popular on PC's they did a stop to this just because the advantage of the extra size out weighted the risk of piracy.
Then when the CDs became popular again and before people had burners they started to make games that were partially installed on the Computer and then it must have the CD to read from. (I remember messing with Loopback mounting in Linux when it was still a new feature to trick Quake for Linux to think it was reading from a real CD not the actual drive)
Now that burners are common and Doing ISO Loopbacks in one form or an other they put time back into DRM again. But now most people have an always on Internet connection so they took advantage of that.
Companies liked Physical Media in the Past because it was their DRM. Now that transferring Media is really easy they need to DRM their Media. Being that they are putting all this effort in DRM Media they might as well skip the expense of publishing and just go for direct download.
You are not fighting the DRM wars by saying I will only by Physical Media... You are only keeping software costs high, without effecting DRM.
Sorry.
umm I would remove Rape from your argument.
I remember being that age and working with motorized constructs.
They were great. Different belts on different size flywheels creating different speeds. Connecting a bar to a hinge and part of the fly wheel allows you to make simple robots with arms that go up and down.
Why would TPB attack copyright law?
Hubris, mostly.
Civil Disobedience by breaking the law is still against the law. Citing you are breaking bad laws will only make you guilty of breaking such law.
Now if you think you are all that and the world will protest your prosecution create new laws and get you out of jail and be welcomed back to society as a hero, then you might do so.
However for the most part what will happen you will get a couple of people bitching about it, a couple nasty letters to the politicians and then nothing will happen and you spend all your time in jail when you leave everything you fought against is still in place.
Media Piracy is a lot like Porn. Most people are guilty of it. However they will not speak up for it as it will make them look bad.
That is a good point. I can't talk about Portugal but I can talk about New York State (Which has just under twice the population and is about 50% larger in area).
Most of the State Technology Bids (Be aware that most non-technology bids you will not have to many full Open Source shops, as the small ones will usually use the OS that comes with the computer) are for Windows Development either fully or partially. So if you are going to be an Open Source Nut and really push them hard they will just fight back, make your project fail on you and make you look bad.
Secondly you really think this bidding process is actually fare and competitive. As an Ex-Consultant this is how it works (most of the time).
1. A. A Consulting firm approaches a State Agency and says you could really use X and pitches it to them.
B. State Agency has a need for a project and approaches a trusted consulting firm and gives them the requirements.
2. Firm creates specs and a quote as well as the Resumes of the people who will be working on it.
3. State takes those quotes and the resume and crafts a bid to fit the company they want perfectly. So for example 10 years of software developer experience, Experience on VMS, UNIX, Linux and Windows and with the languages .NET (2 yrs), VB 6 (5 yrs), FORTRAN (5 years) and Python (9 Years) or whatever. Even if the project doesn't need those skill sets where a Jr. Developer with a year of .NET is needed to do the job.
4. When they put the bid out they may get a bunch of bids but none match exactly except for the firm that they wanted the bid to go to.
For the most part when the people do real outdoor pursuits (I am not talking about campers and the like) Light Weight is key, A lot of these products for the developing countries are a bit heavy and hard to move. Also if they are too convenient then you get rid of the point of camping. The point of camping is starting a nice fire and slow roasting your food. Or use a small and light backpacker stove where you fill with a Light Gas Pump it up light it and whoosh you burn off you eyebrows but have a nice little cooking stove. That philips wood stove which is good for home use isn't really useful for the outdoor people, it is to big and heavy for backpackers and not as fun as an open flame for the others.
What about Macs, and Moonlight. Granted Using Silverlight is a stupid move done by STUPID Developers, and braindead PHB. But still if you wanted to do bidding you had ways.
Sequels, when done well, allow for the characters to evolve and become more complex. Normally for a Movie a good chunk is establishing the character. Then less time with actual plot in the 1 1/2 - 3 hour block of time. Sequels allow for the character to go from where they left off, or further down where their character background is already known.
Prequels, on the other hand are for more dangerous, As the plot usually stinks as they need to establish the characters again for their younger self, and try to make these new characters to try to fit into the later ones, and if the character is that well established before hand your view may not mesh with the imagination. Like Darth Vader being a whinny little brad.
But for these stories it is important to understand when it is good to make an end or when to allow for sequels. If there is room for more character growth then it may be good for a Sequel. But in such as Austin Powers sequels will not expand the character any further just the same old in a different environment.
I grant that it is expensive though. I also grant that governments are bad at large IT projects and always give it to the lowest bidder.
Not as expensive as you think. These real solutions not the cheesy hacks also handle the billing and reduce the need for expensive transcriptionist. Normally after they get a service they can save thousands per month. Even more if they get it threw a reputable SaaS who will intern keep proper backups and insure the data security.
Bah just a hack of wolfinstiene 3d. And I bet it was based on something else.
at a At a performance of around 1/(n*1.05) the speed of the origional CPU where n is the number of visualization.
So without and vm = n=0 we get the speed of a single device. When you have a millions VS running you get 1000000*1/(1000000*1.05) = 1000000/1050000 = roughly 0.95
so with a Beowulf you loose 5% performance.
No there are other rules and a lot very by state. Such as managing their COBRA, or 401k, Responsibility for the company profit sharing. large companies have a lot of rules. And also the state for unemployments has rules on what terms you have left.
Do your job as well as you can, and don't bring attention to the fact that you are female. They guys will know that. But bringing it up all the times makes it difficult to have a good professional relation with the other guys. Problems happened when you compensate in two ways become to passive and seem like you don't know what you are doing or too aggressive where they try to avoid you, and afraid that they will need to walk on eggshells where every decision you make needs to be second guessed. Have work with a fair amount of IT professionals who are woman, the main trick is to be professional and not put attention to you difference.
14.4 was a huge leap you can download 1MB in 10 Minutes! Thats means you could download Doom 1 in about 1/2 an hour. Before that I had a 2400 bps modem so it was 1MB in 1 hour. So if you wanted to get doom 1/4 of your day would be gone before you had it.
I don't think this will effect your recommendations as much as it will effect severance or unemployment benefits. If this small company failed or you get laied off or fired because you weren't a good match. They will say you left on bad terms which may make getting unemployment benefits much harder. For a large company that means they will still need to pay for such benefits. All these HR Regulations are a feeble attempt to make a company responsible for the employees however all it does is force companies to use the loopholes which end up screwing the employee more, to protect themselves from extra liabilities.
Most of the laws are for the employee but due to politics the "Bad Employee" gets less rights. As no one want to pay taxes to support the lazy bum who jumps from job to job and does nothing.
A lot of these laws were based a generation ago where people were expected to do the same job for life. There is little change to todays echonomy where people are expected to be in the same company for 10 years or so max.
Actually back then that was the bulk what I was using the internet for. As some BBS's were going TCP/IP so you can telnet (days before encryption of you communication wasn't a big deal) in and go to these BBS's online without having to pay long distance, and Play Doors and downloads software world wide. As for world wide messaging that is what the FidoNet was for. Heck you can even send internet emails with horrible email addresses threw FidoNet.
Telnet and FTP was the big way of doing things back then. Gopher and Web were less so.
It didn't Netscape Did.
no. I wont.
Except or the fact it will look like a fuzzy dot. If I had a good telescope it may be worth it. However Ill just wait to see it from the Astronomers on the Web. (Its cold up here)
There NY City and Upstate NY. Update NY are relatively good drivers. The Capital District (Albany, NY) areas where i90 and i87 meet actually have the best traffic for a city/population. The people who mess it up are the Snobs from Saratoga going down for their nice cushy state jobs. And they NYC guys driving up.
Because Linux is Free as in feeling that somehow your choice in a Computer Operating Systems makes you morally superior.
Or it is free as in beer so When OS X or Windows dies on you you have a quick free OS to install to get your work done.
Or it helps you become an Alpha Geek... If a girl is gonna go for a geek they at least will go for the Alpha geek.
Or the very rare case that there is an app the only runs well in Linux that they need to use.
It will make 2009 the year of the... Oh never mind...
Its called advertising. IE 7 still has the market share, and the largest group of users who will think it is important.
As pointed out by the makers of the browsers who couldn't support it. :-)