With more than a billion potential voters, they could have voted for it to be named after a Dikshit.
Businessman Anurag Dikshit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anurag_Dikshit
or politician Sheila Dikshit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Dikshit
Hey, if it was named the "Dikshit" module of the ISS, it would never be mentioned in the news (except in India, of course).
Just how different is Quebec French from Parisian French? Are vowel sounds elongated, as in the difference between North Carolina English and 'Omaha' (television standard) English? Is the rhthym and the vocabulary markedly different, like Jamica English and 'Omaha' English? Are they nearly mutually incomprehensible, like Spanish from Madrid vs that of Barcelona?
French in Quebec and French in Paris differ in pronunciation less than French from Paris and French from near the Pyrenees[*]. However, the two dialects developed without much mutual contact from the mid-eighteenth century. As a result, many new words differ. Most famously, potatoes are pommes de terre in France, but potates in Quebec, leading to potential confusion in restaurants. Ask for potates frites in Paris, and they might think you're English. Luckily, asking for pommes frites in Quebec usually results in a request for clarification rather than a dish of fried apples.
The increased interaction made possible by modern communication (films, radio, internet, etc.) will probably cause some convergence. However, Quebeckers are also awash in US TV and media, while the French are more exposed to other influences (from Europe and Maghreb), so differences can be expected to persist in development of slang terms and so forth.
[*] Years ago, I foolishly observed that people in St.Gaudens spoke French with an almost Spanish accent, even clearly pronouncing the ends of words (which were left silent in Paris). I was lucky to survive the reaction of the locals, and learned emphatically that they speak French in the style of that part of France and utterly without any trace of Spanish influence.
I know this is Slashdot, but did anyone even bother to look up the application on the PAIR site?
It was expressly abandoned by IBM on 30 March 2009. The USPTO had not even assigned an examiner to the application.
Did anyone bother to look up application 11/860,336 on PAIR?
It was expressly abandoned by IBM on 30 March 2009 - before the USPTO had even assigned an examiner to the application.
Playing a radio in these circumstances is a public performance under British law and she does need a license.
She could just tell them that her staff are all deaf, and thus cannot hear the music. However, she would happily pay the public performance license if they can supply a sign-language version of their music.
This assumes that the public performance license does not apply if the audience cannot hear it. But I'm not entirely sure this assumption is correct, alas.
Not in the UK, according to the articles that you linked to. The prosecution have to show that you intended to use the tool to commit a crime - possession is not enough. Did you actually read the links that you posted?
Yes, I did. According to the linked article, if you distribute a "hacker tool" that somebody else then uses for an illegal purpose, you're on the hook under UK law. Even if you commit no crime with it.
The transition to Notes alone is likely to send Sun talent running for the hills.
They're dedicated professionals and they'll adapt to Notes and other aspects of IBM culture in a professional way: by curling into fetal position under a desk in the corner of the office and whimpering pathetically.
Can you give us those numbers in terms that are in common usaage? Like LOC (Libraries of Congress), GB (Golf Balls), DTM (Distance to moon)
OK, 2^128=3.40e38 approximately.
For comparison, 1e26 is approximately the number of Angstroms in a light year. The observable universe is about 1.4e10 light years in size. So the size of the observable universe is about 1.4e36 Angstroms. The number of IPv6 addresses is about 240 times bigger.
...is better than none at all.
And that's why those who did use OS/2 2.x or 3.x almost unanimously considered it much better than the Windows versions of the time (3.1, 3.11, 95. 98, NT) running on the hardware of the time.
There is still nothing to equal the WorkPlaceShell as an object-oriented interface. Oh, and you could run multiple window managers simultaneously on different desktops (PM, WinOS2, XFree86) or even on the same desktop (PM, WinOS2, IBM Xserver), if you wanted. I did so, with useful applications running in all desktops, and NFS server & client - on a Toshiba T5200 (20MHz 386 with 14MB RAM).
DEC OS/8 and TSS-8.
Ah, the joys of booting a PDP-8, burned indellibly in my memory 35 years ago. Magic incantations as you turned the key, then several minutes of manual labour with toggle switches, loading machine instructions and then executing them, all so it could read the bootstrap tape-reader hard-coded on a circuit board. And when I say hard-coded, it involved snipped conductors...
Have you submitted an article to a peer-reviewed scientific journal? Have you been a referee for such an article? I have been in both roles, and more than once. Your view of an editor's work is not consistent with my experiences.
As a referee, I was never harassed by an editor. At first, they simply ask if you're willing to referee a paper, and ask you to suggest a different referee if you are unwilling to be referee yourself. If you accept, you're expected to give a reasoned assessment of the article within a few weeks. They typically use several referees, so if there's a laggard, it does not matter. Most referees are conscientious and timely (I and my colleagues are).
As an author, you are expected to follow the guidelines which the journal publishes. Most of them provide LaTeX or Word templates, and strict typesetting guidelines on figures, headings, citations, captions, etc. If you don't follow their guidelines, your article will be rejected by a secretary who will politely provide the formatting guidelines. It won't even reach the editor and certainly won't go out for peer review.
Oh, I also know editors of a few journals personally (including two journals I have published in, but I met the editors long afterwards at conferences). None of them ever mentioned any need for harassment of authors or referees. They did need to harass their own employees (fill the advertising space, dammit!) and subcontractors (this is printed on SC paper, I said to use coated stock!). That's where the time is spent.
Actually, 100km/h (62.19mph) is 27.78m/s (91.13fps). So a 20-foot container on a truck will pass any given point in about 0.219sec. That's a burst bandwidth of 20.5PB/s or 164Pb/s.
My "fast" internet connection is more than 9 orders of magnitude slower, at a mere 100Mb/s. Now I'm really annoyed with my ISP.
Hard to argue for free software when the buyer's bonuses are based on saving % off MSRP (as it is in government contract procurements).
With FOSS, you always "negotiate" a 100% discount off MSRP for the product (it was free to begin with) and 100% discount on all upgrades. If a commercial supplier matches that offer, then it's a level playing field, with all costs in the support contracts.
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With more than a billion potential voters, they could have voted for it to be named after a Dikshit.
Businessman Anurag Dikshit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anurag_Dikshit
or politician Sheila Dikshit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Dikshit
Hey, if it was named the "Dikshit" module of the ISS, it would never be mentioned in the news (except in India, of course).
Just how different is Quebec French from Parisian French? Are vowel sounds elongated, as in the difference between North Carolina English and 'Omaha' (television standard) English? Is the rhthym and the vocabulary markedly different, like Jamica English and 'Omaha' English? Are they nearly mutually incomprehensible, like Spanish from Madrid vs that of Barcelona?
French in Quebec and French in Paris differ in pronunciation less than French from Paris and French from near the Pyrenees[*]. However, the two dialects developed without much mutual contact from the mid-eighteenth century. As a result, many new words differ. Most famously, potatoes are pommes de terre in France, but potates in Quebec, leading to potential confusion in restaurants. Ask for potates frites in Paris, and they might think you're English. Luckily, asking for pommes frites in Quebec usually results in a request for clarification rather than a dish of fried apples.
The increased interaction made possible by modern communication (films, radio, internet, etc.) will probably cause some convergence. However, Quebeckers are also awash in US TV and media, while the French are more exposed to other influences (from Europe and Maghreb), so differences can be expected to persist in development of slang terms and so forth.
[*] Years ago, I foolishly observed that people in St.Gaudens spoke French with an almost Spanish accent, even clearly pronouncing the ends of words (which were left silent in Paris). I was lucky to survive the reaction of the locals, and learned emphatically that they speak French in the style of that part of France and utterly without any trace of Spanish influence.
No conversation at all unless some vodka (or whatever with some strength) is added, and then you get conversation without meaning instead.
Hey, slashdot posts aren't all by drunken Finns, even though it might seem that way quite often.
probably not, but goatse.ie really doesn't have the same ring to it.
and goats.ie is taken http://goats.ie/ (don't look at it!)
Ja wird das Sprechen von englisch fast angefordert, aber in der Lage seiend zu denken und Arbeit in vielen Sprachen ist besser.
Ni thuigim duit!
En ymmärrä teitä!
We all have a useless language or two. For some of us, it's English. So what.
Not sure that I would want to be stuck in that with 5 other people for two years.
With enough viagra, lube, and toys, a crew of 3 guys + 3 gals might just survive. Exhausted, to be sure, but in pretty good spirits.
I know this is Slashdot, but did anyone even bother to look up the application on the PAIR site?
It was expressly abandoned by IBM on 30 March 2009. The USPTO had not even assigned an examiner to the application.
Did anyone bother to look up application 11/860,336 on PAIR?
It was expressly abandoned by IBM on 30 March 2009 - before the USPTO had even assigned an examiner to the application.
Playing a radio in these circumstances is a public performance under British law and she does need a license.
She could just tell them that her staff are all deaf, and thus cannot hear the music. However, she would happily pay the public performance license if they can supply a sign-language version of their music.
This assumes that the public performance license does not apply if the audience cannot hear it. But I'm not entirely sure this assumption is correct, alas.
God is one of these role-play nerds then, with his 20 dimensional dice.
Typical ignorance from a whole number dimensional being. God's fractal dice have 23.5 dimensions.
No, his dice has e^pi dimensions. How could you ever think God's dice would not be transcendental?
God's dice have exactly e^(i*pi) dimensions! Either that or factorial(e^(i*pi)) dimensions. Or maybe both at the same time...
Not in the UK, according to the articles that you linked to. The prosecution have to show that you intended to use the tool to commit a crime - possession is not enough. Did you actually read the links that you posted?
Yes, I did. According to the linked article, if you distribute a "hacker tool" that somebody else then uses for an illegal purpose, you're on the hook under UK law. Even if you commit no crime with it.
Which would happen once for every node on the network, would become this:
root@admin:~$ nmap 192.168.0.* -confickercheck
But isn't possession of "hacker tools" such as nmap legally questionable in the UK and Germany?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/13/0218246&tid=172
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/03/2056223
So if you use nmap to clean your network, you may be open to criminal charges.
ripped the bandage off the scab
Eh.. that is usually a bad thing to do.
Unless you're a masochist, and promptly pour some Tobasco on the open sore.
Or you could be the victim of a sadist - KDE 4.0 actually made me scream.
n00b. 17'5 5p3113d \/\/17# 4 "7." 17'5 5p3113d "1337." 101
Oh. My. God... I could read that.
I'm going to go get laid ASAP, burning sun be damned!
Eerily, not only could I read it, but so could my wife and our teenage kids!
The transition to Notes alone is likely to send Sun talent running for the hills.
They're dedicated professionals and they'll adapt to Notes and other aspects of IBM culture in a professional way: by curling into fetal position under a desk in the corner of the office and whimpering pathetically.
Forgot to mention: the number of IPv4 addresses is about the same as the number of Angstroms in 16inches. Just for comparison.
Can you give us those numbers in terms that are in common usaage? Like LOC (Libraries of Congress), GB (Golf Balls), DTM (Distance to moon)
OK, 2^128=3.40e38 approximately.
For comparison, 1e26 is approximately the number of Angstroms in a light year. The observable universe is about 1.4e10 light years in size. So the size of the observable universe is about 1.4e36 Angstroms. The number of IPv6 addresses is about 240 times bigger.
crap consumer routers have a nasty habit of dropping dead every 18 months
My SMC WBRP2804 has been persistently undead for almost 6 years.
Are you implying that it's not crap???
Google allows it's employees to use 20% of their WORK DAY for personal projects.
But that's the 20% that the rest of us spend drunk. Bad deal, evil Google!
Spoken like someone without a PhD. What you say is true only where the value of 'everything' is defined as 'procrastination'.
And if anyone on the team has TWO PhDs, then even procrastination becomes mind-bogglingly difficult.
...is better than none at all.
And that's why those who did use OS/2 2.x or 3.x almost unanimously considered it much better than the Windows versions of the time (3.1, 3.11, 95. 98, NT) running on the hardware of the time.
There is still nothing to equal the WorkPlaceShell as an object-oriented interface. Oh, and you could run multiple window managers simultaneously on different desktops (PM, WinOS2, XFree86) or even on the same desktop (PM, WinOS2, IBM Xserver), if you wanted. I did so, with useful applications running in all desktops, and NFS server & client - on a Toshiba T5200 (20MHz 386 with 14MB RAM).
DEC OS/8 and TSS-8.
Ah, the joys of booting a PDP-8, burned indellibly in my memory 35 years ago. Magic incantations as you turned the key, then several minutes of manual labour with toggle switches, loading machine instructions and then executing them, all so it could read the bootstrap tape-reader hard-coded on a circuit board. And when I say hard-coded, it involved snipped conductors...
Have you submitted an article to a peer-reviewed scientific journal? Have you been a referee for such an article? I have been in both roles, and more than once. Your view of an editor's work is not consistent with my experiences.
As a referee, I was never harassed by an editor. At first, they simply ask if you're willing to referee a paper, and ask you to suggest a different referee if you are unwilling to be referee yourself. If you accept, you're expected to give a reasoned assessment of the article within a few weeks. They typically use several referees, so if there's a laggard, it does not matter. Most referees are conscientious and timely (I and my colleagues are).
As an author, you are expected to follow the guidelines which the journal publishes. Most of them provide LaTeX or Word templates, and strict typesetting guidelines on figures, headings, citations, captions, etc. If you don't follow their guidelines, your article will be rejected by a secretary who will politely provide the formatting guidelines. It won't even reach the editor and certainly won't go out for peer review.
Oh, I also know editors of a few journals personally (including two journals I have published in, but I met the editors long afterwards at conferences). None of them ever mentioned any need for harassment of authors or referees. They did need to harass their own employees (fill the advertising space, dammit!) and subcontractors (this is printed on SC paper, I said to use coated stock!). That's where the time is spent.
Actually, 100km/h (62.19mph) is 27.78m/s (91.13fps). So a 20-foot container on a truck will pass any given point in about 0.219sec. That's a burst bandwidth of 20.5PB/s or 164Pb/s.
My "fast" internet connection is more than 9 orders of magnitude slower, at a mere 100Mb/s. Now I'm really annoyed with my ISP.
Hard to argue for free software when the buyer's bonuses are based on saving % off MSRP (as it is in government contract procurements).
With FOSS, you always "negotiate" a 100% discount off MSRP for the product (it was free to begin with) and 100% discount on all upgrades. If a commercial supplier matches that offer, then it's a level playing field, with all costs in the support contracts.