The cost of the paper and distribution are minuscule. The vast majority of the RRP on a book is author's fee, proofreading, editing, marketing, artwork, layout etc etc. Given that layout is more difficult in an eBook, and that some of these jobs have to be done several times if you want to offer more than one format, and eBooks can cost more to distribute than paper books.
If there is reasonable suspicion that they aided and abetted a crime then property can be seized. I'm still £10 down because I came across a bank note smeared in red dye, so I handed it in to the police. They caught a bank robber because of it. No reward, no return of my tenner ("stolen goods"), no reimbursement, it's just the way it works. Not particularly fair though.
The sensible thing in this case would be to have a court appointed computer forensics person come in and take an image of the server, lock it away somewhere, then they have all the admissible evidence they need and the servers can be re-purposed.
Britain's just had two exceptionally cold winters in a row, this one has been quite warm and the south of England is in drought conditions.
What the climate change theories predict is an increase in energy of the whole system, which means more extreme weather events; more hurricanes, greater air pressure gradients and bigger temperature swings, at least until it settles down into a new stable (hotter) state.
Of course, one weather event does not a theory prove, we need as much data as possible, and I'm not enough of a statistician to know if we're seeing climate change. It's all the right symptoms though.
Oh, and climate change has as much to with geological timescales as a mayfly does with the span of human history.
The Iran capture of a US drone? If one of the stories is correct, yes, they jammed the signals and it went into "land safely" mode. More likely GPS or other satellites than short-range WiFi, but yeah, it's an interesting limitation to automated warfare in general.
It's so over-engineered it's easily adaptable and extendable to a commercial product. The buses in Edinburgh use much the same system, with a display at the bus stops telling you how far away the next bus is, usually to within a minute. Yeah, useless idea with no commercial applications whatsoever. *rollseyes*
If MS actually stopped all unlicenced use of Windows then they'd soon be a minority OS, they rely on piracy to give them the bulk of the desktop market share. How many people do you know who've actually bought a copy of Windows? It's mostly OEM installations, and when it stops working most people have it replaced by an unlicensed version by a "mate with a disc".
You're right, and I agree, but please humour me with a little devil's advocate...
I recently worked on a pub website that needed to change to reflect the weather (they've got a big beer garden). My first stop was some code I'd written a couple of years back which parsed METAR data from airport weather stations - I'd already done most of the work I needed to do, but there were a couple of bits that I needed to add. Not wanting to use a bunch of (billable) time I had a look around and found a PEAR module that did much the same, plus a lot more. But it was pretty heavyweight for what I wanted, it was producing four dimensional arrays for example, when all I needed was $wind[speed], $wind[direction] and so on.
In the end it turned out to be far simpler to hand code my own, an entire PEAR module was replaced by 20 odd lines of code.
As I said at the start, I generally agree, it's important to be aware of resources like PEAR, CPAN and the like, but (especially when you're learning) you can progress by leaps and bounds by doing some things yourself. Plus sometimes there's a 5 minute solution compared with 20 minutes figuring out how Module-X works and how to integrate the results.
Ask somebody else to make changes to your code. You'll see plenty of arguments over pre-v-post incrementing or whatever, but the big thing is how well laid out and commented your code is...commercially, the chances of you being the only maintainer in perpetuity are practically nil, so it has to be readable to humans as well as computers. I'm well aware it's my major issue as a programmer, and one that I'm constantly working to improve.
In the UK you can't sign away your statutory rights. If I sign a contract saying I won't sue for negligence and the company are negligent, then I can sue and the judge will probably see the contract as a minus point for the defendant/s.
Example - my landlord can put a clause in the rent contract saying he is not responsible for the safety of animals (reasonable, as I live on a farm), but he can't get out of a statutory obligation such as ensuring electrical safety in the premises, no matter what I sign.
Look at the available evidence - if there was any psychic ability then the chances are that it would already be well documented. Even a slight statistical ability would have big impacts in warfare, commerce and many other areas of life. Whether a single study will overturn this is unlikely, so making a prediction that study-X won't show psychic ability is valid.
If you want an analogy, imagine getting a big crowd of people together who believe in psychics, and who have handed over their name, address, CC details and other snippets of information - you could probably convince them that you're talking to their dead relatives, if you wanted to be a fraudulent shyster who likes making money from the grief and hope of the gullible.
This is one of the main reasons the US dollar is a relatively easy currency to counterfeit. The really tricky bit of counterfeiting is finding the right paper (or cloth, more often), but because dollar bills are the same size you can (as mentioned) just bleach a $1. I've been handed plenty of fake Sterling notes whilst working in pubs, and the feel of the paper is a dead givaway 99% of the time.
I boycott these cash generation schemes by stopping at red lights and not going over the speed limit. That'll teach the bastards! Lets see how long they stay up with no revenue being generated!
I suspect you forfeit your right to an attorney by refusing to pay if you are able, and that your right to representation is still supported by your right to conduct your own defense.
No you can't, the time dilation caused by your travel will mean you experience it "100 years before the people on Earth" after your flight, but the Earth will now be "ahead of you in time" by 100 years, so it cancels out.
You're missing the point of relativity - if an event is outside our current light cone (ie your example of a light pulse from the moon) then it hasn't happened here yet. That's the whole point, events happen at different time for different observers, hence "relativity". In a very real way, your light pulse on the moon hasn't happened on the Earth until the light reaches us.
Depends on your frame of reference. Something that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away may not have happened here yet. If it happened 5m years ago (their time) in a galaxy 5.1m lightyears away then it's still 100,000 years in our future.
In some cases the red shift can give you velocity information from a "snapshot", nature's good with compression algorithms;) Not sure if there's enough variation in this case to make it particularly useful, I'll probably have to read the fine article.
You may have a point in a roundabout way. This is similar to sheets of graphene that have also been discovered. Now, imagine that the graphene or C60 is contaminated with trace amounts of N, O, P and H - the carbon is going to form a substrate on which random combinations of the containments are brought together, and if it's constantly being broken up and reforming due to, for example, UV then you have a plausible mechanism for biogenesis.
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The cost of the paper and distribution are minuscule. The vast majority of the RRP on a book is author's fee, proofreading, editing, marketing, artwork, layout etc etc. Given that layout is more difficult in an eBook, and that some of these jobs have to be done several times if you want to offer more than one format, and eBooks can cost more to distribute than paper books.
If there is reasonable suspicion that they aided and abetted a crime then property can be seized. I'm still £10 down because I came across a bank note smeared in red dye, so I handed it in to the police. They caught a bank robber because of it. No reward, no return of my tenner ("stolen goods"), no reimbursement, it's just the way it works. Not particularly fair though.
The sensible thing in this case would be to have a court appointed computer forensics person come in and take an image of the server, lock it away somewhere, then they have all the admissible evidence they need and the servers can be re-purposed.
Britain's just had two exceptionally cold winters in a row, this one has been quite warm and the south of England is in drought conditions.
What the climate change theories predict is an increase in energy of the whole system, which means more extreme weather events; more hurricanes, greater air pressure gradients and bigger temperature swings, at least until it settles down into a new stable (hotter) state.
Of course, one weather event does not a theory prove, we need as much data as possible, and I'm not enough of a statistician to know if we're seeing climate change. It's all the right symptoms though.
Oh, and climate change has as much to with geological timescales as a mayfly does with the span of human history.
Since my mod points won't give you a +6 Insightful, please accept my complete agreement. Virtually a non-story, and I'm no fan of MS.
The Iran capture of a US drone? If one of the stories is correct, yes, they jammed the signals and it went into "land safely" mode. More likely GPS or other satellites than short-range WiFi, but yeah, it's an interesting limitation to automated warfare in general.
It's so over-engineered it's easily adaptable and extendable to a commercial product. The buses in Edinburgh use much the same system, with a display at the bus stops telling you how far away the next bus is, usually to within a minute. Yeah, useless idea with no commercial applications whatsoever. *rollseyes*
Analogy? You get the same number of frames-per-second, but it also calculates the frames that would have resulted from a different input.
If MS actually stopped all unlicenced use of Windows then they'd soon be a minority OS, they rely on piracy to give them the bulk of the desktop market share. How many people do you know who've actually bought a copy of Windows? It's mostly OEM installations, and when it stops working most people have it replaced by an unlicensed version by a "mate with a disc".
You're right, and I agree, but please humour me with a little devil's advocate...
I recently worked on a pub website that needed to change to reflect the weather (they've got a big beer garden). My first stop was some code I'd written a couple of years back which parsed METAR data from airport weather stations - I'd already done most of the work I needed to do, but there were a couple of bits that I needed to add. Not wanting to use a bunch of (billable) time I had a look around and found a PEAR module that did much the same, plus a lot more. But it was pretty heavyweight for what I wanted, it was producing four dimensional arrays for example, when all I needed was $wind[speed], $wind[direction] and so on.
In the end it turned out to be far simpler to hand code my own, an entire PEAR module was replaced by 20 odd lines of code.
As I said at the start, I generally agree, it's important to be aware of resources like PEAR, CPAN and the like, but (especially when you're learning) you can progress by leaps and bounds by doing some things yourself. Plus sometimes there's a 5 minute solution compared with 20 minutes figuring out how Module-X works and how to integrate the results.
The who?
Oh, them!
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The who?
Ask somebody else to make changes to your code. You'll see plenty of arguments over pre-v-post incrementing or whatever, but the big thing is how well laid out and commented your code is...commercially, the chances of you being the only maintainer in perpetuity are practically nil, so it has to be readable to humans as well as computers. I'm well aware it's my major issue as a programmer, and one that I'm constantly working to improve.
In the UK you can't sign away your statutory rights. If I sign a contract saying I won't sue for negligence and the company are negligent, then I can sue and the judge will probably see the contract as a minus point for the defendant/s.
Example - my landlord can put a clause in the rent contract saying he is not responsible for the safety of animals (reasonable, as I live on a farm), but he can't get out of a statutory obligation such as ensuring electrical safety in the premises, no matter what I sign.
Look at the available evidence - if there was any psychic ability then the chances are that it would already be well documented. Even a slight statistical ability would have big impacts in warfare, commerce and many other areas of life. Whether a single study will overturn this is unlikely, so making a prediction that study-X won't show psychic ability is valid.
If you want an analogy, imagine getting a big crowd of people together who believe in psychics, and who have handed over their name, address, CC details and other snippets of information - you could probably convince them that you're talking to their dead relatives, if you wanted to be a fraudulent shyster who likes making money from the grief and hope of the gullible.
This is one of the main reasons the US dollar is a relatively easy currency to counterfeit. The really tricky bit of counterfeiting is finding the right paper (or cloth, more often), but because dollar bills are the same size you can (as mentioned) just bleach a $1. I've been handed plenty of fake Sterling notes whilst working in pubs, and the feel of the paper is a dead givaway 99% of the time.
Traffic regulation != Nazi Germany (the original topic of that meme). Godwin called.
I boycott these cash generation schemes by stopping at red lights and not going over the speed limit. That'll teach the bastards! Lets see how long they stay up with no revenue being generated!
I suspect you forfeit your right to an attorney by refusing to pay if you are able, and that your right to representation is still supported by your right to conduct your own defense.
No you can't, the time dilation caused by your travel will mean you experience it "100 years before the people on Earth" after your flight, but the Earth will now be "ahead of you in time" by 100 years, so it cancels out.
You're missing the point of relativity - if an event is outside our current light cone (ie your example of a light pulse from the moon) then it hasn't happened here yet. That's the whole point, events happen at different time for different observers, hence "relativity". In a very real way, your light pulse on the moon hasn't happened on the Earth until the light reaches us.
Depends on your frame of reference. Something that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away may not have happened here yet. If it happened 5m years ago (their time) in a galaxy 5.1m lightyears away then it's still 100,000 years in our future.
Hey, you started it.
In some cases the red shift can give you velocity information from a "snapshot", nature's good with compression algorithms ;)
Not sure if there's enough variation in this case to make it particularly useful, I'll probably have to read the fine article.
That's why I moved all my beanie baby stock into tulip futures.
You may have a point in a roundabout way. This is similar to sheets of graphene that have also been discovered. Now, imagine that the graphene or C60 is contaminated with trace amounts of N, O, P and H - the carbon is going to form a substrate on which random combinations of the containments are brought together, and if it's constantly being broken up and reforming due to, for example, UV then you have a plausible mechanism for biogenesis.
Can't fool me, I've given up believing in Google for Lent.
OK, "I for one welcome our formerly anonymous although that may change if TFA is to be taken literally so they will no longer be anonymous overlords."
FTFY?