The US economy would be vastly better off if they received money from the IP they produced globally. The entire world watches our shows, movies, listens to our music, uses our software, plays our games, etc.
Yes, but most of the world hasn't be "convinced" by western corporations that ideas, culture and knowledge are to be owned, and that it is morally reprehensible to share them in any way without expressed permission.
Dude, your brain takes a full second minimum to recognize the problem and start pressing on the brake peddle with any significant force. 1980's calculators could respond to external stimuli several orders of magnitude faster.
Computers can supplement driving performance no matter how good of a driver you, and everyone else, thinks they are. An existing, yet primitive example of this is ABS.
Being selective with the content is probably more important than being selective with the company.
Considering Google seems to be going in the direction of data mining virtually everything, I don't know if I would trust them with data more than Microsoft.
I think you need to do more reading. A few seconds of 110v on a 15amp circuit is not going to give you enough energy to drive your car out the driveway. You need more time or more power.
I've often thought that the perfect complement to an EV would be a standard portable generator retrofitted to mount on a roof rack or to the back of the car. For those couple times a year you want to take a trip up north, you could buy or rent a generator and turn your EV into a plug in hybrid. The rest of the time, no need to carry it around.
If you mean technical and scientific papers as well as textbooks, then yes.
Sure paperback books sell better, but that's because there are a couple hundred "best sellers" a year at most. There are probably hundreds of millions of engineers, technicians, scientists and college/university student's reading more obscure documents that are formatted for an 8.5/11inch piece of paper. That's the real market.
And, just like Nvidia's driver, this isn't always going to work.
If you have 100 million netbooks out there, and a customer support line that costs you 5-10 bucks a call, you don't need this kind of fragility. Theres nothing technologically special about netbooks. There's no reason the generally old, but repackaged technology in them cannot have open source drivers. In fact, since most of the components are often Intel, that can easily be the case.
Typefaces in PDF files formatted for 216 x 280 mm (8.5 x 11 inch) pages may be too small to read comfortably. Such files can be reformatted for the Reader screen size with Adobe Acrobat Professional, but not by Adobe Reader software.
That's going to be the same for any 800x600 6inch screen (like the Handlin). A reader capable of displaying scientific papers readably (8.5x11inch, 10pt font) is still a wet dream unfortunately.
Misleading advertising also nullifies competition. If the "little guy" comes along wanting to sell a faster service, it's kind of hard to explain to customers why their service is better than the big guy's "fast and unlimited."
The same thing here in Canada, and when compared with Japan and Europe, the U.S. as well.
The problem with that argument is that people are not distributed uniformly. The ISP's have no excuse for not providing good service in Sidney, Melbourne, Toronto, Boston, etc. They all have much higher population densities than the European or Japanese "countryside."
It's not like I can say "doctors are too expensive, I think I'll just decide to never get sick".
That can probably be said for retirement and welfare as well. Sure, there are scammers, but a single mother staying home with her baby rather than paying a 12 year old $5 an hour to sit while she works a checkout at walmart is a good investment in my eyes.
Also, everyone will have to retire at some point, you just have to live long enough. A society can be judged by how they take care of their elderly and their children.
That's what I find funny. Virtually every argument that one system is better than another revolves around one falling short, and the user switching to a "far superior system."
These people should realize that their ability to switch to a system that met their needs was only possible because of diversity.
I have a Samsung YP-U3. It plays ogg but not flac. Since it's a simple little flash based "thumb drive" style player, I wouldn't want to put big flac files on it anyway.
My only complaint is that it's an MTP device instead of a USB mass storage device, but Amarok interfaces with it fine.
While $222,000 is a stupid amount, she's either innocent (or within fair use) or she's guilty and needs to pay a significant fine.
Suppose someone distributes Linux without source. Fining the person for the market value would be pointless. The fine needs to be large enough to provide a deterrent to future infringement. I would hazard to guess that a sufficient deterrent to casual, non-profit infringement would be about the cost of a speeding ticket.
It would be nice to see someone use Poppler to create a fast loading plugin or firefox extension to view pdf files in the browser. I find that's one of the nicest features of Konqueror.
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The US economy would be vastly better off if they received money from the IP they produced globally. The entire world watches our shows, movies, listens to our music, uses our software, plays our games, etc.
Yes, but most of the world hasn't be "convinced" by western corporations that ideas, culture and knowledge are to be owned, and that it is morally reprehensible to share them in any way without expressed permission.
Dude, your brain takes a full second minimum to recognize the problem and start pressing on the brake peddle with any significant force. 1980's calculators could respond to external stimuli several orders of magnitude faster.
Computers can supplement driving performance no matter how good of a driver you, and everyone else, thinks they are. An existing, yet primitive example of this is ABS.
Be preventing other desktops from having "magnifying" effects on icons, Steve has done the world a favor.
I thank him for his valiant efforts.
Being selective with the content is probably more important than being selective with the company.
Considering Google seems to be going in the direction of data mining virtually everything, I don't know if I would trust them with data more than Microsoft.
I think you need to do more reading. A few seconds of 110v on a 15amp circuit is not going to give you enough energy to drive your car out the driveway. You need more time or more power.
I've often thought that the perfect complement to an EV would be a standard portable generator retrofitted to mount on a roof rack or to the back of the car. For those couple times a year you want to take a trip up north, you could buy or rent a generator and turn your EV into a plug in hybrid. The rest of the time, no need to carry it around.
If you mean technical and scientific papers as well as textbooks, then yes.
Sure paperback books sell better, but that's because there are a couple hundred "best sellers" a year at most. There are probably hundreds of millions of engineers, technicians, scientists and college/university student's reading more obscure documents that are formatted for an 8.5/11inch piece of paper. That's the real market.
And, just like Nvidia's driver, this isn't always going to work.
If you have 100 million netbooks out there, and a customer support line that costs you 5-10 bucks a call, you don't need this kind of fragility. Theres nothing technologically special about netbooks. There's no reason the generally old, but repackaged technology in them cannot have open source drivers. In fact, since most of the components are often Intel, that can easily be the case.
Mod parent insightful. This is the insight these OEMs seem to be heavily lacking. The only thing:
Make sure all your drivers for your cards work and can survive things like Kernel patches [or upgrades].
You are probably going to have to explain that this is only going to work with open source drivers and why.
From the first link:
Typefaces in PDF files formatted for 216 x 280 mm (8.5 x 11 inch) pages may be too small to read comfortably. Such files can be reformatted for the Reader screen size with Adobe Acrobat Professional, but not by Adobe Reader software.
That's going to be the same for any 800x600 6inch screen (like the Handlin). A reader capable of displaying scientific papers readably (8.5x11inch, 10pt font) is still a wet dream unfortunately.
Sure, but any systematic bias in the machines worth raising a stink about is going to be painfully obvious after a trillion random votes.
In 2001, Napster was probably where most file sharing was going on.
I used to work in tech support for a company that had proprietary software...
"pass-the-buck" culture is pervasive.
The best is when one department will "pass-the-buck" to another department within the same company.
Too bad coreboot doesn't run on any of my motherboards. Imagine having a busybox terminal ready to go before the LCD monitor powers up.
401K?? Yeah... I'd say that's abnormally warm.
Misleading advertising also nullifies competition. If the "little guy" comes along wanting to sell a faster service, it's kind of hard to explain to customers why their service is better than the big guy's "fast and unlimited."
The same thing here in Canada, and when compared with Japan and Europe, the U.S. as well.
The problem with that argument is that people are not distributed uniformly. The ISP's have no excuse for not providing good service in Sidney, Melbourne, Toronto, Boston, etc. They all have much higher population densities than the European or Japanese "countryside."
It's not like I can say "doctors are too expensive, I think I'll just decide to never get sick".
That can probably be said for retirement and welfare as well. Sure, there are scammers, but a single mother staying home with her baby rather than paying a 12 year old $5 an hour to sit while she works a checkout at walmart is a good investment in my eyes.
Also, everyone will have to retire at some point, you just have to live long enough. A society can be judged by how they take care of their elderly and their children.
That's what I find funny. Virtually every argument that one system is better than another revolves around one falling short, and the user switching to a "far superior system."
These people should realize that their ability to switch to a system that met their needs was only possible because of diversity.
I have a Samsung YP-U3. It plays ogg but not flac. Since it's a simple little flash based "thumb drive" style player, I wouldn't want to put big flac files on it anyway.
My only complaint is that it's an MTP device instead of a USB mass storage device, but Amarok interfaces with it fine.
While $222,000 is a stupid amount, she's either innocent (or within fair use) or she's guilty and needs to pay a significant fine.
Suppose someone distributes Linux without source. Fining the person for the market value would be pointless. The fine needs to be large enough to provide a deterrent to future infringement. I would hazard to guess that a sufficient deterrent to casual, non-profit infringement would be about the cost of a speeding ticket.
Imagine how happy you would be if I sued you for something frivolous. Or how about if a bird crapped on your car.
The law doesn't exist just to make people happy.
when rule 34 and copyright clash...
it tells you ms is more experienced in doing dirty footwork than ibm is.
I'll send you an invoice for the keyboard/monitor cleaning.
It would be nice to see someone use Poppler to create a fast loading plugin or firefox extension to view pdf files in the browser. I find that's one of the nicest features of Konqueror.