...then he realised some of the e-books were from a company no longer trading so he would have to re-purchase them, his PC was ruined in the hurricane and with it his licence keys for some of the sites, so he would have to re-purchase those as well, and of course there were those books that the publisher revoked the licence for when he was halfway through reading...
The books however were still readable, despite the water damage, and so he just scanned them....
When e-books are not just rented or licensed but you get to keep them when you buy them (Like books), and when the reader is cheaper and more robust, I will consider buying books this way...
...or you could pay attention to the lecture and make notes, instead of playing around with Word....
In most of my lectures any Laptop microphone would not record well enough audio to be usable in conjunction with the notes, let alone to get more details....
and watch the guy with the kindle squint to read the same as a ebook, then bet on if his batteries will fail before the kindle dies due to overheating in the sun, or becomes unusable due to salt or sand damage?
ebooks are now at least usable, but the readers are still too expensive and fragile to replace books (so far...)
When the readers are much less fragile, and come down in price, then perhaps the book printing industry will contract, but if the publishers are smart they will carry one as they are currently, ie. here is a book, how do you want it, hardcover, softcover, ebook, audiobook.... ?
The fourth plane was hijacked by four men with knives, who held it for a long time before a large group of passengers attacked them...
If this happened now thanks to the door the pilot will be flying the plane to the nearest airport, where the armed response team will be waiting, the passengers will be waiting for this to happen since there is no imminent danger to all of them
How many hijackings of US planes were there before 9/11 very few, since none
The terrorists however have tried to blow up several, just like they have tried before, the passengers cannot do anything against this...
Google is not based in the UK so they cannot be censored by the UK government, and given their current attitude re China are unlikely to be helpful...
They could theoretically ask the ISP's voluntary censor (Internet Watch Foundation) to add Google to their censor list.... but again this would be an unpopular move and would not block it for many people....
...and how many terrorists attacks on aircraft have been foiled by the other passengers?
None - Please do not say the fourth 9/11 plane, it did not get to it's target for other reasons, and crashed anyway?
The Christmas bomber was stopped due to his own incompentence not passengers, the people trying to but out the fire he caused were the staff of the airplane... and if the bomb had worked no-one could have done anything
The real problem is that security cannot detect all possible devices, and may never be able to, so the security at airports is just theatre, and a discouragement to "amateur" terrorists
Security on the plane, the best one is the locked door that separates the pilots from the passengers, hijacking is now impossible
Air Marshalls are pointless against a suicide bomber, at best they might die before the bomb goes off.... at worst you now have a terrorist with a gun!
The passengers could foil a hijacking, maybe, but not a suicide bomber.... but since they are isolated from the pilots this is a moot point
The point is not that we do not know what 'cuz' means, it is that they are writing academic paper and so should realise they need to write in a formal style, as if talking to a respected elderly person (who might not understand shortened language and emoticons), and that this is not the 'formally correct' word
It is not that they are writing as they speak and txt, it is that they do not seem to realise that you should change your writing style depending on your audience
Do they also speak to their friends, parents, teachers, and at job interviews, all in the same style.... if so it will affect their job prospects, as will a lack of appropriate writing skills...
Language evolves and so does formal/informal writing, and formal/informal speaking, but they have always been different, and this is what these students seem to be lacking, written language has to more formal than spoken language or meaning is lost (you don't have the facial, body language and other non-verbal clues)
If a smartphone is designed correctly.... i.e. securely, then the part that is a phone (connects to the network, makes and receives calls) should be protected from the rest of the device, which runs the OS, applications, etc.. which simply asks to make a phone call, shows the networks status, get notified of incoming calls, texts, etc....
If this was the case then the Smart part of the phone could be open, but the iPhone and the Android phones do not appear to have this separation properly done? So they have to some degree lock it down....
This is apparently where they got the figures from.... Although they got 80% piracy?
The comment from one of the developers is significant
2D BOY’s Ron Carmel : “by the way, just in case it’s not 100% clear, we’re not angry about piracy, we still think that DRM is a waste of time and money, we don’t think that we’re losing sales due to piracy, and we have no intention of trying to fight it.”
"...500 seeders and 300 leechers..." this means that the majority of people who wanted it already have it (seeders > leechers) and that only accounts for 800 copies...If this is 9 times the copies sold then the top games list is really really odd...
How are they deriving the 90% figure, from looking at torrent sites occasionally?...this is a meaningless snapshot, it does not include many copies and includes copies that may never be played?
It does not mean that these are people who actually want the game (Just hosting)
It does not mean that these are people who would consider buying it
It does not mean that these are people who have not already bought it for one platform and are pirating it for a second one
1) The figure of 80-90% piracy is generated by the industry, and since it is largely unmeasurable it is an estimate (i.e. made up) I suspect no-one has any real idea how much is pirated
2) This is yet another layer of security, that the pirates will get round, and make easy for any one who wants to to get round
3) The only people this will annoy is the legitimate paying customers..... however many are left
This and similar anti-piracy schemes are why I stopped buying games (and playing them), it took too much effort to get the game working so I gave up, many people gave up and got the pirated version with all this stuff stripped out which meant that it "just worked"....
The biggest problem is that you buy a game and you have the a PC of more than the minimum spec..and then you spend ages getting it to run because of all the verification, patches, upgrades it needs to run
What happened to the games you could run from the disk, or install in 5 minutes....
And on the day you internet connection goes down you cannot play them not because you no longer have a licence or it is unpatched, but simply because it cannot get access to the server to verify itself
They asked users of Visual Studio.... they did not ask users of other products that have to deal with the mess left by Visual Studio.....
the whole point of a programming language IDE is that it can interoperate with other systems..... what is their next step, encode the source so nothing else can compile it ?
We have Sedans and Limos they are American cars like a Chevvy is...
We do not think of them of them as types of cars but names of cars
The archaic words that have died out are still there because they are useful, they encompass a concept that needs a name, they are not kept if they are no longer useful
Lighten Tool, Darken Tool sounds good to me, short descriptive and obvious?
The Aurochs is extinct there is no DNA to compare to, what you will get is yet another variant of Heck Cattle, i.e. another breed of cattle
You cannot "breed back" to an extinct species, what you will get at best is an animal similar in most respects to the original, but since the original died out so long ago there is very little information left about it....
Guesswork plus a discredited theory does not equal resurrection of an extinct species
I am a photographer.... I use a digital camera like most people nowadays
Dodge/Burn etc.. makes no sense whatsoever to me, they are terms in the archaic process of developing, something you do not do with digital photos.....
I am processing photos taken with a digital camera, as digital data, on a computer.... why are terms derived from developing silvered photographs still used!
This would like terms from horse driven carriage driving being used in your car
This just the same as forcing them to list the ingredients so customers can choose to buy based on them and check they are not allergic to any of them
The free market works both ways, I am free to not buy your product, the same as you are free to sell me anything
The reason they have to be forced is that if no-one lists ingredients then no-one has any incentive to... if no-one lists the source then no-one has any incentive to... in the EU a few companies started to (for their own reasons) and now many have GM information on them, the only role of the government should be to break monopolies or cartels (in this case a cartel of silence)
GM is safe based on Monsanto's research conducted by Monsanto funded by Monsanto
The FDA have used the results from this to conclude that it is safe!
The US government have concluded it is safe based on the FDA recommendation....
I would like to get somebody completely independent of Monsanto not constrained by them in any way to test this before eating their products... but Monsanto seems to dislike anyone doing this?
Slashdot Mirror
...which shows what is wrong with Microsoft's kernel
It's supposed to be a microkernel (or nearly one) but needs rebooting if services outside the kernel need updating....
Linux is not a mircokernel and normally only needs rebooting to update the kernel, and now not even that ...
...then he realised some of the e-books were from a company no longer trading so he would have to re-purchase them, his PC was ruined in the hurricane and with it his licence keys for some of the sites, so he would have to re-purchase those as well, and of course there were those books that the publisher revoked the licence for when he was halfway through reading ...
The books however were still readable, despite the water damage, and so he just scanned them ....
When e-books are not just rented or licensed but you get to keep them when you buy them (Like books), and when the reader is cheaper and more robust, I will consider buying books this way ...
...or you could pay attention to the lecture and make notes, instead of playing around with Word ....
In most of my lectures any Laptop microphone would not record well enough audio to be usable in conjunction with the notes, let alone to get more details ....
....now take a book to the beach
and watch the guy with the kindle squint to read the same as a ebook, then bet on if his batteries will fail before the kindle dies due to overheating in the sun, or becomes unusable due to salt or sand damage?
ebooks are now at least usable, but the readers are still too expensive and fragile to replace books (so far ...)
When the readers are much less fragile, and come down in price, then perhaps the book printing industry will contract, but if the publishers are smart they will carry one as they are currently, ie. here is a book, how do you want it, hardcover, softcover, ebook, audiobook .... ?
The fourth plane was hijacked by four men with knives, who held it for a long time before a large group of passengers attacked them...
If this happened now thanks to the door the pilot will be flying the plane to the nearest airport, where the armed response team will be waiting, the passengers will be waiting for this to happen since there is no imminent danger to all of them
How many hijackings of US planes were there before 9/11 very few, since none
The terrorists however have tried to blow up several, just like they have tried before, the passengers cannot do anything against this ...
Simple answer - no
Google is not based in the UK so they cannot be censored by the UK government, and given their current attitude re China are unlikely to be helpful ...
They could theoretically ask the ISP's voluntary censor (Internet Watch Foundation) to add Google to their censor list .... but again this would be an unpopular move and would not block it for many people ....
So you have not been to the Med recently then ....
It is far more polluted than UK beaches, and the weather is not universally good there either ....
...and how many terrorists attacks on aircraft have been foiled by the other passengers?
None - Please do not say the fourth 9/11 plane, it did not get to it's target for other reasons, and crashed anyway?
The Christmas bomber was stopped due to his own incompentence not passengers, the people trying to but out the fire he caused were the staff of the airplane ... and if the bomb had worked no-one could have done anything
The real problem is that security cannot detect all possible devices, and may never be able to, so the security at airports is just theatre, and a discouragement to "amateur" terrorists
Security on the plane, the best one is the locked door that separates the pilots from the passengers, hijacking is now impossible
Air Marshalls are pointless against a suicide bomber, at best they might die before the bomb goes off .... at worst you now have a terrorist with a gun!
The passengers could foil a hijacking, maybe, but not a suicide bomber .... but since they are isolated from the pilots this is a moot point
The point is not that we do not know what 'cuz' means, it is that they are writing academic paper and so should realise they need to write in a formal style, as if talking to a respected elderly person (who might not understand shortened language and emoticons), and that this is not the 'formally correct' word
It is not that they are writing as they speak and txt, it is that they do not seem to realise that you should change your writing style depending on your audience
Do they also speak to their friends, parents, teachers, and at job interviews, all in the same style.... if so it will affect their job prospects, as will a lack of appropriate writing skills...
Language evolves and so does formal/informal writing, and formal/informal speaking, but they have always been different, and this is what these students seem to be lacking, written language has to more formal than spoken language or meaning is lost (you don't have the facial, body language and other non-verbal clues)
You are paying T-Mobile for the loss of money from the contract .... and possibly a subsidy on the handset?
If a smartphone is designed correctly .... i.e. securely, then the part that is a phone (connects to the network, makes and receives calls) should be protected from the rest of the device, which runs the OS, applications, etc.. which simply asks to make a phone call, shows the networks status, get notified of incoming calls, texts, etc ....
If this was the case then the Smart part of the phone could be open, but the iPhone and the Android phones do not appear to have this separation properly done? So they have to some degree lock it down ....
This is apparently where they got the figures from.... Although they got 80% piracy?
The comment from one of the developers is significant
2D BOY’s Ron Carmel : “by the way, just in case it’s not 100% clear, we’re not angry about piracy, we still think that DRM is a waste of time and money, we don’t think that we’re losing sales due to piracy, and we have no intention of trying to fight it.”
They seem to have a commendable attitude and seem to actually live up their cliams ..
But note some of their servers are in the US so don't assume private means private ...
More private than most I agree with, totally private, no
The plural of anecdote is not data ...
"...500 seeders and 300 leechers..." this means that the majority of people who wanted it already have it (seeders > leechers) and that only accounts for 800 copies ...If this is 9 times the copies sold then the top games list is really really odd ...
How are they deriving the 90% figure, from looking at torrent sites occasionally? ...this is a meaningless snapshot, it does not include many copies and includes copies that may never be played?
It does not mean that these are people who actually want the game (Just hosting)
It does not mean that these are people who would consider buying it
It does not mean that these are people who have not already bought it for one platform and are pirating it for a second one
1) The figure of 80-90% piracy is generated by the industry, and since it is largely unmeasurable it is an estimate (i.e. made up) I suspect no-one has any real idea how much is pirated
2) This is yet another layer of security, that the pirates will get round, and make easy for any one who wants to to get round
3) The only people this will annoy is the legitimate paying customers..... however many are left
This and similar anti-piracy schemes are why I stopped buying games (and playing them), it took too much effort to get the game working so I gave up, many people gave up and got the pirated version with all this stuff stripped out which meant that it "just worked" ....
The biggest problem is that you buy a game and you have the a PC of more than the minimum spec ..and then you spend ages getting it to run because of all the verification, patches, upgrades it needs to run
What happened to the games you could run from the disk, or install in 5 minutes ....
And on the day you internet connection goes down you cannot play them not because you no longer have a licence or it is unpatched, but simply because it cannot get access to the server to verify itself
They asked users of Visual Studio .... they did not ask users of other products that have to deal with the mess left by Visual Studio .....
the whole point of a programming language IDE is that it can interoperate with other systems ..... what is their next step, encode the source so nothing else can compile it ?
Evolution is not reversible, you cannot breed back, so they know their target better, so what ....
99% is not nearly enough, that 1% is a huge gulf between species
99% of the DNA is sequenced ....but 99% is still enough to be a different species
A person with 99% the same DNA as you is best described as an Ape man, it is not even human ...
We have Sedans and Limos they are American cars like a Chevvy is ...
We do not think of them of them as types of cars but names of cars
The archaic words that have died out are still there because they are useful, they encompass a concept that needs a name, they are not kept if they are no longer useful
Lighten Tool, Darken Tool sounds good to me, short descriptive and obvious?
The Aurochs is extinct there is no DNA to compare to, what you will get is yet another variant of Heck Cattle, i.e. another breed of cattle
You cannot "breed back" to an extinct species, what you will get at best is an animal similar in most respects to the original, but since the original died out so long ago there is very little information left about it ....
Guesswork plus a discredited theory does not equal resurrection of an extinct species
Sorry you are an American ..
In the UK Sedan,Cabriolet,and Limousine are American cars ... we have City Cars, Compacts, Executive
We don't have Coach, We have Economy,Business Class
Wireless, is the opposite of Wired
Cellular, is as you say obsolete as a term and is not used (Mobile)
The old terms die when no longer appropriate, they only endure when they still have a use that actually makes sense
Why do I have to learn old non-obvious anachronistic terms for a process, that do not apply to what I am doing?
There are perfectly good words for the process, they are lighten and darken, I don't need to "learn" what they mean ....
I am a photographer .... I use a digital camera like most people nowadays
Dodge/Burn etc .. makes no sense whatsoever to me, they are terms in the archaic process of developing, something you do not do with digital photos.....
I am processing photos taken with a digital camera, as digital data, on a computer.... why are terms derived from developing silvered photographs still used!
This would like terms from horse driven carriage driving being used in your car
This just the same as forcing them to list the ingredients so customers can choose to buy based on them and check they are not allergic to any of them
The free market works both ways, I am free to not buy your product, the same as you are free to sell me anything
The reason they have to be forced is that if no-one lists ingredients then no-one has any incentive to... if no-one lists the source then no-one has any incentive to ... in the EU a few companies started to (for their own reasons) and now many have GM information on them, the only role of the government should be to break monopolies or cartels (in this case a cartel of silence)
GM is safe based on Monsanto's research conducted by Monsanto funded by Monsanto
The FDA have used the results from this to conclude that it is safe!
The US government have concluded it is safe based on the FDA recommendation ....
I would like to get somebody completely independent of Monsanto not constrained by them in any way to test this before eating their products ... but Monsanto seems to dislike anyone doing this?