Re 1: Typesetting is not really needed for ebooks. It is just some markup, with the ebook reader linebreaking.
Re 2: So now that all those publishing costs such as wholesalers and print costs, why do publishers still take 75%?
The tasks that are left such as copyediting and contacting online booksellers can all be handled by at most a very minimal middle-man, perhaps hired by the author himself.
All the tasks that required big publishers, such as printing, distributing, and securing some of the scarce shelf-space, are no longer neccesary.
> 4% sure does seem significant. But more interesting is that the measurement is thought to be much more precise because of the method of measurement.
No. The interesting thing is that the proton size is now shown to be different than expected from theory. Which means that the theory is wrong. Which is the first step in exciting new physics.
As I understand it, AllOfMP3 was offering to send money back to the artists, as required under the Russian broadcasting law it was operating under. Hence it should not be a surprise that the servers were in Russia. It is not clear that buying music from AllOfMP3 was amoral or illegal, IMO.
It was just RIAA which was refusing to accept the money, because RIAA though they were entitled to more money.
But note that what costs money is digging the local link itself. The cost differential between a 1Mbit/128Kbit line and a 1000Mbit/1000Mbit line in bandwidth costs is small once the cable has been laid down.
Which is why all the slow connections they are selling us is bullshit. The same with any usage limits under 1TB/month. Wired bandwidth is dirt cheap, and any limits are just the ISPs are just trying to squeeze the last pennies.
(I currently have a 1000Mbit/1000Mbit line at home from my apartment block. My apartment block has an ISP-class line the price of which I negotiated)
The Wikipedia article mentions that the fires are more environmentally friendly than letting the methane into the atmosphere. Which seems like a very reasonable conclusion.
So I guess you mentioned this example to support the Russian nuke solution?:)
For myself, I think people are too irrationally scared of radiation. It is perfectly possible that the radiation released by a nuke will cause far less environmental damage than 2 more months of oil spill. Especially if the nuke is embedded 100m into the seafloor, so that little radiation escapes.
So when the choice is between freedom and a slightly better performing video format, we choose the slightly better performing video format? God forbid that we have to actually make a minor sacrifice for freedom.
Some of the first SSDs had big trouble with random writes. The good new ones handle them much better than a mechanical hard disk.
See for example http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1022/6/ . While a few SSD have 20KB/s random write speed, the good ones like Intel's x25-m have 60MB/s, way better than a hard disk.
The parents have been punished enough by the natural consequences of their own actions. What purpose could it possibly have to add an artificial punishment on top of that?
Make sure that the CPU you buy supports hardware virtualization, for running virtual machines. Every computer enthusiast should want to run virtual machines!
I think all current AMD CPUs support hardware virtualization. But Intel in their infinite market segmentation wisdom has decided to randomly disable hardware virtualization on various CPUs in their lineup, so look before you buy. The funny thing is that very few computer salesmen know for which CPUs hardware virtualization is enabled, so the only result of Intel's market segmentation is confusion and dissatisfied customers.
I already have 1Gb/1Gb internet to the home, practically without a traffic limitation (I could have over a terabyte per month, and nobody would care).
It is boring:(. If everybody else on the internet has a slow connection, then you can hardly ever download/upload with more than 50Mbit. What is the point of 1000Mb/s, when Valve Steam won't download with more than 10Mbit/s? The last time I needed more speed was when I tried an internet speed test (result: 250Mb/200Mb, 2ms ping).
So my connection is really not much more useful than a 50Mb/50Mb connection:(. Except to show off with internet speed tests:).
I do actually consider it a possiblity that some new breakthrough at CERN will come up with a better understanding, which shows that for example the conservation of energy does not always hold. Like when most people though physics was pretty much understood and Newton's laws of motion were the absolute and final truth, until Einstein came along and showed them to be only an approximation. In that sense, the laws of thermodynamics are very much a "just a theory". [disclaimer: IANAP]
But I am quite sure no such breakthrough will come from people like Carl Tilley.
How about reusing the N and P from the harvested algae? We only want the C-H chains for fuel, so it might be possible to separate the P and N from the harvested algea, and reuse it for algae fertilizer.
Except that the two other major Graphics providers, Intel and AMD, both give the Linux community far better support than NVIDIA. Intel is writing excellent well-integrated open source drivers themselves, which AMD is providing full specs, which has allowed others to write drivers. AMD's making the specs available is far better Linux support than NVIDIA making closed source drivers available.
NVIDIA has provided neither open source drivers, firmware, nor specs. So the open source developers have to resort to reverse engineer the drivers. And to make all kinds of jumping through hoops to use the firmware, which NVIDIA has not allowed to be redistributed in binary form.
So I think we have every right to criticize NVIDIA when comparing to the marked at large. They are doing a horrible job at supporting Linux.
The far and away priority one feature should be Multithreading. Each tab and each plugin should have its own process and its own memory space, so that a crash of one tab/plugin, or one tab/plugin using loads of CPU power, should have practically no effect on my other tabs/plugins on my 4-core CPU.
So I don't care about copying Chrome's GUI. But copying Chrome's sandboxing and multithreading architecture I very much care about!
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Re 1: Typesetting is not really needed for ebooks. It is just some markup, with the ebook reader linebreaking.
Re 2: So now that all those publishing costs such as wholesalers and print costs, why do publishers still take 75%?
The tasks that are left such as copyediting and contacting online booksellers can all be handled by at most a very minimal middle-man, perhaps hired by the author himself.
All the tasks that required big publishers, such as printing, distributing, and securing some of the scarce shelf-space, are no longer neccesary.
> This publishing programme is designed to address that need, and to help ebook readers build a digital library of classic contemporary literature.
> It offers 20 modern literary classics as ebooks for the first time, exclusively via Amazon.com's Kindle store.
So, you should build your library with ebooks DRM-looked to Amazon's kindle.
Yeah, right. I think I will pass.
> 4% sure does seem significant. But more interesting is that the measurement is thought to be much more precise because of the method of measurement.
No. The interesting thing is that the proton size is now shown to be different than expected from theory. Which means that the theory is wrong. Which is the first step in exciting new physics.
Nobody is going to force Apple to follow the standard.
On the other hand, nowhere does it say that the standard could not be MagSafe.
The space shuttle was an incredibly overpriced way of launching cargo and people into low orbit.
Perhaps now the money that was overpaid for transport will be better spent on actual science.
And if NASA buys launches from private firms, then NASA can help kick-start an efficient private launch industry.
As I understand it, AllOfMP3 was offering to send money back to the artists, as required under the Russian broadcasting law it was operating under. Hence it should not be a surprise that the servers were in Russia. It is not clear that buying music from AllOfMP3 was amoral or illegal, IMO.
It was just RIAA which was refusing to accept the money, because RIAA though they were entitled to more money.
In a readable version: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050511132059/uncyclopedia/images/8/8e/BibleWarningLabel.jpg
I always wondered why they did not use a Linux Live CD instead for those kinds of things.
But note that what costs money is digging the local link itself. The cost differential between a 1Mbit/128Kbit line and a 1000Mbit/1000Mbit line in bandwidth costs is small once the cable has been laid down.
Which is why all the slow connections they are selling us is bullshit. The same with any usage limits under 1TB/month. Wired bandwidth is dirt cheap, and any limits are just the ISPs are just trying to squeeze the last pennies.
(I currently have a 1000Mbit/1000Mbit line at home from my apartment block. My apartment block has an ISP-class line the price of which I negotiated)
The Wikipedia article mentions that the fires are more environmentally friendly than letting the methane into the atmosphere. Which seems like a very reasonable conclusion.
So I guess you mentioned this example to support the Russian nuke solution? :)
For myself, I think people are too irrationally scared of radiation. It is perfectly possible that the radiation released by a nuke will cause far less environmental damage than 2 more months of oil spill. Especially if the nuke is embedded 100m into the seafloor, so that little radiation escapes.
So when the choice is between freedom and a slightly better performing video format, we choose the slightly better performing video format? God forbid that we have to actually make a minor sacrifice for freedom.
Microsoft already have threatened to sue an open source developer, using a patent on the ASF video format. http://www.advogato.org/article/101.html
> writes are bad, especially small random ones
Some of the first SSDs had big trouble with random writes. The good new ones handle them much better than a mechanical hard disk.
See for example http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1022/6/ . While a few SSD have 20KB/s random write speed, the good ones like Intel's x25-m have 60MB/s, way better than a hard disk.
An image illustrating the track widths across the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_gauge_world.png
I assume that the whole planned track will be standard gauge, if they plan trains from London to Beijing? But the article doesn't say.
This is not what law is for.
The parents have been punished enough by the natural consequences of their own actions. What purpose could it possibly have to add an artificial punishment on top of that?
Make sure that the CPU you buy supports hardware virtualization, for running virtual machines. Every computer enthusiast should want to run virtual machines!
I think all current AMD CPUs support hardware virtualization. But Intel in their infinite market segmentation wisdom has decided to randomly disable hardware virtualization on various CPUs in their lineup, so look before you buy. The funny thing is that very few computer salesmen know for which CPUs hardware virtualization is enabled, so the only result of Intel's market segmentation is confusion and dissatisfied customers.
I already have 1Gb/1Gb internet to the home, practically without a traffic limitation (I could have over a terabyte per month, and nobody would care).
It is boring :(. If everybody else on the internet has a slow connection, then you can hardly ever download/upload with more than 50Mbit. What is the point of 1000Mb/s, when Valve Steam won't download with more than 10Mbit/s? The last time I needed more speed was when I tried an internet speed test (result: 250Mb/200Mb, 2ms ping).
So my connection is really not much more useful than a 50Mb/50Mb connection :(. Except to show off with internet speed tests :).
Did I mention that I pay $10 per month for it?
You have no imagination!
How about filing a lawsuit in some strict muslim community, where depictations of human beings and music is considered obscene?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_music#Permissibility_of_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_art ("the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against Allah, forbidden in the Qur'an")
The court said "the strictest community". Nobody said it had to be a community based on the Christian worldview.
I do actually consider it a possiblity that some new breakthrough at CERN will come up with a better understanding, which shows that for example the conservation of energy does not always hold. Like when most people though physics was pretty much understood and Newton's laws of motion were the absolute and final truth, until Einstein came along and showed them to be only an approximation. In that sense, the laws of thermodynamics are very much a "just a theory". [disclaimer: IANAP]
But I am quite sure no such breakthrough will come from people like Carl Tilley.
How about reusing the N and P from the harvested algae? We only want the C-H chains for fuel, so it might be possible to separate the P and N from the harvested algea, and reuse it for algae fertilizer.
Except that the two other major Graphics providers, Intel and AMD, both give the Linux community far better support than NVIDIA. Intel is writing excellent well-integrated open source drivers themselves, which AMD is providing full specs, which has allowed others to write drivers. AMD's making the specs available is far better Linux support than NVIDIA making closed source drivers available.
NVIDIA has provided neither open source drivers, firmware, nor specs. So the open source developers have to resort to reverse engineer the drivers. And to make all kinds of jumping through hoops to use the firmware, which NVIDIA has not allowed to be redistributed in binary form.
So I think we have every right to criticize NVIDIA when comparing to the marked at large. They are doing a horrible job at supporting Linux.
The far and away priority one feature should be Multithreading. Each tab and each plugin should have its own process and its own memory space, so that a crash of one tab/plugin, or one tab/plugin using loads of CPU power, should have practically no effect on my other tabs/plugins on my 4-core CPU.
So I don't care about copying Chrome's GUI. But copying Chrome's sandboxing and multithreading architecture I very much care about!
There is a Mozilla project to implement this, but the project page hasn't been updated in months, as far as I can tell.
So if the US government were to kill a US citizen outside the US, the US government would not be liable in a US court? Of course it would be illegal!
Same with unreasonable searches and seizures at border crosses.
"shut up and calculate" is attributed to David Mermin according to Wikipedia (which sites an article behind a login)
Not really. If it hits in Russian Asia then some sparsely-populated land get destroyed. Not that bit a problem for Russia.
If it hits in the Pacific then the entire west cost of the USA gets washed away by a mega-tsunami, which would be a big problem for the USA...