Money. People work in exchange for pay. Want more work? Provide more pay.
FFS. "Hi, I have a bunch of programs that all scale to processor speed. How can I make them run better? More ram? Better sound card? Awesome lights on the computer chassis? Let them set the desktop wallpaper?"
Yup. Newton was, for example, quite clear on his belief that the only thing keeping every thing in the cosmos from eventually glomming together due to gravity was God occassionally making an adjustment.
He was also quite taken with alchemy.
Hand counting can certainly be 100 percent accurate. You have an Elections Canada rep or two, designated reps from each party who cares to send one, and anybody else who cares to show up and watch.
Do we have different internets? Are you in another country?
Could be, could be. Clicked your link, and this is going to lose all formatting when pasting, but I'll highlight the important bits.
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$16.41 for Kindle, $12 for Hardcover, $11.59 for Paperback, all in the 'new from' column.
1: Open amazon.com 2: Type in name of book. Say, 'fifty shades of grey'. 3: Boggle at the fact that the Kindle version is $12.51 while the paperback is $9.57.
More examples? Stephen King's recent book 11/22/63 is $13.59 paperback, $16.41 kindle.
One of my favourite Star Trek TOS books, Rules of Engagement, is $11.61 kindle. Two cents used. This is a book that I read in 1990. The cost to make it a kindle version was, at most, two hours for somebody to sit down and type it in from a paperback copy.
Short of raping an unconscious smoke inhalation victim, I can't think of anything that could get a fireman in trouble.
Your Honor, there I was, giving her mouth-to-mouth, and she was totally sending me signals that she liked it. She didn't object when I touched her chest to do chest compressions, so things just moved on naturally.....
As a retro gamer myself, I thought to myself 'Go back to MechWarrior 3? Don't you mean MechWarrior 2? That was the classic.
Reactor, online. Sensors, online. Weapons, online. All systems nominal. Or something like that. It's been a while. Ah, the joys of dominating Solaris VII in MW2: Mercs with a mech with nothing but a NARC and a fuckton of LRMs. Tag the enemy, run away, start shooting straight up.
Bah. A gun is absolutely the wrong thing to get for home defense. A large dog, on the other hand, which loves your family, is an excellent choice. Nobody fucks with a snarling GSD or Rottweiler. Your doggy can't be wrested from you in a struggle and turned against you. Your doggy won't miss the bad guy and hurt whoever might be on the other side of the wall.
I agree completely that the American patent and copyright system is nuts, and needs an overhaul. It is, however, utter bullshit to state that a company suffers no loss if you magically duplicate their goods, and thereby have them without paying for them.
On the other hand, if you COPIED the tractor, the tractor company would still be out R&D, engineering, prototyping, mass production, and so on, with nothing to show for it, and you'd be richer by one tractor.
Content maker says 'I have created this digital file. You may have a copy for 99 cents.' You say 'Yoink!' Yes, he still has his original copy. You, however, have something of his which he did not agree to give you.
Or, put another way, content maker says 'I have created this source code. You may use it, for giving the source away as well.' You say 'Yoink!' Gasp! Slashdot flips out!
The restriction is that, to use GPL software, you are forced to accept the provisions. One cannot, for example, choose to release the binaries of GPL'd software without making the source available.
It's contradictory on the face; to enforce one type of freedom, it takes away another type.
Faugh. If the players push it, the GM says that the sign read 'Unleash Cosmic Horrors.' If they don't push it, it turns out to have read 'Release angelic saviours of alien archaeologists.' If they try to translate the sign, it reads 'Reminder: all buttons must be labelled in accordance with the Alien Space Navy Handbook. Please label this button appropriately as soon as possible.'
Slashdot Mirror
Not one mention of MGS: Peace Walker? All Fulton, All The Time.
What about 'innocent until proven guilty?'
Bear in mind that Japan doesn't have the same legal outlook as the US, Britan, or other western countries.
Money. People work in exchange for pay. Want more work? Provide more pay. FFS. "Hi, I have a bunch of programs that all scale to processor speed. How can I make them run better? More ram? Better sound card? Awesome lights on the computer chassis? Let them set the desktop wallpaper?"
Yup. Newton was, for example, quite clear on his belief that the only thing keeping every thing in the cosmos from eventually glomming together due to gravity was God occassionally making an adjustment. He was also quite taken with alchemy.
Sentences like 'Last night, I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse' are why one needs to be *very* careful with grammar and punctuation.
English: The perl of spoken languages.
Strongly disagree: If the babies don't eat, they die off, and we run out of people in a generation. I, for one, am all for eating babies.
Starving babies, on the other hand, I would like to forbid.
Were they on active ASW?
Long election campaigns are a side effect of not having campaign laws that prohibit long campaigns.
Here's an idea; have your campaign start the moment you enter office. It's called 'having a good track record.'
Hand counting can certainly be 100 percent accurate. You have an Elections Canada rep or two, designated reps from each party who cares to send one, and anybody else who cares to show up and watch.
Could be, could be. Clicked your link, and this is going to lose all formatting when pasting, but I'll highlight the important bits.
Formats Amazon Price New from Used from Expand Collapse Kindle Edition with Audio/Video -- $16.41 -- See # more Kindle books Show fewer Kindle books Expand Collapse Hardcover $19.09 $12.00 $6.48 See # more hardcovers Show fewer hardcovers Expand Collapse Paperback $13.59 $11.59 $11.64 See # more paperbacks Show fewer paperbacks Expand Collapse MP3 CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged $25.29 $21.43 $21.69 See # more audio books Show fewer audio books Expand Collapse Unknown Binding -- $19.09 $13.04 See # more other formats Show fewer other formats Expand Collapse Audible Audio Edition, Unabridged $44.95 or Free with Audible 30-day free trial
$16.41 for Kindle, $12 for Hardcover, $11.59 for Paperback, all in the 'new from' column.
So, continuing to the obvious conclusion, Wikipedia is not reputable. Which is true.
It's not that hard, buddy.
1: Open amazon.com
2: Type in name of book. Say, 'fifty shades of grey'.
3: Boggle at the fact that the Kindle version is $12.51 while the paperback is $9.57.
More examples? Stephen King's recent book 11/22/63 is $13.59 paperback, $16.41 kindle.
One of my favourite Star Trek TOS books, Rules of Engagement, is $11.61 kindle. Two cents used. This is a book that I read in 1990. The cost to make it a kindle version was, at most, two hours for somebody to sit down and type it in from a paperback copy.
Your Honor, there I was, giving her mouth-to-mouth, and she was totally sending me signals that she liked it. She didn't object when I touched her chest to do chest compressions, so things just moved on naturally.....
As a retro gamer myself, I thought to myself 'Go back to MechWarrior 3? Don't you mean MechWarrior 2? That was the classic.
Reactor, online. Sensors, online. Weapons, online. All systems nominal. Or something like that. It's been a while. Ah, the joys of dominating Solaris VII in MW2: Mercs with a mech with nothing but a NARC and a fuckton of LRMs. Tag the enemy, run away, start shooting straight up.
Ok, but at that point, the self-same electronic hardware to compile and execute the source code would be just as unusable.
To answer the question, though, just look at human data that has, in fact, survived thousands of years. Clay tablets come to mind.
Why would you not be looking at it? You're staring at the screen.
Me, I'm just old, set in my ways, and too damn used to the physical feedback of actual buttons. Young'uns these days probably don't care.
Yup. I can't stand the set of 'built in' iOS apps that you can't delete, but that I'll never use, like the Weather app, and the Stocks app.
Bah. A gun is absolutely the wrong thing to get for home defense. A large dog, on the other hand, which loves your family, is an excellent choice. Nobody fucks with a snarling GSD or Rottweiler. Your doggy can't be wrested from you in a struggle and turned against you. Your doggy won't miss the bad guy and hurt whoever might be on the other side of the wall.
I agree completely that the American patent and copyright system is nuts, and needs an overhaul. It is, however, utter bullshit to state that a company suffers no loss if you magically duplicate their goods, and thereby have them without paying for them.
On the other hand, if you COPIED the tractor, the tractor company would still be out R&D, engineering, prototyping, mass production, and so on, with nothing to show for it, and you'd be richer by one tractor.
Well, given that one use might be to modify and distribute, I'd say my point stands. Do I get the home version of the game, at least?
Content maker says 'I have created this digital file. You may have a copy for 99 cents.' You say 'Yoink!' Yes, he still has his original copy. You, however, have something of his which he did not agree to give you.
Or, put another way, content maker says 'I have created this source code. You may use it, for giving the source away as well.' You say 'Yoink!' Gasp! Slashdot flips out!
The restriction is that, to use GPL software, you are forced to accept the provisions. One cannot, for example, choose to release the binaries of GPL'd software without making the source available.
It's contradictory on the face; to enforce one type of freedom, it takes away another type.
Faugh. If the players push it, the GM says that the sign read 'Unleash Cosmic Horrors.' If they don't push it, it turns out to have read 'Release angelic saviours of alien archaeologists.' If they try to translate the sign, it reads 'Reminder: all buttons must be labelled in accordance with the Alien Space Navy Handbook. Please label this button appropriately as soon as possible.'