99% of the country? I call bullshit. I believe that far less than 50% of American households make even the slightest attempt at working out a budget. Furthermore, the debt numbers here in America prove that Americans are most likely to try to solve their "budget problems" by overextending their credit. We then vote in polititians who do the same. An "amazing" coincidence, huh?
"...the network that they built, maintain, and provide upkeep on..."...and have a CHARTERED monopoly on. I wish that MY employer was guaranteed by the government to never lose money and to never have to compete...
Taking credit for creating things when all one did was legislate is standard operating procedure for all legislators everywhere.
No balls required, because this is a universal failing. I'm sure that I could find numerous examples of Gore's opponents claiming to have created things for which all they did was talk a little and then cast a vote.
The 15k drives use smaller platters because it tends to make the heads crash when the edge of the platter goes supersonic. Rumor has it that Hitachi was the last drive designer to figure out why 15k drives with 3.5" platters would fail even before they had gotten up to operating speed.
>Anonymity--or the possibility of it--is also the foremost requirement of free speech.
s/the foremost requirement/one of the foremost requirements/
Interesting point, as identification seems to be an even greater requirement for free speech. "Freedom" implies "lack of need to fear" within the scope of the particular type of freedom under consideration. The potential sometime need to fear being identified precludes anonymity from being "the" foremost requirement of free speech. The hallmark of truly free speech is that one may engage in speech without fear even if one's identity is known.
The reason one has to fear the "authorities" getting hold of one's IP address from a P2P network is that - even if one's uploads may be construed as "speech" - one's uploads of copyrighted works to an RIAA investigator are not "free" speech; nor are one's uploads of child porn to FBI investigators.
A FreeNet user may win a court case based on FreeNet's trait of insulating a node's user from its content - but some may choose not to risk the case in the first place. This reason is an example of "fear" due to the non-free speech which is anonymously mixed in with FreeNet's free speech.
Others have chosen personal standards which are higher than "don't ask, don't tell" and simply refuse to participate in FreeNet at all.
Mozilla was not "exceedingly lucky", it was open source.
Yet another example of the inherent strength of open source is the fact that Mozilla didn't *have* to release a product within a certain time frame in order to survive.
Ask yourself what your hourly rate would be if you were paid hourly: not your current salary divided by 2080, but rather what hourly tech employees make at your place of employment.
Ask yourself how many hours of overtime you could realistically expect to get in an average week: not how many hours you work now, but rather how many hours management would actually authorize.
Ask yourself if pay difference is worth the free time.
There is a reason why $20,800/year employees are paid $10/hour, and why $83,200/year employees are not paid $40/hour - and it's not because salaried employees are free of cost.
Even discounting the P2P stuff, I can't believe that the WWW has less than 230TB, when the little bitty company that I work for has over 4TB online (and we _still_ run out of space!) and almost 30TB on tape. Especially when you consider that only 10TB of that was generated before I started 4.5 years ago.
"The DragonFly BSD Project has recently introduced a new 'stable' tag into its CVS."
"The members of the DragonFly BSD Project have recently introduced a new 'stable' tag into their CVS."
A single project with multiple members.
The project is not the people - unless you're a motivational speaker or some other such person who's paid to speak in warm fuzzies. The project is (at least) the sum of its parts: the people, the ideas, the sweat, the worry, the capital resources, et cetera. In other words, the project is a superset, and thus gets the status of singular noun.
<Yakov Smirnov> But only in America - what a country! </Yakov Smirnov>
Of course, all of the above is only true for those who accept set theory into their paradigm of what constitutes logical speech. Remember: "the members of a set are not the set itself." (Note British punctuational style - gotta admit that that's the better way to go!) Unless it's a self-inclusive set, but that would be strangely loopy...
It's probably not in Microsoft's business plan to keep a business unit that doesn't toe the party line. If the numbers had said "keep it", then I'm sure that we would be reading about a management shakeup rather than a sale.
I did the same thing to one of the two local newspapers in my area. I subscribe to the one of them, but the other one would call every night - sometimes even twice in one evening! So finally I said yes, and then I just never bothered to pay the bill. After a while the deliveries stopped, and the sales calls started up again, so I said "yes" again, and again failed to pay. I haven't heard from them now for almost two years.....
????? You mean the installation procedure did NOT involve: 1)The portinstall failing 2)Cutting & pasting Sun's URL from the error message into a browser 3)Signing in to the Sun Download Center 4)Downloading the port 5)Restarting the portinstall 6)The portinstall failing 7)Cutting and pasting the EyesBeyond URL from the error message into a browser 8)Downloading the patchset 9)Restarting the portinstall
60% overlap is standard, and it's done so that 1/2 of each exposure forms a "stereo model" with the exposure adjacent to it, with a small "tri-lap" area that is common to the adjacent stereo models. A standard model is 3.6"x6.3" of a 9"x9" exposure. When planning pre-controlled flights we stay within those limits so that the pilot/photographer has a margin for error. In the case of post-controlled flights, we still like to stay more than an inch from the edge of the exposures because lens-edge distortion can throw off our stereometrics.
BTW, my aerial photo negative scanners can do up to a gigapixel for a 9"x9", but 125 & 270 megapixels are standard.
At these prices they could try it anyway and see what kind of track record they get. Of course, flaming cargo crashing to the ground is another consideration.....
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99% of the country? I call bullshit. I believe that far less than 50% of American households make even the slightest attempt at working out a budget. Furthermore, the debt numbers here in America prove that Americans are most likely to try to solve their "budget problems" by overextending their credit. We then vote in polititians who do the same. An "amazing" coincidence, huh?
"...the network that they built, maintain, and provide upkeep on..." ...and have a CHARTERED monopoly on. I wish that MY employer was guaranteed by the government to never lose money and to never have to compete...
No, it's a REXX offering from the folks who came up with T-SQL.....
The key is the word "reasonable".
"Assemble" is more reasonable than "create"; but "create" is at least within the realm of reason, while "invent" is not.
Taking credit for creating things when all one did was legislate is standard operating procedure for all legislators everywhere.
No balls required, because this is a universal failing. I'm sure that I could find numerous examples of Gore's opponents claiming to have created things for which all they did was talk a little and then cast a vote.
Your own show of support is showing.
When I put together a computer I can reasonably say that I created it, but I can not reasonably say that I invented it.
So yes, it does make a difference which word is used.
Besides, doesn't simple honesty require one to quote the actual words that Gore said, instead of parroting a misquote?
The 15k drives use smaller platters because it tends to make the heads crash when the edge of the platter goes supersonic. Rumor has it that Hitachi was the last drive designer to figure out why 15k drives with 3.5" platters would fail even before they had gotten up to operating speed.
"Thompson has made something of a career out of lawsuits of this nature."
Perhaps someone could do this guy a big favor and help to prove his point by giving him the Clockwork Orange treatment.
"Capitalism rewards those that put forth ingenuity, time, hard work, skill, and/or luck."
So Nakamura's bosses did those things, but Nakamura himself did not?
Good point. Some executive loses face, maybe loses a bonus or a promotion, and the worker bee loses it all.
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What are "Q-Lar" weapons and why does the president think that we need new ones?
>Anonymity--or the possibility of it--is also the foremost requirement of free speech.
s/the foremost requirement/one of the foremost requirements/
Interesting point, as identification seems to be an even greater requirement for free speech. "Freedom" implies "lack of need to fear" within the scope of the particular type of freedom under consideration. The potential sometime need to fear being identified precludes anonymity from being "the" foremost requirement of free speech. The hallmark of truly free speech is that one may engage in speech without fear even if one's identity is known.
The reason one has to fear the "authorities" getting hold of one's IP address from a P2P network is that - even if one's uploads may be construed as "speech" - one's uploads of copyrighted works to an RIAA investigator are not "free" speech; nor are one's uploads of child porn to FBI investigators.
A FreeNet user may win a court case based on FreeNet's trait of insulating a node's user from its content - but some may choose not to risk the case in the first place. This reason is an example of "fear" due to the non-free speech which is anonymously mixed in with FreeNet's free speech.
Others have chosen personal standards which are higher than "don't ask, don't tell" and simply refuse to participate in FreeNet at all.
"Now both companies can get on about doing business."
No, there will only be one company 'doing business'.
Mozilla was not "exceedingly lucky", it was open source.
Yet another example of the inherent strength of open source is the fact that Mozilla didn't *have* to release a product within a certain time frame in order to survive.
How did this get modded "insightful"?
Americans do not rely upon subject populations for supplies.....unless you are thinking of the new Iraqi politicians as "supplies".....
Ask yourself what your hourly rate would be if you were paid hourly: not your current salary divided by 2080, but rather what hourly tech employees make at your place of employment.
Ask yourself how many hours of overtime you could realistically expect to get in an average week: not how many hours you work now, but rather how many hours management would actually authorize.
Ask yourself if pay difference is worth the free time.
There is a reason why $20,800/year employees are paid $10/hour, and why $83,200/year employees are not paid $40/hour - and it's not because salaried employees are free of cost.
Even discounting the P2P stuff, I can't believe that the WWW has less than 230TB, when the little bitty company that I work for has over 4TB online (and we _still_ run out of space!) and almost 30TB on tape. Especially when you consider that only 10TB of that was generated before I started 4.5 years ago.
Far from being a "Flame", I thought that torstenvl's comment was pretty cool - and informative.
If I thought that he had been flaming then I would not have replied to his comment.
It is possible to point out grammar issues without resorting to flames, and torstenvl did just that.
If you want humor then you've got the whole internet from which to choose.
Grow up.
"The DragonFly BSD Project has recently introduced a new 'stable' tag into its CVS."
"The members of the DragonFly BSD Project have recently introduced a new 'stable' tag into their CVS."
A single project with multiple members.
The project is not the people - unless you're a motivational speaker or some other such person who's paid to speak in warm fuzzies. The project is (at least) the sum of its parts: the people, the ideas, the sweat, the worry, the capital resources, et cetera. In other words, the project is a superset, and thus gets the status of singular noun.
<Yakov Smirnov> But only in America - what a country! </Yakov Smirnov>
Of course, all of the above is only true for those who accept set theory into their paradigm of what constitutes logical speech. Remember: "the members of a set are not the set itself." (Note British punctuational style - gotta admit that that's the better way to go!) Unless it's a self-inclusive set, but that would be strangely loopy...
As opposed to a really slow USB 2.0 port?
It's probably not in Microsoft's business plan to keep a business unit that doesn't toe the party line. If the numbers had said "keep it", then I'm sure that we would be reading about a management shakeup rather than a sale.
Looks like Seagate DID innovate; what's your point?
Oh, that's right: you're a troll.
I did the same thing to one of the two local newspapers in my area. I subscribe to the one of them, but the other one would call every night - sometimes even twice in one evening! So finally I said yes, and then I just never bothered to pay the bill. After a while the deliveries stopped, and the sales calls started up again, so I said "yes" again, and again failed to pay. I haven't heard from them now for almost two years.....
????? You mean the installation procedure did NOT involve:
1)The portinstall failing
2)Cutting & pasting Sun's URL from the error message into a browser
3)Signing in to the Sun Download Center
4)Downloading the port
5)Restarting the portinstall
6)The portinstall failing
7)Cutting and pasting the EyesBeyond URL from the error message into a browser
8)Downloading the patchset
9)Restarting the portinstall
60% overlap is standard, and it's done so that 1/2 of each exposure forms a "stereo model" with the exposure adjacent to it, with a small "tri-lap" area that is common to the adjacent stereo models. A standard model is 3.6"x6.3" of a 9"x9" exposure. When planning pre-controlled flights we stay within those limits so that the pilot/photographer has a margin for error. In the case of post-controlled flights, we still like to stay more than an inch from the edge of the exposures because lens-edge distortion can throw off our stereometrics.
BTW, my aerial photo negative scanners can do up to a gigapixel for a 9"x9", but 125 & 270 megapixels are standard.
At these prices they could try it anyway and see what kind of track record they get. Of course, flaming cargo crashing to the ground is another consideration.....