It definitely depends on the conference. I attend an annual conference for a niche open source project. As is typical of many open source projects, documentation tends to not be the strongest suit. But sessions at the conference are almost always full of great information and real-world examples. Plus the networking and face time with others youâ(TM)ve known only from email or IRC...it all adds up to a worthwhile trip each year.
Keynote speakers, on the other hand, are almost universally worthless.
Makes it easy to determine the length of copyright in the US. Like, as another poster noted, no works from 100 years ago will be protected by copyright today.
Absolutely. When I worked on the editorial staff of an academic journal, all ellipses not present in the original text were to be enclosed in brackets.
To add another anecdote: I've used Mandr[ake|iva] since v. 7, and was just about to bail on them after the "2005 LE" version. I even let my club membership lapse. I put Kubuntu "Hoary Hedgehog" on my work desktops and found it to be superior in many respects, and "Breezy" even more so.
However, I recently tried Mandriva 2006 Free on my MythTV box at home, and it was a breeze in every respect. I was up and running hours quicker than with Kubuntu on the same machine. Mandriva also seemed more polished and stable for me, the first Mandriva distro in years that didn't regularly crash inexplicably on this computer.
You're absolutely right, but according to this NPR story this morning, this drug reverses the foggy thinking associated with being tired, but you will still feel tired. The drug does not prevent tiredness itself.
There is an extensive fossil record, etc. for evolution. Does this mean that God couldn't have just planted it there to trick us?
My grandmother, an ardent Southern Baptist, always insisted that the fossil record was put here by Satan himself to tempt us into disbelief of the biblical account. She even had a college degree.
For me, the Southern Baptists themselves always seemed more dangerous than the devil they described.
Agreed. I've been using Mandrake since v7, and LE2005 is the best so far. It is the first distro I've tried where everything just worked great right away, with no major tweaking, even my multi-display setup. And it seems a lot more stable than 10.1.
I'll agree that their service sucks--I had a bad experience with them about 5 years ago and haven't personally shopped there since. But I'll qualify that and say that their service sucks for home comsumers.
We use them quite a bit at work, and have always received absolutely stellar and prompt service from our rep, even for returns. It probably doesn't hurt that we've given them about $50k worth of business in the last six month though.
That said, this suit is a very sleazy tactic. I'll have to drop our rep a line in the morning and pass along our feelings about it.
While I appreciate the difficulty of retooling the site to spit out XHTML+CSS, this article in A List Apart estimates that such a Slashdot would save about 10 gigabytes of bandwith per day, saving Taco & Co. some $3600 a year. Plus it would be readable on PDAs and the like. Sounds like a worthy goal to me.
Free text search and the ability to jump easily to references using hyperlinks is simply invaluable.
I completely agree. However, I would also add that print indexes still retain an enormous value. I've often discovered a thread while browsing in an index that was perfect for the task at hand--and something I might not have otherwise thought to consider.
In the academic world, a tool such as this already exists in the form of WorldCat. It has some 48 million records, from clay tablets to computer files, and is decidedly expensive to access.
In his book, The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan devotes a chapter to the apple and discusses at some length a similar problem. Apple trees are grown from cuttings from older trees already known to produce tasty apples. (The seeds in any given apple are all completely genetically different from the apple they came from and will not produce a tree of similarly-tasty fruit.)
Almost all the apple varieties we consume here in the States (Delicious, Gala, Fuji, and several other I can't remember) can trace their genes back to one tree from the 1800s. Whole industries are based upon this rather homogenous crop, and disease could be devasting. The current answer is heavy spraying of pesticides. Diversification of profitable appple varieties would be better though.
Some of the pages from this apple chapter can be read online at Amazon (but not the most interesting ones, of course).
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I've been quite happy with my Shure Bluetooth adapter. It would do the trick for your SE535s.
It definitely depends on the conference. I attend an annual conference for a niche open source project. As is typical of many open source projects, documentation tends to not be the strongest suit. But sessions at the conference are almost always full of great information and real-world examples. Plus the networking and face time with others youâ(TM)ve known only from email or IRC...it all adds up to a worthwhile trip each year. Keynote speakers, on the other hand, are almost universally worthless.
Very nice news, we really appreciate it! Looking forward to what you do next.
Page down = Fn + down arrow Page up = Fn + up arrow forward delete = Fn + delete many many more here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343
This would be a good time to bring up the American Library Association's Digital Copyright Slider:
http://www.librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
Makes it easy to determine the length of copyright in the US. Like, as another poster noted, no works from 100 years ago will be protected by copyright today.
You should let Hot for Words educate you on this phrase :-P :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30g_6HMVWg0
Spot on comment, wish I had mod points today.
Depends. Use this handy tool to find out: http://www.librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
There actually is a federal law, if the library in question receives certain federal funds for Internet access or computers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Internet_Protection_Act Many states laws take this forced censorship even further.
Absolutely. When I worked on the editorial staff of an academic journal, all ellipses not present in the original text were to be enclosed in brackets.
Not true, if you don't mind RC4. Go to openoffice.org, click on "Projects", scroll down the page and click on "Porting", then click on "Mac OS X" on the left menu. Here's the direct link: http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0rc4/OOo_3.0.0rc4_MacOSXPowerPC_install_en-GB.dmg.
Not true, if you don't mind RC4. Go to openoffice.org, click on "Projects", scroll down the page and click on "Porting", then click on "Mac OS X" on the left menu. Here's the direct link: http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0rc4/OOo_3.0.0rc4_MacOSXPowerPC_install_en-GB.dmg.
Those are hardly scantily-clad women.
"Cult: a small, unpopular religion
Religion: a large, popular cult"
To add another anecdote: I've used Mandr[ake|iva] since v. 7, and was just about to bail on them after the "2005 LE" version. I even let my club membership lapse. I put Kubuntu "Hoary Hedgehog" on my work desktops and found it to be superior in many respects, and "Breezy" even more so.
However, I recently tried Mandriva 2006 Free on my MythTV box at home, and it was a breeze in every respect. I was up and running hours quicker than with Kubuntu on the same machine. Mandriva also seemed more polished and stable for me, the first Mandriva distro in years that didn't regularly crash inexplicably on this computer.
Still, too bad about Gael, though.
You're absolutely right, but according to this NPR story this morning, this drug reverses the foggy thinking associated with being tired, but you will still feel tired. The drug does not prevent tiredness itself.
My grandmother, an ardent Southern Baptist, always insisted that the fossil record was put here by Satan himself to tempt us into disbelief of the biblical account. She even had a college degree.
For me, the Southern Baptists themselves always seemed more dangerous than the devil they described.
Entering sleep mode even while compiling software is no problem. Picks up right where you left off and builds fine.
Agreed. I've been using Mandrake since v7, and LE2005 is the best so far. It is the first distro I've tried where everything just worked great right away, with no major tweaking, even my multi-display setup. And it seems a lot more stable than 10.1.
Yup, you are exactly right. Anyone know why most cell phones seem to not have this aural feedback?
I'll agree that their service sucks--I had a bad experience with them about 5 years ago and haven't personally shopped there since. But I'll qualify that and say that their service sucks for home comsumers.
We use them quite a bit at work, and have always received absolutely stellar and prompt service from our rep, even for returns. It probably doesn't hurt that we've given them about $50k worth of business in the last six month though.
That said, this suit is a very sleazy tactic. I'll have to drop our rep a line in the morning and pass along our feelings about it.
While I appreciate the difficulty of retooling the site to spit out XHTML+CSS, this article in A List Apart estimates that such a Slashdot would save about 10 gigabytes of bandwith per day, saving Taco & Co. some $3600 a year. Plus it would be readable on PDAs and the like. Sounds like a worthy goal to me.
I completely agree. However, I would also add that print indexes still retain an enormous value. I've often discovered a thread while browsing in an index that was perfect for the task at hand--and something I might not have otherwise thought to consider.
In the academic world, a tool such as this already exists in the form of WorldCat. It has some 48 million records, from clay tablets to computer files, and is decidedly expensive to access.
In his book, The Botany of Desire , Michael Pollan devotes a chapter to the apple and discusses at some length a similar problem. Apple trees are grown from cuttings from older trees already known to produce tasty apples. (The seeds in any given apple are all completely genetically different from the apple they came from and will not produce a tree of similarly-tasty fruit.)
Almost all the apple varieties we consume here in the States (Delicious, Gala, Fuji, and several other I can't remember) can trace their genes back to one tree from the 1800s. Whole industries are based upon this rather homogenous crop, and disease could be devasting. The current answer is heavy spraying of pesticides. Diversification of profitable appple varieties would be better though.
Some of the pages from this apple chapter can be read online at Amazon (but not the most interesting ones, of course).