When Canada was switching to metric, dual signage was common. The km/h value was shown first, and the mph was shown in a smaller (but still quite readable) font below it. Usage of "km/h" or "mph" was explicit, to ensure there was no ambiguity.
This transition period lasted for quite some time, and after a while, the signs were ultimately replaced with speed limits listing strictly in km/h (and often the "km/h" was no longer present as well).
Personally, I'd only agree to a contract plan that can guarantee that all of the rates and fees that I am paying will remain as they are, and not grow or be added to for the duration of the contract.
And fwiw... I actually do go to the trouble of getting this information when I sign up for a contract, and if I don't see it in the terms of service, I will get it in writing from a manager.
Unless the initial contract states that they can add surcharges onto a customer's plan at their option, then it seems to me that one can just call them up and cancel. End of story. Calling it a "surcharge" is irrelevant to the fact that they would have actually changed their cell phone plan without prior approval by applying that surcharge onto the phone bill when it was not previously there and was not part of what one had originally agreed to pay.
If one agreed to a contract that explicitly allows them to add a surcharge onto the bill at any time, without any prior agreement on what that surcharge would be... that's just... unfortunate.
But wouldn't people who can afford luxury cars also be less likely to be concerned about the price of the gasoline in the first place?
I realize this is going to be far from universally true, but one of the major reasons to go with an electric car is because it's cheaper to run than a gas-powered vehicle. That advantage sort of shoots itself in the foot when the vehicle itself costs a significant premium above what a person who is likely to be concerned about fuel economy is able or willing to pay.
First all, reprap doesn't print a printer. It prints a kit which you can assemble into a printer. Sure a kit can be useful, but it's not the same thing as printing an actual usable printer.
Secondly, reprap prints only the plastic parts of the printer,but misses out on the electronics and few metal components which are actually required to make a complete functional device, and which must be purchased separately.
.... until their prices become comparable in purchase price to an otherwise equivalent gas-powered car, instead of paying a premium for them that makes them more of a status symbol of luxury than a practical automobile.
The GNU project was a project to develop a free OS and tools.
All works developed for the GNU project were released under the GNU license. Numerous other projects were released under the same license as well.
Linux was a project to develop a free drop-in (and superior) replacement for Minix, and although released under the GNU license, and was distributed with GNU tools, it was never actually part of the GNU project, any more than AIX or HPUX would have become part of the GNU project by replacing their standard tools with GNU equivalents (I personally used an HPUX system at university which had all of the standard tools replaced with GNU ones, but that wouldn't suddenly change the name of that system to GNU/HPUX).
The notion that without the GNU tools, a Linux distribution would not be usable, and therefore the GNU prefix should be applicable to Linux also ought to apply to Minix itself, which like Linux, was never part of the GNU project (and was released under a different license), but was practically unusable out of the box, and most users of it took the source code to the GNU tools, which was freely and readily available, and compiled them to run under Minix to create a usable system. Minux, starting from approximately v 3 onwards, actually started being distributed with the GNU tools to make it more fully functional out of the box, but nobody ever tries to call Minix GNU/Minix.
Linux is Linux. GNU/Linux is just a name that people who were tired of waiting forever for Hurd wanted to call it so they feel like they had some closure.
More specifically, the pirates were the people who hired the scribes, particularly when they were doing so with some intent to discredit the original author.
... then I can see absolutely no reason that a package that is clearly marked fragile, and probably nowhere near as fragile as this monstrosity, should be mishandled in transit *EVER* again.
I hope they pull this off.
I look forward to an age where couriers can actually be relied upon to deliver such goods without subjecting them to g forces beyond what their structural integrity can withstand.
The one time I downloaded a documentary that was released for free by the owners on pirate bay (while evidently also being released as a for-pay downloadable movie), a running subtitle not far into the film started going by, and chastised me for downloading it off of pirate bay instead of buying it.
I didn't even watch the rest of the film, and I no longer even remember what it was supposed to be about, but the experience kinda soured me against trusting people who willingly put their content onto pirate bay. If they are going to suggest that I'm a criminal for doing something they evidently were explicitly going to actively permit, I have no interest in what they have to say.
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When Canada was switching to metric, dual signage was common. The km/h value was shown first, and the mph was shown in a smaller (but still quite readable) font below it. Usage of "km/h" or "mph" was explicit, to ensure there was no ambiguity.
This transition period lasted for quite some time, and after a while, the signs were ultimately replaced with speed limits listing strictly in km/h (and often the "km/h" was no longer present as well).
And fwiw... I actually do go to the trouble of getting this information when I sign up for a contract, and if I don't see it in the terms of service, I will get it in writing from a manager.
How does plastic get produced by osmosis?
What natural process produced them?
As opposed to materials created by a process which only can occur by manmade intervention.
Technically, yes. But practically, no
Did you reply to the wrong post or something? Who was saying that it is?
If one agreed to a contract that explicitly allows them to add a surcharge onto the bill at any time, without any prior agreement on what that surcharge would be... that's just... unfortunate.
Perhaps... but the insinuation was that reprap prints, in the present tense, a whole printer.
It fails to do so on two counts, which I enumerated above.
The same forces that are moving the sun through space are also acting on the earth itself. So, no.
Uh... no. STTNG was definitely *NOT* before the Internet.
It was, however, before Eternal September.
But wouldn't people who can afford luxury cars also be less likely to be concerned about the price of the gasoline in the first place?
I realize this is going to be far from universally true, but one of the major reasons to go with an electric car is because it's cheaper to run than a gas-powered vehicle. That advantage sort of shoots itself in the foot when the vehicle itself costs a significant premium above what a person who is likely to be concerned about fuel economy is able or willing to pay.
First all, reprap doesn't print a printer. It prints a kit which you can assemble into a printer. Sure a kit can be useful, but it's not the same thing as printing an actual usable printer.
Secondly, reprap prints only the plastic parts of the printer,but misses out on the electronics and few metal components which are actually required to make a complete functional device, and which must be purchased separately.
Indeed... and it wasn't until the price actually *DID* come down that people really started buying them in any quantity.
.... until their prices become comparable in purchase price to an otherwise equivalent gas-powered car, instead of paying a premium for them that makes them more of a status symbol of luxury than a practical automobile.
Possibly.
You're aware that Vitamin C occurs entirely naturally though, right?
Something developing a resistance to a vitamin is not as serious in terms of health as it would be if it developed resistance to a man-made treatment.
How do you quash a publicly known vitamin?
I agree completely with this, which is why I think that trying to prepend "GNU" onto Linux is a rather foolishidea.
The GNU project was a project to develop a free OS and tools.
All works developed for the GNU project were released under the GNU license. Numerous other projects were released under the same license as well.
Linux was a project to develop a free drop-in (and superior) replacement for Minix, and although released under the GNU license, and was distributed with GNU tools, it was never actually part of the GNU project, any more than AIX or HPUX would have become part of the GNU project by replacing their standard tools with GNU equivalents (I personally used an HPUX system at university which had all of the standard tools replaced with GNU ones, but that wouldn't suddenly change the name of that system to GNU/HPUX).
The notion that without the GNU tools, a Linux distribution would not be usable, and therefore the GNU prefix should be applicable to Linux also ought to apply to Minix itself, which like Linux, was never part of the GNU project (and was released under a different license), but was practically unusable out of the box, and most users of it took the source code to the GNU tools, which was freely and readily available, and compiled them to run under Minix to create a usable system. Minux, starting from approximately v 3 onwards, actually started being distributed with the GNU tools to make it more fully functional out of the box, but nobody ever tries to call Minix GNU/Minix.
Linux is Linux. GNU/Linux is just a name that people who were tired of waiting forever for Hurd wanted to call it so they feel like they had some closure.
If they were hired through official channels, sure.
More specifically, the pirates were the people who hired the scribes, particularly when they were doing so with some intent to discredit the original author.
I hope they pull this off.
I look forward to an age where couriers can actually be relied upon to deliver such goods without subjecting them to g forces beyond what their structural integrity can withstand.
Actually, the documentary said in a subtitle that I was supposedly a pirate for downloading it for free.
And as land would remain scarce, so would most types of food,which require land to grow the food upon.
The one time I downloaded a documentary that was released for free by the owners on pirate bay (while evidently also being released as a for-pay downloadable movie), a running subtitle not far into the film started going by, and chastised me for downloading it off of pirate bay instead of buying it.
I didn't even watch the rest of the film, and I no longer even remember what it was supposed to be about, but the experience kinda soured me against trusting people who willingly put their content onto pirate bay. If they are going to suggest that I'm a criminal for doing something they evidently were explicitly going to actively permit, I have no interest in what they have to say.