Browsable photo of Earth? Oh, yes, there's nothing in Earth out of the USA, except for that one guy who licks Bush's shoes clean. Mr. Answer, or something like that.
Reassuring. When I tried to buy Ender's Game there were no copies left of this book in my local book shops, so I downloaded it off the net.
Months later I bought and read the next two books in the series.
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It's probably because she cannot read English directly. English is my third language, but I have been reading English-language texts for years, so now I can read it directly, without having to decypher or translate anything. So yes, I can raed toshe srbalcemd txtes wtohiut mcuh dtfcifuily.
(Funnily, it is very hard for me to actually understand what I'm reading if I'm reading it aloud. Probably the text-to-speech process takes resources that would be normally spent understanding the text;-). That doesn't happen when I read Spanish or Galician (my two mother languages).
"This would have very little impact on a regular user, but a spammer who sends out hundreds of thousands of emails" -- or a legitimate mailing list server -- "would be facing some pretty prohibitive computational costs."
I'm currently having this problem. It's a spammer who's currently using
two of my domains in the From: field of his spam. He's sending all
his scum to Russia. I already got him kicked from a Brazilian ISP, but I'm
currently receiving my fourth wave of rejected messages in three weeks...:(
It talks about direct mailing. Anyway, a EU Directive is not law; it is just a set of guidelines for member states to make their own laws. For reading the directives, some browsing from http://europa.eu.int will be enough:-)
The picture: a friend's son, with a computer in his bedroom, flat-rate
Internet access.
He came to his mother, quite... err, let's say frightened, because he
had wanted to go to some cartoon site, and mistiped the URL, and got to a
pr0n site.
Mother: and what did you get to see? Breasts?
Son: yes, and... and...
Mother: something more?
Son: actually, something more.
She, later, had a look at the history in the browser, and indeed, there
was something more:-)
She trusted his son, and you can see she was right in doing so. Ah, and
now her son knows what pr0n is and how embarrassing it is for him. They'll
never need any censorware or anything, I bet:-)
If you think you'll need those workers for some time, you should hire them as consultants, or some similar arrangement. At least, if you hire them indefinitely it is because you foresee that you'll need them in a more-or-less long future.
Ah, and if you think you'll need them for a short time you can hire them for a temporary employment agency.
And finally, if your employees have long-term contracts and your company is having a bad time (near-bankrupcy, really too many workers) there are a couple of legal ways to dump people, having the State pay part of the compensation, etc, etc.
Not quite. You offer me a two-year job, sign an agreement, and after eight months you stop paying me. I can't leave, since the agreement binds me, so, I go on working, hoping to be paid soon; and after not paying me in six months you decide to fire me. Isn't the agreement binding my employer as well?:-)
(Yes, there are courts. They're widely used. That's why you can't resort to them <g>)
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Obvious question: if I buy Linux from Sun, will Sun offer me indemnity?
Browsable photo of Earth? Oh, yes, there's nothing in Earth out of the USA, except for that one guy who licks Bush's shoes clean. Mr. Answer, or something like that.
Reassuring. When I tried to buy Ender's Game there were no copies left of this book in my local book shops, so I downloaded it off the net.
Months later I bought and read the next two books in the series.
It's probably because she cannot read English directly. English is my third language, but I have been reading English-language texts for years, so now I can read it directly, without having to decypher or translate anything. So yes, I can raed toshe srbalcemd txtes wtohiut mcuh dtfcifuily.
(Funnily, it is very hard for me to actually understand what I'm reading if I'm reading it aloud. Probably the text-to-speech process takes resources that would be normally spent understanding the text ;-). That doesn't happen when I read Spanish or Galician (my two mother languages).
96 bits? 2^96 is the number of molecules of water in 2368 litres of distilled water.
I'd think that 128 bits would be the minimum to ensure uniqueness (number of molecules in 10 cubic kilometres of water).
"This would have very little impact on a regular user, but a spammer who sends out hundreds of thousands of emails" -- or a legitimate mailing list server -- "would be facing some pretty prohibitive computational costs."
Since we're talking about rocketry, I think we should be using sensible units, not these so-called "feet".
FYI: 55000 feet are 543 femtoparsecs, or 1.77 picolightyears, or 112 nanoastronomicalunits.
Or 16.75 kilometres, while we're at it.
That's a duplicate joke. Don't readers read the comments anymore?
I'm currently having this problem. It's a spammer who's currently using two of my domains in the From: field of his spam. He's sending all his scum to Russia. I already got him kicked from a Brazilian ISP, but I'm currently receiving my fourth wave of rejected messages in three weeks... :(
It talks about direct mailing. Anyway, a EU Directive is not law; it is just a set of guidelines for member states to make their own laws. For reading the directives, some browsing from http://europa.eu.int will be enough :-)
You're wrong, sir. This is ye olde proprietary model:
1. Input
2. ???
3. OUTPUT!
Heh. Googling for my name I found a paper supposedly coauthored by me. The only thing is:
Plus, I cannot find anyone by my name in that university's phone directory...
It looks like we'll soon be able to FTP the University of Mars...
Are you sure it is not Fortran for .NET? At least it looks just like it...
Hey, waterproofing will even be able to survive water!
Errr... not optimized.
Will they go after the "your Internet connection is optimized" banners now?
I thought that you were going to write:
I used to make animated-GIF (beat me) banners for GPUL, my local LUG. Bill Gates obviously saw this one and got the idea from there <g>.
The picture: a friend's son, with a computer in his bedroom, flat-rate Internet access.
He came to his mother, quite ... err, let's say frightened, because he
had wanted to go to some cartoon site, and mistiped the URL, and got to a
pr0n site.
She, later, had a look at the history in the browser, and indeed, there was something more :-)
She trusted his son, and you can see she was right in doing so. Ah, and now her son knows what pr0n is and how embarrassing it is for him. They'll never need any censorware or anything, I bet :-)
If you think you'll need those workers for some time, you should hire them as consultants, or some similar arrangement. At least, if you hire them indefinitely it is because you foresee that you'll need them in a more-or-less long future.
Ah, and if you think you'll need them for a short time you can hire them for a temporary employment agency.
And finally, if your employees have long-term contracts and your company is having a bad time (near-bankrupcy, really too many workers) there are a couple of legal ways to dump people, having the State pay part of the compensation, etc, etc.
If the contract is indefinite, the employer suffers penalties if he fires you; in the same way as you suffer penalties if you quit the company.
If you're paid as a consultant (contrato por obra) then you have more reasons to picket (and sue, and...) if you aren't paid :-).
Not quite. You offer me a two-year job, sign an agreement, and after eight months you stop paying me. I can't leave, since the agreement binds me, so, I go on working, hoping to be paid soon; and after not paying me in six months you decide to fire me. Isn't the agreement binding my employer as well? :-)
(Yes, there are courts. They're widely used. That's why you can't resort to them <g>)
You really want to keep your employment in Spain.
Tío, se me murió el disco duro así que tuve que ejecutar fsck en el raid scsi y en el disco ide (que uso para las fotos)
Man, my hard disk died on me so I had to run fsck on the scsi raid and on the ide disk (which I use for photos).
:-)