The largest collection of human knowledge ever assembled is right here on your desktop, and mine. I live in a rural area, and I can immediately look up pretty much anything that I'm interested in finding out, and get more information about it in more formats than were ever available to ANYONE in the 20th century or before, regardless of whether they were at a university or not.
There is absolutely no need to run to a library or purchase a book that may already be out of date.
Earlier today I watched a video demonstrating how a synchro-mesh transmission works. Never knew that before; never knew how a transmission worked at all, in fact. Now I do. Does that change my world view? Is it an earth-shattering accomplishment? No.
However, what I learn by reading and viewing thing online do enrich my life to a huge extent. How to write a computer program. How to waterproof a basement. When I'm reading a book (ebook) and come across a reference to Hadrian's Wall, I can immediately look it up and read more about that if I'm interested. And so on.
When provided with this huge pool of available knowledge, some folks use it to read about Brittany Spears. But that's not the only thing it's good for.
It's never been easier, cheaper and simpler to be an autodidact than it is today. You don't have to walk past your front door, unless you want to.
Does it work on Linux, specifically Centos/RHEL? is any particular video card required or should it work with what I already have (Intel graphic something built into the motherboard).
I'm not into gaming but I do like the idea of a bigger desktop and workspace!
The benefit to the public is that you and I should (would) have the same right to use the results of that research for commercial enterprise (or anything else) too.
Note that I didn't ask if this is a public or a private university; that's irrelevant to the issue at hand. I asked if it's being taxpayer subsidized. I suspect that you would be hard pressed to find a "significant" university in the USA (or anywhere else) that isn't taxpayer subsidized, frankly. Therefore, their research should be placed in the public domain.
That's my opinion; you're free to disagree, of course.
Is this university taxpayer subsidized? If so, why is the research not being made available for use by those who have already paid for it, i.e. the taxpayers?
Tax-funded research should be in the public domain.
The folks using these things will argue that they're operating on the side of the "good guys", so they still fit within the parameters of that license.
I bought one of those with my allowance when I was about the same age. It's currently occupying space on a shelf about six feet away from where I'm sitting now. It works as well today as it did when I first bought it.
I don't think your link has the complete story. You can find lots of information about this issue with a google search for facta (the name of a new US law that's trying to pull more people into the IRS dragnet) but here is one article that lays it out fairly succinctly:
U.S. citizens on the other hand, have an ongoing obligation to declare and report their worldwide income to the U.S.A., regardless of where they reside. U.S. citizens who have permanently departed the U.S.A. and have become full-time permanent residents of Canada are still required to file U.S. income taxes on an annual basis with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The only way for U.S. citizens to avoid this would be to go through a process to renounce their U.S. citizenship, which is not practical or desirable for most people. Therefore, a U.S. citizen who resides in Canada is essentially subject to the same U.S. filing requirements as they would if they continued to reside in the U.S.A. This means filing U.S. Form 1040 every year, and reporting worldwide income.
The bottom line for U.S. citizen residents of Canada is that they must file two returns each year â" a Canadian income tax return because they reside in Canada, and a U.S. return based on being a U.S. citizen. The Tax Treaty between Canada and U.S.A. has several mechanisms available know as foreign tax credits, to make sure the person does not have to pay duplicate taxes to both countries.
A lot of stuff isn't up to much on the Android C64 emulator, but I highly recommend that you try Leaderboard Golf. Leaderboard Golf looks and works just like it was made for Android phones.
I use Vice on my desktop computer and Frodo C64 on my Android phone. Accordingly, I don't need an extra gadget to play with my Commodore 64.
Gamebase64 has everything you never needed to know about C64 games, Girls of '64 for everything in 8-bit nudity, and AppsnToolsBase64 for everything in utilities, business and productivity applications.
All c64 programs are tiny in modern terms; an uncompressed 1541 floppy disk image is only 170k. So you can carry every significant Commodore 64 program that was every released on a single flash drive or on your phone, and have plenty of room to spare.
I have a $100,000 digital cinema projector. (I own an operate a movie theatre.) The projector runs on Windows XP. Fortunately, it's not connected to the Internet; the server and associated hardware are a self-contained network. I load ("ingest) movies onto the system from CRU hard drives that arrive by courier or bus.
Don't knock an abacus. I have one right beside my computer.
It's great for binary arithmetic. I can visualize what's going on and don't have to reach for a pad of paper to play around with bit flipping. (Never been able to do binary arithmetic reliably in my head, unfortunately.)
How many of those millions being spent on the search are costs that would not otherwise be incurred in the normal course of business? If Johnny Rescue is flying his plane or sitting around shooting pool and watching TV while waiting for a call, his salary is still being paid. Same for things like fuel: if it's not used in an actual situation, would it otherwise still be used in a training exercise?
I suspect that a large portion of the cost of this search isn't an actual additional cost; this is just a convenient place to park the budget.
Otherwise, if you are such a huge fan of C, please show me an implementation of binary tree in C which can be reused to store either `int` or `double` or `void *` data types in it.
How many times over the years have I seen this? "Widget-of-the-month is almost as fast and efficient as C."
My response is, if the performance is important then why not do it in C? C is definitely as efficient as C. If performance is not important, then why does it matter?
I don't see the need to spend time and/or money on something that's "almost as good as C" when C itself is available.
"This cardboard pizza is almost as good as a real pizza and it only costs $10 more!" Er, no thanks?
Still waiting for Libreoffice for Android (which would be of use to me) and Ipad (which I guess other people would use).
The best Android app I've found for "office" stuff is Kingsoft Office but it can't work with Open Document files, just Microsoft formatted stuff. I wish I had one that would work with Open Document; it would be a lot more useful.
After many years of playing with computers, I have recently started learning to use vim, but one thing always drives me crazy.
I have never figured out how to insert one single character at the current cursor position. Replacing one character is easy (r) but how do I insert one? Example: somthing. What's the easiest way to get the missing e into that word?
This $100,000 gadget doesn't do continuous data transmission. It starts transmitting when something goes wrong, and that's it.
If something does go wrong and there's time for this thing to start transmitting, then wouldn't there also be time for the pilot (copilot, navigator, stewardess) to get on the radio and say "Hello, chaps on the ground. Something has gone wrong."
If it blows up in mid-air or something like that, you won't get anything more with this device than you get without it.
Don't knock an abacus! My abacus lives beside my main computer.
You really can't bet an abacus for doing binary arithmetic and bit shifting. I don't know about you, but I can't visualize that stuff well in my head so I either grab my abacus or start making slash marks on a piece of paper, and it's a lot more efficient and conducive to thinking when I do it with an abacus.
Actually, I would love to find a method for programming Android in C and interacting with the user through webkit. That way I could create an app entirely in C with a html/javascript frontend to interact with the user without having to horse around with Java to get a usable app.
Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to do that yet. (If someone here knows how to do that, by all means sing out!)
The irony of mobile computing is how bloody difficult it is to write a simple C program to run on one of those things, even though Android is written in C.
I've been playing with computers since the mid-70's and one of the things that I did early on was learn to program in C.
One of the smartest things I've ever done; it's up there with my decision to start running Linux in the late 90's.
If you can program in C you can write a program that runs on pretty much everything that you'll come across that you might want to program.
Learn C if you want to learn a programming language that you can use for a very long time.
I like Android, got an Android phone and a couple of tablets, but the C NDK doesn't allow you to do things without having to jump through a bunch of Java hoops to get there. I would have more Android devices if it was easier to write a program on it in C.
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I beg to disagree.
The largest collection of human knowledge ever assembled is right here on your desktop, and mine. I live in a rural area, and I can immediately look up pretty much anything that I'm interested in finding out, and get more information about it in more formats than were ever available to ANYONE in the 20th century or before, regardless of whether they were at a university or not.
There is absolutely no need to run to a library or purchase a book that may already be out of date.
Earlier today I watched a video demonstrating how a synchro-mesh transmission works. Never knew that before; never knew how a transmission worked at all, in fact. Now I do. Does that change my world view? Is it an earth-shattering accomplishment? No.
However, what I learn by reading and viewing thing online do enrich my life to a huge extent. How to write a computer program. How to waterproof a basement. When I'm reading a book (ebook) and come across a reference to Hadrian's Wall, I can immediately look it up and read more about that if I'm interested. And so on.
When provided with this huge pool of available knowledge, some folks use it to read about Brittany Spears. But that's not the only thing it's good for.
It's never been easier, cheaper and simpler to be an autodidact than it is today. You don't have to walk past your front door, unless you want to.
Does it work on Linux, specifically Centos/RHEL? is any particular video card required or should it work with what I already have (Intel graphic something built into the motherboard).
I'm not into gaming but I do like the idea of a bigger desktop and workspace!
But why should the support staff waste their time repetitively answering a question that is already answered in a customer forum?
Because that's their job and the paying customers require that service as part of what they have paid for.
The license that is required for showing motion pictures to prison inmates in the USA is available here:
http://institutions.swankmp.co...
The benefit to the public is that you and I should (would) have the same right to use the results of that research for commercial enterprise (or anything else) too.
Note that I didn't ask if this is a public or a private university; that's irrelevant to the issue at hand. I asked if it's being taxpayer subsidized. I suspect that you would be hard pressed to find a "significant" university in the USA (or anywhere else) that isn't taxpayer subsidized, frankly. Therefore, their research should be placed in the public domain.
That's my opinion; you're free to disagree, of course.
Is this university taxpayer subsidized? If so, why is the research not being made available for use by those who have already paid for it, i.e. the taxpayers?
Tax-funded research should be in the public domain.
Period.
The folks using these things will argue that they're operating on the side of the "good guys", so they still fit within the parameters of that license.
I thought that any bolt-ons for apps had to be sold through the Apple Store so they could collect their 30% cut.
Not that I've paid much attention to Apple stuff in general, but I did get that impression from somewhere.
I use tuxcards. I used gnote for quite a while but I find tuxcards makes it easier for me to visualize what I have.
I don't keep huge piles of notes in it, though -- mostly things like to-do lists.
I bought one of those with my allowance when I was about the same age. It's currently occupying space on a shelf about six feet away from where I'm sitting now. It works as well today as it did when I first bought it.
I don't think your link has the complete story. You can find lots of information about this issue with a google search for facta (the name of a new US law that's trying to pull more people into the IRS dragnet) but here is one article that lays it out fairly succinctly:
U.S. citizens on the other hand, have an ongoing obligation to declare and report their worldwide income to the U.S.A., regardless of where they reside. U.S. citizens who have permanently departed the U.S.A. and have become full-time permanent residents of Canada are still required to file U.S. income taxes on an annual basis with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The only way for U.S. citizens to avoid this would be to go through a process to renounce their U.S. citizenship, which is not practical or desirable for most people. Therefore, a U.S. citizen who resides in Canada is essentially subject to the same U.S. filing requirements as they would if they continued to reside in the U.S.A. This means filing U.S. Form 1040 every year, and reporting worldwide income.
The bottom line for U.S. citizen residents of Canada is that they must file two returns each year â" a Canadian income tax return because they reside in Canada, and a U.S. return based on being a U.S. citizen. The Tax Treaty between Canada and U.S.A. has several mechanisms available know as foreign tax credits, to make sure the person does not have to pay duplicate taxes to both countries.
Original article here
If you're a US citizen you do have to file with the IRS every year, even if you don't live in the US and don't have any income in the US.
The only way out of it is to renounce your US citizenship.
A lot of stuff isn't up to much on the Android C64 emulator, but I highly recommend that you try Leaderboard Golf. Leaderboard Golf looks and works just like it was made for Android phones.
I use Vice on my desktop computer and Frodo C64 on my Android phone. Accordingly, I don't need an extra gadget to play with my Commodore 64.
Gamebase64 has everything you never needed to know about C64 games, Girls of '64 for everything in 8-bit nudity, and AppsnToolsBase64 for everything in utilities, business and productivity applications.
All c64 programs are tiny in modern terms; an uncompressed 1541 floppy disk image is only 170k. So you can carry every significant Commodore 64 program that was every released on a single flash drive or on your phone, and have plenty of room to spare.
I have a $100,000 digital cinema projector. (I own an operate a movie theatre.) The projector runs on Windows XP. Fortunately, it's not connected to the Internet; the server and associated hardware are a self-contained network. I load ("ingest) movies onto the system from CRU hard drives that arrive by courier or bus.
Don't knock an abacus. I have one right beside my computer.
It's great for binary arithmetic. I can visualize what's going on and don't have to reach for a pad of paper to play around with bit flipping. (Never been able to do binary arithmetic reliably in my head, unfortunately.)
How many of those millions being spent on the search are costs that would not otherwise be incurred in the normal course of business? If Johnny Rescue is flying his plane or sitting around shooting pool and watching TV while waiting for a call, his salary is still being paid. Same for things like fuel: if it's not used in an actual situation, would it otherwise still be used in a training exercise?
I suspect that a large portion of the cost of this search isn't an actual additional cost; this is just a convenient place to park the budget.
Otherwise, if you are such a huge fan of C, please show me an implementation of binary tree in C which can be reused to store either `int` or `double` or `void *` data types in it.
https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.37/glib-Balanced-Binary-Trees.html
"It produces performance like C++".
How many times over the years have I seen this? "Widget-of-the-month is almost as fast and efficient as C."
My response is, if the performance is important then why not do it in C? C is definitely as efficient as C. If performance is not important, then why does it matter?
I don't see the need to spend time and/or money on something that's "almost as good as C" when C itself is available.
"This cardboard pizza is almost as good as a real pizza and it only costs $10 more!" Er, no thanks?
Still waiting for Libreoffice for Android (which would be of use to me) and Ipad (which I guess other people would use).
The best Android app I've found for "office" stuff is Kingsoft Office but it can't work with Open Document files, just Microsoft formatted stuff. I wish I had one that would work with Open Document; it would be a lot more useful.
After many years of playing with computers, I have recently started learning to use vim, but one thing always drives me crazy.
I have never figured out how to insert one single character at the current cursor position. Replacing one character is easy (r) but how do I insert one? Example: somthing. What's the easiest way to get the missing e into that word?
This $100,000 gadget doesn't do continuous data transmission. It starts transmitting when something goes wrong, and that's it.
If something does go wrong and there's time for this thing to start transmitting, then wouldn't there also be time for the pilot (copilot, navigator, stewardess) to get on the radio and say "Hello, chaps on the ground. Something has gone wrong."
If it blows up in mid-air or something like that, you won't get anything more with this device than you get without it.
What do you gain for $100,000, then?
Don't knock an abacus! My abacus lives beside my main computer.
You really can't bet an abacus for doing binary arithmetic and bit shifting. I don't know about you, but I can't visualize that stuff well in my head so I either grab my abacus or start making slash marks on a piece of paper, and it's a lot more efficient and conducive to thinking when I do it with an abacus.
Actually, I would love to find a method for programming Android in C and interacting with the user through webkit. That way I could create an app entirely in C with a html/javascript frontend to interact with the user without having to horse around with Java to get a usable app.
Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to do that yet. (If someone here knows how to do that, by all means sing out!)
The irony of mobile computing is how bloody difficult it is to write a simple C program to run on one of those things, even though Android is written in C.
I've been playing with computers since the mid-70's and one of the things that I did early on was learn to program in C.
One of the smartest things I've ever done; it's up there with my decision to start running Linux in the late 90's.
If you can program in C you can write a program that runs on pretty much everything that you'll come across that you might want to program.
Learn C if you want to learn a programming language that you can use for a very long time.
I like Android, got an Android phone and a couple of tablets, but the C NDK doesn't allow you to do things without having to jump through a bunch of Java hoops to get there. I would have more Android devices if it was easier to write a program on it in C.
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