According to Wolfram|Alpha, (gold price * US population)/(Swiss fish production * molar weight of caffeine) is 629.97 person year mole Canadian dollars per troy ounce cubed, just in case you wanted to know.
It can also tell you that the air speed velocity of an unladen European swallow is 11 m/s, but it can't help you with respect African swalows. It also had no idea how many beans makes five.
With all the crap people are going to be feeding into the system,it will be a major task to find out what is cutting edge stuff and what is mere insanity.
What about drawings, or computer-generated art, or adults dressed up, all of which are banned in many places as CP, but do not have victims in the way that real CP does? In the case of drawings, it would be perfectly obvious what is and isn't real.
Why the hell are we selling 64oz of ANYTHING for single human consumption?
Because in moderation, it is fine? On occasion, I will drink a 2l (approx 67fl.oz. US) bottle of soft drink and eat a large meat, chips and sauce, but I do this only occasionally, and exercise it off afterwards. With a basically healthy diet, I have a BMI within all my government's recommendations, including those for the Army.
In my area, the McDonalds in poorer areas are actually more expensive than in richer areas, and the franchise in the most expensive suburb was the second cheapest in the state. This was reported int he state newspaper a few months back, with a comparison of Big Mac meals in all the metro franchises.
The latest version of Nautilus is pretty decent once you fix all the moronic defaults. The only issue I have with it is that it occasionally loses the scrollbars for no particularly good reason, making you reload the directory to show them. If you need something powerful and feature-rich, you could use Gnome Commander, which has an ugly theme and looks primitive, but is very powerful and feature rich.
Part of the problem is that File has some difficulty guessing filetypes. For example, it thinks most of my java source files are Perl5 source and some are C++, and only manages to identify some of the backups correctly as java.
(Of course, some of this may be my coding style, but even so, it shows that I know more about the file type than file)
I can't imagine a situation where you need to carry around more than 1GB of PDF files where you wouldn't also already have your laptop handy.
When your !@*&% prof uses a brain-dead PDF creator which doesn't use text boxes properly and so has each individual character in a separate box int eh wrong order (rumoured to be to prevent copy-pasting from it), when each page is a single uncompressed image, when they embed their own fugly pseudo-handwritten font (and use the wrong character codes for them so that if you try to copy the text you fet a mess of accented 'o's) or when they shove videos into PDF files. All of these have produced bloated files, and were produced by at least one of my lecturers over the years. I am also told that Word 3007 produces pretty godawful PDFs, but I have never investigated form myself.
Four years ago, I saw a miniature tablet running WinXP, which, although it was well above the netbook price range, had a pretty decent battery life and was not too slow. It was about as wide as an EeePC, but narrow screen, so slightly larger and thicker because of the pivot. Nonetheless, I believe that there would be a market for something of that type but with netbook specs.
ISTM (but IANAL) that the requirements of the law would be met with a simple display showing which directories are shared, and a button to display a list. This is more or less what any sane P2P client has anyway, so wouldn't actually require. If the law is interpreted to require each file to be announced before it is shared, then I expect the authors would use a config file or registry key to toggle whether to comply with this, and leak how to remove it (like DVD player manufacturers have with region coding).
More importantly, if you owe the bank 100 000, they own you. If you owe the bank 100 000 000 000, you own them. If the US goes bankrupt everyone who has leant money to them is completely SOL, so they simply won't call in the US debts faster than the US can pay them off.
No, but they can use an internet death penalty and blackhole all traffic to or from that ISP. if they didn't want to get caught, they could simply lose large numbers of packets to that ISP.
If you didn't distribute the program, you would probably be fine. If you did distribute it, then you would be assisting another student cheat, and so under most rules would be considered equally at fault (so that they don't have to figure out which was the original).
The act of saying "bless you" after another sneezes is an obvious stupidity from times far less enlightened than today and yet people think better of you when you do it for some reason... I can't imagine why.
Is it enough that it is a tradition, like taking off one's hat to a passing hearse, and suchlike? Even "goodbye" is a contraction or corruption of "God be with ye", and I expect you say that often enough.
I'm not arguing for one system over the other, but doesn't this:
It is a government organization that is undercutting a private company by selling its products and services at cost. There's no way for any private for-profit company to "compete" with that.
contradict the common mantra that private business is always more efficient and cheaper than a government organisation. Of course,tehre is a grain of truth in that a commercial organisation will go bust if it is inefficient, but every government has incompetent and inefficient departments.
In this particular case, though, TimeWarner should be able to compete because the much larger size should provide economies of scale which allow it to operate at lower costs. It would be interesting to see if TimeWarner's costs were any higher than Greenlight's . I suspect not, but TimeWarner would probably rather lose business in one small town than admit that it has been gouging for years and lying to Congress.
holy shit, man. How can it cost more than $0.10 per page (about the break-even point fora 1000pp textbook. At my uni, that is the standard price for single sided, and there are plenty of free printers as well. Either your books are more reasonably priced, or our printing is insanely expensive (assuming, of cours, that you do not need colour).
Have you read Glory Road (the bits about organisation of the Empire) and the agruments for a small government? Also, I said a SOCIAL libertarian, economically, he was (in his later years) closer to anarcho-capitalism, but socially he argued consistently for an "anything goes" attitude, and that people should mind their own business. In For Us, The Living, he argued for a strong privacy law, and later simply argued that whatever people did was their own business unless it directly harmed someone else.
I may have misunderstood your comment, in which case I'm sorry (I'm not sure whether you are agreeing with me or not, that is the problem with the conventional one- or two-dimensional view of politics). Furthermore, one could argue that libertarianism is to anarchism as socialism is to communism.
Unsolicited goods: he may have to give the owner a reasonable mount of time to collect them (at the owners expense) but after that they become his to do as he wishes.
Disclaimer: IANAL, this is based on my vauge understanding of UK and Australian law, Sri Lanka may be very different.
I am given to understand that under European law an EULA contained inside the product (for example, the message on a DVD, or a click-through licence) is considered to be an attempt to modify the contract after it has been completed, and that for them to be legally binding, the end-user would have to sign the EULA before buying the product. Also, ISTM that the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show that you had agreed to the EULA before you purchased the book.
Evince is certainly more responsive than A8 on the same system, and can search much more quickly. I tend to read in continuous mode, so the next page is already cached before I scroll to it in most readers, but I admit that when jumping to pages acroread 8 is faster to show the page. I would hazard a guess that acrobat pre-renders unseen pages, which would explain its much higher footprint.
I haven't used KPDF since I was messing around with KDE4.0, when it seemed to cause major wedging, but KPDF/KDE3 was acceptable. GhostView is better than evince for clever PS files, although I much prefer Evince's user interface, and it works fine for ordinary PS documents (without animation etc.) and DJVU (used for ebooks). I haven't really used Orakular, since I am not a KDE user.
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It can also tell you that the air speed velocity of an unladen European swallow is 11 m/s, but it can't help you with respect African swalows. It also had no idea how many beans makes five.
With all the crap people are going to be feeding into the system,it will be a major task to find out what is cutting edge stuff and what is mere insanity.
What about drawings, or computer-generated art, or adults dressed up, all of which are banned in many places as CP, but do not have victims in the way that real CP does? In the case of drawings, it would be perfectly obvious what is and isn't real.
Why the hell are we selling 64oz of ANYTHING for single human consumption?
Because in moderation, it is fine? On occasion, I will drink a 2l (approx 67fl.oz. US) bottle of soft drink and eat a large meat, chips and sauce, but I do this only occasionally, and exercise it off afterwards. With a basically healthy diet, I have a BMI within all my government's recommendations, including those for the Army.
In my area, the McDonalds in poorer areas are actually more expensive than in richer areas, and the franchise in the most expensive suburb was the second cheapest in the state. This was reported int he state newspaper a few months back, with a comparison of Big Mac meals in all the metro franchises.
Recycled water, OTOH...
Drunk in charge?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaQJj1BQUiU&feature=related
The latest version of Nautilus is pretty decent once you fix all the moronic defaults. The only issue I have with it is that it occasionally loses the scrollbars for no particularly good reason, making you reload the directory to show them. If you need something powerful and feature-rich, you could use Gnome Commander, which has an ugly theme and looks primitive, but is very powerful and feature rich.
Part of the problem is that File has some difficulty guessing filetypes. For example, it thinks most of my java source files are Perl5 source and some are C++, and only manages to identify some of the backups correctly as java. (Of course, some of this may be my coding style, but even so, it shows that I know more about the file type than file)
The FSF will take over the project, call it Duke Gnukem Forever, and make it the killer app for Hurd.
I can't imagine a situation where you need to carry around more than 1GB of PDF files where you wouldn't also already have your laptop handy.
When your !@*&% prof uses a brain-dead PDF creator which doesn't use text boxes properly and so has each individual character in a separate box int eh wrong order (rumoured to be to prevent copy-pasting from it), when each page is a single uncompressed image, when they embed their own fugly pseudo-handwritten font (and use the wrong character codes for them so that if you try to copy the text you fet a mess of accented 'o's) or when they shove videos into PDF files. All of these have produced bloated files, and were produced by at least one of my lecturers over the years. I am also told that Word 3007 produces pretty godawful PDFs, but I have never investigated form myself.
Four years ago, I saw a miniature tablet running WinXP, which, although it was well above the netbook price range, had a pretty decent battery life and was not too slow. It was about as wide as an EeePC, but narrow screen, so slightly larger and thicker because of the pivot. Nonetheless, I believe that there would be a market for something of that type but with netbook specs.
ISTM (but IANAL) that the requirements of the law would be met with a simple display showing which directories are shared, and a button to display a list. This is more or less what any sane P2P client has anyway, so wouldn't actually require. If the law is interpreted to require each file to be announced before it is shared, then I expect the authors would use a config file or registry key to toggle whether to comply with this, and leak how to remove it (like DVD player manufacturers have with region coding).
More importantly, if you owe the bank 100 000, they own you. If you owe the bank 100 000 000 000, you own them. If the US goes bankrupt everyone who has leant money to them is completely SOL, so they simply won't call in the US debts faster than the US can pay them off.
It is much older than that: it was done in the 1850s (see page 2).
No, but they can use an internet death penalty and blackhole all traffic to or from that ISP. if they didn't want to get caught, they could simply lose large numbers of packets to that ISP.
If you didn't distribute the program, you would probably be fine. If you did distribute it, then you would be assisting another student cheat, and so under most rules would be considered equally at fault (so that they don't have to figure out which was the original).
The act of saying "bless you" after another sneezes is an obvious stupidity from times far less enlightened than today and yet people think better of you when you do it for some reason... I can't imagine why.
Is it enough that it is a tradition, like taking off one's hat to a passing hearse, and suchlike? Even "goodbye" is a contraction or corruption of "God be with ye", and I expect you say that often enough.
It is a government organization that is undercutting a private company by selling its products and services at cost. There's no way for any private for-profit company to "compete" with that.
contradict the common mantra that private business is always more efficient and cheaper than a government organisation. Of course,tehre is a grain of truth in that a commercial organisation will go bust if it is inefficient, but every government has incompetent and inefficient departments.
In this particular case, though, TimeWarner should be able to compete because the much larger size should provide economies of scale which allow it to operate at lower costs. It would be interesting to see if TimeWarner's costs were any higher than Greenlight's . I suspect not, but TimeWarner would probably rather lose business in one small town than admit that it has been gouging for years and lying to Congress.
holy shit, man. How can it cost more than $0.10 per page (about the break-even point fora 1000pp textbook. At my uni, that is the standard price for single sided, and there are plenty of free printers as well. Either your books are more reasonably priced, or our printing is insanely expensive (assuming, of cours, that you do not need colour).
I may have misunderstood your comment, in which case I'm sorry (I'm not sure whether you are agreeing with me or not, that is the problem with the conventional one- or two-dimensional view of politics). Furthermore, one could argue that libertarianism is to anarchism as socialism is to communism.
Disclaimer: IANAL, this is based on my vauge understanding of UK and Australian law, Sri Lanka may be very different.
I am given to understand that under European law an EULA contained inside the product (for example, the message on a DVD, or a click-through licence) is considered to be an attempt to modify the contract after it has been completed, and that for them to be legally binding, the end-user would have to sign the EULA before buying the product. Also, ISTM that the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show that you had agreed to the EULA before you purchased the book.
I haven't used KPDF since I was messing around with KDE4.0, when it seemed to cause major wedging, but KPDF/KDE3 was acceptable. GhostView is better than evince for clever PS files, although I much prefer Evince's user interface, and it works fine for ordinary PS documents (without animation etc.) and DJVU (used for ebooks). I haven't really used Orakular, since I am not a KDE user.