That must have been the same piece of black, made by the Acme company, that Wile E. Coyote used to put against a rock when he was trying to catch Woody Woodpecker.
Explain to me again why this is the fault of the company, and not the individual who knowingly broke the rules? (And yes I am very hesistant to say "law")
Not to mention that some airports will not grant access to single engined aircraft. This is the case when the flight path is over a city. If your 'plane has two engines, and one of them breaks down during takeoff or landing, the other should be enough to get you either back to the strip for an emeergency landing, or away from the city before you crash. If your single engine breaks down, the city dwellers just have to hope you can glide to a big field before you crash.
The point is, that it has not "ceased to matter". Read the article, and you will see that the toy company is seeking refund of paid import duty... no doubt with interest. And no doubt with legal costs.
The American public is ultimately going to lose out. If you bought one of these X-Men figures during the period in question, you paid the higher duty on it. Now,
Toy Biz is going to get back some of that duty... from the government; ergo, from the taxpayers.
You get screwed twice.
The one stop shop for help is called comp.os.linux.*
Joe sixpack needs new libraries about as often as he recompiles his kernel...
All this P2P or Automagic Updating is fine if you've got broadband, and can get your libraries in double-quick speed. But for a great many of us, even for me, dial-up modems make frequent downloads inacceptable. Go explain to your Aunt Mabel that she needs to download six megabytes of new libraries because the thirty kilobyte application you donwloaded yesterday won't work without them...
Do you buy new tyres for your car, then look for the rims afterwards? Then worry about the wings and arches? And the torque? Extra strain on the gearbox? It annoys me to have to use these analogies (or are they metaphors, I forget), but some people seem to switch off their brains when they start to play at Linux.
Although I get a bit of Spam about "Chinese miracle herb cure all cancer", the great majority of it is from Amrican individuals or companies using badly administered servers either in Asia or the United States.
Many of these spam messages tell me to go to web sites in the.com domain or to phone US numbers to place my order for
"Female Viagra" (er, I'd heard of "male sacks, but this is too wierd),
"almost pre-teen college dorm webcams",
"get rich by sending e-mail" instructions.
So, if these individuals and companies have either a.com domain or a US phone number (and have been seen on "National TV", yipes!), then they should be easy to track down, right?
Then, if the Federal Trade Commission is so hot on stamping out spam, why not simply CHOP THOSE BASTARDS' HEADS OFF. Or at leas their balls. I mean the spammers' heads, not those of the FTC, which visibly has no balls.
Apple makes computers for people who don't want to have to know how computers work.
You buy an Apple. You take it home, switch it on, it works. Six months later, you want to add add something more to it. You buy the hardware, you plug it in, switch it on, it works.
You buy a Windows PC. You take it home, spend anything between ten minutes (me) and two hours (someone I know) fitting together all the bits and pieces. You switch it on, wait, and it works. OK, so it crashes about twice a day, but it was cheaper than a Mac, so you're happy(ish).
Six months later, you want to add a new piece of hardware. You go to the store, talk to someone who asks you questions like "are you running Windows 95, 98, ME, MS, NT, 2000, XP or FU?". Then says, "In any case, if the drivers for your version aren't in the box, you can get them from the Internet" so you buy the kit (still thinking "This is half what the same thing for a Mac would cost") and go home.
Now, you spend anything between twenty minutes (me) and three hours (lots of people I know) opening up a badly designed case and fitting the bit of hardware. And then anything between 30 minutes and a week trying to install drivers.
Then you find that the drivers you just installed break other things, and give you pop-up warnings about being unsigned or uncertified, or whatever... It never stops being irritating.
What do you want?
Windows PC:
in money terms, it's cheap,
it works (acceptably),
it's not "confusing", it's a "learning opportunity".
What do you want?
Apple Mac:
in money terms, it's more expensive,
it works (right out of the box!),
it's can be a "learning opportunity" if you want it to be.
For somebody who buys a computer as a tool to do a job, rather than as an end in itself, an Apple Mac is in many cases the clear winner. Especially in DTP (historically, Macs were the boom of DTP at SoHo prices) and the arts (colour management, especially), you can't get good results from a Windows PC, even now. At best, you'll get "good enough for a low-value newsletter".
...
If you want to know, I manage to install hardware quicker than most of my friends and family because:
I have all the right tools (Torx and Pozi screwdrivers etc.),
I've done it hundreds of times.
and I manage to install drivers quicker than most of my friends and family because:
Thanks to some vagueness in the standards defining IP datagram transmission on Ethernet networks, it's not entirely clear exactly how the padding should be done.
When necessary, the data field should be padded (with octets of zero) to meet the IEEE 802 minimum frame size requirements.
So, while it isn't clear where the values of zero should come from, it looks clear to me that they should be zeroe values, and not values pulled from some previously used buffer or packet.
Right. Except that Mister Bowie is about as lame a self-promoting parasite as you can get.
So, he had a Rio last year. I had one, too, and took it back to the shop after three days. If Bowie kept his, it's probably because he's got more dollars than brain-cells.
Bowie is just a has-been, jumping on the internet band-wagon and also having a dig at that other has-been "formerly known as Prince".
Well, the two of them are just wasters.
I would like to see recorded music costless and many more real artists making an honest living from live performances.
I would like culture to be a participation event, not a simple manufactured mass-marketed commodity for those whose mentality is particularly ovine.
That a fireman died trying to put out the Sarpsborg fire marks that young numbskull Varg down for the chopping block, in my book. Even if he only lit the Fantoft fire, he did so knowing that it put lives at risk.
How cheap can you get? You take an interview between some second-rate reporters (pompously described as being "Executive Editor/News" and "Editor in Chief") and some marketing exec who cannot talk coherently, and just transcribe the conversation. Leaving aside the travel costs, you've got an article for the cost of twenty minutes' worth of typing secretary.
Of course, Linux is already way ahead and on top of Opteron. Their far ahead of anybody at the moment...
The monkey of an editor didn't even proof-read!
I'm enthusiastically waiting for Hammer (I'm waiting as fast as possibly I can)... but this kind of article makes me glad I don't shell out any schekels for eWeek.
When you mention the blacks, I think you mean just plain racist.
I don't know much about the internment of Japanese in the USA during WWII, but I imagine it was similar to internment of Germans, Austrians and other "aliens" in the UK at the time. This was justified as being a precaution against fifth columnists.
However, I don't think there is much similarity in the conditions suffered by the Jews in Belsen, and the Germans in the UK.
Unfortunate episodes like the sinking of the SS Arandora Star, carrying 800 inernees, by a erman U-Boat, led to the government abandoning the idea of deporting such prisoners to British Empire dominions.
Most internees had been released by the end of 1942. Of those that remained, many were repatriated from 1943 onwards. It was not, however, until late 1945 that the last internees were finally released.
even that extra memory space is only useful to a select number of applications
One word: ramdisk.
Here's a first example of what you can do. DVD or CD-Rom is very slow, hard drive space is faster and is cheap. So I copy the contents of my reference books from the DVD onto the hard drive. But this too is slow. So when my machine boots, I would like to be able to load a ramdisk image of two or three DVD's worth of reference material.
A second example, would be to do the same, but with something like the contents of/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin and/usr/sbin to speed up the execution of my bash and ksh scripts.
Having something like six gigabytes of memory would make this perfectly feasible.
Most integer calculations however don't need 64bit precision, 32bits is often enough.
how evil Nazis [were] was not discovered until after the war
Not quite true.
Leaving aside a discussion as to the definition of evil, the broad lines of the "final solution" were well known from around 1941...
It was well known from before 1933 that anti-semitic groups were active in Germany, and were on the way to taking political control.
Read Address Unknown, first published in 1938, set in 1932 - 1934.
Perhaps many people did not grasp just how enormous the "implementation of the solution" was... Industrial-scale extermination of an entire ethnic group!
Getting back to the topic, why do you think governments legislate to limit which countries can buy certain technologies?
If the moon looked bigger a thousand years ago, it's because people had stronger eyes.
Centuries of reliance on the written word, first of all on paper and now on computer screens, is taking its toll.
One of those dead greek dudes (socrates or aristotl, I forget which) wouldn't let his students take notes. He claimed that the exercise of listening and memorising was vitally important. Now, we jot down notes like "remember to eat a pizza tonite" because we're so short-memmory'ed (sp?) that we'd forget to eat!
Same with eyesite... we spend so much time looking at near stuff like websites, books (well, the pictures at least) that our eyes are getting weeker by the weak. Over the generations, our eyes are so week, that the moon looks smaller.
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That must have been the same piece of black, made by the Acme company, that Wile E. Coyote used to put against a rock when he was trying to catch Woody Woodpecker.
I believe it is called vicarious liability.
Surely you mean apple made the UI so sexy, that it would be hard not to play with it
nice bright yellow polyurethane Silentblocs?
Not to mention that some airports will not grant access to single engined aircraft. This is the case when the flight path is over a city. If your 'plane has two engines, and one of them breaks down during takeoff or landing, the other should be enough to get you either back to the strip for an emeergency landing, or away from the city before you crash. If your single engine breaks down, the city dwellers just have to hope you can glide to a big field before you crash.
Don't buy a BMW unless you like crashes... Baselinemag
You'd better load up your guns and bring your friends, then...
The point is, that it has not "ceased to matter". Read the article, and you will see that the toy company is seeking refund of paid import duty... no doubt with interest. And no doubt with legal costs.
The American public is ultimately going to lose out. If you bought one of these X-Men figures during the period in question, you paid the higher duty on it. Now,
Toy Biz is going to get back some of that duty... from the government; ergo, from the taxpayers.
You get screwed twice.
Sigh!
The one stop shop for help is called comp.os.linux.*
Joe sixpack needs new libraries about as often as he recompiles his kernel...
All this P2P or Automagic Updating is fine if you've got broadband, and can get your libraries in double-quick speed. But for a great many of us, even for me, dial-up modems make frequent downloads inacceptable. Go explain to your Aunt Mabel that she needs to download six megabytes of new libraries because the thirty kilobyte application you donwloaded yesterday won't work without them...
Do you buy new tyres for your car, then look for the rims afterwards? Then worry about the wings and arches? And the torque? Extra strain on the gearbox? It annoys me to have to use these analogies (or are they metaphors, I forget), but some people seem to switch off their brains when they start to play at Linux.
Although I get a bit of Spam about "Chinese miracle herb cure all cancer", the great majority of it is from Amrican individuals or companies using badly administered servers either in Asia or the United States.
Many of these spam messages tell me to go to web sites in the .com domain or to phone US numbers to place my order for
So, if these individuals and companies have either a .com domain or a US phone number (and have been seen on "National TV", yipes!), then they should be easy to track down, right?
Then, if the Federal Trade Commission is so hot on stamping out spam, why not simply CHOP THOSE BASTARDS' HEADS OFF. Or at leas their balls. I mean the spammers' heads, not those of the FTC, which visibly has no balls.
The "cost of physically performing source distribution" surely includes:
Apple makes computers for people who don't want to have to know how computers work.
You buy an Apple. You take it home, switch it on, it works. Six months later, you want to add add something more to it. You buy the hardware, you plug it in, switch it on, it works.
You buy a Windows PC. You take it home, spend anything between ten minutes (me) and two hours (someone I know) fitting together all the bits and pieces. You switch it on, wait, and it works. OK, so it crashes about twice a day, but it was cheaper than a Mac, so you're happy(ish).
Six months later, you want to add a new piece of hardware. You go to the store, talk to someone who asks you questions like "are you running Windows 95, 98, ME, MS, NT, 2000, XP or FU?". Then says, "In any case, if the drivers for your version aren't in the box, you can get them from the Internet" so you buy the kit (still thinking "This is half what the same thing for a Mac would cost") and go home.
Now, you spend anything between twenty minutes (me) and three hours (lots of people I know) opening up a badly designed case and fitting the bit of hardware. And then anything between 30 minutes and a week trying to install drivers.
Then you find that the drivers you just installed break other things, and give you pop-up warnings about being unsigned or uncertified, or whatever... It never stops being irritating.
What do you want?
Windows PC:
What do you want?
Apple Mac:
For somebody who buys a computer as a tool to do a job, rather than as an end in itself, an Apple Mac is in many cases the clear winner. Especially in DTP (historically, Macs were the boom of DTP at SoHo prices) and the arts (colour management, especially), you can't get good results from a Windows PC, even now. At best, you'll get "good enough for a low-value newsletter".
...
If you want to know, I manage to install hardware quicker than most of my friends and family because:
and I manage to install drivers quicker than most of my friends and family because:
So, while it isn't clear where the values of zero should come from, it looks clear to me that they should be zeroe values, and not values pulled from some previously used buffer or packet.
Like you need to use one of those crippled GPS things to get the position of an airport, when you can find it on a street map...
What?
Correct me if I'm wrong (note: I am not a lawyer, nor a US citizen, my judgement may be off).But if he was *convicted*, then he was found guilty... so he's a criminal.
If, later, he was pardoned, doesn't that just mean that the king ^H^H^H^H president decided he'd suffered enough and should be let free?
If new evidence proving innocence had come to light, surely he shold be retried and found innocent, then be paid compensation?
Right. Except that Mister Bowie is about as lame a self-promoting parasite as you can get.
So, he had a Rio last year. I had one, too, and took it back to the shop after three days. If Bowie kept his, it's probably because he's got more dollars than brain-cells.
Bowie is just a has-been, jumping on the internet band-wagon and also having a dig at that other has-been "formerly known as Prince".
Well, the two of them are just wasters.
I would like to see recorded music costless and many more real artists making an honest living from live performances.
I would like culture to be a participation event, not a simple manufactured mass-marketed commodity for those whose mentality is particularly ovine.
Setting fire to Fantoft church was bad enough.
That a fireman died trying to put out the Sarpsborg fire marks that young numbskull Varg down for the chopping block, in my book. Even if he only lit the Fantoft fire, he did so knowing that it put lives at risk.
Something to do with the effect of ultraviolet light breaking the molecules... if I remember rightly.
So, in an environment where UV is not a problem, lefthanded molecules would be stable.
And HP is putting all those huevos in one basket...
How cheap can you get? You take an interview between some second-rate reporters (pompously described as being "Executive Editor/News" and "Editor in Chief") and some marketing exec who cannot talk coherently, and just transcribe the conversation. Leaving aside the travel costs, you've got an article for the cost of twenty minutes' worth of typing secretary.
The monkey of an editor didn't even proof-read!
I'm enthusiastically waiting for Hammer (I'm waiting as fast as possibly I can)... but this kind of article makes me glad I don't shell out any schekels for eWeek.
When you mention the blacks, I think you mean just plain racist.
I don't know much about the internment of Japanese in the USA during WWII, but I imagine it was similar to internment of Germans, Austrians and other "aliens" in the UK at the time. This was justified as being a precaution against fifth columnists.
However, I don't think there is much similarity in the conditions suffered by the Jews in Belsen, and the Germans in the UK.
Unfortunate episodes like the sinking of the SS Arandora Star, carrying 800 inernees, by a erman U-Boat, led to the government abandoning the idea of deporting such prisoners to British Empire dominions.
Source:Public Records OfficeOne word: ramdisk.
Here's a first example of what you can do. DVD or CD-Rom is very slow, hard drive space is faster and is cheap. So I copy the contents of my reference books from the DVD onto the hard drive. But this too is slow. So when my machine boots, I would like to be able to load a ramdisk image of two or three DVD's worth of reference material.
A second example, would be to do the same, but with something like the contents of /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin to speed up the execution of my bash and ksh scripts.
Having something like six gigabytes of memory would make this perfectly feasible.
That reminds me of the 640kByte anecdote.
Why doesn't the XBox section sell a modchip and linux distribution?
Not quite true.
Leaving aside a discussion as to the definition of evil, the broad lines of the "final solution" were well known from around 1941...
It was well known from before 1933 that anti-semitic groups were active in Germany, and were on the way to taking political control.
Read Address Unknown, first published in 1938, set in 1932 - 1934.
Perhaps many people did not grasp just how enormous the "implementation of the solution" was... Industrial-scale extermination of an entire ethnic group!
Getting back to the topic, why do you think governments legislate to limit which countries can buy certain technologies?
If the moon looked bigger a thousand years ago, it's because people had stronger eyes.
Centuries of reliance on the written word, first of all on paper and now on computer screens, is taking its toll.
One of those dead greek dudes (socrates or aristotl, I forget which) wouldn't let his students take notes. He claimed that the exercise of listening and memorising was vitally important. Now, we jot down notes like "remember to eat a pizza tonite" because we're so short-memmory'ed (sp?) that we'd forget to eat!
Same with eyesite... we spend so much time looking at near stuff like websites, books (well, the pictures at least) that our eyes are getting weeker by the weak. Over the generations, our eyes are so week, that the moon looks smaller.