I looked at the Dell sites for France and for the UK. Both lack this Mini 9 / Linux deal.
You can get a Mini 9 in those two markets, but only with "Genuine Windows XP Home Edition SP3" and only the version with 1GB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
My guess is that Dell is waiting to see what demand is like for this product in the US, and then will roll out ditribution in other markets "if a compelling business case (TM) can be made for it"
Note that the mass of a hadron has very little to do with the mass of its valence quarks; rather, due to mass-energy equivalence, most of the mass comes from the large amount of energy associated with the strong nuclear force.
To me, this seems to mean that you do not simply sum the masses of the quarks that make up the hadron (a baryon being a kind of hadron).
The image of a proton given in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Quark_structure_proton.svg) represents the three quarks in a triangle. OK, so this is simply a convenient representation, but it may help to think of the masses of the quarks as being vector forces. E.g., 10GeV in one direction + 5GeV in the opposite direction would give a net result of 5GeV, and not 15GeV.
Of course, IANAPP either, and my example is contrived as a metaphor.
On a trip to Reno about a year and a half ago, we drove to the Californian side of Lake Tahoe to eat.
Entering the restaurant, there was a sign on the wall:
FISH SOLD IN THIS RESTAURANT CONTAIN CHEMICALS KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER
I bought a garden hose today, and the label on it was marked:
NOT LABELED FOR SALE IN CALIFORNIA
I joked to my parents that it could not be sold in Ca because the label did not carry the warning about GARDENS AND HOSES ARE KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER!
I've been using FrameMaker for about the past twelve years... starting with FM5 (IIRR) and now FM8 has merged the previously separate Structured FrameMaker with the "unstructured" version.
The only downsides I've found to using FM8 to write structured documents is that my screen is too small to have a main document window, the structure window, the entities list and the paragraph format list and be able to have another window with a PDF or mail message open.
Oh, and on windows, the keyboard shortcuts are horrible; the UNIX version that I used to use exclusively has much more intuitive things like CTRL R O B to open the change bar dialog.
No joke, CTRL R to say "hey, FM, here comes a kbd shortcut" then O for the Format menu, the B for changeBar. Likewise, CTRL R E F for Edit Find.
It takes about half a day to completely master fifty or so shortcuts.
Math in FM is quite easy, importing graphics and making cross references are, too.
Generated tables of contents are a doddle.
For the index, you still need to add "index markers" to words you want to include, but I think there are aftermarket plug-ins to automate this step.
It's also easier because the word itself reveals its gender and there are only two to keep in mind...
Where did you hear this?
You can tell the gender of practically any noun in the French language by the presence of "le" or "la" before it.
OK, I'm joking. And anyway, that method won't work for nouns that start with a vowel or with what is termed a "silent H" (although the letter H is never truly aspirated in French).
I found it very easy to learn the gender of nouns by learning each noun in a phrase with an adjective. For example, instead of trying to learn
"la hache", learn "la grande hache" since the adjective "grande" is in its feminine form.
So blatantly I have no real need for a phone, why do they all have to be so gaddamn expensive? I can't afford much more than £5 a month for calls
You're not kidding. I have essentially no need for a phone at all, I make and receive less than one (legitimate) call per month. Yet I cannot get phone service for $30/month, not even a land line with no long distance service.
It's a fucking racket. There are still some rare and special circumstances where a phone is required. Mostly when dealing with bureaucrats. So I can't just go without. But that infernal machine sure as hell isn't worth $30 a month. I'd spend less just using a payphone, if only I could receive calls on it.
When I moved to the US I bought a Nokia 6030, it takes the same battery as my old Nokia 1100 that I had in Europe. I buy AT&T airtime in advance, which works out to around $7 per month for my usage. The purchase price of $100 for the handset over 5 years is about $1.67 per month.
This 6030 doesn't have a lot of superfluous features (no camera, no media player) but does have a lot of features that I use all the time, such as
alarm clock,
countdown timer,
appointment reminders,
notes.
I use the old 1100 as a charger in the US and when I go back to Europe for a month I take it with me and buy EUR25 of airtime from SFR (I use the cellphone much more when I'm over there).
In Photoshop, when I want to delete the selected pixels, I press "delete."
In GIMP, when I want to delete the selected pixels, I press "control-k."
I don't know what you do in Photoshop, but in Gimp you would press CTRL-x. This is perfectly logical, since what you are doing is cutting the pixels from the layer.
Now you can go ahead and try to argue that deleting is not the same as cutting, that you just want to DELETE, and that if you wanted to cut the pixels to the clipboard then this is a different operation...
Since you just came here for an argument, go ahead: knock yourself out.
Looking at my own hand, and the big knuckle (i.e., the one joining the proximal phalange to the metacarpal), the distance from wrist to fingertip is twice the distance from knuckle to fingertip
So by saying "my chip does an instruction in the time it takes for a photon to go from knuckle to fingertip, while your chip does an instruction in the time it takes for a photon to go from wrist to fingertip" is like saying "my chips twice as fast as your, na!"
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I believe that use of the word "Panzer" is a an abbreviation for "Panzerkampfwagen", which roughly means "armoured assault vehicle".
The Apple Corps used a photographic apple logo with proportions very different than Apple's iconic 2D apple outline logo. The NYC campaign looks like Apple's logo with a swoosh instead of a bite.
The NYC logo is sufficiently different to Apple Computer's logo that there is no risk of confusion.
The NYC logo being used for an environmentalism campaign, there is no risk of confusion.
About twelve years ago, when I was living in France, I bought a 300 page book with a Slackware CD in the cover.
OK, so at the time Slackware was not exactly forgiving... and the CD woudln't work. But the book was sort of useful.
I managed to get hold of redhat, with no printed docs, and installed it and was a happy monkey for the next three years.
In that time, I bought great thick book with a blue cover, with a entitlef "Linux Undercover" with a RedHat logo... it turned out to be not much more than a set of RFCs.
After that, I went to Mandrake, which became Mandriva not long before the time that I moved to the US, at which time I switched to Ubuntu.
And what printed material do I possess concerning Ubuntu?
err....
Sorry, I can't produce that evidence. It seems to not exist. Sorry.
The point being, that the vast majority of the printed material I formerly held on to concerned configuration and troubleshooting... something which seems to be mostly redundant with Ubuntu. Things mostly "just work", and for the few things that don't I have UbuntuForums.org to help me out.
K.
This is off-topic, I suppose, for discussing the article at HotHardware, rather than the video card.
But anyway, here goes.
Cinebench R10
3D Rendering
This is a multi-threaded, multi-processor aware benchmark that renders a single 3D scene and tracks the length of the entire process. The time it took each test system to render the entire scene is represented in the graph below, listed in seconds.
So it took between 10852 and 10911 seconds to render the scene?
Yet at the same time, the graph says "higher scores = better performance".
I don't believe the RIAA "broadband tax" is comparable to the other mechanisms you mention.
insurance companies wanting auto insurance to be mandatory
Auto insurance of some kind is usually mandatory, in order to protect the victims of accidents.
hospitals being in favor of mandatory medical insurance
In many parts of the world, the government runs or requires citizens to have medical insurance coverage. Managing the health of the country's citizens can be compared to managing the education of those same citizens, in order to maintain a healthy, literate, productive population.
Microsoft insisting on Windows installed on every PC
This is just a contractual agreement between MS and the manufacturers.
sports teams wanting every citizen to subsidize their business
Err... what do you think sponsorship of a team is, if not a form of advertising? The money to pay for the advertising comes from the price of the goods.
The broadband tax is an extortion disguised as a tax.
A draft consultation suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over users who access pirated material.
According to the Times, the draft paper states: "We will move to legislate to require internet service providers to take action on illegal file sharing."
This is a draft proposal for discussion, so now is the time to act.
Write to your MP, explaining how the proposed legislation would be
unworkable
unnecessary
immoral
Going after downloaders would seriously inconvenience legitimate users of P2P networks, such as those who use them for FOSS distribution. Driving people to encrypt their distributions would just result in an escalation of the problem and the gov't would start to encroach on uses of security mechanisms used by banks and merchants to avoid fraud.
There is no need for further legislation, since the distribution of copyrighted works without the permission of the copyright holder is already covered by other laws.
It is morally wrong to go for the easy target at the risk of hitting innocent bystanders, when the alternative of going for the hard target with no risk of collateral damage is possible.
By this, I mean that the real target should be the uploaders of the copyrighted works.
For decades the government has been telling us that the way to fight the war on drugs is to hit the producers, importers and dealers; that the users should be considered as victims of their own addiction.
If you want to kill the snake, cut of its head, not the end of its tail.
What the article describes is the reaction of an individual to tabu, and has almost nothing to do with DRM as we know it (i.e., as a way to prevent individuals from distributing material in breach of legally established copyright).
Tabu is when a person, for reasons of cultural norms, if forbidden from doing something, such as viewing a picturee of a deceased relative, or watching a ritual, and the penalty for breaking tabu is either self-loathing or is a punishment imposed by peers.
In other words, tabu is the law, with punisment for transgression, whereas DRM is a mechanical means for preventing transgression.
If I refrained from breaching copyright laws because of some moral imperative, or because of some reasoned risk-benefit analysis (i.e. probability of getting caught and the likely punishment), this could be compared to tabu; but DRM is about the lock on the door, not about whether I want to peep through the keyhole and my perception of my chances of getting caught.
You are comparing an insurance scheme (health care) with taxes funding culture.
If you have private health insurance, or employer sponsored health insurance, you are in a similar situation to the Canadian or British (or French, or Dutch) national health insurance schemes. You (or your employer, or a combination) pays a monthly fee or percentage of your salary. This is paid whether you need to use the service or not. When you really need to use the service, you perhaps pay some contribution, but you don't end up paying the whole cost of your treatment out of your pocket.
The question in this thread is whether it is acceptable to impose a tax or levy and to redistribute the proceeds to people working in a cultural sector. Here, specifically, a tax on internet connections being paid to musicians or songwriters.
It could just as easily be a proportion of TV advertising revenues being taken from TV channels, and being handed over to Opera or Ballet as a subsidy.
There are always winners and losers, and it is often difficult to assess the value of indirect benefits received by some of the self-declared losers.
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Looks like we need to start work on the aerostomata...
K.
US is a trial market for the real world. ;-)
I looked at the Dell sites for France and for the UK. Both lack this Mini 9 / Linux deal.
You can get a Mini 9 in those two markets, but only with "Genuine Windows XP Home Edition SP3" and only the version with 1GB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
My guess is that Dell is waiting to see what demand is like for this product in the US, and then will roll out ditribution in other markets "if a compelling business case (TM) can be made for it"
Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrons
Note that the mass of a hadron has very little to do with the mass of its valence quarks; rather, due to mass-energy equivalence, most of the mass comes from the large amount of energy associated with the strong nuclear force.
To me, this seems to mean that you do not simply sum the masses of the quarks that make up the hadron (a baryon being a kind of hadron).
The image of a proton given in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Quark_structure_proton.svg) represents the three quarks in a triangle. OK, so this is simply a convenient representation, but it may help to think of the masses of the quarks as being vector forces. E.g., 10GeV in one direction + 5GeV in the opposite direction would give a net result of 5GeV, and not 15GeV.
Of course, IANAPP either, and my example is contrived as a metaphor.
K.
No, he refers specifically to "speed, quality, cost". This is the famous three-way trade-off of all projects. Not the political triumvirate.
It is often quoted as "Speed, quality, cost, optimise any two to the detriment of the third".
In real life, this means you can have your project done
K.
On a trip to Reno about a year and a half ago, we drove to the Californian side of Lake Tahoe to eat.
Entering the restaurant, there was a sign on the wall:
FISH SOLD IN THIS RESTAURANT CONTAIN CHEMICALS KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER
I bought a garden hose today, and the label on it was marked:
NOT LABELED FOR SALE IN CALIFORNIA
I joked to my parents that it could not be sold in Ca because the label did not carry the warning about GARDENS AND HOSES ARE KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER!
K.
I've been using FrameMaker for about the past twelve years... starting with FM5 (IIRR) and now FM8 has merged the previously separate Structured FrameMaker with the "unstructured" version.
The only downsides I've found to using FM8 to write structured documents is that my screen is too small to have a main document window, the structure window, the entities list and the paragraph format list and be able to have another window with a PDF or mail message open.
Oh, and on windows, the keyboard shortcuts are horrible; the UNIX version that I used to use exclusively has much more intuitive things like CTRL R O B to open the change bar dialog.
No joke, CTRL R to say "hey, FM, here comes a kbd shortcut" then O for the Format menu, the B for changeBar. Likewise, CTRL R E F for Edit Find.
It takes about half a day to completely master fifty or so shortcuts.
Math in FM is quite easy, importing graphics and making cross references are, too.
Generated tables of contents are a doddle.
For the index, you still need to add "index markers" to words you want to include, but I think there are aftermarket plug-ins to automate this step.
Beef
It's also easier because the word itself reveals its gender and there are only two to keep in mind...
Where did you hear this?
You can tell the gender of practically any noun in the French language by the presence of "le" or "la" before it.
OK, I'm joking. And anyway, that method won't work for nouns that start with a vowel or with what is termed a "silent H" (although the letter H is never truly aspirated in French).
I found it very easy to learn the gender of nouns by learning each noun in a phrase with an adjective. For example, instead of trying to learn "la hache", learn "la grande hache" since the adjective "grande" is in its feminine form.
Maybe, but what did the Romans ever do for us?
So blatantly I have no real need for a phone, why do they all have to be so gaddamn expensive? I can't afford much more than £5 a month for calls
You're not kidding. I have essentially no need for a phone at all, I make and receive less than one (legitimate) call per month. Yet I cannot get phone service for $30/month, not even a land line with no long distance service.
It's a fucking racket. There are still some rare and special circumstances where a phone is required. Mostly when dealing with bureaucrats. So I can't just go without. But that infernal machine sure as hell isn't worth $30 a month. I'd spend less just using a payphone, if only I could receive calls on it.
When I moved to the US I bought a Nokia 6030, it takes the same battery as my old Nokia 1100 that I had in Europe. I buy AT&T airtime in advance, which works out to around $7 per month for my usage. The purchase price of $100 for the handset over 5 years is about $1.67 per month.
This 6030 doesn't have a lot of superfluous features (no camera, no media player) but does have a lot of features that I use all the time, such as
I use the old 1100 as a charger in the US and when I go back to Europe for a month I take it with me and buy EUR25 of airtime from SFR (I use the cellphone much more when I'm over there).
Surely you mean Britnay?
I don't know what you do in Photoshop, but in Gimp you would press CTRL-x. This is perfectly logical, since what you are doing is cutting the pixels from the layer.
Now you can go ahead and try to argue that deleting is not the same as cutting, that you just want to DELETE, and that if you wanted to cut the pixels to the clipboard then this is a different operation...
Since you just came here for an argument, go ahead: knock yourself out.
Which knuckle?
Whose hand?
Looking at my own hand, and the big knuckle (i.e., the one joining the proximal phalange to the metacarpal), the distance from wrist to fingertip is twice the distance from knuckle to fingertip
So by saying "my chip does an instruction in the time it takes for a photon to go from knuckle to fingertip, while your chip does an instruction in the time it takes for a photon to go from wrist to fingertip" is like saying "my chips twice as fast as your, na!"
I believe that use of the word "Panzer" is a an abbreviation for "Panzerkampfwagen", which roughly means "armoured assault vehicle".
That's all there is to it.
Look at this for another apple logo. http://www.pomme-limousin.org/images/limdor%20copier.jpg
About twelve years ago, when I was living in France, I bought a 300 page book with a Slackware CD in the cover. OK, so at the time Slackware was not exactly forgiving... and the CD woudln't work. But the book was sort of useful. I managed to get hold of redhat, with no printed docs, and installed it and was a happy monkey for the next three years. In that time, I bought great thick book with a blue cover, with a entitlef "Linux Undercover" with a RedHat logo... it turned out to be not much more than a set of RFCs. After that, I went to Mandrake, which became Mandriva not long before the time that I moved to the US, at which time I switched to Ubuntu. And what printed material do I possess concerning Ubuntu? err.... Sorry, I can't produce that evidence. It seems to not exist. Sorry. The point being, that the vast majority of the printed material I formerly held on to concerned configuration and troubleshooting... something which seems to be mostly redundant with Ubuntu. Things mostly "just work", and for the few things that don't I have UbuntuForums.org to help me out. K.
Does it have to be the FCC?
Could not some other gov't agency (e.g. FTC) not use parens patriae to take Comcast to court for breach of contract?
Beef
This is off-topic, I suppose, for discussing the article at HotHardware, rather than the video card.
But anyway, here goes.
So it took between 10852 and 10911 seconds to render the scene?
Yet at the same time, the graph says "higher scores = better performance".
WTF?
Good point, I hadn't thought of that!
The Americans with Diabilities Act might be used as an argument to exempt people from paying the broadband tax.
For now, this scheme seems to be only the RIAA, so the point of deaf people is good.
If the MPAA joins in, then blind people could be added to the list of exemptions.
Add more and more exemptions to the list, until the possible revenue at $5 per subscription is not enough to satisfy the extortionists.
Then the extortionists will increase the per capita fee. Hopefully to the point where enough Joe Sixpacks will simply refuse to pay.
Then the system becomes unworkable.
K.
I don't believe the RIAA "broadband tax" is comparable to the other mechanisms you mention.
- insurance companies wanting auto insurance to be mandatory
Auto insurance of some kind is usually mandatory, in order to protect the victims of accidents.In many parts of the world, the government runs or requires citizens to have medical insurance coverage. Managing the health of the country's citizens can be compared to managing the education of those same citizens, in order to maintain a healthy, literate, productive population.
This is just a contractual agreement between MS and the manufacturers.
Err... what do you think sponsorship of a team is, if not a form of advertising? The money to pay for the advertising comes from the price of the goods.
The broadband tax is an extortion disguised as a tax.
K.
Combine this thread with another: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/10/1239205
Why not have Ubuntu on PS3?
Beef.
Read the article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7240234.stm
Here are extracts.
A draft consultation suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over users who access pirated material. According to the Times, the draft paper states: "We will move to legislate to require internet service providers to take action on illegal file sharing."This is a draft proposal for discussion, so now is the time to act.
Write to your MP, explaining how the proposed legislation would be
Going after downloaders would seriously inconvenience legitimate users of P2P networks, such as those who use them for FOSS distribution. Driving people to encrypt their distributions would just result in an escalation of the problem and the gov't would start to encroach on uses of security mechanisms used by banks and merchants to avoid fraud.
There is no need for further legislation, since the distribution of copyrighted works without the permission of the copyright holder is already covered by other laws.
It is morally wrong to go for the easy target at the risk of hitting innocent bystanders, when the alternative of going for the hard target with no risk of collateral damage is possible.
By this, I mean that the real target should be the uploaders of the copyrighted works.
For decades the government has been telling us that the way to fight the war on drugs is to hit the producers, importers and dealers; that the users should be considered as victims of their own addiction.
If you want to kill the snake, cut of its head, not the end of its tail.
K.
I want to get ten years' worth of email off Yahoo and to my local hard drive so I can ditch the service if the MS buyout goes through...
I tried searching teh Intarweb, but Yahoo's search engine just found me pages about "Yahoo Mail hot tips".
B.
Quite right.
What the article describes is the reaction of an individual to tabu, and has almost nothing to do with DRM as we know it (i.e., as a way to prevent individuals from distributing material in breach of legally established copyright).
Tabu is when a person, for reasons of cultural norms, if forbidden from doing something, such as viewing a picturee of a deceased relative, or watching a ritual, and the penalty for breaking tabu is either self-loathing or is a punishment imposed by peers.
In other words, tabu is the law, with punisment for transgression, whereas DRM is a mechanical means for preventing transgression.
If I refrained from breaching copyright laws because of some moral imperative, or because of some reasoned risk-benefit analysis (i.e. probability of getting caught and the likely punishment), this could be compared to tabu; but DRM is about the lock on the door, not about whether I want to peep through the keyhole and my perception of my chances of getting caught.
Beef.
Your comment is almost entirely irrelevant.
You are comparing an insurance scheme (health care) with taxes funding culture.
If you have private health insurance, or employer sponsored health insurance, you are in a similar situation to the Canadian or British (or French, or Dutch) national health insurance schemes. You (or your employer, or a combination) pays a monthly fee or percentage of your salary. This is paid whether you need to use the service or not. When you really need to use the service, you perhaps pay some contribution, but you don't end up paying the whole cost of your treatment out of your pocket.
The question in this thread is whether it is acceptable to impose a tax or levy and to redistribute the proceeds to people working in a cultural sector. Here, specifically, a tax on internet connections being paid to musicians or songwriters.
It could just as easily be a proportion of TV advertising revenues being taken from TV channels, and being handed over to Opera or Ballet as a subsidy.
There are always winners and losers, and it is often difficult to assess the value of indirect benefits received by some of the self-declared losers.
Beef.