Flash is a very powerful tool - and an interpreter for a single-code multiplatform OOP language that does what Java applets promised but never delivered. (That's mostly Microsoft's fault, not Sun's, but it doesn't matter now)
True, it was a lot less powerful a few years ago. Also true, many people make Flash websites that should be html, or that are terrible design in some other way.
But it's the only solution for truly rich interactive web content.
As someone who's been contracting for a while now, I think it's great.
You should calculate your income as your income/1.145 (self employment tax) - all actual benefits like health insurance. Generally if your own company pays for your health insurance in a situation like this, it's deductable but IANAL and IANATA.
That assumes that the job is as stable as your other job (which isn't always a bad assumption, depending on your other job) If it's not, I'd use roughly the formula:
(new income from above - old income) * time before they fire you = contract severance.
You need to weigh this severance against what you current severance would be (usually a "normal" job gives you at least a couple weeks warning) and the variable probabilities of getting canned. I'd go with something in the couple months for a new job, and make sure you can afford it.
Of course, the time before they fire you is made up, and the math is really harsh if it happens quickly. If they're enticing you away from your current employer, get them to put in an early termination penalty equal to the amount you would've been paid if they kill it earlier than a year or something. This lets them not have to hire you "forever" but it gives you a reasonable amount of capital to survive them failing to come through.
Finally, up to its limit a Roth IRA (in diversified stock or an S&P500 index) is a better retirement vehicle than your 401k, unless the matching is extreme, the vestment significant, and the mutual fund choices not sucky - which is a lot of ifs. For more advice on how to save, I recommend the Motley Fool - www.fool.com But the broad principle is that your company MIGHT have been giving you a bunch of money, which would count as a benefit, above. But probably it wasn't huge and you're not massively worse off otherwise.
I have a Halogen fixture at home - it uses what claims to be a 35W bulb shining the equiv of a 100W incandescent, and the color is perfect in my opinion. Is this lying about it's power requirements?
Admittedly it requires a special fixture, but I was putting new ones in anyway. (Also, the common halogen "torchiere" design wastes a lot of light by throwing it at your ceiling which is an entirely seperate problem.)
I know this isn't the answer you want. I know Gnumeric & OOo Calc are the answers you're going to get.
But seriously, have you thought about getting a bit more RAM? SuSE7.3 w/ KDE and Calc from OOo PR1 runs cleanly - SURPRISINGLY well - on a PPro 200 with 128 MB of RAM. Starting applications, including those, is slow. Of course, it is also running softRAID on 5400rpm drives - in PIO, not DMA - and being a SAMBA & netatalk file server, among other things. Since you said you're from BSD - SuSE is not renowned for being a "lite" installation, either.
I've definitely heard Gnumeric is better from a small-footprint POV.
If you're a programmer and you're successfully getting contracts, there's little reason you ought to be doing your own design - if you have extra time and not enough work you ought to spend that time working on how to get more contracts.
Renown graphic designers are expensive. There are lots of _great_ graphic designers that aren't expensive, especially if they're young. If you can't find one, email me - I have one that I retain who's quite excellent.
Put slashdot in the subject - I get a lot of mail there. Email again if you don't get a response. Also, my inhouse stuff doesn't have his work because it hasn't been worth having him redo it.
I'm looking to do exactly what User Mode Linux claims to be for, but it seems like Xen does it too. Which is more reliable? Faster? Easier to install?
Basically I want just slightly more functionality than a chroot jail - I want to be able to run a service on a virtual filesystem (ie, a filesystem that exists as a file) with an linux OS version that may vary from the host OS (ie, I can upgrade one service without having to do them all at the same time) I want a compromise of one service to have minimum security implications for the others. And I want to be able to move a service/virtualmachine from one physical machine to another with a minimum of hassle.
I posted this in response to someone else's Livejournal comment about being a "conscientious objector" to the voting process, but I thought it was appropriate here:
--> 1) NOT voting only gives them the (CORRECT!) impression that they can get away with whatever they want. Because you ARE still paying their taxes and probably obeying whatever crazy laws they pass. Unless you change citizenship and move.
If you want to protest GO vote and don't vote for those candidates. Or even ANY candidates. No ballot only tells them (CORRECTLY) that you don't care enough about this country or our lives or even your life to show up. I cannot respect that.
--> 2) In the current presidential election, I think that voting out the sitting president - clearly the worst president in my lifetime, and the most boldfaced liar I've seen campaign for the presidency - is more important to me than protesting the process. (And I'm a registered Republican who liked his father) I CAN respect you disagreeing with me about that. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't vote!
--> 3) Our voting system has flaws that should be fixed. Our electoral college system is silly. Our PRIMARY system is broken and evil.
Not going to the polls is no kind of protest. A protest has to be something they give a damn about.
If you want to protest, go fill out a ballot. Vote for any third party candidate on the ballot. Or write in the Green or Libertarian presidential candidates. Or write in Alan Greenspan or Jon Stewart. Or don't make any actual votes at all, but cast the ballot. At least you're successfully sending a message, and that DOES help. (these are in the order I recommend them, but any of them are MUCH better than none) (Do at least read the referendums and vote on them. A lot of times you get a direct chance to vote for education funding.)
a) a ballot with no votes reduces their mandate - since what gets reporting is the percentage of the vote that they got. In some cases they actually can't get elected if they don't get a certain percentage of overall votes - so you'll be forcing runoffs, at least. (I believe it varies by jurisdiction and race whether this is percentage of ballots or percentage of votes cast in that race - an advantage of writing somebody, anybody, in)
This doesn't just let THEM know, it lets EVERYBODY know, because it is reported.
b) There is a lot of circular influence in American elections. I mean that people want to vote for the winner. This isn't the fault of the elections, it's the way the PEOPLE are. But that means that a vote cast against whoever wins reduces their chances of reelection, because the news does talk about how barely they won, and their opposition will too.
Furthermore, a vote cast FOR a third party increases the chances of someone voting for them in the next election. This isn't going to matter for our national presidential elections for at least a few more years - but third parties have already gained a significant foothold in local elections precisely because of this. The Greens and Libertarians seem to have been the most successful, so far. This is totally independent of the national financial mechanism for the national election.
This is the reason why I want to start a website that operates like a write-in primary for next time around... where people online vote from candidates who won't agree to run, and everybody going there agrees to write in the _same_ candidate for the races they want to protest. If half the people who wanted to protest ALL voted for Jon Stewart, THAT would be a message.
c) Even if you are going to protest and not vote in the presidential election, if you look around you'll find there are some candidates who are worth voting for. In this election in IL, O'Bama is the best example. Clearly you don't need to go to the polls for him to win. But the more tremendous his landslide is the better chance he'll have of effecting policy locally and federally, and the better chance he'll have of being president someday.
--> 4) For instance, a ballot with O'Bama and referendums marked, and the Green or Libertarian presidential candidate written in for everything else - that's a ballot I can respect, even if I disagree with you (strongly) about #2.
but I did post in a hurry, and explain myself quite poorly, and I applaud someone who's actually an attorney clarifying stuff.
Unless I misunderstand though - there's still nothing very copyrightable about a Rubik's cube... As I understand it, for instance, they could copyright say, the patterns used on the little blocks, if they weren't solid colors. I suppose they could copyright what the Rubik's cube looks like...
I really hope you can't copyright solid colors yet.
But you can really be very similar without violating copyright, as I understand it - I suppose that my take was anything you could do to a Rubik's cube that would be copyright infringement would be trademark infringement sooner and more easily.
---- Let me put this in a nutshell - how close would I have to be to a Rubik's cube to be infringing copyright, even in a fairly extreme but would win in court kindof way.
Assume you can go back in time and register whatever copyrights you'd like, if it matters. As I understand it that only matters if someone contests whether you really DID make it first, which isn't up for a lot of argument here.
Definitely my award for worst slashdot writeup And that's saying a LOT.
A Rubik's cube can't be copyrighted - there's no text. The INSTRUCTIONS could be...
A trademark on it could be valid - but only if it was confusingly similar - ie, if a reasonable person buying it might THINK they were buying a Rubik's cube, or something from the same company.
The patent is apparently expired, at least if can trust the article. Which we can't.
Patent law != copyright law != trademark law != trade secret law. THEY ARE ALL TOTALLY SEPERATE.
of course no one's going to read this now, but maybe someone will benefit.
In my opinion as an engineer, there is one obviously better teaching method that's actually been used in classrooms in the US - Precision Teaching. They have a lot of data that demonstrates that tracking how well you're learning inherently causes you to learn more, and that doing something faster improves retention and the ability to learn the next-step skills.
Nothing I've seen yet is as AMBITIOUS as the book mentioned, but they're getting more ambitious all the time.
http://www.celeration.org more about PT
http://www.aimchart.com PT charting online
http://www.headsprout.com
PT developed online early reading program. If you have a child who can't read yet, you should check this out.
Disclaimer: I'm currently rewriting the aimchart functionality, but I have no formal link to the other two sites.
Mechanical work (wind-power, hydroelectric, bicycle generator, regenerative braking) is already a low-entropy source... it's easy to capture it, and while it can't be lossless we have techniques that can generally come pretty close to the theoretical values for capturing it.
(which doesn't mean it can't be better, lighter, cheaper - but they're basically pretty good)
A pressure differential is somewhat worse - and a heat source (solar heating, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, heating oil...) is very high entropy and very hard to get the energy out of.
Usually we use the heat source to generate a pressure differential that generates mechanical work. (which may or may not then generate electricity)
So that's more likely where this is applied - where you have a heat source that can be used to create a pressure differential.
I don't know the answer to your 100Mbps vs 1Gbps question. I'm going to operate on the assumption that you use "enough" and it's either switched or a crossover cable, so you don't suffer when your network does other stuff.
However: Having MythTV on the same box is, in the general case, SLOWER than having it on a NAS with at all similar hardware. Moving data over ethernet _may_ be more latent than moving it to your HDD controller, but you're going to blow throught the 32 or so MB of HDD cache fairly quickly. You won't blow through 1GB of RAM cache on the NAS. So using a different box is actually faster assuming that
1) it has RAM signficantly in excess of HDcache + OSnecessary RAM
2) it has a similar quality MB and controller and enough CPU that that isn't the bog. These days this is pretty easy.
_Possibly_ if someone sent you an obnoxious email, that person shouldn't be doing user-relation management; that is, maybe they shouldn't be answering whatever public address you asked on.
That's kindof unrelated to accepting or not accepting their code.
On the one hand, I see the point of my respondents.
On the other hand, I still think that the obvious failures of the software patent system - and I believe it's very likely there is prior art, too - would further help the cause of passing the more desireable legislation.
[I couldn't find his email at a cursory glance - maybe someone can 1) email him and 2) post a reply saying they did so he doesn't get 20000 emails]
1. Please be aware that there are a great many people who are invested in helping you be able to roll out linux in Munich.
2. Assuming that EU patent law bears some similarity to US law and that the body of software patents bears some similarity, the key to destroying poorly issued software patents is prior art.
3. A call from you for us to help you find prior art would meet with tremendous response. Even moreso if you could arrange to translate the list of probable patent violations into English.
thank you.
[Really, anyone with appropriate linguistic capabilities could put up a webboard for discussion and translate the patent pdf]
I'd say: 1) let the photographer keep the copyright
2) Make sure they agree to give you the highest resolution originals (or negatives) and that you have the unlimited right to reproduce except for:
3) Give #2 a slightly distant effective date (6-30 months, I'd say) That way they'll keep most of the money they would've made off of prints, so their pricing shouldn't have to change almost at all.
4) (make sure 2, with regard to negatives, becomes yours whether or not you actually pick them up. That way even if you pick them up years later, they're still yours)
A pound-mass of steel does weigh slightly more than a pound-mass of feathers, as long as they're both in atmosphere, because the pound-mass of feathers displaces more air, reducing it's weight slightly. This effect would be exaggerated under water, but would be true under anything but a perfect vacuum.
(Of course, it wouldn't be true without gravity, but neither would have any weight, then.)
I've found the HP _drivers_ to be very good, the HP user software to be shitty.
However, if you were running linux, "convert" would do a good job of automating that process for ya. I think Photoshop has a similar level of possible automation, but I haven't tried it.
First, let me say that I'm not a good choice to talk about the details of what I'm about to mention - I'm an engineer, but my father is a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis (abainternationl.org) and a bunch of related stuff.
Second, I'm not trying to advocate not being medicated. In my opinion there are lots of situations where a medication would be helpful. But in my opinion it's never true that changing your behavior and situation is not ALSO important.
Principly I'm just trying to recommend looking into a behavioral psychologist to help you out. The are distinctly successful (with data!) in situations where others are not. They've been getting a lot of good press for autism in particular.
Satellite can be affected by solar activity (which is invisible to the naked eye.) It can also be affected by clouds between you and the satellite. Usually the dish points towards the equator somewhere, so there's a lot more space to have cloud problems in than between you and up. So the clouds can be nonlocal - and invisible to you.
Mostly, I'm just really peeved about Apple's laptops, which are otherwise essentially my dream machine in every regard. If the laptops came with a two button or *gasp* three button mouse, I'd be ecstatic. Because you _can't_ just replace it.
EVEN IF most users would be confused - my solution is to have a "mouse" control panel, and map all the buttons back to the same damn button click. At least then we COULD set it differently, without having to add an external device to an otherwise very autonomous, wonderful laptop.
If this doesn't get resolved soon I'm going to have to take apart and retrofit one, and then somebody is going to feel my wrath.
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So, I'll admit that I could probably figure this out, but since I did just install the amazingly ontopic completely standard SuSE 9.1 - could you be more specific about how to add this? (Is it in YaST somewhere? Do I need to edit some config file? I know how to do it once in the boot manager...)
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Flash is a very powerful tool - and an interpreter for a single-code multiplatform OOP language that does what Java applets promised but never delivered. (That's mostly Microsoft's fault, not Sun's, but it doesn't matter now)
True, it was a lot less powerful a few years ago. Also true, many people make Flash websites that should be html, or that are terrible design in some other way.
But it's the only solution for truly rich interactive web content.
It uses a markup language, runs on top of Java, and supports a whole mess of nice automatic stuff to boot.
Of course, it's not free. But it is pretty nice.
As someone who's been contracting for a while now, I think it's great.
/1.145 (self employment tax) - all actual benefits like health insurance. Generally if your own company pays for your health insurance in a situation like this, it's deductable but IANAL and IANATA.
You should calculate your income as your income
That assumes that the job is as stable as your other job (which isn't always a bad assumption, depending on your other job) If it's not, I'd use roughly the formula:
(new income from above - old income) * time before they fire you = contract severance.
You need to weigh this severance against what you current severance would be (usually a "normal" job gives you at least a couple weeks warning) and the variable probabilities of getting canned. I'd go with something in the couple months for a new job, and make sure you can afford it.
Of course, the time before they fire you is made up, and the math is really harsh if it happens quickly. If they're enticing you away from your current employer, get them to put in an early termination penalty equal to the amount you would've been paid if they kill it earlier than a year or something. This lets them not have to hire you "forever" but it gives you a reasonable amount of capital to survive them failing to come through.
Finally, up to its limit a Roth IRA (in diversified stock or an S&P500 index) is a better retirement vehicle than your 401k, unless the matching is extreme, the vestment significant, and the mutual fund choices not sucky - which is a lot of ifs. For more advice on how to save, I recommend the Motley Fool - www.fool.com But the broad principle is that your company MIGHT have been giving you a bunch of money, which would count as a benefit, above. But probably it wasn't huge and you're not massively worse off otherwise.
I have a Halogen fixture at home - it uses what claims to be a 35W bulb shining the equiv of a 100W incandescent, and the color is perfect in my opinion. Is this lying about it's power requirements?
Admittedly it requires a special fixture, but I was putting new ones in anyway. (Also, the common halogen "torchiere" design wastes a lot of light by throwing it at your ceiling which is an entirely seperate problem.)
I know this isn't the answer you want. I know Gnumeric & OOo Calc are the answers you're going to get.
But seriously, have you thought about getting a bit more RAM? SuSE7.3 w/ KDE and Calc from OOo PR1 runs cleanly - SURPRISINGLY well - on a PPro 200 with 128 MB of RAM. Starting applications, including those, is slow. Of course, it is also running softRAID on 5400rpm drives - in PIO, not DMA - and being a SAMBA & netatalk file server, among other things. Since you said you're from BSD - SuSE is not renowned for being a "lite" installation, either.
I've definitely heard Gnumeric is better from a small-footprint POV.
If you're a programmer and you're successfully getting contracts, there's little reason you ought to be doing your own design - if you have extra time and not enough work you ought to spend that time working on how to get more contracts.
Renown graphic designers are expensive. There are lots of _great_ graphic designers that aren't expensive, especially if they're young. If you can't find one, email me - I have one that I retain who's quite excellent.
Put slashdot in the subject - I get a lot of mail there. Email again if you don't get a response.
Also, my inhouse stuff doesn't have his work because it hasn't been worth having him redo it.
Ben
I'm looking to do exactly what User Mode Linux claims to be for, but it seems like Xen does it too. Which is more reliable? Faster? Easier to install?
Basically I want just slightly more functionality than a chroot jail - I want to be able to run a service on a virtual filesystem (ie, a filesystem that exists as a file) with an linux OS version that may vary from the host OS (ie, I can upgrade one service without having to do them all at the same time) I want a compromise of one service to have minimum security implications for the others. And I want to be able to move a service/virtualmachine from one physical machine to another with a minimum of hassle.
Thanks in advance!
I posted this in response to someone else's Livejournal comment about being a "conscientious objector" to the voting process, but I thought it was appropriate here:
--> 1) NOT voting only gives them the (CORRECT!) impression that they can get away with whatever they want. Because you ARE still paying their taxes and probably obeying whatever crazy laws they pass. Unless you change citizenship and move.
If you want to protest GO vote and don't vote for those candidates. Or even ANY candidates. No ballot only tells them (CORRECTLY) that you don't care enough about this country or our lives or even your life to show up. I cannot respect that.
--> 2) In the current presidential election, I think that voting out the sitting president - clearly the worst president in my lifetime, and the most boldfaced liar I've seen campaign for the presidency - is more important to me than protesting the process. (And I'm a registered Republican who liked his father) I CAN respect you disagreeing with me about that. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't vote!
--> 3) Our voting system has flaws that should be fixed. Our electoral college system is silly. Our PRIMARY system is broken and evil.
Not going to the polls is no kind of protest. A protest has to be something they give a damn about.
If you want to protest, go fill out a ballot. Vote for any third party candidate on the ballot. Or write in the Green or Libertarian presidential candidates. Or write in Alan Greenspan or Jon Stewart. Or don't make any actual votes at all, but cast the ballot. At least you're successfully sending a message, and that DOES help. (these are in the order I recommend them, but any of them are MUCH better than none) (Do at least read the referendums and vote on them. A lot of times you get a direct chance to vote for education funding.)
a) a ballot with no votes reduces their mandate - since what gets reporting is the percentage of the vote that they got. In some cases they actually can't get elected if they don't get a certain percentage of overall votes - so you'll be forcing runoffs, at least. (I believe it varies by jurisdiction and race whether this is percentage of ballots or percentage of votes cast in that race - an advantage of writing somebody, anybody, in)
This doesn't just let THEM know, it lets EVERYBODY know, because it is reported.
b) There is a lot of circular influence in American elections. I mean that people want to vote for the winner. This isn't the fault of the elections, it's the way the PEOPLE are. But that means that a vote cast against whoever wins reduces their chances of reelection, because the news does talk about how barely they won, and their opposition will too.
Furthermore, a vote cast FOR a third party increases the chances of someone voting for them in the next election. This isn't going to matter for our national presidential elections for at least a few more years - but third parties have already gained a significant foothold in local elections precisely because of this. The Greens and Libertarians seem to have been the most successful, so far. This is totally independent of the national financial mechanism for the national election.
This is the reason why I want to start a website that operates like a write-in primary for next time around... where people online vote from candidates who won't agree to run, and everybody going there agrees to write in the _same_ candidate for the races they want to protest. If half the people who wanted to protest ALL voted for Jon Stewart, THAT would be a message.
c) Even if you are going to protest and not vote in the presidential election, if you look around you'll find there are some candidates who are worth voting for. In this election in IL, O'Bama is the best example. Clearly you don't need to go to the polls for him to win. But the more tremendous his landslide is the better chance he'll have of effecting policy locally and federally, and the better chance he'll have of being president someday.
--> 4) For instance, a ballot with O'Bama and referendums marked, and the Green or Libertarian presidential candidate written in for everything else - that's a ballot I can respect, even if I disagree with you (strongly) about #2.
but I did post in a hurry, and explain myself quite poorly, and I applaud someone who's actually an attorney clarifying stuff.
Unless I misunderstand though - there's still nothing very copyrightable about a Rubik's cube... As I understand it, for instance, they could copyright say, the patterns used on the little blocks, if they weren't solid colors. I suppose they could copyright what the Rubik's cube looks like...
I really hope you can't copyright solid colors yet.
But you can really be very similar without violating copyright, as I understand it - I suppose that my take was anything you could do to a Rubik's cube that would be copyright infringement would be trademark infringement sooner and more easily.
----
Let me put this in a nutshell - how close would I have to be to a Rubik's cube to be infringing copyright, even in a fairly extreme but would win in court kindof way.
Assume you can go back in time and register whatever copyrights you'd like, if it matters. As I understand it that only matters if someone contests whether you really DID make it first, which isn't up for a lot of argument here.
Definitely my award for worst slashdot writeup And that's saying a LOT.
A Rubik's cube can't be copyrighted - there's no text. The INSTRUCTIONS could be...
A trademark on it could be valid - but only if it was confusingly similar - ie, if a reasonable person buying it might THINK they were buying a Rubik's cube, or something from the same company.
The patent is apparently expired, at least if can trust the article. Which we can't.
Patent law != copyright law != trademark law != trade secret law. THEY ARE ALL TOTALLY SEPERATE.
*sigh*
With MX2004, Flash is a serious, practical OOP environment. Obviously it's not systems programming, but for user applications it's fairly ideal.
And it runs on Windows/Mac/Linux, including in Firefox. (Admittedly it only runs on i386 linux)
Arete
of course no one's going to read this now, but maybe someone will benefit. In my opinion as an engineer, there is one obviously better teaching method that's actually been used in classrooms in the US - Precision Teaching. They have a lot of data that demonstrates that tracking how well you're learning inherently causes you to learn more, and that doing something faster improves retention and the ability to learn the next-step skills.
Nothing I've seen yet is as AMBITIOUS as the book mentioned, but they're getting more ambitious all the time.
http://www.celeration.org more about PT
http://www.aimchart.com PT charting online
http://www.headsprout.com PT developed online early reading program. If you have a child who can't read yet, you should check this out.
Disclaimer: I'm currently rewriting the aimchart functionality, but I have no formal link to the other two sites.
probably not.
Mechanical work (wind-power, hydroelectric, bicycle generator, regenerative braking) is already a low-entropy source... it's easy to capture it, and while it can't be lossless we have techniques that can generally come pretty close to the theoretical values for capturing it.
(which doesn't mean it can't be better, lighter, cheaper - but they're basically pretty good)
A pressure differential is somewhat worse - and a heat source (solar heating, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, heating oil...) is very high entropy and very hard to get the energy out of.
Usually we use the heat source to generate a pressure differential that generates mechanical work. (which may or may not then generate electricity)
So that's more likely where this is applied - where you have a heat source that can be used to create a pressure differential.
Arete
I don't know the answer to your 100Mbps vs 1Gbps question. I'm going to operate on the assumption that you use "enough" and it's either switched or a crossover cable, so you don't suffer when your network does other stuff.
However: Having MythTV on the same box is, in the general case, SLOWER than having it on a NAS with at all similar hardware. Moving data over ethernet _may_ be more latent than moving it to your HDD controller, but you're going to blow throught the 32 or so MB of HDD cache fairly quickly. You won't blow through 1GB of RAM cache on the NAS. So using a different box is actually faster assuming that
1) it has RAM signficantly in excess of HDcache + OSnecessary RAM
2) it has a similar quality MB and controller and enough CPU that that isn't the bog. These days this is pretty easy.
_Possibly_ if someone sent you an obnoxious email, that person shouldn't be doing user-relation management; that is, maybe they shouldn't be answering whatever public address you asked on.
That's kindof unrelated to accepting or not accepting their code.
On the one hand, I see the point of my respondents.
On the other hand, I still think that the obvious failures of the software patent system - and I believe it's very likely there is prior art, too - would further help the cause of passing the more desireable legislation.
[I couldn't find his email at a cursory glance - maybe someone can 1) email him and 2) post a reply saying they did so he doesn't get 20000 emails]
1. Please be aware that there are a great many people who are invested in helping you be able to roll out linux in Munich.
2. Assuming that EU patent law bears some similarity to US law and that the body of software patents bears some similarity, the key to destroying poorly issued software patents is prior art.
3. A call from you for us to help you find prior art would meet with tremendous response. Even moreso if you could arrange to translate the list of probable patent violations into English.
thank you.
[Really, anyone with appropriate linguistic capabilities could put up a webboard for discussion and translate the patent pdf]
no text : )
I'd say: 1) let the photographer keep the copyright
2) Make sure they agree to give you the highest resolution originals (or negatives) and that you have the unlimited right to reproduce except for:
3) Give #2 a slightly distant effective date (6-30 months, I'd say) That way they'll keep most of the money they would've made off of prints, so their pricing shouldn't have to change almost at all.
4) (make sure 2, with regard to negatives, becomes yours whether or not you actually pick them up. That way even if you pick them up years later, they're still yours)
A pound-mass of steel does weigh slightly more than a pound-mass of feathers, as long as they're both in atmosphere, because the pound-mass of feathers displaces more air, reducing it's weight slightly. This effect would be exaggerated under water, but would be true under anything but a perfect vacuum.
(Of course, it wouldn't be true without gravity, but neither would have any weight, then.)
I've found the HP _drivers_ to be very good, the HP user software to be shitty.
However, if you were running linux, "convert" would do a good job of automating that process for ya. I think Photoshop has a similar level of possible automation, but I haven't tried it.
First, let me say that I'm not a good choice to talk about the details of what I'm about to mention - I'm an engineer, but my father is a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis (abainternationl.org) and a bunch of related stuff.
Second, I'm not trying to advocate not being medicated. In my opinion there are lots of situations where a medication would be helpful. But in my opinion it's never true that changing your behavior and situation is not ALSO important.
Principly I'm just trying to recommend looking into a behavioral psychologist to help you out. The are distinctly successful (with data!) in situations where others are not. They've been getting a lot of good press for autism in particular.
Satellite can be affected by solar activity (which is invisible to the naked eye.) It can also be affected by clouds between you and the satellite. Usually the dish points towards the equator somewhere, so there's a lot more space to have cloud problems in than between you and up. So the clouds can be nonlocal - and invisible to you.
I take some issue with #3 - but whatever.
Mostly, I'm just really peeved about Apple's laptops, which are otherwise essentially my dream machine in every regard. If the laptops came with a two button or *gasp* three button mouse, I'd be ecstatic. Because you _can't_ just replace it.
EVEN IF most users would be confused - my solution is to have a "mouse" control panel, and map all the buttons back to the same damn button click. At least then we COULD set it differently, without having to add an external device to an otherwise very autonomous, wonderful laptop.
If this doesn't get resolved soon I'm going to have to take apart and retrofit one, and then somebody is going to feel my wrath.
So, I'll admit that I could probably figure this out, but since I did just install the amazingly ontopic completely standard SuSE 9.1 - could you be more specific about how to add this? (Is it in YaST somewhere? Do I need to edit some config file? I know how to do it once in the boot manager...)