NTFS would be an obvious choice for microsoft to go with since it support removable media and journalling.
You wouldn't want to use standard journalling on a flash drive. IIRC for each write cycle at least 3 write actions are required: log in the journal that a write will be done (has to be synced to the disk), do the write, log in the journal that the write action ended successful. With flash, where you can only erase block-wise, this is not a good idea - for one its very slow, and on the other hand, the flash supports only so many write cycles.
For journalling, special handling is needed as implemented e.g. in jffs2.
Not exactly. Gold is a more or less rare metal that doesn't corrode and is useful, e.g. in micro-electronics. Because of that it will always have some relatively high value, unless of course, someone finds really a LOT of gold. Paper OTOH can be made from wood or hemp and is, therefore, cheap. The avarage lifetime of a bank not is just a couple of years. Hence, investing is gold has its advantages, one can not just produce more gold, but new paper money can always be print and it's "value" can be increased easily - just put another number on the note, and you're done (see e.g. Money from 1929 - nearly everyone one a millionair).
With antibiotics and ammunition things you have the problem that they become old an useless or even dangerous.
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Resently, i heard a talk of Russell Ciochon about the Giganto. He was also addressing the possibility that humans and Giganto might have co-occoured in the area. He said that he now thinks that the teeth subjected to early humans might actually belong to some other, smaller ape.
There is an interesting thesis by Jochen Haller (Page mostly in German) about the economical effects of music copying and copy protection.
After years of constant growth, the music industry is, at present, in a serious crisis. The extent becomes obvious, in particular, on the basis of the substantial losses in revenue and sales in recent years. For example, the sales of sound storage mediums declined in 2003 in Germany by almost 20%. In addition, the resulting economic implications from this are already visible. Consequently, a number of record companies have significantly reduced their staff and their portfolio of artists. Furthermore, consolidation in the music industry has increased. Indeed, the future development is highly uncertain, but, nevertheless, most experts agree about the fact that the crisis in the music industry will continue in the years to come.
While the causes of the current crisis are largely contentious, the representatives of the music industry predominantly assume that this is a consequence of the rising extent of unauthorised copying. Therefore, the music industry reacted thus far with almost repressive measures, like the broad adoption of copy protection on compact disks. Since these are afflicted with a multitude of problems, the tightening of copyright protection represents the central claim of the representatives of the music industry. But this measure is also strongly disputed, since it implies a number of negative economic effects, for example, the increasing monopoly power of the right holders. Apart from the necessity for copyright protection as such, the question about its welfare-optimal level arises.
, they would have to censor the Wolfenstien 3D like bits in germany (some crap about "you cant kill germans even if they are nazis)
Actually, Wolf3D was censored because nazi symbols are generally not allowed. For that reason, in the German Doom2 the secret levels were not available, and in RTCW textures and some of the texts in the cut-scenes were changed to avoid all references to nazis. In art, and hence in movies nazi symbols are often allowed if they are not used to glorify the nazis and if they are needed to reflect history (think e.g. "Schindlers list").
I feel like answering...
Although I do a lot in a terminal, I'm certailny not stuck at the command line.
k3b - a good app, but I only use it for burning DVDs. For music CDs (copy and create) I use cdrdao or gcdmaster. I must admid, I liked gcdmaster a lot more, when it was GTK only, and not GNOME dependent. Data CDs are created with gcombust, being GTK-only it is more lightweight then K3b.
amarox - never tested it, since xmms is good enough for me, but I guess amarok can do a lot more.
konquerer - well, there was Galeon, but these days Firefox with Adblock and some more extensions just beats it.
kate - now that xemacs is finally doing things the way I want, I guess I will never change to something else - except joe on the terminal.
Since I don't do instant messaging or web design, Kopete and Quanta are not on my radar.
Actually, k3b is the only KDE application I use then and again, and it gives a lot of warnings (in the background, on the terminal) because I do not run KDE.
English is me second language too, but "out-of-the-box" is just what it is, you have the solution "in your box" and you just take it out. What you probably mean is "thinking outside of the box".
Hong Kong (1898 treaty) + Panama Canal return treaty
One could argue, that Great Britain was certainly a colonial power, and reconsider that treaty under this light. As for panama, that's just another country from the Latin American backyard - Yes, I didn't look up anything about the history of these two treaties, so jump on me again, I really like it, it's the only reason I write this *bfg*
In 1989, over 90% of East German exports were headed east...
Certainly, because East Germany was part of the socialist economics block. East Germany also imported a lot of things from Russia, e.g. oil and
other raw materials. The living standart was much higher then, e.g. in Cuba today. Actually, at that time the living standart was even higher then in many parts of Russia. That's a strange kind of colonialism, where the colony is better off then the "home country". How do I know? I was born in East Germany, and I've visited Russia.
In ethics, the USA is far cleaner than most of the rest of the world
Death penalty, Gunatanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib..., very convincing. Well, there is one excuse, From the top of my head, I don't know any country in the world with a clean record on human rights.
And no, I don't hate everything (US-)American, I just don't like some of your attitutes towards the rest of the world.
Since I put in the reference, it was not me who did the real research - I just liked to another article (this is slashdot, after all).
The Jones Costigan Act was meant to re-pay the costs of the Spanish-American War of 1898 in which the USA invaded Cuba and rid the Cubans of their Spanish overlords.
With that act still in place in 1959 this makes more then sixty years to repay the dept. That's quite a long time, especially when you consider that at that time, a war was by no meas as destructive as say WWII. Russia got (or took) things any money away from East Germany, but I'm quite certain that this ended before I was born (late sixties). Therefore, I'd say even if the Cubans bought into the security you were talking about that treaty was by no means fair - just like the laughable $4000 or so annual rent for Guantanamo Bay.
By throwing wide open the production, the revolutionary government obliterated that stability and forced their own nation into an economic tailspin which could only be rescued by joining the Soviet bloc.
AFAIK Fidel Castro didn't seek the link to the socialist block, but the US embargo forced him into it.
Fidel, as a true socialist, deserves respect, but his economic background was in no way Keynesian.
Did I or Nelson Valdes for that matter say so? The text said before 1959 Keynesian economics...
Cuba was paying off an international debt...
Just to re-emphasise it, they where paying off a dept for more then sixty years. Sorry, but to me this smells like good old colonialism.
First thing he did was nationalize the sugar industry.
You should probably do some research before posting:
Before 1959, the laws of the "free market" did NOT operate in Cuba. Between 1934 and 1959 Cuba had a state capitalist economy.
Do you know that the US sugar quota actually was a mechanism by which the United States Department of Agriculture determined the amount of sugar that the US could buy from the island, and at what price? Even the number of ships to be used to carry the sugar were determined by fiat.
The Jones Costigan Act (from the US) compelled the Cuban government to then allocate how much sugar cane would be grown by each colono. Tthere was a formula established on how much every sugar cane cutter would be paid on the basis of the weight of the cane, but in concordance with the established price of the raw sugar. And that was determined by both governments.
Do you know that the hacendados who owned the sugar mills were also chosen by the Cuban state? So, it was the state who selected the hacendado and the amount of sugar to be produced, and how much sugar was to be raw and how much refined and how much could be paid to the sugar mill worker?
You probably have heard that after 1934 sugar mills were bought off by Cubans from Americans. That is true. BUT what is never mentioned by the exiles is why. The reason is simple: since the laws of the market did not operate, the comparative advantage was based on political access to the Batista regime. So, foreign sugar interests simply decided to get out of the business. Hence, the Cubans ended up controlling the milling process because their friends in government gave them the allocations.
The political economy of sugar was totally and completely controlled by the two governments. And, by the way, since sugar was the pivot of the entire economy, that meant that the invisible hand did NOT operate in other sectors either -- such as lending, transportation, shipping -- if related to sugar.
Before 1959, Keynesian economics were more advanced in Cuba than in the United States
So, tell me, is that the understanding you had of what Cuba was before 1959?
If it is not, then research the matter. Don't take my words. Then you will see that Cubans in the island have NOT known what the so called liberal economic model was like, None of those alive in Miami ever experienced it, at least not in Cuba.
In fact, the Cuban revolution of 1959 raises a number of interesting issues.
For example, do you realize that the Cuban revolutionary government wanted to get rid of the sugar quota (the whole Jones Costigan system) and allow the REAL market to determine who produced sugar in Cuba and how much?
So, Fidel Castro the radical revolutionary was preaching to the conservative Republican Eisenhower administration the beauties of the market! What the US government did, of course, was to say - you dont like the quota system - well, we are taking you out of it and we will NOT buy sugar from you.
And do you realize that those who benefitted from the quota system (all of whom are now in Miami) opposed the revolutionary regime on the basis that they did not want market forces to determine whether they could continue producing sugar?
Things are seldom what they appear.
Consider the following:
Why do you suppose the United States government was so upset when Cuba decided to start selling sugar to the Soviets and other countries?
Because it meant a link to Communism? Hardly. Because the Cuban revolutionary government defied the Jones Costigan act which was perfectly calibrated so that the market of sugar will remain stable, without anyone producing MORE than they were told by the US Department of Agriculture. To preserve the system was in the interests of those who could NOT compete in an open and truly free world market in sugar. The Cubans knew th
After Castro assumed power he refused to recognize the treaty that established the base. Castro had not cashed any of the $4,000 checks since the Bay of Pigs Incident in 1961. The Castro government takes every opportunity to declare that the perpetual lease provision of the treaty of 1934 for the base are illegal. [...]
Problem is that many authors ignore or do not use the formats provided. They use whatever they want, whenever they want and tell you to fly to hell.
That's interesting, because as far as I experienced it (from the author side), especially at conferences obeying to the formatting rules is a requirement to get the paper printed. Besides, using the Journal/Conference provided TeX-template is usually all it needs to get the formatting right - so it's not really a burden for the author. I guess with MS Word templates it's a complete different story.
each paper has, say, 5 reviewers.
Wow, that's a lot, so far I've never seen a conference or journal with more then 3 reviewers. I wonder what field you are working in?
I see that there is a difference between a conference where you get a lot of submissions that have to be reviewed in a very short time and a journal, where articles come continiously but probably at a lower rate. However, at a conference the author usually must register to get the paper printed, and more often then not, the registration fees are quite high. Therefore, i guess, for most conferences the costs for editing, preparing and printing the proceedings are already paid and a further distribution of articles does only require the "online" costs (whatever that includes).
which involves things like peer reviews, editing, formatting, proofreading etc.
Well, lets see:
nowadays, distributing copies to reviewers is done online, hence, these costs are more or less storage and bandwith costs,
peer review is done by other researchers and they usually don't get payed,
formatting can be done my the author if a good template document is provided. Most journals (and certainly IEEE journals) do so (However, in IEEE journals the final formatting is done by the publisher - but for an online publication it is not that important that format of the articles match exactly, therefore, the author could do it.),
proofreading, I'm not so sure whether that much proofreading is really done. My experience shows, that this is also mostly up to the author.
This leaves us with the cost for the editor and bandwidth, storage, etc.
Randolph Hearst, and Andrew Mellon. The Marijuana Act, which passed in 1937, coincidentally occurred just as the decorator machine was invented.
(Jackson, pg.57) With this invention, marijuana would have been able to take over competing industries almost instantaneously. You see 10,000 acres devoted to marijuana will produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of average forest pulp land. William Hearst owned enormous timber acreage so his interest in preventing the growth of marijuana can be easily explained. Competition from marijuana would have easily driven the Hearst paper manufacturing company out of business, and significantly lowered the value of his land.(Jackson,pg.60)
I think that America needs to stop being ignorant to the fact that there is a conceivable way in which we can save this planet. The cannabis plant should be used, because it doesn't release dangerous amounts of chemical smoke into the atmosphere, like fossil fuels do. I believe that the cannabis plant ought to be America's answer to how and why to break the oil ties to the Middle East. The FCDA have produced their biomass equation, and it shows that cannabis biomass is the most effective and potentially cheapest and most reliabe ways to produce energy. We should be running cars on hemp oil, and utilizing the 50,000 commercial uses of the cannabis plant.
But I guess with the guy currently in office, and all his links to the oil industries, it's not going to happen soon.
Sure, absolute numbers may differ, but given the number of non-voters, you can not claim that the majority of the US supports Bush - there is still a long way from 30% of the votes to 50% = being a majority. Anyway, I would guess that most of the non-voters either don't care, or they just don't think that it would make a difference. Therefore, it is my opinion that non-voters can not be counted as supporters of any candidate.
Well, given that the majority of the US apparently supports Bush...
Just for the record: What you forget is that 40% or so did not vote at all, therefore, only approximately 30% support Bush, and this is not the majority.
... the left embrace their guy...
Kerry == left? Okay, it may be difficult to be not left of Bush, but left in the real sense - no way.
Here is an interesting reading about the "two" choices Bush vs. Kerry.
Revelation 13 (16-17) And it causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or in their foreheads,
even that not any might buy or sell except those having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name.
The bible always makes a good reading - not that I am a beliver, or so.
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NTFS would be an obvious choice for microsoft to go with since it support removable media and journalling.
You wouldn't want to use standard journalling on a flash drive. IIRC for each write cycle at least 3 write actions are required: log in the journal that a write will be done (has to be synced to the disk), do the write, log in the journal that the write action ended successful. With flash, where you can only erase block-wise, this is not a good idea - for one its very slow, and on the other hand, the flash supports only so many write cycles. For journalling, special handling is needed as implemented e.g. in jffs2.
Not exactly. Gold is a more or less rare metal that doesn't corrode and is useful, e.g. in micro-electronics. Because of that it will always have some relatively high value, unless of course, someone finds really a LOT of gold. Paper OTOH can be made from wood or hemp and is, therefore, cheap. The avarage lifetime of a bank not is just a couple of years. Hence, investing is gold has its advantages, one can not just produce more gold, but new paper money can always be print and it's "value" can be increased easily - just put another number on the note, and you're done (see e.g. Money from 1929 - nearly everyone one a millionair).
With antibiotics and ammunition things you have the problem that they become old an useless or even dangerous.
Resently, i heard a talk of Russell Ciochon about the Giganto. He was also addressing the possibility that humans and Giganto might have co-occoured in the area. He said that he now thinks that the teeth subjected to early humans might actually belong to some other, smaller ape.
I didn'd read the thesis but a short article about it at Telopolis. Unfortunately its all in German. Nevertheless, it's an interesting reading.
, they would have to censor the Wolfenstien 3D like bits in germany (some crap about "you cant kill germans even if they are nazis)
Actually, Wolf3D was censored because nazi symbols are generally not allowed. For that reason, in the German Doom2 the secret levels were not available, and in RTCW textures and some of the texts in the cut-scenes were changed to avoid all references to nazis. In art, and hence in movies nazi symbols are often allowed if they are not used to glorify the nazis and if they are needed to reflect history (think e.g. "Schindlers list").
Probably that 12 is base 14?
Although I do a lot in a terminal, I'm certailny not stuck at the command line.
- k3b - a good app, but I only use it for burning DVDs. For music CDs (copy and create) I use cdrdao or gcdmaster. I must admid, I liked gcdmaster a lot more, when it was GTK only, and not GNOME dependent. Data CDs are created with gcombust, being GTK-only it is more lightweight then K3b.
- amarox - never tested it, since xmms is good enough for me, but I guess amarok can do a lot more.
- konquerer - well, there was Galeon, but these days Firefox with Adblock and some more extensions just beats it.
- kate - now that xemacs is finally doing things the way I want, I guess I will never change to something else - except joe on the terminal.
Since I don't do instant messaging or web design, Kopete and Quanta are not on my radar. Actually, k3b is the only KDE application I use then and again, and it gives a lot of warnings (in the background, on the terminal) because I do not run KDE.English is me second language too, but "out-of-the-box" is just what it is, you have the solution "in your box" and you just take it out. What you probably mean is "thinking outside of the box".
Hong Kong (1898 treaty) + Panama Canal return treaty
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..., very convincing. Well, there is one excuse, From the top of my head, I don't know any country in the world with a clean record on human rights.
One could argue, that Great Britain was certainly a colonial power, and reconsider that treaty under this light. As for panama, that's just another country from the Latin American backyard - Yes, I didn't look up anything about the history of these two treaties, so jump on me again, I really like it, it's the only reason I write this *bfg*
In 1989, over 90% of East German exports were headed east
Certainly, because East Germany was part of the socialist economics block. East Germany also imported a lot of things from Russia, e.g. oil and other raw materials. The living standart was much higher then, e.g. in Cuba today. Actually, at that time the living standart was even higher then in many parts of Russia. That's a strange kind of colonialism, where the colony is better off then the "home country". How do I know? I was born in East Germany, and I've visited Russia.
In ethics, the USA is far cleaner than most of the rest of the world
Death penalty, Gunatanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib
And no, I don't hate everything (US-)American, I just don't like some of your attitutes towards the rest of the world.
Since I put in the reference, it was not me who did the real research - I just liked to another article (this is slashdot, after all).
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The Jones Costigan Act was meant to re-pay the costs of the Spanish-American War of 1898 in which the USA invaded Cuba and rid the Cubans of their Spanish overlords.
With that act still in place in 1959 this makes more then sixty years to repay the dept. That's quite a long time, especially when you consider that at that time, a war was by no meas as destructive as say WWII. Russia got (or took) things any money away from East Germany, but I'm quite certain that this ended before I was born (late sixties). Therefore, I'd say even if the Cubans bought into the security you were talking about that treaty was by no means fair - just like the laughable $4000 or so annual rent for Guantanamo Bay.
By throwing wide open the production, the revolutionary government obliterated that stability and forced their own nation into an economic tailspin which could only be rescued by joining the Soviet bloc.
AFAIK Fidel Castro didn't seek the link to the socialist block, but the US embargo forced him into it.
Fidel, as a true socialist, deserves respect, but his economic background was in no way Keynesian.
Did I or Nelson Valdes for that matter say so? The text said before 1959 Keynesian economics
Cuba was paying off an international debt
Just to re-emphasise it, they where paying off a dept for more then sixty years. Sorry, but to me this smells like good old colonialism.
You should probably do some research before posting:
No.
But in the end Kiss where forced to comply with the GPL and offer source downloads.
Actually, no. The firmware source includes uClinux-2.4.17 and busybox and it is dated 23.jun.2003, this is before the mplayer issue rose.
Problem is that many authors ignore or do not use the formats provided. They use whatever they want, whenever they want and tell you to fly to hell.
That's interesting, because as far as I experienced it (from the author side), especially at conferences obeying to the formatting rules is a requirement to get the paper printed. Besides, using the Journal/Conference provided TeX-template is usually all it needs to get the formatting right - so it's not really a burden for the author. I guess with MS Word templates it's a complete different story.
each paper has, say, 5 reviewers.
Wow, that's a lot, so far I've never seen a conference or journal with more then 3 reviewers. I wonder what field you are working in?
I see that there is a difference between a conference where you get a lot of submissions that have to be reviewed in a very short time and a journal, where articles come continiously but probably at a lower rate. However, at a conference the author usually must register to get the paper printed, and more often then not, the registration fees are quite high. Therefore, i guess, for most conferences the costs for editing, preparing and printing the proceedings are already paid and a further distribution of articles does only require the "online" costs (whatever that includes).
Well, lets see:
- nowadays, distributing copies to reviewers is done online, hence, these costs are more or less storage and bandwith costs,
- peer review is done by other researchers and they usually don't get payed,
- formatting can be done my the author if a good template document is provided. Most journals (and certainly IEEE journals) do so (However, in IEEE journals the final formatting is done by the publisher - but for an online publication it is not that important that format of the articles match exactly, therefore, the author could do it.),
- proofreading, I'm not so sure whether that much proofreading is really done. My experience shows, that this is also mostly up to the author.
This leaves us with the cost for the editor and bandwidth, storage, etc.Some interesting history and yes
... before one dies was given in the movie My Life Without Me. You should watch it some day.
Sure, absolute numbers may differ, but given the number of non-voters, you can not claim that the majority of the US supports Bush - there is still a long way from 30% of the votes to 50% = being a majority. Anyway, I would guess that most of the non-voters either don't care, or they just don't think that it would make a difference. Therefore, it is my opinion that non-voters can not be counted as supporters of any candidate.
Well, given that the majority of the US apparently supports Bush ...
Just for the record: What you forget is that 40% or so did not vote at all, therefore, only approximately 30% support Bush, and this is not the majority.
... the left embrace their guy ...
Kerry == left? Okay, it may be difficult to be not left of Bush, but left in the real sense - no way.
Here is an interesting reading about the "two" choices Bush vs. Kerry.
Revelation 13 (16-17)
And it causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or in their foreheads, even that not any might buy or sell except those having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name.
The bible always makes a good reading - not that I am a beliver, or so.
Look here, no torrent but better quality ;-)
Hmm, slashdot bug perhaps.
Certainly not - not all articles make it to the main page. Maybe what's missing is an "All sections" page.