That depends on what is meant by "unique". If we each buy a bottle of Coke, they'll have the same UPC, but bottles of Coke have a UPC unlike other products. This new scheme may mean that two bottles of Coke would have different IDs. They would go from being unique on a product level, to unique on an item level.
Ahh. To see a Kent State student suing the University, with the help of the Universities own Law School and students.
At my alma mater, the free legal advice came with the stipulation that it couldn't be used in an action against The University. I wouldn't be surprised if Kent had a similar policy.
Is there an alternative [way to determine the winner]?
I don't know. It's been something like ten years since I've played, and I can't remember exactly how the game is scored. I was trying to allow for the possibility that "highest net worth" wasn't the official victory condition, though in retrospect, I should have known better.
To your point, of course [Monopoly] is zero-sum, because of the rule that everyone needs to go bankrupt but the winner.
No, no, no! The distinction between "zero-sum" and "non-zero-sum" is not "one winner" versus "multiple winners". It is a reflection on the nature of the game, not the outcome.
Other posts have pointed out that no-bank poker is zero-sum, because the amount of money held by all the players doesn't change over the course of the game; if I win a dollar, it's because you lose a dollar. Similarly, Risk is zero-sum, because the number of occupied territories on the board is fixed (all territories must be occupied, and players may not share). Again, for a player to gain a territory, another play must lose it.
Monopoly may or may not be zero-sum (it depends on if victory is measured as having the most properties or the most money), but the number of winners is not a factor.
Say you're the author of a high priced low volume technical book (priced high because you know it's going to be low volume) - how would you feel if every purchaser was offered the choice of buy it new for $60 (you get your cut), or buy it used for $20 (you get zip)?
You seem to misunderstand the concept of "used". A book can only be sold used if it was previously sold new. It's impossible to offer "every purchaser" a used copy of the book. You've already received your cut the first time a given copy was sold.
Maybe you told the person sitting behind you in the theatre that you would appreciate if they made less noise chewing their food,...
Except I'm not an usher. The Authors' Guild is using its status as an indrect source of Amazon.com's revenue (i.e., books) to try and intimidate them. If I wrote to Amazon.com and asked them to reduce the prominence of used books, then your theater analogy might hold.
some of their ways benefit some people, other ways benefit other people.
Agreed. Not all writers are created equal. The benefit of this approach, though, is that I'm apt to understand at least some of the authors, rather than gamble on an all-or-nothing proposition.
Everyone seems to just jump right in and complain about how hard it is to get help for Linux in general, but the article specifically asks about GNOME and KDE. I don't know how well Windows users are catered to, but there is the GNOME User's Guide, as well as one for the K Desktop Environment. I hope these help.
A guide or tutorial with phrases like "doing x in linux is like doing y in Windows", etc.
One place you might want to check out is The Linux Documentation Project. They have a lot of volunteer-written documentation, including the "From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO". It gives a decent introduction to at least let you get around your system.
The dynamic range of 24-bit graphics isn't nearly as wide as what we can see.
From my dog-eared copy of the "Guinness Book of World Records" (1984 edition):
The unaided human eye, under the best possible viewing conditions, comparing large areas of color, in good illumination, using both eyes, can distinguish 10,000,000 different color surfaces.
Unless you're a freak of nature, your eyes only respond to red, green, and blue. Assuming (possibly incorrectly) that each color palette is equally sensitive, each cone responds to roughly 215 color levels, which is easily covered by eight bits per sample. My inability to give exact answers to your vague examples notwithstanding, if there are any colors which 24-bit RGB cannot display, it is an inherent limitation of the RGB scheme, and throwing more bits at it won't solve anything.
Why? You're talking about 2^48 colors, but in general humans can't distinguish more than ten million or so (between 2^23 & 2^24), even under excellent lighting conditions. Won't there be trillions of wasted colors?
grub, as of the last time I checked [], could see inside fat, ext2, and ffs. I'm sure support for more is on the way.
The documentation also claims to support reiserfs, though I haven't tried it myself.
grub IS THE STANDARD BOOT LOADER!
All the more reason for Debian to adopt it. Of course, then you get into the question of the "standard" kernel, and in that direction lies offtopicness and much flamage.
All in all, I've been much happier with GRUB than LILO, although the XOSL screenshots have piqued my curiosity...
It seems like the Californian defendants are still in bad shape, and if they lose, it will be just as bad as if ALL the defendants lost.
#include
Not exactly. This case is about a violation of California trade secret laws, not Federal copyright laws. It can only be pursued in California, or states that have adopted UCITA (another reason to oppose it). This is the real reason the DVD-CCA is opposed to letting the cases get split up all over the place. It's a practice known as jurisdiction shopping, and it's why they're pursuing this case in California, where they have a branch office, instead of Delaware, where their corporate headquarters is located.
...if Matthew Pavlovich is ordered dropped from the case...
The operative word is "if". The circuit court didn't order the lower court to quash with respect to Pavlovich, but rather ordered it to explain why it didn't quash. While this might seem like a semantic difference, it isn't. Judicial review requires something to review. Unlike most responsible judges, the one on the lower court (sorry, don't remember the name) simply denied the motion to quash without explanation.
Long story short: that judge just writes up a plausible explanation for denying the motion, and the appeal starts over from scratch.
[T]he democrats are trying, essentially, to overthrow the electoral college...
#define OFFTOPIC
That is truly bizarre, since I've always been told that the electoral college tends to help the Democrats (something about how it favors smaller states). Of course, I also think it's truly bizarre that Gore was arguing for state's rights in court and Bush was arguing the reverse. Maybe it's something in the water.
[A] lack of support for Pantone colors [] will never be remedied, since that'd require paying patent licensing fees.
How long ago was that patent granted? The first I heard of Pantone was working as a temp for a print shop in 1995, and even then it seemed to be an established standard. I realize patents last quite some time, but they inevitably expire.
This has to be a troll. No one who is so conservative as to describe Social Security as Marxist would suggest that The United States of America is or should be a democracy.
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UPC symbols... are also unique product IDs.
That depends on what is meant by "unique". If we each buy a bottle of Coke, they'll have the same UPC, but bottles of Coke have a UPC unlike other products. This new scheme may mean that two bottles of Coke would have different IDs. They would go from being unique on a product level, to unique on an item level.
Ahh. To see a Kent State student suing the University, with the help of the Universities own Law School and students.
At my alma mater, the free legal advice came with the stipulation that it couldn't be used in an action against The University. I wouldn't be surprised if Kent had a similar policy.
McDonald's hair dressing doesn't infringe on McDonald's air brakes, because they're in different markets.
Not anymore. A few years ago, a revision to trademark law was passed which disallows the "different markets" defense for new trademarks.
I already set up a forward list with... bill.gates@microsoft.com on it.
According to what I've heard, the address you want is billg@microsoft.com.
Is there an alternative [way to determine the winner]?
I don't know. It's been something like ten years since I've played, and I can't remember exactly how the game is scored. I was trying to allow for the possibility that "highest net worth" wasn't the official victory condition, though in retrospect, I should have known better.
To your point, of course [Monopoly] is zero-sum, because of the rule that everyone needs to go bankrupt but the winner.
No, no, no! The distinction between "zero-sum" and "non-zero-sum" is not "one winner" versus "multiple winners". It is a reflection on the nature of the game, not the outcome.
Other posts have pointed out that no-bank poker is zero-sum, because the amount of money held by all the players doesn't change over the course of the game; if I win a dollar, it's because you lose a dollar. Similarly, Risk is zero-sum, because the number of occupied territories on the board is fixed (all territories must be occupied, and players may not share). Again, for a player to gain a territory, another play must lose it.
Monopoly may or may not be zero-sum (it depends on if victory is measured as having the most properties or the most money), but the number of winners is not a factor.
They must be using some BASIC variant.
Say you're the author of a high priced low volume technical book (priced high because you know it's going to be low volume) - how would you feel if every purchaser was offered the choice of buy it new for $60 (you get your cut), or buy it used for $20 (you get zip)?
You seem to misunderstand the concept of "used". A book can only be sold used if it was previously sold new. It's impossible to offer "every purchaser" a used copy of the book. You've already received your cut the first time a given copy was sold.
Maybe you told the person sitting behind you in the theatre that you would appreciate if they made less noise chewing their food,...
Except I'm not an usher. The Authors' Guild is using its status as an indrect source of Amazon.com's revenue (i.e., books) to try and intimidate them. If I wrote to Amazon.com and asked them to reduce the prominence of used books, then your theater analogy might hold.
some of their ways benefit some people, other ways benefit other people.
Agreed. Not all writers are created equal. The benefit of this approach, though, is that I'm apt to understand at least some of the authors, rather than gamble on an all-or-nothing proposition.
Everyone seems to just jump right in and complain about how hard it is to get help for Linux in general, but the article specifically asks about GNOME and KDE. I don't know how well Windows users are catered to, but there is the GNOME User's Guide, as well as one for the K Desktop Environment. I hope these help.
A guide or tutorial with phrases like "doing x in linux is like doing y in Windows", etc.
One place you might want to check out is The Linux Documentation Project. They have a lot of volunteer-written documentation, including the "From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO". It gives a decent introduction to at least let you get around your system.
The dynamic range of 24-bit graphics isn't nearly as wide as what we can see.
From my dog-eared copy of the "Guinness Book of World Records" (1984 edition):
Unless you're a freak of nature, your eyes only respond to red, green, and blue. Assuming (possibly incorrectly) that each color palette is equally sensitive, each cone responds to roughly 215 color levels, which is easily covered by eight bits per sample. My inability to give exact answers to your vague examples notwithstanding, if there are any colors which 24-bit RGB cannot display, it is an inherent limitation of the RGB scheme, and throwing more bits at it won't solve anything.
That said, I will accept the argument that more bits will reduce rounding errors.
It also helps refute the "chasing taillights" argument.
Why? You're talking about 2^48 colors, but in general humans can't distinguish more than ten million or so (between 2^23 & 2^24), even under excellent lighting conditions. Won't there be trillions of wasted colors?
grub, as of the last time I checked [], could see inside fat, ext2, and ffs. I'm sure support for more is on the way.
The documentation also claims to support reiserfs, though I haven't tried it myself.
grub IS THE STANDARD BOOT LOADER!
All the more reason for Debian to adopt it. Of course, then you get into the question of the "standard" kernel, and in that direction lies offtopicness and much flamage.
All in all, I've been much happier with GRUB than LILO, although the XOSL screenshots have piqued my curiosity...
If by "clout" you mean "bloat", then yes, MS Office will definitely have serious competition. ;)
If this is a "constitutional requirement" why are Congress and some states allowed to ignore it?
It probably means that some state constitutions have such a requirement.
D'oh! Failed to render that IANAL.
Mutters to self, "Must preview all submissions."
It seems like the Californian defendants are still in bad shape, and if they lose, it will be just as bad as if ALL the defendants lost.
#includeNot exactly. This case is about a violation of California trade secret laws, not Federal copyright laws. It can only be pursued in California, or states that have adopted UCITA (another reason to oppose it). This is the real reason the DVD-CCA is opposed to letting the cases get split up all over the place. It's a practice known as jurisdiction shopping, and it's why they're pursuing this case in California, where they have a branch office, instead of Delaware, where their corporate headquarters is located.
The operative word is "if". The circuit court didn't order the lower court to quash with respect to Pavlovich, but rather ordered it to explain why it didn't quash. While this might seem like a semantic difference, it isn't. Judicial review requires something to review. Unlike most responsible judges, the one on the lower court (sorry, don't remember the name) simply denied the motion to quash without explanation.
Long story short: that judge just writes up a plausible explanation for denying the motion, and the appeal starts over from scratch.
[T]he democrats are trying, essentially, to overthrow the electoral college...
#define OFFTOPICThat is truly bizarre, since I've always been told that the electoral college tends to help the Democrats (something about how it favors smaller states). Of course, I also think it's truly bizarre that Gore was arguing for state's rights in court and Bush was arguing the reverse. Maybe it's something in the water.
[A] lack of support for Pantone colors [] will never be remedied, since that'd require paying patent licensing fees.
How long ago was that patent granted? The first I heard of Pantone was working as a temp for a print shop in 1995, and even then it seemed to be an established standard. I realize patents last quite some time, but they inevitably expire.
This has to be a troll. No one who is so conservative as to describe Social Security as Marxist would suggest that The United States of America is or should be a democracy.
Makes me want to boycott MP3. I just haven't figured out a good way to do it ;-(
Perhaps I'm not getting something, but wouldn't using Ogg Vorbis be a way to boycott MP3?