obviously you hadn't look at the article when you posted your first comment otherwise you wouldn't had said 3 pieces of wood instead of 4. And you wouldn't had made your remarks about not pulling the desk out.
On the other hand, Doctorow has had success in the past by making books available in print and via free download. His success flies in the face of the assumption that downloads kill sales.
Then again, Cory tends to ignore the fact that being a blog celebrity also helps him sell books, instead just focusing on the fact that he allows free downloads. Some Joe Schmoe that didn't already have some kind of following but put books out for free download would most certainly not do as well as Cory.
One thing these "linux is not ready for the desktop" type articles miss is that computers in general aren't really ready for the "regular user" AKA mom, dad and grandma Bootsie."
If you can't get your mom and dad to use windows or a mac, how are you going to get them to use linux?
For 3 more pieces of wood and (to be cheep) only 6 more screws, he could have bolted on some supports behind the cardboard to support his delicate and expensive laptop... but maybe the 1/2 inch he'd have to move his desk from the wall was unacceptable.
Did you miss reading the article, that's basically what he did. There is a strip of wood behind the cardboard backer of the hutch.
This is nothing new, hp already has some printers with the printhead separate from the ink. Instead of worrying about replacing ink, you now have to worry about replacing ink and then every few ink changes replacing print heads as well.
from reading that site, it doesn't seem entirely bad.. more like one of those things people mention without actually explaining to get a rise out of people.
Artificial meat isn't too important yet. If there was a shortage of real meat it might be important. I doubt this will be widely adopted by vegetarians or other fetish groups that don't eat meat because it still resemble's meat and is made from fish proteins.
the 1,082 titles in the Penguin Classics Complete Library total nearly half a million pages--laid end to end they would hit the 52-mile mark.
If you read the sentance correctly, you'd see that they are saying that ~500,000 pages laid end to end would be 52 miles, not that 1082 books laid end to end would equal that.
the 1,082 titles in the Penguin Classics Complete Library total nearly half a million pages--laid end to end they would hit the 52-mile mark.
The pronoun 'they' refers to the previous noun 'pages', not 'titles'. I imagine if you laid 500,000 pages end to end longways it might actually end up being 52 miles.
Is the quote deceptive? Probably. Is it wrong, probably not.
Just beacuse it's a crime with a lesser chance of getting caught doesn't change the nature of the act. (Not that the spy and hooker job wouldn't be hella awesome...) You refuse to do it, or you break the law. You don't isolate yourself from responsibility for your commission of a criminal act.
Now if/. would just learn the difference between civil law and criminal law we'd be good to go. I guess apples to oranges comparisons are more interesting though.
no wonder wikipedia is always needing money for bandwidth, i wonder how many hits they get from IM clients looking to see whether a topic has a wiki entry or not.
I'm not sure why I was modded as flamebait, I didn't say anything negative about have indian firms do the work, I just made an observation that using indian firms is the normal way of getting this kind of work done. I'm sure the metamods will vindicate me.
but do the last names imply a relation to other people in sl? Should I find other people who play and choose their last name or is it basically meaningless?
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Don't access points act as dhcp servers as well?
oh thanks, I totally missed it when I was looking.
oh thanks, don't know how i missed that.
obviously you hadn't look at the article when you posted your first comment otherwise you wouldn't had said 3 pieces of wood instead of 4. And you wouldn't had made your remarks about not pulling the desk out.
Is there actually one of those in the picture? The only keyboard I see in the picture is the imac one at the bottom.
The one at the bottom of the pic is an imac keyboard.. I got mine from a place where no one wanted them and swapped them for fullsize ones.
I imagine you could get one off ebay pretty easily.
On the other hand, Doctorow has had success in the past by making books available in print and via free download. His success flies in the face of the assumption that downloads kill sales.
Then again, Cory tends to ignore the fact that being a blog celebrity also helps him sell books, instead just focusing on the fact that he allows free downloads. Some Joe Schmoe that didn't already have some kind of following but put books out for free download would most certainly not do as well as Cory.
One thing these "linux is not ready for the desktop" type articles miss is that computers in general aren't really ready for the "regular user" AKA mom, dad and grandma Bootsie."
If you can't get your mom and dad to use windows or a mac, how are you going to get them to use linux?
For 3 more pieces of wood and (to be cheep) only 6 more screws, he could have bolted on some supports behind the cardboard to support his delicate and expensive laptop... but maybe the 1/2 inch he'd have to move his desk from the wall was unacceptable.
Did you miss reading the article, that's basically what he did. There is a strip of wood behind the cardboard backer of the hutch.
This is nothing new, hp already has some printers with the printhead separate from the ink. Instead of worrying about replacing ink, you now have to worry about replacing ink and then every few ink changes replacing print heads as well.
This is really a shame, it is cool how fast you can throw together a decent app using java.
thank you.
from reading that site, it doesn't seem entirely bad.. more like one of those things people mention without actually explaining to get a rise out of people.
Replace your refrigerator with an efficient model. If you have a freezer, get rid of it.
How do you freeze stuff then? Getting rid of something you actively use isn't really a solution if you don't have anything to replace it with.
This is a good idea as long as you don't mind them baptising all your dead relatives.
I'm kinda interested in how that works, do you have any links?
had you read the article, you'd see that there are good reasons that they didn't go with swt.
Artificial meat isn't too important yet. If there was a shortage of real meat it might be important. I doubt this will be widely adopted by vegetarians or other fetish groups that don't eat meat because it still resemble's meat and is made from fish proteins.
i can't imagine anything more hair-raising than modifying the BIOS while windows is running
That's because you don't understand how it works. Get a new dell and flash the bios on it from windows sometime.
the 1,082 titles in the Penguin Classics Complete Library total nearly half a million pages--laid end to end they would hit the 52-mile mark.
If you read the sentance correctly, you'd see that they are saying that ~500,000 pages laid end to end would be 52 miles, not that 1082 books laid end to end would equal that.
The problem is that /. forgets how english works.
the 1,082 titles in the Penguin Classics Complete Library total nearly half a million pages--laid end to end they would hit the 52-mile mark.
The pronoun 'they' refers to the previous noun 'pages', not 'titles'. I imagine if you laid 500,000 pages end to end longways it might actually end up being 52 miles.
Is the quote deceptive? Probably. Is it wrong, probably not.
most places, if you are driving a company vehicle they are responsible for things like tags.. you could at least sue your boss.
Just beacuse it's a crime with a lesser chance of getting caught doesn't change the nature of the act. (Not that the spy and hooker job wouldn't be hella awesome...) You refuse to do it, or you break the law. You don't isolate yourself from responsibility for your commission of a criminal act.
/. would just learn the difference between civil law and criminal law we'd be good to go. I guess apples to oranges comparisons are more interesting though.
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no wonder wikipedia is always needing money for bandwidth, i wonder how many hits they get from IM clients looking to see whether a topic has a wiki entry or not.
I'm not sure why I was modded as flamebait, I didn't say anything negative about have indian firms do the work, I just made an observation that using indian firms is the normal way of getting this kind of work done. I'm sure the metamods will vindicate me.
Hire some Indian outsourcing company to do it for you.
but do the last names imply a relation to other people in sl? Should I find other people who play and choose their last name or is it basically meaningless?