It was the other way around for me. I downloaded a pirated version of AC (the first one), and tried playing it. For some reason, it would crash almost immediately after starting, unless I played during the day. I figured out that it had something to do with my LAN connection (the campus LAN from my room dies outside the hostel during working hours). So I downloaded another version, then I purchased the original, played it with CD in the drive and all. No luck. I dunno how they managed to do it, but a game they released before their strict DRMs came in to force actually had the best luck stopping me fro playing the pirated version.
If even among Facebook users, between any facebook user and other facebook user there is 4.75 person, it is 4.75 and not +1.
As now you are jumping on the gun thinking that person who does not have a facebook, has 5.75 person between him and anyone else who has or does not have facebook account.
a) Either you don't understand why he thinks he should add the +1, or
b) You're trolling, or
c) You just re-read what you wrote, remembered what averages are, and had a facepalm moment.
I'm not sure which it is, though.
He's not saying that there are always 5.74 people between a non-fb-user and anybody else. He's just saying that, given a non-fb-user, we can use one of his friends (which, I admit, he may not have any of)) with an fb account to be, on an average, within 4.74 of another fb user. It might be that for specific cases the actual number (being an integer) is ore than 5.74 or less than 5.74. Let us say there's an average of 1.26 people between a person without an fb account and one with. So we get 6 degrees of separation.:):P (What was that law about making up stats on the spot?)
Also, you gave a specific example, which doesn't count when it comes to Statistics. For every dropout who became a millionaire, how many do you think are starving now? Would you use a specific example of a homeless dropout or a millionaire dropout to justify remaining in or dropping out of college?
Exactly why I thought I'd ask here. The first time I read Space Odyssey (some 5 years ago) I didn't ike it, since I had read Rendezvous with Rama just a while ago, and I thought 2001 didn't match up. I didn't give the Odysseys another chance till early this year (after I got tired of HAL9000 references and I had read a half-dozen of his other novels all of which I did like), and even now I think Rama was better. Didn't want something like that to happen with Heinlein.
Turning off my brain isn't a problem. I went through the entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer series out of nostalgia for a few episodes I watched ten years ago. Even though there are moments where the show really showed its class like in the Zeppo, you have to be zoned out for most of the episode's action. Since I'll be in my last semester of college this Jan (when, I'm told, I'll have lots of spare time), a long series will be awesome.:) Say, are there examples of multiple series being combined, like when Asimov tied together the Foundation, Robot and Empire novels in Foundation and Earth? Seeing Daneel on the Moon was the happiest a book ever made me.:,) Ok, I think I'll start with By His Bootstraps and and Dragonflight, following with The Door into Summer. Thanks for the advice, all of you!
I'm ashamed to say, but now that I have, I'll set about reading her novels too... By the way, I have be meaning to get started on Heinlein as well.. Where should I start? When there's a series of books, I like to begin at the beginning, but if there other standalone books, I'd prefer those first. What say you about McCaffrey and Heinlein?
Google Wave - collaboration. Stopped early on. Now Google Docs allows real-time simultaneous editing by multiple users. If that isn't collaboration, I dunno what is. It might have nifty features that Doc doesn't have, but starting ten sections in the same company to do the same job is what I'd consider stupid (and standard practice).
Google Gears - Holy crap! That thing is still alive?
Google Search Timeline - I'm confused. What does Trends show us then?
Re<C - They admit they're not the best suited for the job. So they publish their results and continue using renewable energy.
Google Friend Connect - Dunno what that is, but seems kinda outa place now that Google+ (showing no signs of premature death) is here.
Knol - This one is a bit sad. But then they worked with others to start Annotum.
Bookmark Lists - Meh.. With sharing links on fb and Google+ whenever we spot something interesting, who'll bother with this?
Miss the point much? It's like companies throwing truckloads of patents at competitors, hoping something will stick. LOL and WTF and some of its brothers may have remained, but at the height of each such fad, such coined words number in the hundreds, if not thousands. What happened to the rest of them? Fell by the wayside. Just think about it. LOL and WF have retained their meanings. But will 'tweet' retain its meaning of post to Twitter 20 years from now when Twitter's no longer around? You want an example of a fad - sticking 'like' where it's not needed. You know, like, when kids say things. Few adults retain it. As time passes, something else will become more cool. And then you won't find like to be the most popular word of the English language anymore.
Aside from Linux Mint, which I prefer over Ubuntu for a better out of the box experience (I just installed Lisa yesterday evening), I'd suggest these:
VLC / SMplayer
LibreOffice
7zip (and *remove* Winzip/WinRAR/whatever).
Firefox / Google Chrome
Notepad++ (associate with everything)
Thunderbird
Foxit Reader (I know it's closed source, perhaps Sumatra instead? I use both)
Picasa
Pidgin
If the receiver is a student, tools for things like Latex (Miktex + Texmaker, perhaps?)
A print copy of the manual.
Whatever you like from Portable Apps.:)
Prior art being easy to find doesn't always translate to quick invalidation of the patent in question. Other handset makers probably had business relations with MS they didn't want to spoil. Also, M$ had forced other companies to sign an NDA over these patents, so Google couldn't (legally) do anything to stop them. Barnes & Noble didn't sign the NDA, so they have added an 800lb gorilla called Google to their team to counter the 1600lb pound troll that is MS. Oh, and I am not in the US, but looking through some past cases, I think most juries and judges no fuck-all about software and software patents. And MS is only out to make a quick buck, unlike Apple, so like most people, most companies would simply pay them to go away.
So Prince Arthas became the Lich King? Sad. I have this jinx when it comes to some games, never getting past a certain point. Not that I can't get through, but something happens to screw my system...
I think he's coming to India. Unless there's a Mumbai in US too. At any rate, he may not come at all. Somebody's suing him in Austria over this, so he's got visa problems.
An hour or two to read is nothing. The pain lies in trying to understand it all, looking for gotchas. Meh, every time I see an EULA, I'm reminded of the Foundation. I haven't read it in a long time, but I think a situation goes like this: Representative of the Empire comes, spews BS and leaves. A thorough symbolic analysis of the crap is needed to convince the Encyclopaedists that the Empire will do precisely fuck-all for them, whereas a symbolic analysis of the communication from one of the Four Kingdoms tells them that we will have you, and there is precisely fuck-all that you or the empire can do about it.
Slashdot Mirror
1/ ... do they have some numbers that are more likely to appear than others?...
Uniform bias? :P
Not me, but the post. Why is it in IT/Management when it should be in Science?
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/221/
It was the other way around for me. I downloaded a pirated version of AC (the first one), and tried playing it. For some reason, it would crash almost immediately after starting, unless I played during the day. I figured out that it had something to do with my LAN connection (the campus LAN from my room dies outside the hostel during working hours). So I downloaded another version, then I purchased the original, played it with CD in the drive and all. No luck. I dunno how they managed to do it, but a game they released before their strict DRMs came in to force actually had the best luck stopping me fro playing the pirated version.
Something like comparing an RPG with decision making (like Mass Effect) to a movie (wth no alternate endings)...
If even among Facebook users, between any facebook user and other facebook user there is 4.75 person, it is 4.75 and not +1.
As now you are jumping on the gun thinking that person who does not have a facebook, has 5.75 person between him and anyone else who has or does not have facebook account.
a) Either you don't understand why he thinks he should add the +1, or
b) You're trolling, or
c) You just re-read what you wrote, remembered what averages are, and had a facepalm moment.
I'm not sure which it is, though.
He's not saying that there are always 5.74 people between a non-fb-user and anybody else. He's just saying that, given a non-fb-user, we can use one of his friends (which, I admit, he may not have any of)) with an fb account to be, on an average, within 4.74 of another fb user. It might be that for specific cases the actual number (being an integer) is ore than 5.74 or less than 5.74. Let us say there's an average of 1.26 people between a person without an fb account and one with. So we get 6 degrees of separation. :) :P (What was that law about making up stats on the spot?)
Also, you gave a specific example, which doesn't count when it comes to Statistics. For every dropout who became a millionaire, how many do you think are starving now? Would you use a specific example of a homeless dropout or a millionaire dropout to justify remaining in or dropping out of college?
Be very careful with Heinlein.
Exactly why I thought I'd ask here. The first time I read Space Odyssey (some 5 years ago) I didn't ike it, since I had read Rendezvous with Rama just a while ago, and I thought 2001 didn't match up. I didn't give the Odysseys another chance till early this year (after I got tired of HAL9000 references and I had read a half-dozen of his other novels all of which I did like), and even now I think Rama was better. Didn't want something like that to happen with Heinlein.
Meh.. That's actually a plus point if you're doing an engineering course here, like I am.
Turning off my brain isn't a problem. I went through the entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer series out of nostalgia for a few episodes I watched ten years ago. Even though there are moments where the show really showed its class like in the Zeppo, you have to be zoned out for most of the episode's action. Since I'll be in my last semester of college this Jan (when, I'm told, I'll have lots of spare time), a long series will be awesome. :) Say, are there examples of multiple series being combined, like when Asimov tied together the Foundation, Robot and Empire novels in Foundation and Earth? Seeing Daneel on the Moon was the happiest a book ever made me. :,) Ok, I think I'll start with By His Bootstraps and and Dragonflight, following with The Door into Summer. Thanks for the advice, all of you!
I'm ashamed to say, but now that I have, I'll set about reading her novels too... By the way, I have be meaning to get started on Heinlein as well.. Where should I start? When there's a series of books, I like to begin at the beginning, but if there other standalone books, I'd prefer those first. What say you about McCaffrey and Heinlein?
What does Google Insights give then?
Google Wave - collaboration. Stopped early on. Now Google Docs allows real-time simultaneous editing by multiple users. If that isn't collaboration, I dunno what is. It might have nifty features that Doc doesn't have, but starting ten sections in the same company to do the same job is what I'd consider stupid (and standard practice).
Google Gears - Holy crap! That thing is still alive?
Google Search Timeline - I'm confused. What does Trends show us then?
Re<C - They admit they're not the best suited for the job. So they publish their results and continue using renewable energy.
Google Friend Connect - Dunno what that is, but seems kinda outa place now that Google+ (showing no signs of premature death) is here.
Knol - This one is a bit sad. But then they worked with others to start Annotum.
Bookmark Lists - Meh.. With sharing links on fb and Google+ whenever we spot something interesting, who'll bother with this?
I hate to say this, but Double Whoosh!
Miss the point much? It's like companies throwing truckloads of patents at competitors, hoping something will stick. LOL and WTF and some of its brothers may have remained, but at the height of each such fad, such coined words number in the hundreds, if not thousands. What happened to the rest of them? Fell by the wayside. Just think about it. LOL and WF have retained their meanings. But will 'tweet' retain its meaning of post to Twitter 20 years from now when Twitter's no longer around? You want an example of a fad - sticking 'like' where it's not needed. You know, like, when kids say things. Few adults retain it. As time passes, something else will become more cool. And then you won't find like to be the most popular word of the English language anymore.
When the countries split, most things were split - wealth, population, what have you. But the amount of stupidity was duplicated.
Maybe you should look which minerals are actually pesent. The one time I bothered to check, I realised I was just drinking hard water.
Aside from Linux Mint, which I prefer over Ubuntu for a better out of the box experience (I just installed Lisa yesterday evening), I'd suggest these: VLC / SMplayer :)
LibreOffice
7zip (and *remove* Winzip/WinRAR/whatever).
Firefox / Google Chrome
Notepad++ (associate with everything)
Thunderbird
Foxit Reader (I know it's closed source, perhaps Sumatra instead? I use both)
Picasa
Pidgin
If the receiver is a student, tools for things like Latex (Miktex + Texmaker, perhaps?)
A print copy of the manual.
Whatever you like from Portable Apps.
But as found out by Professor Murphy, we are likely to live in parallel world #2000.
What if the planet this result isn't true is #42?
Prior art being easy to find doesn't always translate to quick invalidation of the patent in question. Other handset makers probably had business relations with MS they didn't want to spoil. Also, M$ had forced other companies to sign an NDA over these patents, so Google couldn't (legally) do anything to stop them. Barnes & Noble didn't sign the NDA, so they have added an 800lb gorilla called Google to their team to counter the 1600lb pound troll that is MS. Oh, and I am not in the US, but looking through some past cases, I think most juries and judges no fuck-all about software and software patents. And MS is only out to make a quick buck, unlike Apple, so like most people, most companies would simply pay them to go away.
So Prince Arthas became the Lich King? Sad. I have this jinx when it comes to some games, never getting past a certain point. Not that I can't get through, but something happens to screw my system...
How do you computer?
I think he's coming to India. Unless there's a Mumbai in US too. At any rate, he may not come at all. Somebody's suing him in Austria over this, so he's got visa problems.
An hour or two to read is nothing. The pain lies in trying to understand it all, looking for gotchas. Meh, every time I see an EULA, I'm reminded of the Foundation. I haven't read it in a long time, but I think a situation goes like this: Representative of the Empire comes, spews BS and leaves. A thorough symbolic analysis of the crap is needed to convince the Encyclopaedists that the Empire will do precisely fuck-all for them, whereas a symbolic analysis of the communication from one of the Four Kingdoms tells them that we will have you, and there is precisely fuck-all that you or the empire can do about it.
Microsoft ones are different because they take their time.
Say what? https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/zune-eula-window-size-fail/
Indeed GPL tops IDA's license. You don't even have to accept the GPL for using GPLed software.