It doesn't seem so clear-cut. The most descriptive entry at dictionary.com has this:
"Underdeveloped or developing countries, as in The conditions in our poorest rural areas resemble those in the third world. This expression originated in the mid-1900s, at first denoting those countries in Asia and Africa that were not aligned with either the Communist bloc nations or the non-Communist Western nations. Because they were for the most part poor and underdeveloped, the term was transferred to all countries with those characteristics, and later still to poorer groups within a larger prevailing culture."
I'd say the the way the definition evolved is fair enough. Denying the evolution of language and the meaning of terms is often futile, especially if the evolution makes a fair amount of sense.
Isn't the laptop's size, or desired bag size of import? If it is one of the 17" surfboards, then my understanding is that the choices get pretty narrow.
One person that I know that was silly to buy a desknote brick (12lb, 2" thick, 17" screen, Desktop Pentium 4 chip inside) couldn't find a conventional laptop bag, he ended up getting a piece of carry-on luggage to carry it.
Do you think China is going to invest in rebuilding places like Kosovo? Or Somalia? Or Rwanda?
If there was timely international action, would a rebuilding be necessary? The countries that would contribute militarily drag their heels because they don't want to send their children to fight someone else's war, despite its humanitarian necessity.
believe the US would invade Canada for its oil plus use its military to break any world embargo..
The US still has unexplored regions that are potentially oil-rich, held up because of environmental concerns. If the US did invade Canada, I don't think its military would be a useful addition to their repertoire.
Hell, they have the Monty Python "foot" attached to the story.
Besides, it doesn't prove that something will go wrong the next time used, it is used to give the probability. Often, you can't use math to prove something WILL go wrong in any particular instance, but you can at least provide the chances. If I flip a coin and declare that tails is "wrong", probability won't tell me which outcome I will get.
There are a lot of products that aren't advertised on TV.
I'm not sure what the deal with advertising is. Yes, a lot of it is stupid. I'd rather have stupid people fund my TV than set up a whole warrant and criminaal structure around TV, in which homes are invaded to prosecute $160 "crimes".
I tried to babelfish the articles, but they weren't much more comprehendible, so I really can't RTFA. OK, I read the spiegel article, but I don't understand it.
I can see considering it a TV for broadcast considerations if it has a TV tuner. Does this make the copying German broadcasted material legal for the fee-payers? Or is it basically a fine for owning a computer?
Uh, yeah. You mean the same well funded military that spends $1k for a hammer?
We wouldn't need to be spending $300B+ for military operations if we weren't perpetually trying to insult these nations. Besides, the US is about spending as much as the rest of the world combined on its military. During a post-cold war situation. We've spent an obscene amount of money "disarming" an impovershed country that didn't have WMDs.
Even if the original is lost or destroyed, the digital version lives on
Assuming a large sum of money is spent maintaining the digital versions. Computers lose and destroy data, even good computers fail. So it would require good backups done on a regular basis. File formats tend to change too.
Does the situation merit such publicity? Is it standard policy to mock the people fired, in as public of a manner possible? IIRC, standard HR policy on fired people is to NOT COMMENT or stick to the facts. They do this to reduce their potential liability.
Isn't a warning sufficient? It isn't as if SETI software damages things.
I just think the entire situation was mismanaged, that said, there isn't enough information to go on.
My guess is that this increases the available current draw, and if used on rechargeables, increases charge current. Unless you add more battery "juices", I don't think this will necessarily increase the Ah ratings.
Well-documented doesn't mean open, they could be locked in a safe somewhere. Having the documents available to the public might mean open.
Do you mean publicly documented?
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At least it isn't all caps. All lower case is still relatively easy to read, but I do agree it is easier to handle proper grammar. It tells the reader what the proper nouns are and it gives an added visual cue that a sentence might start here.
I'm trying to look for the relevant sections in HR 4077 that the article claims would affect iPod, Tivo and the like.
Infringement seems to still involve distribution, not private in-home use. "distribution to the public" clauses abound.
One part that does concern me is that it looks like distributing only one copy of a pre-release copyrighted work to fall under the new penalties. Having a movie before it has been released to home video falls under this.
"the defendant knew or should have known that the work had not yet been made available by the copyright owner to individual members of the general public in copies or phonorecords for sale, license, or rental."
So, if it is in theaters, and you distribute a copy before it is available for home use, you are begging the new penalties, relatively steep ones at that. IIRC, it was infringement before, I'm not sure what this bill does.
Using an 8 bit machine to do the work grossly increases the amount of time it takes to manipulate a 32 bit number.
Avionics is hardly a general purpose task. If the task isn't time or CPU intensive, and needs to be cheap and low power, an 8 bit chip will do fine. If you need to have timing within a few clock cycles, or the chip is high-load then go for the 32 bit chip.
In your case, I'm not sure what you are doing. I'm not sure what magnetic stripes and bar codes on an ID are any threat to privacy. At least magnetic stripes and bar codes can't be sniffed.
I only bring this up because I find it annoying when people refer to hydrogen as an energy source.
In the case of the truck, it is an intermediate step. In the case of solar energy, hydrogen is the source of solar energy, thus it is an energy source.
But the savings in being able to lose an entire cable infrastructure has tipped the balance.
If it is already there, why count not using it as a savings? The cables are already laid and it is a sunk cost, which shouldn't factor in.
Also, what that means is that you are more likely to lose all of your communications if one delicate wire is cut, rather than "just" losing phone or internet. We have some variation of VoIP. The problem here is if our T1 line goes down, we don't have telephone access either, and we might be losing a lot more sales opportunities as a result.
It doesn't quote residents who are upset that someone is using their WiFi without asking.
The whole issue would probably be moot if they had just set up encryption in the first place. People need to be educated on this. I'm not sure how much of a part the wireless makers are taking, I don't remember much in the documentation, it should be on the "quick start" pages, but it usually isn't.
" In all cases, including "wardriving", there is no legitimate reason to collect the information or listen in. It's none of your goddamn business."
That's an opinion, not a fact.
What would you think if the Feds were doing the same thing?
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The advanced part is its miniaturization. There's probably a technical reason why it wasn't done this small before.
As one might consider a 90nm process CPU to be more advanced than the 130nm process CPU of the same core. It should be able to do more with less current, and also go up to higher frequencies.
""Free-Libre / Open Source Software". Is this really what people are trying to say ?"
Ick. Under that name, the F or the L is entirely redundant. They might both be considered somewhat redundant depending on how pedantic a person is about it. That said, FOSS sounds weird, LOSS sounds negative, and the pedants don't think OSS is enough to thoughroughly describe the movement in one acronym. Sigh.
I would be more than willing to contribute code under contract for this project. Unfortunately, my services do not come free.
I know this that was probably just an indignant reply, but I think you escalated it too much.
Out of curiousity, why should one expect to be paid to contribute to a product they themselves get for free? Free software generally doesn't allow the users to control the priority of bug fixes, and it's not as if they have a big enough budget such that they can pay people to fix the bugs they themselves complain about.
If you want a specific timeline for a particular project, rather than letting the (unpaid) developers perform their own opinion of how a bug triage should prioritize bugs, I suspect that you'd have to contribute.
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It doesn't seem so clear-cut. The most descriptive entry at dictionary.com has this:
"Underdeveloped or developing countries, as in The conditions in our poorest rural areas resemble those in the third world. This expression originated in the mid-1900s, at first denoting those countries in Asia and Africa that were not aligned with either the Communist bloc nations or the non-Communist Western nations. Because they were for the most part poor and underdeveloped, the term was transferred to all countries with those characteristics, and later still to poorer groups within a larger prevailing culture."
I'd say the the way the definition evolved is fair enough. Denying the evolution of language and the meaning of terms is often futile, especially if the evolution makes a fair amount of sense.
Isn't the laptop's size, or desired bag size of import? If it is one of the 17" surfboards, then my understanding is that the choices get pretty narrow.
One person that I know that was silly to buy a desknote brick (12lb, 2" thick, 17" screen, Desktop Pentium 4 chip inside) couldn't find a conventional laptop bag, he ended up getting a piece of carry-on luggage to carry it.
Do you think China is going to invest in rebuilding places like Kosovo? Or Somalia? Or Rwanda?
If there was timely international action, would a rebuilding be necessary? The countries that would contribute militarily drag their heels because they don't want to send their children to fight someone else's war, despite its humanitarian necessity.
believe the US would invade Canada for its oil plus use its military to break any world embargo..
The US still has unexplored regions that are potentially oil-rich, held up because of environmental concerns. If the US did invade Canada, I don't think its military would be a useful addition to their repertoire.
that place you fly over on a SFO-JFK flight."
Do you mean the Midwest?
I think it is sad that this innovation had come because small radio stations aren't being licenced.
Hell, they have the Monty Python "foot" attached to the story.
Besides, it doesn't prove that something will go wrong the next time used, it is used to give the probability. Often, you can't use math to prove something WILL go wrong in any particular instance, but you can at least provide the chances. If I flip a coin and declare that tails is "wrong", probability won't tell me which outcome I will get.
There are a lot of products that aren't advertised on TV.
I'm not sure what the deal with advertising is. Yes, a lot of it is stupid. I'd rather have stupid people fund my TV than set up a whole warrant and criminaal structure around TV, in which homes are invaded to prosecute $160 "crimes".
I tried to babelfish the articles, but they weren't much more comprehendible, so I really can't RTFA. OK, I read the spiegel article, but I don't understand it.
I can see considering it a TV for broadcast considerations if it has a TV tuner. Does this make the copying German broadcasted material legal for the fee-payers? Or is it basically a fine for owning a computer?
Uh, yeah. You mean the same well funded military that spends $1k for a hammer?
We wouldn't need to be spending $300B+ for military operations if we weren't perpetually trying to insult these nations. Besides, the US is about spending as much as the rest of the world combined on its military. During a post-cold war situation. We've spent an obscene amount of money "disarming" an impovershed country that didn't have WMDs.
I thought it was a swipe at the US educational system. A lot of Americans graduate illiterate.
Even if the original is lost or destroyed, the digital version lives on
Assuming a large sum of money is spent maintaining the digital versions. Computers lose and destroy data, even good computers fail. So it would require good backups done on a regular basis. File formats tend to change too.
Does the situation merit such publicity? Is it standard policy to mock the people fired, in as public of a manner possible? IIRC, standard HR policy on fired people is to NOT COMMENT or stick to the facts. They do this to reduce their potential liability.
Isn't a warning sufficient? It isn't as if SETI software damages things.
I just think the entire situation was mismanaged, that said, there isn't enough information to go on.
My guess is that this increases the available current draw, and if used on rechargeables, increases charge current. Unless you add more battery "juices", I don't think this will necessarily increase the Ah ratings.
Open as in "well-documented".
Well-documented doesn't mean open, they could be locked in a safe somewhere. Having the documents available to the public might mean open.
Do you mean publicly documented?
At least it isn't all caps. All lower case is still relatively easy to read, but I do agree it is easier to handle proper grammar. It tells the reader what the proper nouns are and it gives an added visual cue that a sentence might start here.
I'm trying to look for the relevant sections in HR 4077 that the article claims would affect iPod, Tivo and the like.
Infringement seems to still involve distribution, not private in-home use. "distribution to the public" clauses abound.
One part that does concern me is that it looks like distributing only one copy of a pre-release copyrighted work to fall under the new penalties. Having a movie before it has been released to home video falls under this.
"the defendant knew or should have known that the work had not yet been made available by the copyright owner to individual members of the general public in copies or phonorecords for sale, license, or rental."
So, if it is in theaters, and you distribute a copy before it is available for home use, you are begging the new penalties, relatively steep ones at that. IIRC, it was infringement before, I'm not sure what this bill does.
Using an 8 bit machine to do the work grossly increases the amount of time it takes to manipulate a 32 bit number.
Avionics is hardly a general purpose task. If the task isn't time or CPU intensive, and needs to be cheap and low power, an 8 bit chip will do fine. If you need to have timing within a few clock cycles, or the chip is high-load then go for the 32 bit chip.
Resistance is NOT futile.
In your case, I'm not sure what you are doing. I'm not sure what magnetic stripes and bar codes on an ID are any threat to privacy. At least magnetic stripes and bar codes can't be sniffed.
I only bring this up because I find it annoying when people refer to hydrogen as an energy source.
In the case of the truck, it is an intermediate step. In the case of solar energy, hydrogen is the source of solar energy, thus it is an energy source.
But the savings in being able to lose an entire cable infrastructure has tipped the balance.
If it is already there, why count not using it as a savings? The cables are already laid and it is a sunk cost, which shouldn't factor in.
Also, what that means is that you are more likely to lose all of your communications if one delicate wire is cut, rather than "just" losing phone or internet. We have some variation of VoIP. The problem here is if our T1 line goes down, we don't have telephone access either, and we might be losing a lot more sales opportunities as a result.
It doesn't quote residents who are upset that someone is using their WiFi without asking.
The whole issue would probably be moot if they had just set up encryption in the first place. People need to be educated on this. I'm not sure how much of a part the wireless makers are taking, I don't remember much in the documentation, it should be on the "quick start" pages, but it usually isn't.
" In all cases, including "wardriving", there is no legitimate reason to collect the information or listen in. It's none of your goddamn business."
That's an opinion, not a fact.
What would you think if the Feds were doing the same thing?
The advanced part is its miniaturization. There's probably a technical reason why it wasn't done this small before.
As one might consider a 90nm process CPU to be more advanced than the 130nm process CPU of the same core. It should be able to do more with less current, and also go up to higher frequencies.
""Free-Libre / Open Source Software". Is this really what people are trying to say ?"
Ick. Under that name, the F or the L is entirely redundant. They might both be considered somewhat redundant depending on how pedantic a person is about it. That said, FOSS sounds weird, LOSS sounds negative, and the pedants don't think OSS is enough to thoughroughly describe the movement in one acronym. Sigh.
I would be more than willing to contribute code under contract for this project. Unfortunately, my services do not come free.
I know this that was probably just an indignant reply, but I think you escalated it too much.
Out of curiousity, why should one expect to be paid to contribute to a product they themselves get for free? Free software generally doesn't allow the users to control the priority of bug fixes, and it's not as if they have a big enough budget such that they can pay people to fix the bugs they themselves complain about.
If you want a specific timeline for a particular project, rather than letting the (unpaid) developers perform their own opinion of how a bug triage should prioritize bugs, I suspect that you'd have to contribute.
Expect the EU to adopt another HDTV standard.
They have. They've chosen their own modulation and encoding standard. They are NOT the same as the US ATSC HD broadcasting standard.
Now, the EU can still be cowed into implementing the same thing, much like the software patent vote was manipulated.