A 30,000 % markup simply means that the markup is 300 times the original price. A 6 billion (6e9) dollar market would (assuming the 30,000 % figure) would imply 20 million (2e7) dollars in costs.
Two things may be of interest. First, the DVD-Rs you discovered (spindle of 100 @ $2.50 ea) are only capable of storing 4.7 GB. Most commercial DVDs are a bit longer (6.5--8.5 GB). So, the DVD-Rs are only really useful for producing two disc sets, direct copies of early DVDs or self mastered movies. Now, none of these are terribly difficult hurdles-- but it's somewhat more difficult than pushing a few buttons and watching the money fly in.
Additionally, the DVD recorder might have problems duplicating some media--SCRIBE includes MediaFORM's exclusive SmartDRIVE, providing intellectual property safeguards coupled with professional audio features. Beats me what the intellectual property safeguards mean.
Additionally, criminal organizations might not be able to achieve economies of scale. It tends o raise their profile and attract attention from law enforcement. Yes, yes, drug cartels might work with bulk quantities-- but "economy of scale" might not be the best analysis of an industry that works with 10,000-30,000 percent markups, and has legendary problems with bulk money laundering.
We need to support tilly who is a tremendous asset to the Perl community, not attack the company..
Cynic's view: If Tilly's contributions to the perl community are pulled, and Tilly, by contract, cannot contribute to the perl community, he is, by definition, not an asset to the perl community.
On the other hand, if the company can be induced to narrow their definition of work product, the rights of programmers like Tilly to donate code, and become assets to various communities will be protected.
Video games absolutely cause death. Everyone whos ever played ANY video game will eventually die.
The only logical explanation is that video games cause death. Logic Error.
P->Q: All Videogame players will die Q->P: (death is caused by playing videogames). Proof requires a statement of the form ~Q->~P. (Those who have never played video games will never die), which is not provable.
First, let's get the easy, snappy answer out of the way. There is no "start button" on X11 (It's not called Xwindows, but I digress...). This functionality depends on ones Window manager.
System 7 allowed one to place anything in the Apple menu, including a folder, or alias to a folder, simply by dragging it to the "Apple Menu Items Folder". Previous systems lacked this simple functionality, and desk accessories could be installed only by using a somewhat clunky program. Soon, someone developed a Control Panel called "Hierarchical Apple Menu", which automatically translated these folders into submenus-- a revolutionary concept. I myself put a alias to my hard drive, allowing anyone with godlike mouse skills instant access to any file on my hard drive. Others (with more sense) created application menus with aliases to their favorite programs. Apple later incorporated this utility into later Systems.
I think, though, that this sort of behavior predated the Windows 9X start menu. In any case, the "Start" menu is usually preconfigured by manufacturers to categorize apps not by functionality, but (horror of horrors) by software provider. Frankly, I don't care that Aldus, Adobe, and Nisus are (or were) separate companies-- it may suit my style to group my word processor, page layout program and bitmap editor together. Yes, one can reconfigure the start menu-- but because every two bit application wants to add its icons, ads, and other useless bits, it gets somewhat difficult to manage.
We are cracking down on those helping out the "terrorists", but doing nothing to those who are helping out the single most evil and cruel socio-political system in the history of the new world?
China isn't a member of "The Axis of Evil". (Cue ominous music). Remember, there are two BILLION armpits in China.
Classic may require the PPC, but Carbon is cross platform, as is, of course, Cocoa. I would imagine that any "guidelines" for "MacOS for Intel" developers would require native compilation. Emulation would detract from the brand-- as it would create the impression that MacOSX was slow.
It is in Apple's best interest that application developers port their works over to Carbon (or preferably, though more ambitiously) Cocoa. The Classic environment was intended primarily to assuage folks who already had a substantial investment in non carbonized servers-- in other words, existing mac users.
Most of the hypothetical MacOSX for Intel users do not have substantial Macintosh software investments-- if a desktop publisher shop was upgrading its existing Apple hardware, any speed advantage of Intel processors would be outweighed by emulation overhead.
Although some publishers might be dragging their feet on Classic to Carbon ports, I suspect that by the time OSX for Intel had undergone beta testing, Carbon ports will be ready-- and the recompilation for Intel platforms would be comparatively trivial. Thus-- no need for Bluebox support.
Altivec to SSE conversions might prove more difficult, though.
With ALSA mixers, one can (theoretically) control hundreds of sound card functioss. For instance, modern sound cards can mix (in hardware) dozens of individual sound streams. The ALSA mixers allow the user to control the volume/balance of each stream. Absurdly complicated-- yes, but occasionally quite useful.
sometimes I prefer to read from a discreet Palm Pilot screen rather than from a large, gaudy paperback that says "CHILDREN'S LITERATURE" in every design element.
In Britain, the books are available in the "adult paperback" format. The covers are a bit classier than those of the American versions. More importantly, the original "jumpers", "biscuits" and "philosopher's stones" of the original are preserved.
In 1982, E.T. was nominated for 9 Oscars, including Best Picture, but it won just one, for Best Visual
Effects
And just how many of those special visual effects will be obliterated by new effects in the upcoming twentieth aniversary rerelease? (Spielberg has already turned rifles into walkie talkies).
One can argue in court that a patent claim is overbroad or invalid. The process of patents is not an adversarial one--no one in the patent application process is responsible for actively opposing the patent grant. Typically, unless the prior art is itself patented (and thus, easily discoverable), the patent examiner might well ignore it.
biopython is fairly primitive (but their goals are laudable.) bioperl is more advanced, but microarray modules are still on the todo list. I've found bioperl modules to be fairly easy to write code around.
Tractor trailers can cause unpredictable, and some times dangerous wind turbulence, causing drivers in smaller, lighter, and theoretically more maneuverable vehicles to lose control. The simple sensible solution: exercise caution when passing large tractor trailers.
Similarly, flying too close to a large, poorly maneuverable prop plane, is dangerous in itself. But fighter pilots are not known for brains.
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1. I still like Eddie the Eagle
2. Microsoft sucks
3. Salt Lake City bribed its way in
4. Stories about 1972 Munich
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A 30,000 % markup simply means that the markup is 300 times the original price. A 6 billion (6e9) dollar market would (assuming the 30,000 % figure) would imply 20 million (2e7) dollars in costs.
Evgeny Podkletnov and Giovanni Modanese have posted one of their papers on the arXiv: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0108005
Two things may be of interest. First, the DVD-Rs you discovered (spindle of 100 @ $2.50 ea) are only capable of storing 4.7 GB. Most commercial DVDs are a bit longer (6.5--8.5 GB). So, the DVD-Rs are only really useful for producing two disc sets, direct copies of early DVDs or self mastered movies. Now, none of these are terribly difficult hurdles-- but it's somewhat more difficult than pushing a few buttons and watching the money fly in.
Additionally, the DVD recorder might have problems duplicating some media--SCRIBE includes MediaFORM's exclusive SmartDRIVE, providing intellectual property safeguards coupled with professional audio features. Beats me what the intellectual property safeguards mean.
Additionally, criminal organizations might not be able to achieve economies of scale. It tends o raise their profile and attract attention from law enforcement. Yes, yes, drug cartels might work with bulk quantities-- but "economy of scale" might not be the best analysis of an industry that works with 10,000-30,000 percent markups, and has legendary problems with bulk money laundering.
That's known as "offering a bribe."
Cynic's view: If Tilly's contributions to the perl community are pulled, and Tilly, by contract, cannot contribute to the perl community, he is, by definition, not an asset to the perl community.
On the other hand, if the company can be induced to narrow their definition of work product, the rights of programmers like Tilly to donate code, and become assets to various communities will be protected.
The only logical explanation is that video games cause death.
Logic Error.
P->Q: All Videogame players will die
Q->P: (death is caused by playing videogames). Proof requires a statement of the form ~Q->~P. (Those who have never played video games will never die), which is not provable.
Ah yes. Undoable actions.
The ITunes 2 installer needs an administrator password to delete everything from the your harddrive. Oops...
So activate the root user, login and use that. I
think you can even setup the computer to automatically login (as root) upon bootup.
You might even be able to change ones UID to zero (I have not tried this).
The multiuser nature of MacOSX does, however. provide a semblance of security from rogue applications, not just rogue users.
First, let's get the easy, snappy answer out of the way. There is no "start button" on X11 (It's not called Xwindows, but I digress...). This functionality depends on ones Window manager.
System 7 allowed one to place anything in the Apple menu, including a folder, or alias to a folder, simply by dragging it to the "Apple Menu Items Folder". Previous systems lacked this simple functionality, and desk accessories could be installed only by using a somewhat clunky program. Soon, someone developed a Control Panel called "Hierarchical Apple Menu", which automatically translated these folders into submenus-- a revolutionary concept. I myself put a alias to my hard drive, allowing anyone with godlike mouse skills instant access to any file on my hard drive. Others (with more sense) created application menus with aliases to their favorite programs.
Apple later incorporated this utility into later Systems.
I think, though, that this sort of behavior predated the Windows 9X start menu. In any case, the "Start" menu is usually preconfigured by manufacturers to categorize apps not by functionality, but (horror of horrors) by software provider. Frankly, I don't care that Aldus, Adobe, and Nisus are (or were) separate companies-- it may suit my style to group my word processor, page layout program and bitmap editor together. Yes, one can reconfigure the start menu-- but because every two bit application wants to add its icons, ads, and other useless bits, it gets somewhat difficult to manage.
Personally, I like the dock.
The big problem with low UIDs is that they are already taken. Negative UIDs, perhaps?
China isn't a member of "The Axis of Evil". (Cue ominous music). Remember, there are two BILLION armpits in China.
Classic may require the PPC, but Carbon is cross platform, as is, of course, Cocoa. I would imagine that any "guidelines" for "MacOS for Intel" developers would require native compilation. Emulation would detract from the brand-- as it would create the impression that MacOSX was slow.
It is in Apple's best interest that application developers port their works over to Carbon (or preferably, though more ambitiously) Cocoa. The Classic environment was intended primarily to assuage folks who already had a substantial investment in non carbonized servers-- in other words, existing mac users.
Most of the hypothetical MacOSX for Intel users do not have substantial Macintosh software investments-- if a desktop publisher shop was upgrading its existing Apple hardware, any speed advantage of Intel processors would be outweighed by emulation overhead.
Although some publishers might be dragging their feet on Classic to Carbon ports, I suspect that by the time OSX for Intel had undergone beta testing, Carbon ports will be ready-- and the recompilation for Intel platforms would be comparatively trivial. Thus-- no need for Bluebox support.
Altivec to SSE conversions might prove more difficult, though.
With ALSA mixers, one can (theoretically) control hundreds of sound card functioss. For instance, modern sound cards can mix (in hardware) dozens of individual sound streams. The ALSA mixers allow the user to control the volume/balance of each stream. Absurdly complicated-- yes, but occasionally quite useful.
The 0.9 API for alsalib (the support libraries) is very different from the 0.5 API. I do hope the API is stable.
In Britain, the books are available in the "adult paperback" format. The covers are a bit classier than those of the American versions. More importantly, the original "jumpers", "biscuits" and "philosopher's stones" of the original are preserved.
In 1982, E.T. was nominated for 9 Oscars, including Best Picture, but it won just one, for Best Visual
Effects
And just how many of those special visual effects will be obliterated by new effects in the upcoming twentieth aniversary rerelease? (Spielberg has already turned rifles into walkie talkies).
This review of "I am Sam" questions whether it is ethical to roll your eyes, laugh in a childlike way, slur your speech and call it a performance?. Another review notes that , the performance - showy and contrived - is all too obviously meant to get Oscar's attention.
I have avoided the film.
Mediocre films are released early in the year, because it's easier to get the "BEST FILM OF THE YEAR" accolades.
Cases in point: "I am Sam" and "A Beautiful Mind". I would have included "Moulin Rouge" but Kidman's character didn't last that long.
Prodigy is owned by SBC Communications. SBC is not cash poor.
One can argue in court that a patent claim is overbroad or invalid. The process of patents is not an adversarial one--no one in the patent application process is responsible for actively opposing the patent grant. Typically, unless the prior art is itself patented (and thus, easily discoverable), the patent examiner might well ignore it.
It's a space.com article anyway. I can't imagine why msnbc has so many slashdot fans.
biopython is fairly primitive (but their goals are laudable.) bioperl is more advanced, but microarray modules are still on the todo list. I've found bioperl modules to be fairly easy to write code around.
Tractor trailers can cause unpredictable, and some times dangerous wind turbulence, causing drivers in smaller, lighter, and theoretically more maneuverable vehicles to lose control. The simple sensible solution: exercise caution when passing large tractor trailers.
Similarly, flying too close to a large, poorly maneuverable prop plane, is dangerous in itself. But fighter pilots are not known for brains.
Topics to post to Olympics website
1. I still like Eddie the Eagle
2. Microsoft sucks
3. Salt Lake City bribed its way in
4. Stories about 1972 Munich
5. Rolling your own blunt, a how to guide