I won't abuse the article by copying the links here. When you see those photos and videos, seems crazy how anything so beautiful can be so destructive - or vice versa.
This requires that you archive the software that reads the format and perhaps the OS that the software runs on.
Along with instructions on how to build a machine with which to read the medium on which the OS is stored in order to be able to load the operating system to run the software that enables you to read the medium on which your baseball cards are copied. Did I miss something there?
There's this big monster called the European Commission that's been specially bred to bypass the democratic process, and it's got Britain in its grip. Sorry. More explanations
Yeah, I remember too when space used to be a problem. Now 20mb is nothing. Using it to get rid of dll/so/version hell is a choice that suits me fine; YMMV.
Having said that, I've no idea whether the ROX method actually does involve using extra disk space.
Then petition your government to pass plain English laws too. It's not just corporate lobbying that gets results. Public interest lobbying sometimes does too.
It would be great if they were silver.
But when I say there are six coins the same colour I am speaking about the coins I've had in my hands; maybe they'll dull differently with time.
I presume the Belgian and French coins are made to the same spec., right?
The coins are hard to distinguish in the denominations I mentioned. No one I've tested them on can pick 'em out at a glance. And that's especially annoying for traders. The 2c/10c and 5c/20c are seriously similar, much more so than in any other coin set I've seen.
BTW "heads" and "tails" is like "pile" et "face", OK? it doesn't necessarily mean there's a head or a tail.
I don't know where your Belgian coins are minted but the French ones are very badly finished with imperfections all over the faces.
Of course, ugliness is in the eye of the beholder, but most beholders I've spoken to agree.
Euro/Eurocent coins are the ugliest money I've ever seen and the hardest to distinguish. Blech! Which idiots decided to make 6 coins all the same colour and, in the case of 2 vs.10 and 5 vs. 20, nearly the same size. And with a different "heads" in each member state. Morons.
If you don't have a white skin, you'll never have one. If you're old, you'll always be old. If you're a Muslim, there's little chance you'll ever become a Jew. If you're a woman, becoming a man tends to be rather an involved process.
But if you're young, all you have to do is wait.
So while you're waiting, make the most of it, 'cos one of these days you're not going to be young any more. And when you're 40 and some kid takes your job, remember the sort of things you were complaining about 20 years ago.
...having ever taken prefixes designed only, repeat ONLY, for describing powers of 10^3 and applied them to powers of 2^10. A "kilobyte" is 2^10, megabyte 2^20, etc., so mebi (with its 10^6 connotations) and gibi, etc., are only repeating the error under a different name. We're not measuring in base 10 so let's not use base 10 names.
As for people's ability to adapt to new units, go and ask nearly four hundred * 2^20 Europeans what coins they will be spending from 1/1/2002 onwards.
They're perfectly willing to sell on the internet, but they don't want to be in a position where they only see 1 sale for every 1,000 people listening.
Your equation lacks a few parameters but let's assume you mean that for every 1000 people that hear an album, one person will buy it. One hit in 1000 sounds like an excellent advertising plan to me. The record companies should be going for it.
On the other hand, if you mean that there are 26 million listeners and the sum total of purchases across all titles is 26,000 units over the whole of eternity, then the record makers had better get a clue and give users a pretty good reason for preferring to buy: Kazaa aren't the only ones around, and the worst is yet to come 'coz we haven't finished inventing ways of sharing pleasure yet.
The strength of our society (by which I mean the modern judicial society in general, wherever in the world it is found) is based on the authority of the law.
Maybe other people mean something else by "the strength of our society."
You're right. Free is confusing and open seems quite clear. But even in languages that don't confuse 0% price with 100% liberty, free (in either sense of the word) still doesn't sound very serious.
I recently received a mail from FSF Europe (whose mailing list doesn't seem to have an exit door) requesting me to please refrain from using the term "open source."
Like hell I'll stop using it.
OSI = ESR = Cathedral + Bazaar = many eyes make light work = open source
There is nothing wrong with the term, but there is everything wrong with the interviewee's analysis of it. I'll stick with ESR because even though he likes guns, he doesn't point one at me, be it real or moral.
I hate Microsoft. I hate Office. But I'm a professional translator and I can't do my job without Office. And I can't do Office without Windows. If Office was available for Linux (or FreeBSD hopefully), at least only the office suite would suck instead of the whole friggin machine.
I don't blame MS for moving it into the dustbin of history, but I believe they should be asking themselves what it is about their later products that people would still be using Win95. Come on now, have a guess yourself why people are still using Win 95.
Could it be something to do with not paying $$$$$ to replace something they're quite happy with? There are believe it or not some people out there who are quite happy with win 95. They ask no more from a computer than to be good at simple word processing. Their idea of a good game is minesweeper. They don't spend their time on the internet; they spend it going out with friends.
It's nothing to do with Microsoft's shortcomings in their later products; hell, most of these people don't even know what an OS is - and there's no reason they should!
I don't know how well they'll get along without support though...
Believe it or not, in the [Boy] Scouts, we (or at least the over-18s among us) played a similar game, except it was on a grass surface, it was called murder ball, and scoring was as in Rugby or AF but without the conversions. Those details apart, the rules were identical to your war ball rules.
Despite our putting out the most evil team of six-foot-five psycopathic giants the Scouting or any other world has ever seen, the opponents with the real rugby skills invariably ran rings round us.
*We* created the massively booming global economy, *we* created the technology that these companies have been using, *we* provided their internet access, *we* provided the financial support to the entire country that allowed these businesses to exist... Could you please define *we* and state what your role was in those actions. Or is *we* your way of saying you have American genes and therefore are a superior being?
Freedom -3: I have the freedom to choose whether to spend my time writing code or not.
Freedom -2: I have the freedom to choose what to include in my code and what my finished program will do.
Freedom -1: I have the freedom to choose what the hell I'm going to do with this program now I've written it, providing of course this does not conflict with the choice made by any other people whose components went into my program: I may choose to delete it from my hard disk; I may choose to publish the code on my web site; I may choose to send it to my granny for a Christmas present; I may choose to make it available to a select few people; I may choose to set it to music and release it in MP3 format; I may choose to do any one of a hundred things with it, even to issue it under the GPL
-- hence --
Freedom 0: I have the freedom to offer the fruit of my work on the terms that achieve my intention
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I won't abuse the article by copying the links here. When you see those photos and videos, seems crazy how anything so beautiful can be so destructive - or vice versa.
Along with instructions on how to build a machine with which to read the medium on which the OS is stored in order to be able to load the operating system to run the software that enables you to read the medium on which your baseball cards are copied. Did I miss something there?
There's this big monster called the European Commission that's been specially bred to bypass the democratic process, and it's got Britain in its grip. Sorry.
More explanations
Yeah, I remember too when space used to be a problem. Now 20mb is nothing. Using it to get rid of dll/so/version hell is a choice that suits me fine; YMMV.
Having said that, I've no idea whether the ROX method actually does involve using extra disk space.
Please read this:
Then this:
Then petition your government to pass plain English laws too. It's not just corporate lobbying that gets results. Public interest lobbying sometimes does too.
It would be great if they were silver.
But when I say there are six coins the same colour I am speaking about the coins I've had in my hands; maybe they'll dull differently with time.
I presume the Belgian and French coins are made to the same spec., right?
The coins are hard to distinguish in the denominations I mentioned. No one I've tested them on can pick 'em out at a glance. And that's especially annoying for traders. The 2c/10c and 5c/20c are seriously similar, much more so than in any other coin set I've seen.
BTW "heads" and "tails" is like "pile" et "face", OK? it doesn't necessarily mean there's a head or a tail.
I don't know where your Belgian coins are minted but the French ones are very badly finished with imperfections all over the faces.
Of course, ugliness is in the eye of the beholder, but most beholders I've spoken to agree.
Euro/Eurocent coins are the ugliest money I've ever seen and the hardest to distinguish. Blech! Which idiots decided to make 6 coins all the same colour and, in the case of 2 vs.10 and 5 vs. 20, nearly the same size. And with a different "heads" in each member state. Morons.
If you don't have a white skin, you'll never have one. If you're old, you'll always be old. If you're a Muslim, there's little chance you'll ever become a Jew. If you're a woman, becoming a man tends to be rather an involved process.
But if you're young, all you have to do is wait.
So while you're waiting, make the most of it, 'cos one of these days you're not going to be young any more. And when you're 40 and some kid takes your job, remember the sort of things you were complaining about 20 years ago.
...having ever taken prefixes designed only, repeat ONLY, for describing powers of 10^3 and applied them to powers of 2^10. A "kilobyte" is 2^10, megabyte 2^20, etc., so mebi (with its 10^6 connotations) and gibi, etc., are only repeating the error under a different name. We're not measuring in base 10 so let's not use base 10 names.
As for people's ability to adapt to new units, go and ask nearly four hundred * 2^20 Europeans what coins they will be spending from 1/1/2002 onwards.
They're perfectly willing to sell on the internet, but they don't want to be in a position where they only see 1 sale for every 1,000 people listening.
Your equation lacks a few parameters but let's assume you mean that for every 1000 people that hear an album, one person will buy it. One hit in 1000 sounds like an excellent advertising plan to me. The record companies should be going for it.
On the other hand, if you mean that there are 26 million listeners and the sum total of purchases across all titles is 26,000 units over the whole of eternity, then the record makers had better get a clue and give users a pretty good reason for preferring to buy: Kazaa aren't the only ones around, and the worst is yet to come 'coz we haven't finished inventing ways of sharing pleasure yet.
The strength of our society (by which I mean the modern judicial society in general, wherever in the world it is found) is based on the authority of the law.
Maybe other people mean something else by "the strength of our society."
Slamming Word or any other MSFT product is something that everyone should be able to indulge in freely. Why let the experts have all the fun?
Besides, if the news services are corrupt, who's going to tell us about it?
Those on the other side of the pond?
Or maybe by "us" you meant something that differs from my perception of it.
You're right. Free is confusing and open seems quite clear. But even in languages that don't confuse 0% price with 100% liberty, free (in either sense of the word) still doesn't sound very serious.
I recently received a mail from FSF Europe (whose mailing list doesn't seem to have an exit door) requesting me to please refrain from using the term "open source."
Like hell I'll stop using it.
OSI = ESR = Cathedral + Bazaar = many eyes make light work = open source
There is nothing wrong with the term, but there is everything wrong with the interviewee's analysis of it. I'll stick with ESR because even though he likes guns, he doesn't point one at me, be it real or moral.
If you're reading this then you have NO excuse not to take 10 minutes and send your opinion
Yes I have! The DOJ doesn't want to hear Europeans whining.
Will somebody please gimme a Euro-link to complain to.
Fair game to you...
I hate Microsoft. I hate Office. But I'm a professional translator and I can't do my job without Office. And I can't do Office without Windows. If Office was available for Linux (or FreeBSD hopefully), at least only the office suite would suck instead of the whole friggin machine.
I don't blame MS for moving it into the dustbin of history, but I believe they should be asking themselves what it is about their later products that people would still be using Win95.
Come on now, have a guess yourself why people are still using Win 95.
Could it be something to do with not paying $$$$$ to replace something they're quite happy with? There are believe it or not some people out there who are quite happy with win 95. They ask no more from a computer than to be good at simple word processing. Their idea of a good game is minesweeper. They don't spend their time on the internet; they spend it going out with friends.
It's nothing to do with Microsoft's shortcomings in their later products; hell, most of these people don't even know what an OS is - and there's no reason they should!
I don't know how well they'll get along without support though...
Believe it or not, in the [Boy] Scouts, we (or at least the over-18s among us) played a similar game, except it was on a grass surface, it was called murder ball, and scoring was as in Rugby or AF but without the conversions. Those details apart, the rules were identical to your war ball rules.
Despite our putting out the most evil team of six-foot-five psycopathic giants the Scouting or any other world has ever seen, the opponents with the real rugby skills invariably ran rings round us.
But as English is a evolving language niether is right or wrong.
No, just wrong. Neither is right.
(Go on, folks, think about it; you'll get it.)
"Helmet mounted camera" - you just made me wash my nose out with coffee.
*We* created the massively booming global economy, *we* created the technology that these companies have been using, *we* provided their internet access, *we* provided the financial support to the entire country that allowed these businesses to exist...
Could you please define *we* and state what your role was in those actions. Or is *we* your way of saying you have American genes and therefore are a superior being?
.2% * .2% = .2/100 * .2/100 = .04 / 10000 = .0004%
:^)
or 4000 errors per second
Freedom -2: I have the freedom to choose what to include in my code and what my finished program will do.
Freedom -1: I have the freedom to choose what the hell I'm going to do with this program now I've written it, providing of course this does not conflict with the choice made by any other people whose components went into my program: I may choose to delete it from my hard disk; I may choose to publish the code on my web site; I may choose to send it to my granny for a Christmas present; I may choose to make it available to a select few people; I may choose to set it to music and release it in MP3 format; I may choose to do any one of a hundred things with it, even to issue it under the GPL
-- hence --
Freedom 0: I have the freedom to offer the fruit of my work on the terms that achieve my intention
What is RMS's problem with that?
This of course