I get the feeling that this was a decision by Amazon based on what would cost them less. Either delete these and face user wrath, or let users who have the books keep them and settle monetarily with the copyright holder. I think they may have underestimated the true cost of losing reputation with their user base, lawsuit cost aside.
Wrong, the correct answer is: "We will discontinue the sale, but we can not remove existing copies from a users' devices." Then raise a stink if the publisher tries to coerce them to do otherwise.
Could somebody elaborate a little bit more on this?
What is the issue with just using Indium to tune the band gap of GaN laser to the green and just having an InGaN laser?
Never mind, from the real paper,531 nm Green Lasing of InGaN Based Laser Diodes on Semi-Polar {2021} Free-Standing GaN Substrates, they were using InGaN
They don't want just a cut of the Pirate Bay sale; they want a cut of your salary for the music they think you should have bought. And they think that amount should increase each year.
At the same time the democrats have had Bill Clinton (yes he fooled around with his intern, did that really make him a worse president or were y'all just jealouse ?)
Clinton was a fuckup; but not for that reason.
Clinton canceled the SCSC; that makes him a fuckup of Bush proportions as far as I'm concerned.
I would like the congratulate the Libertarians on getting this idea implemented.
Now that they have a way to tax people based on how much they drive, a long time goal of the party is to only tax people for services they use, and not the available services.
The next steps will be:
Implement varying fees based on which roads people are driving on.
Hand the project over to a private company to manage and reduce the size of the government.
Not presented in the summary, but still relevant, is the fact that the editor in question knew both that the letter was not submitted by it's author (because the editor and the principal were pals) and knew that the actual author did not want the letter printed (because the girl contacted the editor once she learned it had been passed along and requested they not print it).
As such, regardless of whether I agree or not with your statements, they are moot. This was a deliberate act by the editor and not a simple mistake.
So?, newspapers been always been used to advance the personal agendas of the people running them.
I'd object to "all". While it is quite possible less common in other fields, I know lots of CS and SoftEng graduates who got a university education precisely because they wanted to add a strong theoretical background to the technical skills they could acquire on their own.
At risk of trolling: code monkeys get trained, developers learn.
So?
If they aren't expecting to learn the technical skills in school, they had better work on developing those technical skills while they're still in school because I'm not interested in teaching a twit with a CS degree how to code.
I believe MENSA requires an IQ of 160 or higher.
Of course, IQ tests are retarded - the younger you are the higher your score, for the same performance.
This is why you get a lot of stories about "genius" kids and toddlers, when in fact, they're just above-average with parents who got them tested.
I wouldn't join MENSA, I know too many idiots there.
but could someone please clarify the "difficult to remove" bit? I "removed" it by going into "add-ons" and clicking "disable". Problem solved as far as I'm concerned.....
Simple: disable != remove
What is the significant practical difference between an add-on that doesn't get loaded because it's disabled and an add-on that doesn't get loaded because it's removed?
Its trivial to re-enable something if its only disabled.
I know that its bad that Microsoft silently installs things that are difficult to remove
I'm upset about the silent install but could someone please clarify the "difficult to remove" bit? I "removed" it by going into "add-ons" and clicking "disable". Problem solved as far as I'm concerned.....
It's just another tax on something that shouldn't be taxed... We already get taxed on ramen noodles, water, gasoline, cheeseburgers, cable television, telephones, and almost everything else.
If you're worried about a slippery slope, please glance downward at the icy incline and the skates on your feet.
It is kinda stupid to justify as way to pay for fighting "online crime". Why don't they levy an additional tax on retail sales and call it the "shoplifter arrest and incarceration tax".
If the Libs had there way, there would be. If someone committed a crime against you robbing our house, you would have to pay to keep them incarcerated, not the people.
And if someone happened to actually kill somebody, they would only go to jail in as long as the victim's family could afford to keep them locked away.
Because of course most of the arable land on the planet isn't currently needed to feed people. And even the current minuscule production of biofuels hasn't caused price hikes in food products that have left people starving to death.
If you hadn't been paying attention in the last couple of years there have been tremendous food shortages throughout the world (leading to numerous food riots) mostly caused by loss of food production due to the spread of the fungus UG99 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726474.400-killer-wheat-fungus-threatens-starvation-for-millions.html do we really want to produce even less food just so you can pump even more CO2 into the atmosphere???
When hasn't there been a food shortage somewhere in the world?
Slashdot Mirror
If people are pissed about a particular minority being under-represented in games; stop fucking whining and developing games.
Including Windows means the laptop is not clean.
I get the feeling that this was a decision by Amazon based on what would cost them less. Either delete these and face user wrath, or let users who have the books keep them and settle monetarily with the copyright holder. I think they may have underestimated the true cost of losing reputation with their user base, lawsuit cost aside.
Wrong, the correct answer is: "We will discontinue the sale, but we can not remove existing copies from a users' devices." Then raise a stink if the publisher tries to coerce them to do otherwise.
Could somebody elaborate a little bit more on this?
What is the issue with just using Indium to tune the band gap of GaN laser to the green and just having an InGaN laser?
Never mind, from the real paper,531 nm Green Lasing of InGaN Based Laser Diodes on Semi-Polar {2021} Free-Standing GaN Substrates, they were using InGaN
Lasing in pure green region around 520 nm of InGaN based laser diodes (LDs) on semi-polar {2021} free-standing GaN substrates was demonstrated under pulsed operation at room temperature. The longest lasing wavelength reached to 531 nm and typical threshold current density was 8.2 kA/cm2 for 520 nm LDs. Utilization of a novel {2021} plane enabled a fabrication of homogeneous InGaN quantum wells (QWs) even at high In composition, which is exhibited with narrower spectral widths of spontaneous emission from LDs than those on other planes. The high quality InGaN QWs on the {2021} plane advanced the realization of the green LDs. ©2009 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
Its very tempting to actually fork out the $$ and buy that one.
Could somebody elaborate a little bit more on this?
What is the issue with just using Indium to tune the band gap of GaN laser to the green and just having an InGaN laser?
They don't want just a cut of the Pirate Bay sale; they want a cut of your salary for the music they think you should have bought. And they think that amount should increase each year.
Because requiring Silverlight (and therefore Windows) severely dilutes the notion that Gate's action is altruistic. The content is only kinda free.
Wrong. Choose to use it or not as you wish but dont spread incorrect information.
Silverlight for Mac-> download
And of course you can choose the Mono implementation if you want FOSS versions instead Mono-> download
I'll give you 3 reasons to not use Silverlight, even the Mono implementation:
SCSC=SSC
My bad, just thinking about that pisses me off.
At the same time the democrats have had Bill Clinton (yes he fooled around with his intern, did that really make him a worse president or were y'all just jealouse ?)
Clinton was a fuckup; but not for that reason.
Clinton canceled the SCSC; that makes him a fuckup of Bush proportions as far as I'm concerned.
Read the post that you're replying to. Pictures will be proof of an ongoing conspiracy.
Stupid moderators marked Alsee's post as insightful instead of funny. *sigh* Now people have to explain the joke which makes it less funny.
Insightful gives karma, funny does not.
I would like the congratulate the Libertarians on getting this idea implemented.
Now that they have a way to tax people based on how much they drive, a long time goal of the party is to only tax people for services they use, and not the available services.
The next steps will be:
Not presented in the summary, but still relevant, is the fact that the editor in question knew both that the letter was not submitted by it's author (because the editor and the principal were pals) and knew that the actual author did not want the letter printed (because the girl contacted the editor once she learned it had been passed along and requested they not print it).
As such, regardless of whether I agree or not with your statements, they are moot. This was a deliberate act by the editor and not a simple mistake.
So?, newspapers been always been used to advance the personal agendas of the people running them.
I'd object to "all". While it is quite possible less common in other fields, I know lots of CS and SoftEng graduates who got a university education precisely because they wanted to add a strong theoretical background to the technical skills they could acquire on their own.
At risk of trolling: code monkeys get trained, developers learn.
So?
If they aren't expecting to learn the technical skills in school, they had better work on developing those technical skills while they're still in school because I'm not interested in teaching a twit with a CS degree how to code.
They do not want the downloaders hearts and minds, they simply want their money.
You neglected to mention that MS *could* be telling the truth...
You have got to be kidding, Microsoft has been caught committing perjury, and you expect us to give their marketing team the benefit of the doubt?
You really want to ruin your OS, don't you?
To be fair, I used IE4 on Solaris. It was not that bad. And Outlook Express was a good e-mail client for Solaris at that time.
IE 4 was only good on Solaris when you compared it to HotJava.
Pine was available for Solaris.
With FireFox, only the user can customise the browser. With IE, any remote attacker can as well!
Microsoft proved just a few weeks ago that they could customize Fire Fox without the user's consent.
Coefficient of Friction?
I believe MENSA requires an IQ of 160 or higher. Of course, IQ tests are retarded - the younger you are the higher your score, for the same performance.
This is why you get a lot of stories about "genius" kids and toddlers, when in fact, they're just above-average with parents who got them tested.
I wouldn't join MENSA, I know too many idiots there.
but could someone please clarify the "difficult to remove" bit? I "removed" it by going into "add-ons" and clicking "disable". Problem solved as far as I'm concerned.....
Simple: disable != remove
What is the significant practical difference between an add-on that doesn't get loaded because it's disabled and an add-on that doesn't get loaded because it's removed?
Its trivial to re-enable something if its only disabled.
I know that its bad that Microsoft silently installs things that are difficult to remove
I'm upset about the silent install but could someone please clarify the "difficult to remove" bit? I "removed" it by going into "add-ons" and clicking "disable". Problem solved as far as I'm concerned.....
Simple: disable != remove
It's just another tax on something that shouldn't be taxed... We already get taxed on ramen noodles, water, gasoline, cheeseburgers, cable television, telephones, and almost everything else.
If you're worried about a slippery slope, please glance downward at the icy incline and the skates on your feet.
It is kinda stupid to justify as way to pay for fighting "online crime". Why don't they levy an additional tax on retail sales and call it the "shoplifter arrest and incarceration tax".
If the Libs had there way, there would be. If someone committed a crime against you robbing our house, you would have to pay to keep them incarcerated, not the people.
And if someone happened to actually kill somebody, they would only go to jail in as long as the victim's family could afford to keep them locked away.
Treating the legal system as a business opportunity is not new, but to base a business model on it?
You guys should start cutting down on lawyer fees, fast.
Lawyers have been treating it as a business opportunity, why shouldn't the capitalists get involved?
Because of course most of the arable land on the planet isn't currently needed to feed people. And even the current minuscule production of biofuels hasn't caused price hikes in food products that have left people starving to death.
If you hadn't been paying attention in the last couple of years there have been tremendous food shortages throughout the world (leading to numerous food riots) mostly caused by loss of food production due to the spread of the fungus UG99 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726474.400-killer-wheat-fungus-threatens-starvation-for-millions.html do we really want to produce even less food just so you can pump even more CO2 into the atmosphere???
When hasn't there been a food shortage somewhere in the world?
I would argue to say that was one of the things that made the 80s suck.