Generally, they read papers for/given to them by the prof they're working with, and what books they need are generally ordered off of amazon (or other sites if an imagined ethical objection keeps them from amazon).
Online bookstores have largely killed the retail market for niche technical books.
It's very different than Active Desktop... that was just the idea of letting IE browser windows be part of the Windows Desktop level so that users could have a frequently-refreshed mini-page of content on their desktop.
However, the Active Desktop intiative did result in the development of CDF (W3C Proposal), aka Channel Definition Format, which is likely what the parent poster was talking about.
It's still around, belive it or not. I know that the CBC still uses it for delivering headlines, and I imagine that they're not the only ones.
It appears after some functional testing that the reduction of the deltas between the indicator light alterations caused some unforseen interference side effects.
Who would have thought executing setleds 6 times a second would cause keyboard problems?
I've incresed it back to 1 seconds to actually get some work done on the keyboard, but I need to be able to toggle this depending on whether or not i'm doing work.
I need to find a way to get setleds working regardless of the terminal it's run from (only wants to work from the console).
For purists like myself, all of the Ghibli DVDs yet released include the Japanese language tracks, along with subtitles.
That is, all of the DVDs that Disney has released. Fox had the rights to Totoro for a while, and before they got passed onto Disney, they released a horribly under-featured DVD with no subtitles. Because of that release, Disney hasn't gotten around to putting Totoro out on DVD with a proper set of subtitles.
We ended up getting a region free player and ordering Totoro from CD Japan instead of buying the Fox version.
I've been using these XSLT OOo <-> Docbook-XML filters for a little while.
They work pretty well (if you can manage to get them installed with the broken install instructions) but only for a limited subset of Docbook. There's no support for the programlisting tag, and lists are currently broken.
If anyone out there has superior XSLT kung fu, getting those two things working would be most appreciated : )
(I know the basics, but I don't yet have time at work to justify it. Maybe if this project gets done on time...)
I would like to direct your attention to the Private Copying section of the Canadian Copyright act here.
Specifically, 80.2(c) -- Subsection (1) [the private copying exception] does not apply if the act described in that subsection is done for the purpose of doing any of the following : (c) communicating to the public by telecommunication;
In order for file sharing as we know it to be legal, you would have to make the argument that putting something up on Kazaa is NOT communicating to the public by telecommunications.
I'm not saying it can't be done (indeed, I don't belive any of this has ever actually been tested in court), but good fucking luck.
Something like dc++ with a private hub between friends would be a much less challenging scenario to argue, as the general public isn't involved.
Note that the intent of this law was that people would be able to share music (note that this ONLY applies to MUSICAL AUDIO RECORDINGS -- spoken word recordings, or even sound effect recordings (and certainly not video) aren't covered by this) with thier family and friends without it being illegal. Basically, they looked at the fact that most people would be considered criminals under the current laws, and decided that there's really no point in that, and used the situation as an excuse to find another way for the goverenment to get money out of people. But since you're Canadian, you're used to that by now.
Kazaa and such are not for that purpose -- they are intended to share music with the anonymous internet in exchange for getting music you want back from the anonymous interent. If you ever wind up in court, and try and defend yourself with this exception, the intent of the law is going to be taken into account by the judge.
The provincial goverenment here has suggested automatic license suspension for people who haven't paid thier bills for driving on the 407.
That might not sound bad, except for the administrative incompotence of the company running the 407. I've gotten a bill for $0.00 before, and I know perfectly well had I not done something about it, they would have flagged me as defaulted (I paid $0.01 online through my bank, which seemed to make them happy).
There are countless horror stories about how incompotent the 407 administration is -- the fact that the province is considering making thier word law is terrifying. Perfectly expected, knowing the bunch of cronies in Queen's Park right now, but still terrifying.
What is one of the first things that someone does when they have what they consider to be an original idea? I think most people may just go google it to see if they are right in it being an original idea. At that point, the idea isn't anything more than a spark, but what if Google's R&D division is using these sorts of sparks that they see pop up from other people's searches? There will, no doubt, be a million bad ideas, but the one great one may be worth millions, and if I submit it to google, they've got the resources to develop it, and I don't have a leg to stand on in fighting them or proving anything.
Google fields (according to this, which is the most concrete number I can find on google) about 200 million searches a day. That comes out to about 2315 searches per second.
I checked around for that -- there have been various attempts, but I don't know of anyone who as succeded with it. The other option I was looking into was running it remotely on a seperate Linux box using cygwin's xserver, but I need to set it up, and I'm not sure it's worth the electricity for one application.
Regarding your other question, the documentation is at gnucash.org...
"Currently implemented and supported are the XML file backend, which stores GnuCash data in its native XML file format, and the Postgres SQL backend, which supports multiple simultaneous users of GnuCash."
I tried the current moneydance out a few weeks ago, and it simply Didn't Work. After entering a few transactions, modifying one of them caused it to hang, and eventually crap out with the good 'ol NullPointerException.
If it's improved in the last few weeks, I might give it another shot, but only because GNUCash doesn't run on Windows.
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While not a Masters or PhD student, I know a few.
Generally, they read papers for/given to them by the prof they're working with, and what books they need are generally ordered off of amazon (or other sites if an imagined ethical objection keeps them from amazon).
Online bookstores have largely killed the retail market for niche technical books.
The full-sized keyboard issue has been sovled.
There are at least three manufacutrers of wireless IR keyboards for PDAs (Belkin, Targus and Palm). Most cell phones have an IR port on the top.
Get the appropriate drivers on your phone, and you have access to a cheap, comfortable full-sized keyboard.
The screen is a bit of an issue (as well as the "look like a fucking dork" issue), but you can at least chat comfortably on one now.
Yeah, but every time you start this up, don't you have to take what's left of your library, and go play an entire subgame before you can continue?
Better yet, just get an Electric Monk to do your beliving for you :)
Not a surprise, since I ripped the story straight from there....
It's very different than Active Desktop... that was just the idea of letting IE browser windows be part of the Windows Desktop level so that users could have a frequently-refreshed mini-page of content on their desktop.
However, the Active Desktop intiative did result in the development of CDF (W3C Proposal), aka Channel Definition Format, which is likely what the parent poster was talking about.
It's still around, belive it or not. I know that the CBC still uses it for delivering headlines, and I imagine that they're not the only ones.
WHAT?
Copyright says NOTHING about usage. COPYright deals with who can or cannot COPY it.
If I pick up a leaked draft of Harry Potter from someone else's desk and read it, I have not committed a crime.
The idiom "to coin a phrase" is also used in an alternative sense, "to bring out a hackneyed saying yet again".
Thanks for the improved code
-sleep 1
+sleep 0.2
Here is the result of the efforts
It appears after some functional testing that the reduction of the deltas between the indicator light alterations caused some unforseen interference side effects.
Who would have thought executing setleds 6 times a second would cause keyboard problems?
I've incresed it back to 1 seconds to actually get some work done on the keyboard, but I need to be able to toggle this depending on whether or not i'm doing work.
I need to find a way to get setleds working regardless of the terminal it's run from (only wants to work from the console).
Mind if I patch it?
alias KITT='while
(GNU sleep takes floating point arguments. Also, it should be KITT, not kit
Damn, thanks for that. I have an IR keyboard on my firewall that uses a row of red leds for the keyboard lights on the receiver
Actually, he doesn't look like that much of a usability expert.
Just someone that liked to hang out on usenet and get into flamewars on the advocacy groups circa 1995.
For purists like myself, all of the Ghibli DVDs yet released include the Japanese language tracks, along with subtitles.
That is, all of the DVDs that Disney has released. Fox had the rights to Totoro for a while, and before they got passed onto Disney, they released a horribly under-featured DVD with no subtitles. Because of that release, Disney hasn't gotten around to putting Totoro out on DVD with a proper set of subtitles.
We ended up getting a region free player and ordering Totoro from CD Japan instead of buying the Fox version.
I've been using these XSLT OOo <-> Docbook-XML filters for a little while.
They work pretty well (if you can manage to get them installed with the broken install instructions) but only for a limited subset of Docbook. There's no support for the programlisting tag, and lists are currently broken.
If anyone out there has superior XSLT kung fu, getting those two things working would be most appreciated : )
(I know the basics, but I don't yet have time at work to justify it. Maybe if this project gets done on time...)
I would like to direct your attention to the Private Copying section of the Canadian Copyright act here.
Specifically, 80.2(c) -- Subsection (1) [the private copying exception] does not apply if the act described in that subsection is done for the purpose of doing any of the following : (c) communicating to the public by telecommunication;
In order for file sharing as we know it to be legal, you would have to make the argument that putting something up on Kazaa is NOT communicating to the public by telecommunications.
I'm not saying it can't be done (indeed, I don't belive any of this has ever actually been tested in court), but good fucking luck.
Something like dc++ with a private hub between friends would be a much less challenging scenario to argue, as the general public isn't involved.
Note that the intent of this law was that people would be able to share music (note that this ONLY applies to MUSICAL AUDIO RECORDINGS -- spoken word recordings, or even sound effect recordings (and certainly not video) aren't covered by this) with thier family and friends without it being illegal. Basically, they looked at the fact that most people would be considered criminals under the current laws, and decided that there's really no point in that, and used the situation as an excuse to find another way for the goverenment to get money out of people. But since you're Canadian, you're used to that by now.
Kazaa and such are not for that purpose -- they are intended to share music with the anonymous internet in exchange for getting music you want back from the anonymous interent. If you ever wind up in court, and try and defend yourself with this exception, the intent of the law is going to be taken into account by the judge.
it would actually be "We don't say that kind of word"
Like my epson print drivers that nag me to buy ink online EVERY SINGLE TIME I PRINT WITH THE INK LESS THAN A THIRD FULL?
Yeah, they're a fucking hallucination. I wish.
Fansubbed anime is, and always has been, a copyright violation.
It's just one that the copyright holders have never really minded.
It gets better!
The provincial goverenment here has suggested automatic license suspension for people who haven't paid thier bills for driving on the 407.
That might not sound bad, except for the administrative incompotence of the company running the 407. I've gotten a bill for $0.00 before, and I know perfectly well had I not done something about it, they would have flagged me as defaulted (I paid $0.01 online through my bank, which seemed to make them happy).
There are countless horror stories about how incompotent the 407 administration is -- the fact that the province is considering making thier word law is terrifying. Perfectly expected, knowing the bunch of cronies in Queen's Park right now, but still terrifying.
What is one of the first things that someone does when they have what they consider to be an original idea? I think most people may just go google it to see if they are right in it being an original idea. At that point, the idea isn't anything more than a spark, but what if Google's R&D division is using these sorts of sparks that they see pop up from other people's searches? There will, no doubt, be a million bad ideas, but the one great one may be worth millions, and if I submit it to google, they've got the resources to develop it, and I don't have a leg to stand on in fighting them or proving anything.
Google fields (according to this, which is the most concrete number I can find on google) about 200 million searches a day. That comes out to about 2315 searches per second.
I don't think they're going to notice your idea.
Has anybody tried compiling GNUCash under cygwin?
I checked around for that -- there have been various attempts, but I don't know of anyone who as succeded with it. The other option I was looking into was running it remotely on a seperate Linux box using cygwin's xserver, but I need to set it up, and I'm not sure it's worth the electricity for one application.
Regarding your other question, the documentation is at gnucash.org...
"Currently implemented and supported are the XML file backend, which stores GnuCash data in its native XML file format, and the Postgres SQL backend, which supports multiple simultaneous users of GnuCash."
I tried the current moneydance out a few weeks ago, and it simply Didn't Work. After entering a few transactions, modifying one of them caused it to hang, and eventually crap out with the good 'ol NullPointerException.
If it's improved in the last few weeks, I might give it another shot, but only because GNUCash doesn't run on Windows.
If you're using Mozilla (or, for some reason, NS7), you can go to here and bookmark the "ROT 13 selection" bookmarklet.
Are there any resources around for getting System Shock 2 to work in Win2K? It keeps bombing out on me saying it can't install in Windows NT...