Isn't there a time factor missing? If a dedicated mapper can exhaustively map a city of 40k inhabitants in however much time, can't that same mapper map two cities (or one pop-80k city) in twice as long? Or is mapping somehow an ongoing activity? (I can imagine things needing changes, but I can't imaging that being as huge a project as mapping the city the first time around)
There's some hardware out there that does that, look for hardware you can use with Asterisk (I remember thinking of setting up a PBX, it was a bit pricey but I don't remember details). Also, if you've got a soldering iron or a crimper you could just create a RJ45-to-mic-plug adapter, not sure if that would work though.
Excuse me if I'm being exceptionally stupid today, but it seems to me that you'll be paying (approximately) the same price as buying the phone. Remember, if you buy the phone at the beginning of the year, you'll pay full price anyway, so it's really the same price, just over time. The main difference is, you're tied to the provider for that year, which is why the providers like that plan so much.
I'm betting what your parent was talking about was a class about government - what might be called "social studies" or "civics", but incorporating many of the specifics of a specific government, in this case Florida. Which is all but useless to someone who doesn't live in Florida, and it's a pity it can't be exchanged for a "government class" in their home state (country?)
Your second point is not entirely correct, because the "good" users got at least some of their ratio from seeding to the "bad" users. This means that while G increases and R' decreases, R decreases as well. I agree this is only a problem if the enforced ratio is too high, but I would like to add that an enforced ratio of 1.0 is "too high", IMO.
I once participated in such a system, and encountered a very similar problem: In this case, not only was I getting the tail-end of many torrents (due to being in a different timezone from many other participants), but there was a very high supply (one seeder had an unbelievably fat pipe). Fortunately, the system on that particular tracker was slightly modified, in that the sharing ratio didn't apply after a certain number of hours; I think that's a very efficient solution for timely torrents (i.e., all torrents which have a "tail end").
Not is an unary binary operation. unary refers to the single argument, binary refers to the domain
Are you sure you don't mean "boolean"? I've never heard the word "binary" used in that context. Not is a unary boolean operation, certainly, but I've never heard it called a binary operation.
Could you perhaps consider it an "encyclopedia in the making"? It appears that there is talk over at Wikipedia to publish a version 1.0 of the encyclopedia, which should have "a greater degree of accuracy and reliability". The fact that pre-1.0 versions are useful to many people should say something about the future accuracy of version 1.0, and about the results of said social experiment.
I think that what is happening is that more and more similar 'unixes' are being built that will all dilute the amount of time spent on these systems in total (assuming it's a zero sum game).
But is it? I don't really think it is. I know this has been said over and over, but many people don't seem to understand: In the eyes of J. Random Kernel-Developer,
spending time on developing his own kernel or someone else's is not a choice between equals. In many cases it's a choice between doing something fun and doing work; so really, J. R. K-D will either develop his own kernel or do nothing.
Now, in a company setting, you are pretty much correct: A developer can either spend time on project A or project B, but he won't do nothing (or if he does, fire his ass and hire someone else). But that's not the way things go in the I'm-doing-this-for-fun-on-the-weekend world.
(P.S., no disrespect intended to you, jacquesm, it's just that I see this misconception a lot on/.
P.P.S., J. R. K-D is a male. I know Jane R. K-D exists too, but she's on holiday)
Indeed it's theft, but it's theft of $10 (if it's successful), not of $30.
Damaging an item in a way that can be repaired is also not the same as stealing the whole item. You could argue that the item loses value, depending on what type of damage is done, but not 100% of the value.
If you want to be pedantic, you'l note that the UPC wasn't stolen at all, just moved from place to place. I've moved boxes of cereal around the shelves, did I steal anything?
No, because they didn't try to steal the $30 product, they tried to pay $20 for it. By your calculations, they stole $20+$10=$30. But, when someone else went to buy the original $20 item, they probably just looked up the price and charged them $20. The real value of the steal was $10+(five minutes of some cashier's time at minimum wage)
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Excuse my barging in, but I'd like to point out that this is exactly why the GPL (and, indeed, any law) has to be verbose. Imagine if the GPL said something like what your grandparent said, people wouldn't always understand and we'd have a mess. This way, if you RTFlicense (I know many people don't, but that's beside the point), you can pretty much know what you're doing.
The fact that it gets out of hand sometimes (think tax codes), I can accept, but I don't think that's the case with the GPL.
I agree with your sentiment, but is "communism" the correct word? I'm just asking if RMS indeed indeed calls himself a communist, or is that your word?
Actually, it was even more stupid: The book was asking what the total temperature was of all the stars. Averaging temperatures at least makes some kind of sense, but you won't convince me that two people put together in a room have a temperature of 72 degres Celsius.
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Paper sheets (A4 and friends) all have the ration of 1:sqrt(2), not the golden ratio.
Isn't there a time factor missing? If a dedicated mapper can exhaustively map a city of 40k inhabitants in however much time, can't that same mapper map two cities (or one pop-80k city) in twice as long? Or is mapping somehow an ongoing activity? (I can imagine things needing changes, but I can't imaging that being as huge a project as mapping the city the first time around)
Good to know I'm not the only one.
There's some hardware out there that does that, look for hardware you can use with Asterisk (I remember thinking of setting up a PBX, it was a bit pricey but I don't remember details). Also, if you've got a soldering iron or a crimper you could just create a RJ45-to-mic-plug adapter, not sure if that would work though.
I'm pretty sure the "sucker" in question is the time circuits. The car's engine, as is established in the third movie, runs on gasoline.
What your parent post meant was indeed that laser was derived from the acronym, and "to lase" was derived from that. So, it seems you're in agreement.
Excuse me if I'm being exceptionally stupid today, but it seems to me that you'll be paying (approximately) the same price as buying the phone. Remember, if you buy the phone at the beginning of the year, you'll pay full price anyway, so it's really the same price, just over time. The main difference is, you're tied to the provider for that year, which is why the providers like that plan so much.
OK, what am I missing?
Does it work with a bank/credit card from a different bank? If not, that's your answer: US banks want to support other banks' customers.
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Any chance I can get one of those flyers? I think that would be a great idea to bring here (I'm not in the US).
I'm betting what your parent was talking about was a class about government - what might be called "social studies" or "civics", but incorporating many of the specifics of a specific government, in this case Florida. Which is all but useless to someone who doesn't live in Florida, and it's a pity it can't be exchanged for a "government class" in their home state (country?)
And saying something that is clearly (contextually) wrong for the purposes of humor has no absolutely no precedent in language.
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Can you give us an example of that?
Your second point is not entirely correct, because the "good" users got at least some of their ratio from seeding to the "bad" users. This means that while G increases and R' decreases, R decreases as well. I agree this is only a problem if the enforced ratio is too high, but I would like to add that an enforced ratio of 1.0 is "too high", IMO.
I once participated in such a system, and encountered a very similar problem: In this case, not only was I getting the tail-end of many torrents (due to being in a different timezone from many other participants), but there was a very high supply (one seeder had an unbelievably fat pipe). Fortunately, the system on that particular tracker was slightly modified, in that the sharing ratio didn't apply after a certain number of hours; I think that's a very efficient solution for timely torrents (i.e., all torrents which have a "tail end").
Not is an unary binary operation. unary refers to the single argument, binary refers to the domain
Are you sure you don't mean "boolean"? I've never heard the word "binary" used in that context. Not is a unary boolean operation, certainly, but I've never heard it called a binary operation.
Could you perhaps consider it an "encyclopedia in the making"? It appears that there is talk over at Wikipedia to publish a version 1.0 of the encyclopedia, which should have "a greater degree of accuracy and reliability". The fact that pre-1.0 versions are useful to many people should say something about the future accuracy of version 1.0, and about the results of said social experiment.
But is it? I don't really think it is. I know this has been said over and over, but many people don't seem to understand: In the eyes of J. Random Kernel-Developer, spending time on developing his own kernel or someone else's is not a choice between equals. In many cases it's a choice between doing something fun and doing work; so really, J. R. K-D will either develop his own kernel or do nothing.
Now, in a company setting, you are pretty much correct: A developer can either spend time on project A or project B, but he won't do nothing (or if he does, fire his ass and hire someone else). But that's not the way things go in the I'm-doing-this-for-fun-on-the-weekend world.
(P.S., no disrespect intended to you, jacquesm, it's just that I see this misconception a lot on /.
P.P.S., J. R. K-D is a male. I know Jane R. K-D exists too, but she's on holiday)
There is. It's considered privileged communication and neither the police nor the courts can compel a priest to divulge it.
Yes, the priest can't be foced to divulge the information, but the question is, if a priest chooses to, is he breaking the law?
Damaging an item in a way that can be repaired is also not the same as stealing the whole item. You could argue that the item loses value, depending on what type of damage is done, but not 100% of the value.
If you want to be pedantic, you'l note that the UPC wasn't stolen at all, just moved from place to place. I've moved boxes of cereal around the shelves, did I steal anything?
You got me wrong, what I said was $10 PLUS five minutes of work. The five minutes of work is negligible when put next to the $10, of course.
No, because they didn't try to steal the $30 product, they tried to pay $20 for it. By your calculations, they stole $20+$10=$30.
But, when someone else went to buy the original $20 item, they probably just looked up the price and charged them $20. The real value of the steal was $10+(five minutes of some cashier's time at minimum wage)
The fact that it gets out of hand sometimes (think tax codes), I can accept, but I don't think that's the case with the GPL.
I agree with your sentiment, but is "communism" the correct word? I'm just asking if RMS indeed indeed calls himself a communist, or is that your word?
Actually, it was even more stupid: The book was asking what the total temperature was of all the stars. Averaging temperatures at least makes some kind of sense, but you won't convince me that two people put together in a room have a temperature of 72 degres Celsius.
Your parent meant "v2 only" as opposed to the "v2 or later" language that is more common.