IANAL, but the Mono business has been cleared up (unless there are non-Microsoft patents lurking somewhere).
A legally-binding decision not to sue is a legally binding decision not to sue. No respectable judge would even agree to hear the case unless you decided to rip off some bit of code that Microsoft didn't release.
As somebody who works for the government, I take your comment as a personal insult.
If anything, the efficiency of the government is greater than private industry, thanks to the intense level of scrutiny we're put through. (If anything, the extensive accountability measures that we have to undergo are the one thing that hinders our efficiency)
Pretty much every company bigger than 10-20 employees has some sort of auditing system in place. Auditing is a good practice, and catches things such as this -- the only difference with the government is that audits are made public.
The method was somewhat popular in the early 20th-century, but seems to have fallen from favor after WWII. That said, the Coliseum is still standing, despite a great many years of abandonment and deliberate abuse. That said, it's a prime target for historical preservation, given that it's an architectural oddity, has a rich history (the Beatles played there!), and is in dire need of repair.
Behringer gear tends to be extremely hit-or-miss. You can expect it to either fail immediately after the warranty period has passed, or to last decades. If you're doing any sort of live performances, I probably don't need to tell you why this is an extremely bad thing.
Oh the other hand, if you're playing small gigs, have spares, and find the gear to be of acceptable quality, then I'd say it's worth it! We had a set of Behringer speakers in our rental stocks a few years back that blew the equivalent JBL/Yamaha products out of the water, only cost us about half as much, and were nigh indestructible.
On the other hand, we've also encountered Behringer mixers with scratchy pots that would fail if you looked at them the wrong way.
Lots of external USB/FireWire audio interfaces have XLR inputs (and sometimes even outputs). If you're doing "serious recording," you'll want to own such a device.
Prices vary tremendously based upon the quality of the ADCs and preamps, although the cheap ones are still pretty good.
The biggest problem is no one has ever given me an answer as to why my money has to go to pay the medical bills of my neighbor who smokes half a pack a day, or my neighbor on the other side who thinks it's funny to drink a case of beer each weekend by themselves.
If your neighbor has group-based health insurance, you're probably already doing just that.
Ambulance shortages aren't exactly unique to socialized medicine. All emergency medical facilities have to practice some sort of triage.
Unfortunately, we can't reasonably justify doubling the size of our emergency medical response teams for those once-in-a-thousand cases where it would be necessary to have extra staff/ambulances on hand. Also unfortunately, these once-in-a-thousand cases happen every few days over the span of a big country. Statistics can be a bitch sometimes.
Also, emergency services in the US are already almost always run by local governments.
If the only protection of our freedom lies in the fact that "pushing papers is difficult," then we probably need to amend the laws, rather than opposing technological innovations that the private sector embraced decades ago.
However, the intended use of cat is to concatenate (join) multiple files or strings (hence the name).
Wikipedia provides a fairly self-explanatory example of this functionality:
cat Morning.txt Evening.txt > Day.txt
which joins Morning.txt and Evening.txt to produce Day.txt with the contents of both.
The carat (>) indicates that the output is being redirected to a file -- Day.txt in this case. It could alternatively be piped into a printer, serial port, etc. If you don't redirect the output, cat simply displays the contents of the resulting file on the screen (hence the de-facto use of conveniently displaying files on screen with a 3-letter command).
As far as I can tell, no new information is being collected. They're simply moving from paper to bits -- the sort of thing that most Slashdotters would have encouraged before we were invaded by the Ayn Rand disciples. It makes the government more accessible, convenient, and efficient.
Pet peeve: Why is hyperbolic rhetoric like this increasingly being modded to +5 Insightful?
You could have easily stated that China has a history of blocking non-vetted search engines without the sarcastic comment and nerdy in-joke. Rhetoric like this looks halfway-legitimate to somebody who is not intimately familiar with the topic being discussed, and helps spread misinformation. As far as I'm aware, there's no official known policy, and certainly no "motto"
Slightly offtopic, but I bring this up, because I keep seeing throngs of protesters visibly upset because the healthcare bill will pay for abortions and death-panels, despite the fact that these two claims are bold-faced lies. Misinformation and sarcastic/hyperbolic rhetoric is having a *huge* adverse impact on the state of political discourse, and knowledge in general in our society. Remember: your words, no matter where you say them, or how insignificant they are, do have tangible consequences.
I don't implicitly trust China, although you could certainly provide plenty of legitimate and verifiable evidence to support that claim. The only mod that this post could possibly deserve is +Funny. If this passes as "information" or "insight," then we have failed as a society.
The Americans really need a single payer system like the rest of the world
You haven't been paying attention to the balance sheet shenanigans going on in Greece, have you? Does anyone really know how expensive these programs are or if any government in the developed world is actually solvent or not?
If you haven't noticed, we're not doing so well ourselves.
As others have pointed out, the current generation are not the ones bleeding the Medicare and Social Security systems dry (after repeatedly voting to cut funding so that those systems would collapse once the baby boomer generation passed through). Cut me a break -- I'm 22, and expect to be working until the day I die because of my parents' generation's stupidity.
I don't expect any entitlements, and have received virtually none over the course of my life. However, I'm going to vote to support them, because I readily recognize just how much better they would have made my life.
That said, I'm failing to see how the healthcare bill sets up any entitlements for anybody except for the desperately poor (who already receive free emergency care under most state laws).
Yep. Given the cost of bandwidth, the cost savings associated with using a more efficient codec could be substantial, even in light of the $5 million max. H.264 licensing fee.
The problem with this strategy is that captions often have typos, and are not properly annotated. As such, they are not considered part of the official congressional record. (Live TV captioners have a tough job. I don't envy them one bit, especially since Senators have been known to mumble from time to time.)
Fortunately, we have official congressional records. They've been available online (and in libraries) for about as long as we've had libraries or internets, and contain this wonderful information and more. The online editions are in plaintext, which can easily be searched, parsed, and compressed.
You're far better off searching the official records, and then looking up the corresponding C-SPAN clip, which now takes all of 15 seconds.
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IANAL, but the Mono business has been cleared up (unless there are non-Microsoft patents lurking somewhere).
A legally-binding decision not to sue is a legally binding decision not to sue. No respectable judge would even agree to hear the case unless you decided to rip off some bit of code that Microsoft didn't release.
Mono is safe. Stop spreading this BS.
As somebody who works for the government, I take your comment as a personal insult.
If anything, the efficiency of the government is greater than private industry, thanks to the intense level of scrutiny we're put through. (If anything, the extensive accountability measures that we have to undergo are the one thing that hinders our efficiency)
Pretty much every company bigger than 10-20 employees has some sort of auditing system in place. Auditing is a good practice, and catches things such as this -- the only difference with the government is that audits are made public.
I work in a TV studio. As far as I'm aware, we don't have a single device that uses HDMI as an interconnect.
Wouldn't it be fairly trivial to fake those screenshots?
The Washington Coliseum in DC has a thin-shell concrete roof supported by an odd concrete exoskeleton. The construction method is known as the Zeiss-Dywidag process.
The method was somewhat popular in the early 20th-century, but seems to have fallen from favor after WWII. That said, the Coliseum is still standing, despite a great many years of abandonment and deliberate abuse. That said, it's a prime target for historical preservation, given that it's an architectural oddity, has a rich history (the Beatles played there!), and is in dire need of repair.
Watch the video linked to by the parent poster. It's arguably even more impressive than Adobe's demo...
Behringer gear tends to be extremely hit-or-miss. You can expect it to either fail immediately after the warranty period has passed, or to last decades. If you're doing any sort of live performances, I probably don't need to tell you why this is an extremely bad thing.
Oh the other hand, if you're playing small gigs, have spares, and find the gear to be of acceptable quality, then I'd say it's worth it! We had a set of Behringer speakers in our rental stocks a few years back that blew the equivalent JBL/Yamaha products out of the water, only cost us about half as much, and were nigh indestructible.
On the other hand, we've also encountered Behringer mixers with scratchy pots that would fail if you looked at them the wrong way.
Lots of external USB/FireWire audio interfaces have XLR inputs (and sometimes even outputs). If you're doing "serious recording," you'll want to own such a device.
Prices vary tremendously based upon the quality of the ADCs and preamps, although the cheap ones are still pretty good.
The days off are presumably to allow them to catch up on work, and to go home and visit their constituents.
It really is the biggest perk of working as a telephone operator...
The biggest problem is no one has ever given me an answer as to why my money has to go to pay the medical bills of my neighbor who smokes half a pack a day, or my neighbor on the other side who thinks it's funny to drink a case of beer each weekend by themselves.
If your neighbor has group-based health insurance, you're probably already doing just that.
Ambulance shortages aren't exactly unique to socialized medicine. All emergency medical facilities have to practice some sort of triage.
Unfortunately, we can't reasonably justify doubling the size of our emergency medical response teams for those once-in-a-thousand cases where it would be necessary to have extra staff/ambulances on hand. Also unfortunately, these once-in-a-thousand cases happen every few days over the span of a big country. Statistics can be a bitch sometimes.
Also, emergency services in the US are already almost always run by local governments.
If the only protection of our freedom lies in the fact that "pushing papers is difficult," then we probably need to amend the laws, rather than opposing technological innovations that the private sector embraced decades ago.
This is the "de facto" use of cat.
However, the intended use of cat is to concatenate (join) multiple files or strings (hence the name).
Wikipedia provides a fairly self-explanatory example of this functionality:
which joins Morning.txt and Evening.txt to produce Day.txt with the contents of both.
The carat (>) indicates that the output is being redirected to a file -- Day.txt in this case. It could alternatively be piped into a printer, serial port, etc. If you don't redirect the output, cat simply displays the contents of the resulting file on the screen (hence the de-facto use of conveniently displaying files on screen with a 3-letter command).
Err, what?
As far as I can tell, no new information is being collected. They're simply moving from paper to bits -- the sort of thing that most Slashdotters would have encouraged before we were invaded by the Ayn Rand disciples. It makes the government more accessible, convenient, and efficient.
Pet peeve: Why is hyperbolic rhetoric like this increasingly being modded to +5 Insightful?
You could have easily stated that China has a history of blocking non-vetted search engines without the sarcastic comment and nerdy in-joke. Rhetoric like this looks halfway-legitimate to somebody who is not intimately familiar with the topic being discussed, and helps spread misinformation. As far as I'm aware, there's no official known policy, and certainly no "motto"
Slightly offtopic, but I bring this up, because I keep seeing throngs of protesters visibly upset because the healthcare bill will pay for abortions and death-panels, despite the fact that these two claims are bold-faced lies. Misinformation and sarcastic/hyperbolic rhetoric is having a *huge* adverse impact on the state of political discourse, and knowledge in general in our society. Remember: your words, no matter where you say them, or how insignificant they are, do have tangible consequences.
I don't implicitly trust China, although you could certainly provide plenty of legitimate and verifiable evidence to support that claim. The only mod that this post could possibly deserve is +Funny. If this passes as "information" or "insight," then we have failed as a society.
Tears.....OF JOY!
I do care if the people who have guns and the power to have me locked up profile me
They already have that power. How does tracking your yogurt-buying habits change that?
You haven't been paying attention to the balance sheet shenanigans going on in Greece, have you? Does anyone really know how expensive these programs are or if any government in the developed world is actually solvent or not?
If you haven't noticed, we're not doing so well ourselves.
As others have pointed out, the current generation are not the ones bleeding the Medicare and Social Security systems dry (after repeatedly voting to cut funding so that those systems would collapse once the baby boomer generation passed through). Cut me a break -- I'm 22, and expect to be working until the day I die because of my parents' generation's stupidity.
I don't expect any entitlements, and have received virtually none over the course of my life. However, I'm going to vote to support them, because I readily recognize just how much better they would have made my life.
That said, I'm failing to see how the healthcare bill sets up any entitlements for anybody except for the desperately poor (who already receive free emergency care under most state laws).
Yep. Given the cost of bandwidth, the cost savings associated with using a more efficient codec could be substantial, even in light of the $5 million max. H.264 licensing fee.
We're givin' her all she's got, cap'n!
The Congressional Record is available and easily searchable, which would permit you to do the same thing, although I suppose it's a bit less dramatic.
The problem with this strategy is that captions often have typos, and are not properly annotated. As such, they are not considered part of the official congressional record. (Live TV captioners have a tough job. I don't envy them one bit, especially since Senators have been known to mumble from time to time.)
Fortunately, we have official congressional records. They've been available online (and in libraries) for about as long as we've had libraries or internets, and contain this wonderful information and more. The online editions are in plaintext, which can easily be searched, parsed, and compressed.
You're far better off searching the official records, and then looking up the corresponding C-SPAN clip, which now takes all of 15 seconds.