9903.27.01 Distillate and residual fuel oils 100% (including blended fuel oils) and wastes of distillate and residual fuel oils (whether or not blended) (provided for in subheading 2710.19.05, 2710.19.10,2710.99.05 or 2710.99.10)......
So not crude oil, like I implied, but oil nonetheless.
I follow rowing. Rowing is still an entirely amateur sport. It is an athletic endeavour requiring great skill, strength and endurance. It fits the olympic ideal in every way. Yet every olympics since LA84 has attempted to reduce the number of crews attending, or eliminate some events entirely, to make way for new "sports" such as synchronized swimming.
Only fools train all their lives for one shot at olympic glory. You do it for the fun inherent in the sport, or for the competition, or whatever. But when the IOC can simply eliminate your event because it's not telegenic enough, you have to focus on something else.
Hats off to the Ukrainian deputies who rejected the idea of requiring a licence to press CDs. I'm sure the US Congress would not show as much backbone.
I started to say "As I understand the distributed.net scheme", but then I realized I didn't, so here's the cut & pasted version:
RSA Labs is offering a US$10,000 prize to the group that wins this contest. The distribution of the cash will be as follows:
* $1000 to the winner
* $1000 to the winner's team - this would go to the winner if he wasn't affiliated with a team
* $6000 to a non-profit organization, decided by vote
* $2000 to distributed.net for building the network and supplying the code
$2100 and 80 hours community service
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McOwen Case Settled
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It's a pretty steep fine for installing a non-malicious piece of software.
It's not mentioned in the article, but it seems to me that the $2,100 figure was determined by picking an amount "just a little more than what he would have made had he won".
The other poster was correct. Computer science is about more than "pasting functions together".
However, the postI replied to talked about "the real world" and "the software industry". And in the real world, knowing when to use qsort rather than writing your own (hint: always), is important knowledge that is sadly lacking in a large number of CS graduates.
I would guess, from my experience, 95% of people with CS degrees can't write a sort routine.
I'm not a CS grad [rather, Maths], but I would not consider this a problem. What is a problem is the 95% of CS grads who don't know how to find the sort routine in the standard libraries of the language they are using.
I didn't see anywhere in the article where RMS suggests you do this with a procmail filter. If asking a person not to send five-line memos as.doc attachments is going to cause you trouble, don't do it.
Now, if you want to collect those.docs, compare the file sizes with the size of the text within them, and present your client with an estimate of how much bandwidth and mail server disk space they're wasting, you might be on firmer ground.
I switched from AltaVista (which I always ran in text mode) to Google when AltaVista started shoving paid links in with the regular results. Google has sponsored links (I even click on them, if they seem relevant), but they are clearly separated from the actual search results.
It's more akin to only accepting paper resumes that were printed on a particular model of printer. A very large, fault-prone, expensive printer.
Yes, someone who doesn't have access to paper still can't send you a resume. But you also cut out people who do have paper but have chosen a different printer.
We must have read different articles. In the one I read, RMS proposed doing exactly what you are already doing. He suggests editing the boilerplate replies into your own style. If your style is not to complain when US companies harrass CS students in other countries, cut that bit out.
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Intel just aren't as good at being monopolists as are Microsoft.
But they're better at it than major league baseball owners.
I already have a champion against greed and extortion.
Sensitivity of the emotional kind is called for here.
The tin-foil hat brigade need places to live, too.
Perhaps she uses a non-point-and-click mail reader?
shanenewsom sent in linkage to a story running on the BBC which talks about the new Xybernaut Poma.
But slashdot posted a link to a press release.
I believe this is the BBC story alluded to.
Presumably no Chinese or Saudi company wanted to buy them. I mean, presumably they were looking for a buyer in an internet-hostile country?
RIAA estimates that Ukraina makes $75 million a year copying these CDs. The estimated cost of the sanctions is $470 million.
Bear in mind that the RIAA tends to estimate their losses a little on the high side.
From the list of items covered by the sanctions
9903.27.01 Distillate and residual fuel oils 100% (including blended fuel oils) and wastes of distillate and residual fuel oils (whether or not blended) (provided for in subheading 2710.19.05, 2710.19.10,2710.99.05 or 2710.99.10)......
So not crude oil, like I implied, but oil nonetheless.
I follow rowing. Rowing is still an entirely amateur sport. It is an athletic endeavour requiring great skill, strength and endurance. It fits the olympic ideal in every way. Yet every olympics since LA84 has attempted to reduce the number of crews attending, or eliminate some events entirely, to make way for new "sports" such as synchronized swimming.
Only fools train all their lives for one shot at olympic glory. You do it for the fun inherent in the sport, or for the competition, or whatever. But when the IOC can simply eliminate your event because it's not telegenic enough, you have to focus on something else.
Ukraina has copyright laws. What they don't have is a system that controls who may operate a CD press. And rightly so.
Too complicated. If we discover their message they'll just slap us with an injunction under the alien DMCA.
Hats off to the Ukrainian deputies who rejected the idea of requiring a licence to press CDs. I'm sure the US Congress would not show as much backbone.
[among other things]
Of course the US is raising the tariff on oil imported from Ukraina. Neither Bush nor Cheney own any wells over there.
[-1: Cheap shot]
I started to say "As I understand the distributed.net scheme", but then I realized I didn't, so here's the cut & pasted version:
RSA Labs is offering a US$10,000 prize to the group that wins this contest. The distribution of the cash will be as follows:
* $1000 to the winner
* $1000 to the winner's team - this would go to the winner if he wasn't affiliated with a team
* $6000 to a non-profit organization, decided by vote
* $2000 to distributed.net for building the network and supplying the code
(from http://www.distributed.net/rc5/
It's a pretty steep fine for installing a non-malicious piece of software.
It's not mentioned in the article, but it seems to me that the $2,100 figure was determined by picking an amount "just a little more than what he would have made had he won".
How do you think Cardiff Arms Park got its name then, boyo?
-1: Bad welsh accent.
NY and LA are old cities, whereas Cardiff is being built from scratch.
Right.
What he said.
The other poster was correct. Computer science is about more than "pasting functions together".
However, the post I replied to talked about "the real world" and "the software industry". And in the real world, knowing when to use qsort rather than writing your own (hint: always), is important knowledge that is sadly lacking in a large number of CS graduates.
I would guess, from my experience, 95% of people with CS degrees can't write a sort routine.
I'm not a CS grad [rather, Maths], but I would not consider this a problem. What is a problem is the 95% of CS grads who don't know how to find the sort routine in the standard libraries of the language they are using.
... when their bar tab exceeds their tuition.
Michaelmas term of 1986, in my case.
I didn't see anywhere in the article where RMS suggests you do this with a procmail filter. If asking a person not to send five-line memos as .doc attachments is going to cause you trouble, don't do it.
.docs, compare the file sizes with the size of the text within them, and present your client with an estimate of how much bandwidth and mail server disk space they're wasting, you might be on firmer ground.
Now, if you want to collect those
Yes, it is OK to hate people and wish they were dead because of their actions.
Top of my list would be people who fly passenger jets into tall buildings.
People who buy NSync CDs are a little further down.
I switched from AltaVista (which I always ran in text mode) to Google when AltaVista started shoving paid links in with the regular results. Google has sponsored links (I even click on them, if they seem relevant), but they are clearly separated from the actual search results.
It's more akin to only accepting paper resumes that were printed on a particular model of printer. A very large, fault-prone, expensive printer.
Yes, someone who doesn't have access to paper still can't send you a resume. But you also cut out people who do have paper but have chosen a different printer.
We must have read different articles. In the one I read, RMS proposed doing exactly what you are already doing. He suggests editing the boilerplate replies into your own style. If your style is not to complain when US companies harrass CS students in other countries, cut that bit out.