Basically what Machiavelli goes on to say is that troops don't really fight for money, but for vision and belief in the Prince.
I'm not fighting for anybody. I'm working to produce profit for your company. If I do so, I expect to be well paid for my services. If I don't, then why are you employing me? Time to part company.
In short, I am explicitly mercenery about how I work. I have no 'vision and belief in the Prince', I have vision in belief in my family. The better I do at work, the more they benefit. And better is measured purely in terms of how much money I can bring back home and how much time I can spend with them.
Vision and belief in the Prince. Pah. Who do you think the Prince has vision in, hmm? Himself. His successes accrue entirely to himself.
By co-incidence, there's an Ebay-related thread going in in alt.tv.prisoner right now about Ebay. Specifically, about the fake Patrick McGoohan autographs being offered, and the fact that one item described as a poster is actually just the centre of an old fan magazine cut out.
He does seem to act a bit rashly, and seems to leap before he looks too often.
Blunkett used to be the leader of Sheffield City Council, which is the city I came from.
He was the person who plunged it catastrophically in to debt to finance the World Student Games - an event we were told would attract massive world interest. Hmm. It attracted just about none.
The reason he did it was that he was convinced Neil Kinnock was about to win the next election and so provide a free bail-out to his pals. Remember the infamous Labour Rally in Sheffield, just before the General Election of...err...sometime in the late eighties/early nineties? When Labour acted as if they'd already won, when in fact they lost for a third straight time with Kinnock as leader?
Blunkett jumped out of the council as fast as he could, leaving some non-entity (Clive Betts, never achieved anything of national note) to take his place and hence the blame. The city finances were trashed, with huge amounts of debt due to a failed event.
I'm amazed more people don't bring up Blunkett's political history when interviewing him. It's almost as if the past just never happened.
see how much an idiot with a gun can do to public emotion (and health). is it then a real priority to spend who-knows-how-much on logging user activity? IMHO we have a priority problem here.
Who's 'we'? If you're referring to the Washington situation, then you should be aware that the UK already has extremely tight gun control laws. Possibly the US might look to making those a priority, but the UK already has.
Despite the search criteria 'searchking' being typed in, searchking.com isn't even listed on the first page of results
...because no-one else links to them. I own the domain Astirion.com, a mere placeholder for an email address, and Google doesn't list me at all if you search for Astirion.
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Ian
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If you have a laptop with a decent screen, you can curl up with it almost as well as a book.
I have a laptop with a 1600x1200 screen, and it doesn't remotely replace a book. The resolution is still too low (even with sub-pixel anti-aliasing - ClearType on XP), it's heavy, it's warm, the fan comes on every so often, it runs out of batteries, I can't use it one-handed one the London Underground...
Well, my music is here. It's not very good, and it's not professional quality by a long shot as most of it was done ten years ago. But if you want it, download it and listen to it.
Not a thing the RIAA can do about it. And that's the answer - you don't want them to control it? Easy - don't use music that they control.
These books are unlikely to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. They are things like "Elmer's Day", where Elmer (a patchwork elephant) wakes up, has a bath in the river, and goes back to to sleep again. Total: about five pages, and those pages are card, not paper. They're about 95% pictures too.
You also get ones with textures in them - you know, "feel my furry tummy" with a picture of a teddy bear and a tuft of fabric for the baby to touch. Then there's the glittery ones...that kind of thing.
It's not really to teach her to read, more to get her used to the idea of books and also to the idea of someone reading to her.
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Ian
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We used to guilletine standard books (ie. those still in print), because they were easily replaceable. They'd then be fed through an automatic document feeder, converted to 300dpi TIFFs, then the book would be restiched by another company involved in the contract.
For the rare stuff, like original Isaac Newton Principalia Optica and the French Academy of Science journals from the 1700s, we'd take photographs of every page, then scan the photographs. The original book never went through and scanner, as it was too frail.
Sounds a bit less destructive than the process you're describing.
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Ian
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Recently I was asked by my boss to find some information for his kids' homework using the net at work...If I were a kid again I bet I'd be online just as much as I am nowdays as an IT professional.
I entirely agree for research into factual items. My fiancee has recently 'gone back to school' and put herself through a four-year college course to become a qualified dispensing optician. Day release, so she had to wait a week between asking questions of her tutors. In this situation, the net was invaluable - we found online optics papers all over the place (quite a lot at the University of Texas, I seem to remember, and we're in the UK).
There's always fiction however. That doesn't yet lend itself to web publishing, in my opinion. Well, at least not online reading anyway - you could always download and print. Just as important as factual research is the broadening of the mind that comes with reading a 'good' piece of fiction. Your definition of good might be different to mine, but I'm sure you'll see what I mean.
Your point about copyright is still valid, but Project Gutenberg is making the rest possible.
I worked on a project to digitise every book in the French National Library (EBPF, or Every P****** Book in France, as our overworked scanner operators used to call it. A worthwhile thing - not only did it allow multiple people to look at the same book simultaneously, but it also allowed rare books to be preserved - they weren't handled anymore, so they weren't damaged.
how many people actually visit libraries outside of schooling these days?
Quick question - are you a parent? If not, I can understand this question. If you are, then I'd be surprised if your kid didn't use the library in some form. I used to as a kid, and even though our daughter is currently only eight months' old, we go to the library and pick out baby books for her. This works well - she gets bored of things really quickly, so being able to return the books and pick new ones is a big bonus.
Mac System 7 used to have a file copying progress dialog bug. You'd be happily waiting, the progress bar would reach 2 pixels from the end, then 1....then -1, then -10....huh?
Basically the progress bar would march right off the end of the dialog and continue drawing itself across the desktop. It would evenutally march its way right off the screen...
Unless it has to be localized for pounds, and they haven't done so.
Exactly. It's not just the currency - that would be fairly trivial I imagine. It's more all the tax rules that go with it. I use Quicken to run both home accounts and my small business, so tax rules are vital to me.
Still, as far as I'm aware it's just data and not code. I really don't see why Intuit don't do it - they localise the PC version, so why not the Mac?
Firstly those are not relevent to whether she switched.
They are relevant as to whether she is truthful, however. Credibility is destroyed at the outset.
What difference does it matter that her writing was straight out of the outlook manual?
It matters because she saying how cool it was that she had discovered all these things. Intuitively, because it was sooo easy. In reality, she just cut and pasted the manual.
Anyway, there's no reason they can't put up a bit of fiction about what it "could" be like switching from Apple.
None whatsoever. Label it as such and put the article up.
They do insist that she actually switched to XP.
Congratulations. I'm an XP user myself. Now tell the truth about how it happened...
"First they came for those accused of murder..."...Make a bit more sense?
Yes, and now we are in complete agreement. Once again, there's nothing intrinsically wrong about being accused of murder - the thing that is intrinsically wrong is being guilty of murder.
With that clarification, we're back into using the quote to illustrate why you should speak out against the persecution of particular groups. So yes, that makes a lot more sense.
There is a saying about this: "The essential difference between Europe and the US is that in Europe 200 miles is a long way, and in the US 200 years is a long time."
Now I do like that quote. Yes - whilst I lived in York for a while I regularly went in buildings some 400 years old and thought nothing of it.
I do like the section where he finds he's genetically similar to the geneticist testing him....
We check a map of Britain on his wall, and sure enough, the Sykes family's homeland of Yorkshire is less than 200 miles south of Perth.
Err...Britain's not really that all that big. 200 miles is considered a fair distance here. I'm from Yorkshire originally, and there's no way I would have considered Perth to be close.
I've sinced moved further south. It's 160 miles between where I came from (Sheffield in Yorkshire) and where I moved to (Marlow in Buckinghamshire). That too is considered a fair hop, although travelling that distance is something I'm completely used to now. But some of my friends in Yorkshire thing it's a long way to go.
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I'm not fighting for anybody. I'm working to produce profit for your company. If I do so, I expect to be well paid for my services. If I don't, then why are you employing me? Time to part company.
In short, I am explicitly mercenery about how I work. I have no 'vision and belief in the Prince', I have vision in belief in my family. The better I do at work, the more they benefit. And better is measured purely in terms of how much money I can bring back home and how much time I can spend with them.
Vision and belief in the Prince. Pah. Who do you think the Prince has vision in, hmm? Himself. His successes accrue entirely to himself.
Cheers,
Ian
By co-incidence, there's an Ebay-related thread going in in alt.tv.prisoner right now about Ebay. Specifically, about the fake Patrick McGoohan autographs being offered, and the fact that one item described as a poster is actually just the centre of an old fan magazine cut out.
Cheers,
Ian
They may have said it, but I disagree entirely. 'Subdued' perhaps. Scared. But not polite.
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Ian
Hooray!
Ah. Err...
Sort of like arguing over which tissue paper is stronger.
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Ian
Blunkett used to be the leader of Sheffield City Council, which is the city I came from.
He was the person who plunged it catastrophically in to debt to finance the World Student Games - an event we were told would attract massive world interest. Hmm. It attracted just about none.
The reason he did it was that he was convinced Neil Kinnock was about to win the next election and so provide a free bail-out to his pals. Remember the infamous Labour Rally in Sheffield, just before the General Election of...err...sometime in the late eighties/early nineties? When Labour acted as if they'd already won, when in fact they lost for a third straight time with Kinnock as leader?
Blunkett jumped out of the council as fast as he could, leaving some non-entity (Clive Betts, never achieved anything of national note) to take his place and hence the blame. The city finances were trashed, with huge amounts of debt due to a failed event.
I'm amazed more people don't bring up Blunkett's political history when interviewing him. It's almost as if the past just never happened.
Cheers,
Ian
Who's 'we'? If you're referring to the Washington situation, then you should be aware that the UK already has extremely tight gun control laws. Possibly the US might look to making those a priority, but the UK already has.
Cheers,
Ian
And bandwidth. I tell you, don't have "Mail me notifications" switched on and then accidently get first post...
Poor little mailbox...
Cheers,
Ian
He's achieved a transcendental state now? What are the kernel people going to do when he finally ascends to Nirvana?
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Ian
Cheers,
Ian
I have a laptop with a 1600x1200 screen, and it doesn't remotely replace a book. The resolution is still too low (even with sub-pixel anti-aliasing - ClearType on XP), it's heavy, it's warm, the fan comes on every so often, it runs out of batteries, I can't use it one-handed one the London Underground...
Nope. Still books for the moment.
Cheers,
Ian
Not a thing the RIAA can do about it. And that's the answer - you don't want them to control it? Easy - don't use music that they control.
Cheers,
Ian
These books are unlikely to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. They are things like "Elmer's Day", where Elmer (a patchwork elephant) wakes up, has a bath in the river, and goes back to to sleep again. Total: about five pages, and those pages are card, not paper. They're about 95% pictures too.
You also get ones with textures in them - you know, "feel my furry tummy" with a picture of a teddy bear and a tuft of fabric for the baby to touch. Then there's the glittery ones...that kind of thing.
It's not really to teach her to read, more to get her used to the idea of books and also to the idea of someone reading to her.
Cheers,
Ian
For the rare stuff, like original Isaac Newton Principalia Optica and the French Academy of Science journals from the 1700s, we'd take photographs of every page, then scan the photographs. The original book never went through and scanner, as it was too frail.
Sounds a bit less destructive than the process you're describing.
Cheers,
Ian
I entirely agree for research into factual items. My fiancee has recently 'gone back to school' and put herself through a four-year college course to become a qualified dispensing optician. Day release, so she had to wait a week between asking questions of her tutors. In this situation, the net was invaluable - we found online optics papers all over the place (quite a lot at the University of Texas, I seem to remember, and we're in the UK).
There's always fiction however. That doesn't yet lend itself to web publishing, in my opinion. Well, at least not online reading anyway - you could always download and print. Just as important as factual research is the broadening of the mind that comes with reading a 'good' piece of fiction. Your definition of good might be different to mine, but I'm sure you'll see what I mean.
Cheers,
Ian
Err...sorry, should have been EPBF.
Cheers,
Ian
Almost, but not quite, like Project Gutenberg, in fact.
Your point about copyright is still valid, but Project Gutenberg is making the rest possible.
I worked on a project to digitise every book in the French National Library (EBPF, or Every P****** Book in France, as our overworked scanner operators used to call it. A worthwhile thing - not only did it allow multiple people to look at the same book simultaneously, but it also allowed rare books to be preserved - they weren't handled anymore, so they weren't damaged.
how many people actually visit libraries outside of schooling these days?
Quick question - are you a parent? If not, I can understand this question. If you are, then I'd be surprised if your kid didn't use the library in some form. I used to as a kid, and even though our daughter is currently only eight months' old, we go to the library and pick out baby books for her. This works well - she gets bored of things really quickly, so being able to return the books and pick new ones is a big bonus.
Cheers,
Ian
Mac System 7 used to have a file copying progress dialog bug. You'd be happily waiting, the progress bar would reach 2 pixels from the end, then 1....then -1, then -10....huh?
Basically the progress bar would march right off the end of the dialog and continue drawing itself across the desktop. It would evenutally march its way right off the screen...
Cheers,
Ian
Exactly. It's not just the currency - that would be fairly trivial I imagine. It's more all the tax rules that go with it. I use Quicken to run both home accounts and my small business, so tax rules are vital to me.
Still, as far as I'm aware it's just data and not code. I really don't see why Intuit don't do it - they localise the PC version, so why not the Mac?
Cheers,
Ian
They are relevant as to whether she is truthful, however. Credibility is destroyed at the outset.
What difference does it matter that her writing was straight out of the outlook manual?
It matters because she saying how cool it was that she had discovered all these things. Intuitively, because it was sooo easy. In reality, she just cut and pasted the manual.
Anyway, there's no reason they can't put up a bit of fiction about what it "could" be like switching from Apple.
None whatsoever. Label it as such and put the article up.
They do insist that she actually switched to XP.
Congratulations. I'm an XP user myself. Now tell the truth about how it happened...
Cheers,
Ian
Not entirely straightforward? Rather like that sentence then?
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Ian
Such as who she actually was, what she looked like and the fact that her writing was actually straight from the Outlook manual...
Cheers,
Ian
Would add to the Gollum/Frodo thing at the end though, wouldn't it? To paraphrase Brain Dead...
Sam: "You ate Frodo!"
Gollum: "Not all of him..."
Cheers,
Ian
(Brain Dead is also called Dead Alive in some places)
Yes, and now we are in complete agreement. Once again, there's nothing intrinsically wrong about being accused of murder - the thing that is intrinsically wrong is being guilty of murder.
With that clarification, we're back into using the quote to illustrate why you should speak out against the persecution of particular groups. So yes, that makes a lot more sense.
Cheers,
Ian
Now I do like that quote. Yes - whilst I lived in York for a while I regularly went in buildings some 400 years old and thought nothing of it.
Thanks for the quote - I'll remember that one.
Cheers,
Ian
We check a map of Britain on his wall, and sure enough, the Sykes family's homeland of Yorkshire is less than 200 miles south of Perth.
Err...Britain's not really that all that big. 200 miles is considered a fair distance here. I'm from Yorkshire originally, and there's no way I would have considered Perth to be close.
I've sinced moved further south. It's 160 miles between where I came from (Sheffield in Yorkshire) and where I moved to (Marlow in Buckinghamshire). That too is considered a fair hop, although travelling that distance is something I'm completely used to now. But some of my friends in Yorkshire thing it's a long way to go.
All a difference of scale, really.
Cheers,
Ian