Don't worry, you would not be able to find the book anyway unless you were looking for 'Story of Two Towns' of 'Fable of Twin Municipalities' or 'Account of Double Boroughs' or 'Narration of a Pair of Hamlets' or...
...in the forest, and nobody is there to hear it... does it make a sound?
If a movie is released in whatever format, and nobody is willing to buy it, does it make any difference?
The 'entertainment industry' is not standing on the edge of the cliff anymore. They made like a lemming and jumped off, in full expectation to suddenly grow wings and take to the sky. Unfortunately for them that plan did not work out and now they are in the hands of gravity, on their way down to the pointy cliffs of obsolescence.
If the industry crashes and burns, and nobody cares, does it make any difference?
Who knows, maybe they'll create a "laptop license", and charge $50/year to get it renewed, and have a background check done on it. My work would cover that.
That would be exactly the sort of nonsensical reaction I'd expect from something like TSA. The problem with the laptop lies in its battery which is of a volatile nature. A 'laptop license' and the 'background check' will do nothing to mitigate the risk of that battery going poof but it will look like they're 'doing something'.
No, a better solution to this 'problem' - if a problem it is - is to change to a less volatile battery chemistry for those occasions you have to take the thing on board something 'protected' by the TSA. NiMH would do for now.
Really? Not where I come from... I tried to take an almost empty tube of toothpaste on a short trip. As the trip was short I did not need much toothpaste, see? The security clown did not see, no. The tube, when full, contained 125 ml of toothpaste. It was clearly not full, anything but full, nearly empty even but it clearly stated '125 ml' so I was not allowed to take it on board. Of course I was free to purchase a new, full tube on the other side of the security charade. It was only two and a half times more expensive than in normal shops without such protection agreements. I guessed they sold toothpaste at my destination as well, no sale...
What is the big problem you see with installing software on Ubuntu? It uses the debian package format. Software which comes in that format can be installed by just clicking on a link to the package. Doing that launches the gdebi-gtk installer which checks whether the package and any dependencies. It also works when the package is somewhere on a local filesystem.
Running software from a flash drive is no problem whatsoever as long as the software is configured to either save all configuration data to that drive or to the user home directory or any other user-writable location.
Installing 'commercial software' is no different from installing any other software. The fact that some commercial software suppliers have chosen to ignore the debian package format and supplies the software in some other form (shell archive, zip or tar file, executable installer...) is a problem with those suppliers, not with Ubuntu. There is no reason whatsover why the deb (or rpm or whatever) package format can not be used for commercial software.
I've had a Virgin WebPlayer running as web/mail/file/etc server since 2002. It is still running. It uses about 15 W when the display and backlight has been turned off. I've had it with me on a canoe expedition over the Yukon (from Whitehorse to the Bering strait) running on 2 x 10W solar panels plus a 7Ah 12V battery. Fully charged that battery was enough to keep it running for about 5-6 hours. That was including the 2 20GB notebook drives it contained.
Of course we're not talking speed-demon here, the Geode GX1@200 MHz is comparable to a Pentium 166. With 128MB (instead of the standard 64 MB) it does most things I want it to.
Change an Ubuntu screen to 640x480, and then try to change it back, without using secret hidden commands. Can't be done
Can't be done by you. Can be done by my 72 yr old mother and my 5 yr old daughter. Which is not that strange as all it takes is a click on the 'monitor settings' menu entry followed by a selection of the desired resolution and a click on 'OK'. This works from every resolution to every resolution.
Your seeming inability to accomplish such a simple task is somewhat baffling. Are you trying to do it the same way as you are used to in Windows? Remember, just because it has a mouse it does not mean it is Windows.
Seems that that whole globalization push is not meant for 'us', only for 'them' (for variable values of 'us' and 'them'). All the more reason to push back I'd say. If we don't get to pick the same fruits I don't see why we should play by the same rules...
I find it humorous how quickly so many want to bask in the glow of this, using it as proof of something, when I'm fairly certain that it was discarded as proof of nothing when the LSE first went the.NET route.
Well, someone certainly thought LSE was proof of something, why otherwise would they have bragged about it? Now that that bragging has been shown to be moot surely you can understand this modest amount of schadenfreude?
Eolas is not the bad guy here, they're just doing what is legally possible. You can't condemn a company for following the law, just because it seems wrong.
Slave owners were not the bad guys, they were just doing what was legally possible...
Or you can actually run your own servers in the cloud
Of course that is what you should do. It is also what just about everyone has been doing before some marketdroid caught a whiff of the 'cloud' and the current cloud-craze started. Just call it the net and be done with it.
Webservers, mailservers, database servers, groupware servers, terminal servers, fileservers... all attach to a network... which can be connected to the internet... which on the whiteboard is drawn as a cloud...
Yuck. They should have drawn it as a bucket of snot instead, see what the marketfolk would have done with that.
Nice try. The mere fact that *you* seem to be unable to use anything but those 'common' apps does not mean they don't work for anyone else. The mere fact that you are only able to use Visual Studio, FL Studio and 3DSMax is not a sign of the superiority of those programs, only of your inability to approach problems in a different way.
You deride Eclipse in comparison to Visual Studio but conveniently forgot to mention that Visual Studio only works with a given subset of languages and in a single environment.
What if that environment, for whatever reason, does not fit your project? Out goes Visual Studio, and unfortunately for you any opportunity to work on said project. Meanwhile others who are capable of using more than those tools you swear by get to work on it. The same comparison can be made for 3DSMax, FL Studio or any other 'staple' program you might want to mention.
The conclusion? There is more than one way to do it, but there is only one way of life and that's your own. If you are happy to stay within the confines you mention, fine. Others choose differently. They might succeed or even excel where your way would have lead to failure.
~1/2% of people who download would have bought the product on CD. So as rough estimate: 200 song downloads = 1 lost sale
That is only part of the equation. The other part is 'x% of people who download WILL buy the product on CD'. Back in the time I still bought CD's I ended up buying more of them after it became possible to 'sample' bands using the net. If not for the possibility of downloading I would probably never have heard of the bands, let alone bought their CD's. Then came the Napster-drama followed by the ever increasing aggression of the copyright mafia. This soured me on associating with those companies and thus ended my CD buying career...
"Apparatus and user-interaction method for paper-like electronic book interaction". An apparatus and input method for allowing the user of an electronic book reader device to interact with reading material in a way similar to that used with paper-based books.
What is claimed is:
1. An apparatus for reading electronic book texts 2. The apparatus from claim 1 in which often-used pages get discolorations around the edges and borders. 3. The apparatus from claim 2 in which the device, when browsing through the pages of the loaded reading material pauses for a short (several milliseconds) period when reaching often-used pages. 4. The apparatus from claim 3 in which the user can make notes which can be attached to individual pages or groups of pages. 5. The apparatus from claim 4 in which the device presents these notes to the user by way of raised areas in a deformable input strip on the side of the device. 6. The apparatus of claim 5 where these notes can be used to open the reading material to the related pages by acting upon the raised areas.......
Anyone care to build it? Sorry you can't patent it...
The kernel source is one huge imposing giant gnarly tree with branches sprouting everywhere, but judicious use of the make {config|menuconfig|xconfig} command will pull in only those bits you really want. Creating a good working config for a given system does require some knowledge and perseverance but that is more or less a one-time effort.
Not really, no. This story is not about 'American capitalism', unless you want to add Brazil as a state to the Union which I'm sure they'd be less than happy about.
If you see an economy as an organism you'll see that that economy/that organism suffers from some of the same ailments as a live organism. As soon as the organism gets successful there will be parasites which try to hop along for the ride, taking from the organism without giving back. The world economy is quite successful in most part, which has lead to the rise of a whole host of parasitic species. Some of them are easily recognized as they are the common class of criminal, from pickpocket to burglar to bank robber. Others are not as easily recognized because they have both adapted to the host as well as changed the host to make themselves be unrecognizable. In the latter class is where you'll find those lawyers, the bonus-grabbing old boy network, the self-serving politicians and other leaches.
In an organism you can act in several ways to combat a parasite infestation. You can try to kill the parasites, help the organism's immune system to recognize them and thus indirectly kill them or you can try to make the organism a less hospitable host to the parasite.
It is clear that the first option is not a choice in a civilized society. The second and third choices would be usable though: point out the parasites to society and change society to be less hospitable to them. As the parasite infestation is very deep and wide, especially in those organs of society which are responsible for directing the immune system (politics and law) this will be a hard task. Hard, but not impossible. Not all organs are infested, find out which have yet held the parasites at bay and use those to eradicate them from the rest. That is easier said than done but is seems the only way to clear out the mess without killing the organism, the civilized society which we want to live in.
Someone, somewhere will create something which messes up the logs made by this spy-software which is supposed to be used as proof of innocence. It will prove everybody is guilty of the most heinous crimes like downloading Britney 24x365 or images of Sarko standing next to tall women. Good luck prosecuting that...
Bogus, don't be a tool. The patch for WS2003 most likely works on XP as well given the shared heritage of these systems. They just want current XP users to move to Vista7.
If only China *really* were the sole source of these minerals on Earth this would make a perfect business case to finally launch a moon or asteroid mining operation... Given of course that these bodies contain said minerals...
Have a look at Telia'scoverage map for Sweden. Notice all that green? That is where your phone will work. Population density in the north is lower than 2 humans per square kilometer. Are there maps like these for the US?
Remember that article a few days ago where a buckytube was shown with its carbon rings exposed in plain sight? They made that image using an atomic force microscope. As the tip of the scanner is to course for high-resolution imaging they picked up a carbon monoxide molecule with the tip, extending it that way into something sharper.
In case you don't see the next step... imagine a machine, able to pick up atoms and/or molecules and deliver them to the right places to create, well, whatever you want really. As long as that machine is controllable, programmable and big enough to matter you have just imagined yourself a molecular assembler. And once those are available a new world will open in which any construction small enough to fit in the confines of the assembler can be made as 'easy' as you print out a page on your printer now.
Currently this idea is still in the realm of science fiction, but the science is getting there. All it takes is some imagination to turn fiction into reality...
Are you telling me you'll be pouring a concrete slab directly on the ground, without any insulation between it and the soil? That sounds rather wasteful to me... you'll be better off by insulating underneath that slab - hard foam like styrofoam works fine - to save on your heating efforts.
If you want to cool your computer dig deeper (2-3 meter) and bury a coil or length of hose, or put that coil/hose in the lake/stream/other body of water which happens to be flowing past your house to be...
The man who sent the first human into space, Sergey Korolyov, was from Ukraine. The mathematician who helped him to calculate this flight, Ginsburg, was also from Ukraine.
See it in another way: Ukraine obviously harbors talent and has (had?) an educational system and morale to further those talents. Some use their talent to forward commendable causes (Korolyov, Ginsburg, etc), some use it for nefarious purposes. I'm talking about 'real' talent here, not the type of 'talent' hunted down in American Idol and such.
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Don't worry, you would not be able to find the book anyway unless you were looking for 'Story of Two Towns' of 'Fable of Twin Municipalities' or 'Account of Double Boroughs' or 'Narration of a Pair of Hamlets' or ...
...in the forest, and nobody is there to hear it... does it make a sound?
If a movie is released in whatever format, and nobody is willing to buy it, does it make any difference?
The 'entertainment industry' is not standing on the edge of the cliff anymore. They made like a lemming and jumped off, in full expectation to suddenly grow wings and take to the sky. Unfortunately for them that plan did not work out and now they are in the hands of gravity, on their way down to the pointy cliffs of obsolescence.
If the industry crashes and burns, and nobody cares, does it make any difference?
No, it doesn't. Have fun on the way down.
That would be exactly the sort of nonsensical reaction I'd expect from something like TSA. The problem with the laptop lies in its battery which is of a volatile nature. A 'laptop license' and the 'background check' will do nothing to mitigate the risk of that battery going poof but it will look like they're 'doing something'.
No, a better solution to this 'problem' - if a problem it is - is to change to a less volatile battery chemistry for those occasions you have to take the thing on board something 'protected' by the TSA. NiMH would do for now.
Really? Not where I come from... I tried to take an almost empty tube of toothpaste on a short trip. As the trip was short I did not need much toothpaste, see? The security clown did not see, no. The tube, when full, contained 125 ml of toothpaste. It was clearly not full, anything but full, nearly empty even but it clearly stated '125 ml' so I was not allowed to take it on board. Of course I was free to purchase a new, full tube on the other side of the security charade. It was only two and a half times more expensive than in normal shops without such protection agreements. I guessed they sold toothpaste at my destination as well, no sale...
What is the big problem you see with installing software on Ubuntu? It uses the debian package format. Software which comes in that format can be installed by just clicking on a link to the package. Doing that launches the gdebi-gtk installer which checks whether the package and any dependencies. It also works when the package is somewhere on a local filesystem.
Running software from a flash drive is no problem whatsoever as long as the software is configured to either save all configuration data to that drive or to the user home directory or any other user-writable location.
Installing 'commercial software' is no different from installing any other software. The fact that some commercial software suppliers have chosen to ignore the debian package format and supplies the software in some other form (shell archive, zip or tar file, executable installer...) is a problem with those suppliers, not with Ubuntu. There is no reason whatsover why the deb (or rpm or whatever) package format can not be used for commercial software.
I've had a Virgin WebPlayer running as web/mail/file/etc server since 2002. It is still running. It uses about 15 W when the display and backlight has been turned off. I've had it with me on a canoe expedition over the Yukon (from Whitehorse to the Bering strait) running on 2 x 10W solar panels plus a 7Ah 12V battery. Fully charged that battery was enough to keep it running for about 5-6 hours. That was including the 2 20GB notebook drives it contained.
Of course we're not talking speed-demon here, the Geode GX1@200 MHz is comparable to a Pentium 166. With 128MB (instead of the standard 64 MB) it does most things I want it to.
Can't be done by you. Can be done by my 72 yr old mother and my 5 yr old daughter. Which is not that strange as all it takes is a click on the 'monitor settings' menu entry followed by a selection of the desired resolution and a click on 'OK'. This works from every resolution to every resolution.
Your seeming inability to accomplish such a simple task is somewhat baffling. Are you trying to do it the same way as you are used to in Windows? Remember, just because it has a mouse it does not mean it is Windows.
Seems that that whole globalization push is not meant for 'us', only for 'them' (for variable values of 'us' and 'them'). All the more reason to push back I'd say. If we don't get to pick the same fruits I don't see why we should play by the same rules...
Well, someone certainly thought LSE was proof of something, why otherwise would they have bragged about it? Now that that bragging has been shown to be moot surely you can understand this modest amount of schadenfreude?
Slave owners were not the bad guys, they were just doing what was legally possible...
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Of course that is what you should do. It is also what just about everyone has been doing before some marketdroid caught a whiff of the 'cloud' and the current cloud-craze started. Just call it the net and be done with it.
Webservers, mailservers, database servers, groupware servers, terminal servers, fileservers... all attach to a network... which can be connected to the internet... which on the whiteboard is drawn as a cloud...
Yuck. They should have drawn it as a bucket of snot instead, see what the marketfolk would have done with that.
Nice try. The mere fact that *you* seem to be unable to use anything but those 'common' apps does not mean they don't work for anyone else. The mere fact that you are only able to use Visual Studio, FL Studio and 3DSMax is not a sign of the superiority of those programs, only of your inability to approach problems in a different way.
You deride Eclipse in comparison to Visual Studio but conveniently forgot to mention that Visual Studio only works with a given subset of languages and in a single environment.
What if that environment, for whatever reason, does not fit your project? Out goes Visual Studio, and unfortunately for you any opportunity to work on said project. Meanwhile others who are capable of using more than those tools you swear by get to work on it. The same comparison can be made for 3DSMax, FL Studio or any other 'staple' program you might want to mention.
The conclusion? There is more than one way to do it, but there is only one way of life and that's your own. If you are happy to stay within the confines you mention, fine. Others choose differently. They might succeed or even excel where your way would have lead to failure.
That is only part of the equation. The other part is 'x% of people who download WILL buy the product on CD'. Back in the time I still bought CD's I ended up buying more of them after it became possible to 'sample' bands using the net. If not for the possibility of downloading I would probably never have heard of the bands, let alone bought their CD's. Then came the Napster-drama followed by the ever increasing aggression of the copyright mafia. This soured me on associating with those companies and thus ended my CD buying career...
That sounds like patent fodder to me!
"Apparatus and user-interaction method for paper-like electronic book interaction". An apparatus and input method for allowing the user of an electronic book reader device to interact with reading material in a way similar to that used with paper-based books.
What is claimed is:
1. An apparatus for reading electronic book texts ... ...
2. The apparatus from claim 1 in which often-used pages get discolorations around the edges and borders.
3. The apparatus from claim 2 in which the device, when browsing through the pages of the loaded reading material pauses for a short (several milliseconds) period when reaching often-used pages.
4. The apparatus from claim 3 in which the user can make notes which can be attached to individual pages or groups of pages.
5. The apparatus from claim 4 in which the device presents these notes to the user by way of raised areas in a deformable input strip on the side of the device.
6. The apparatus of claim 5 where these notes can be used to open the reading material to the related pages by acting upon the raised areas.
Anyone care to build it? Sorry you can't patent it...
The kernel source is one huge imposing giant gnarly tree with branches sprouting everywhere, but judicious use of the make {config|menuconfig|xconfig} command will pull in only those bits you really want. Creating a good working config for a given system does require some knowledge and perseverance but that is more or less a one-time effort.
Not really, no. This story is not about 'American capitalism', unless you want to add Brazil as a state to the Union which I'm sure they'd be less than happy about.
If you see an economy as an organism you'll see that that economy/that organism suffers from some of the same ailments as a live organism. As soon as the organism gets successful there will be parasites which try to hop along for the ride, taking from the organism without giving back. The world economy is quite successful in most part, which has lead to the rise of a whole host of parasitic species. Some of them are easily recognized as they are the common class of criminal, from pickpocket to burglar to bank robber. Others are not as easily recognized because they have both adapted to the host as well as changed the host to make themselves be unrecognizable. In the latter class is where you'll find those lawyers, the bonus-grabbing old boy network, the self-serving politicians and other leaches.
In an organism you can act in several ways to combat a parasite infestation. You can try to kill the parasites, help the organism's immune system to recognize them and thus indirectly kill them or you can try to make the organism a less hospitable host to the parasite.
It is clear that the first option is not a choice in a civilized society. The second and third choices would be usable though: point out the parasites to society and change society to be less hospitable to them. As the parasite infestation is very deep and wide, especially in those organs of society which are responsible for directing the immune system (politics and law) this will be a hard task. Hard, but not impossible. Not all organs are infested, find out which have yet held the parasites at bay and use those to eradicate them from the rest. That is easier said than done but is seems the only way to clear out the mess without killing the organism, the civilized society which we want to live in.
Someone, somewhere will create something which messes up the logs made by this spy-software which is supposed to be used as proof of innocence. It will prove everybody is guilty of the most heinous crimes like downloading Britney 24x365 or images of Sarko standing next to tall women. Good luck prosecuting that...
May I advise you to make good use of this new knowledge by growing a few more cells here and there...
Bogus, don't be a tool. The patch for WS2003 most likely works on XP as well given the shared heritage of these systems. They just want current XP users to move to Vista7.
If only China *really* were the sole source of these minerals on Earth this would make a perfect business case to finally launch a moon or asteroid mining operation... Given of course that these bodies contain said minerals...
Have a look at Telia's coverage map for Sweden. Notice all that green? That is where your phone will work. Population density in the north is lower than 2 humans per square kilometer. Are there maps like these for the US?
Remember that article a few days ago where a buckytube was shown with its carbon rings exposed in plain sight? They made that image using an atomic force microscope. As the tip of the scanner is to course for high-resolution imaging they picked up a carbon monoxide molecule with the tip, extending it that way into something sharper.
In case you don't see the next step... imagine a machine, able to pick up atoms and/or molecules and deliver them to the right places to create, well, whatever you want really. As long as that machine is controllable, programmable and big enough to matter you have just imagined yourself a molecular assembler. And once those are available a new world will open in which any construction small enough to fit in the confines of the assembler can be made as 'easy' as you print out a page on your printer now.
Currently this idea is still in the realm of science fiction, but the science is getting there. All it takes is some imagination to turn fiction into reality...
One nit to pick: Qemm was Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager, a program used in the bad old days of PC/MS-DOS to make somewhat better use of the memory installed in the machine. QEMU is a processor emulator with virtual machine monitor functions. Be glad that the days of Qemm are long gone, hacks like that should not have been necessary in the first place...
Are you telling me you'll be pouring a concrete slab directly on the ground, without any insulation between it and the soil? That sounds rather wasteful to me... you'll be better off by insulating underneath that slab - hard foam like styrofoam works fine - to save on your heating efforts.
If you want to cool your computer dig deeper (2-3 meter) and bury a coil or length of hose, or put that coil/hose in the lake/stream/other body of water which happens to be flowing past your house to be...
See it in another way: Ukraine obviously harbors talent and has (had?) an educational system and morale to further those talents. Some use their talent to forward commendable causes (Korolyov, Ginsburg, etc), some use it for nefarious purposes. I'm talking about 'real' talent here, not the type of 'talent' hunted down in American Idol and such.