Re:Installation vs. Usage - Mac 10 Windows 7, Linu
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Okay, this is the way I see it. GNU/Linux requires computer literacy.
But don't pretend that windows DOESN'T require computer literacy. Installing a random package, even with the pretty GUI installer, can break a windows box. You need someone with skills to go in and work out why installing a new game caused three other games to stop working.
And the Taliban always said that if the US gave them evidence that bin Laden was behind the attacks, they would hand him over. The US refused to do so, and in accordance with international law, the Taliban refused to hand him over.
Portugal has decriminalized all drugs. Instead, they treat drugs as a medical problem. Listen to his from the Portugese minister Vitalino Canas. "Of course our message is, 'Don't use drugs at all,' " Canas said. "But people don't always listen. So then we say, 'If you use, do not use hard drugs. And if you use hard drugs, do not inject them. And if you inject, do not share needles.' We think this is more realistic than 'just say no' all by itself."
Re:Author's Site SUCKS!... but
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Actually many blind people can read books, with a magnifier. Legally blind means that your eyesight is 1/20 or less of 'normal', but doesn't mean no eyesight at all.
The problems with streaming don't seem to me to be the capacity of the streaming boxes, but the bandwidth and legal problems. Faster hardware is nice, but the streaming costs are still going to be too high.
but the person with the website depends on those ads being shown so he can get paid through cj, or whatever system he uses.
Well that kinda sucks for the website owner doesn't it? It's still my machine, and my choice if I want to download the adverts or not. I don't think Gator is a good program, and I certainly wouldn't install it even if I could, but I don't like the implication that the website owner has unlimited control over your computer.
Re:I wonder when the LAST photograph will be taken
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Probably never. Artists still make paintings using paint made from linseed oil and egg yoak, even though modern replacements have made them 'obsolete'.
You can go older than that. 7 track tapes were introduced in 1952, and obsolete in 1966 with the introduction of the 9 track tape. There are still people with working 7 track drives who can read 7 track.
There are lots of people who would prefer not to program in C or C++, but find that all the alternatives have drawbacks, including a lack of avilable enviroments for all platforms. Chip Salzenberg's comments on the language selection for the failed Topaz project are very interesting.
I'd disagree with this. Detecting invalid input and producing a correct error message IS fault tolerance. If the compiler was to take an invalid file and produce invalid object code, or the compiler crashed, then that would be poor fault tolerance.
I'd say that "worst slump" doesn't neccessarily mean absolultly lower. If you sold 100 machines one year, then 70 the next, that's a 30% slump. If you sell 200 machines one year then 100 the next, that's a 50% slump. The second one is going to be worse, even though there are more machines sold, because manufacturers will be ramped up, and expecting, the larger sales.
go to pay for the other 90% of albums that didn't make any cash.
Of course, that's using the record company's financial figures to say they didn't make cash. I tend to disagree with both the RIAA & the MPAA's financial figures. For a start, they're cooked, with things which aren't truely expenses booked against them. This is in order to keep royalties down. Even if you eliminate this, with the long copyright length, and the relativily low cost of keeping their catalogs active, both record & motion picture industries have huge back catalogs. Even if a record or a movie doesn't make a profit in the 6 weeks after it's issued, it will make one eventually. You watch a movie played at 4 am on a crapy all night channel, and it makes a little more money. A big way that this happens is through bundling. If you want to buy "Spiderman" to show on TV, then you must buy 4 flops too. Record companies do it through sales of their catalogs.
A soda dispensing option on the front, where they put the ice-maker and water dispenser. They should let home users purchase the large bags of syrup and rechargeable CO2 cylinders that the stores use for fountain beverages, and attach them to the fridge
They've had those for years in the UK, not integrated into the fridge but as a standalone machine, the biggest brand is Sodastream. However in my experience, people eventually give up on the concept and go back to buying premade drinks. It ends up having to be a lot of effort, through cleaning the machine, and remembering to buy both the CO2 and the syrup.
There are definatly limits in both directions. Our best guesses about what we need for life include liquid water, and available chemicals such oxygen in the atmosphere (Not O2, that is too reactive and can only be sustained in the atmosphere by the continual release by photosythesing life).
A small planet would end up like Mars or Mecury, as the gravity wouldn't be sufficent to prevent the atmosphere escaping. On the other hand, a very large planet would have a very high presure at sea level. As water boils at a higher temperature as pressure increases, the higher the pressure the lower the amount of evaporation, and thus this reduces the water cycle. This means less errosion on the continents, which means less minerals in the water. Of course the really big planets are all gas giants, which are obviously going to be difficult for life to evolve. So definatly we need a planet which isn't 'too big', and isn't 'too small'. What those limits are, we can't really say until we get some evidence.
The 'offical' figure is 50 million Americans. However, this is non-evenly distributed, with non-northern European descendants it's 75% to 90% (details here). Around the world overall, it's 70% Of course it's not a binary condition, and different people will have more or less severe problems, so what level you call tolerance is going to be quite arbitary.
Problem is, it is not entirely clear that you can take the human pilot out of the cockpit and put him 2000 km away without losing some critical capabilities.
This is why the debate is still going on. If it was entirely clear, then there wouldn't be a debate.
I don't consider $1 a song a low price. Amazon's top seller right now has 14 tracks, and Amazon is selling it for $13. That's slightly less than $1 a song.
There is serious debate going on about the approriateness of milk as calcium source. There are three major questions, the first is that milk doesn't have the same balance of minerals as our bodies need, and therefore someone using milk to ensure that they have enough calcium in their diet may end up being deficent in other minerals, it's much better to eat a well balanced diet which gives all the minerals from a variety of sources. The second question is how available is the calcium in milk anyway. With the majority of adults being lactose intollerant, many people find it difficult or impossible to drink enough milk to make a significant difference to their diet. The third is of course the high percentage of fat, sodium and potassium, all of which tend to be already in our diets at too high a level.
For me, I always found that the small formulas were the hardest to memorize. It was very easy to get an equation like t=d/s, and forget if it should be d/s or s/d. I'd always have to do a validation step to confirm that I'd got the right equation.
My prefered solution is actually HTML::Mason, which gives simple embedding of perl code & components into webpages. However, CGI.pm and Apache::Registery is the most portable solution, as it gives a program that can be run on both CGI & mod_perl enabled webservers.
If you're writing your apps using CGI.pm, and they're ok under 'use strict', then it's very very easy to get them running under mod_perl simply by using Apache::Registry.
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But don't pretend that windows DOESN'T require computer literacy. Installing a random package, even with the pretty GUI installer, can break a windows box. You need someone with skills to go in and work out why installing a new game caused three other games to stop working.
And the Taliban always said that if the US gave them evidence that bin Laden was behind the attacks, they would hand him over. The US refused to do so, and in accordance with international law, the Taliban refused to hand him over.
Portugal has decriminalized all drugs. Instead, they treat drugs as a medical problem. Listen to his from the Portugese minister Vitalino Canas. "Of course our message is, 'Don't use drugs at all,' " Canas said. "But people don't always listen. So then we say, 'If you use, do not use hard drugs. And if you use hard drugs, do not inject them. And if you inject, do not share needles.' We think this is more realistic than 'just say no' all by itself."
-273C, not 273C. 273C would be a medium hot oven.
Actually many blind people can read books, with a magnifier. Legally blind means that your eyesight is 1/20 or less of 'normal', but doesn't mean no eyesight at all.
The problems with streaming don't seem to me to be the capacity of the streaming boxes, but the bandwidth and legal problems. Faster hardware is nice, but the streaming costs are still going to be too high.
Well that kinda sucks for the website owner doesn't it? It's still my machine, and my choice if I want to download the adverts or not. I don't think Gator is a good program, and I certainly wouldn't install it even if I could, but I don't like the implication that the website owner has unlimited control over your computer.
Probably never. Artists still make paintings using paint made from linseed oil and egg yoak, even though modern replacements have made them 'obsolete'.
You can go older than that. 7 track tapes were introduced in 1952, and obsolete in 1966 with the introduction of the 9 track tape. There are still people with working 7 track drives who can read 7 track.
There are lots of people who would prefer not to program in C or C++, but find that all the alternatives have drawbacks, including a lack of avilable enviroments for all platforms. Chip Salzenberg's comments on the language selection for the failed Topaz project are very interesting.
Credits on IMDB are often incomplete until the film actually shows. I guess it depends on how well the publicity dept is at talking to IMDB.
I'd disagree with this. Detecting invalid input and producing a correct error message IS fault tolerance. If the compiler was to take an invalid file and produce invalid object code, or the compiler crashed, then that would be poor fault tolerance.
I'd say that "worst slump" doesn't neccessarily mean absolultly lower. If you sold 100 machines one year, then 70 the next, that's a 30% slump. If you sell 200 machines one year then 100 the next, that's a 50% slump. The second one is going to be worse, even though there are more machines sold, because manufacturers will be ramped up, and expecting, the larger sales.
OS's with their filesystems implemented as a database are nothing new. The best example is probably OS/400.
Of course, that's using the record company's financial figures to say they didn't make cash. I tend to disagree with both the RIAA & the MPAA's financial figures. For a start, they're cooked, with things which aren't truely expenses booked against them. This is in order to keep royalties down. Even if you eliminate this, with the long copyright length, and the relativily low cost of keeping their catalogs active, both record & motion picture industries have huge back catalogs. Even if a record or a movie doesn't make a profit in the 6 weeks after it's issued, it will make one eventually. You watch a movie played at 4 am on a crapy all night channel, and it makes a little more money. A big way that this happens is through bundling. If you want to buy "Spiderman" to show on TV, then you must buy 4 flops too. Record companies do it through sales of their catalogs.
It's the bands who are being screwed, not the RIAA. Any promotional costs are charged back to the artists, against their royalties.
They've had those for years in the UK, not integrated into the fridge but as a standalone machine, the biggest brand is Sodastream. However in my experience, people eventually give up on the concept and go back to buying premade drinks. It ends up having to be a lot of effort, through cleaning the machine, and remembering to buy both the CO2 and the syrup.
A small planet would end up like Mars or Mecury, as the gravity wouldn't be sufficent to prevent the atmosphere escaping. On the other hand, a very large planet would have a very high presure at sea level. As water boils at a higher temperature as pressure increases, the higher the pressure the lower the amount of evaporation, and thus this reduces the water cycle. This means less errosion on the continents, which means less minerals in the water. Of course the really big planets are all gas giants, which are obviously going to be difficult for life to evolve. So definatly we need a planet which isn't 'too big', and isn't 'too small'. What those limits are, we can't really say until we get some evidence.
The 'offical' figure is 50 million Americans. However, this is non-evenly distributed, with non-northern European descendants it's 75% to 90% (details here). Around the world overall, it's 70% Of course it's not a binary condition, and different people will have more or less severe problems, so what level you call tolerance is going to be quite arbitary.
This is why the debate is still going on. If it was entirely clear, then there wouldn't be a debate.
I don't consider $1 a song a low price. Amazon's top seller right now has 14 tracks, and Amazon is selling it for $13. That's slightly less than $1 a song.
There is serious debate going on about the approriateness of milk as calcium source. There are three major questions, the first is that milk doesn't have the same balance of minerals as our bodies need, and therefore someone using milk to ensure that they have enough calcium in their diet may end up being deficent in other minerals, it's much better to eat a well balanced diet which gives all the minerals from a variety of sources. The second question is how available is the calcium in milk anyway. With the majority of adults being lactose intollerant, many people find it difficult or impossible to drink enough milk to make a significant difference to their diet. The third is of course the high percentage of fat, sodium and potassium, all of which tend to be already in our diets at too high a level.
For me, I always found that the small formulas were the hardest to memorize. It was very easy to get an equation like t=d/s, and forget if it should be d/s or s/d. I'd always have to do a validation step to confirm that I'd got the right equation.
My prefered solution is actually HTML::Mason, which gives simple embedding of perl code & components into webpages. However, CGI.pm and Apache::Registery is the most portable solution, as it gives a program that can be run on both CGI & mod_perl enabled webservers.
If you're writing your apps using CGI.pm, and they're ok under 'use strict', then it's very very easy to get them running under mod_perl simply by using Apache::Registry.