I would say NVIDIA for one, people complain constantly about closed specs etc.
But the truth is it would be competivley BAD for Nvidia to release the specs, yes others have, they choose not to, thats fine with me, they do provide GOOD drivers, and the SRPMS, as well as tared gzipped kernel modules for you to compile on any Linux setup you wish, the actually libs are closed source but hell they DO provide drivers for an OS that accounts for a VERY small portion of their sales market.
There are other vendors that provide Linux support, to be honest If I was in charge of a HW company, I wouldnt, I would provide the specs under some kind of closed agreement to 3rd party developers.
NVIDIA Does provide nice linux drivers, I have, unlike other never had any problem, they release newer version and each generation (for the most part) they get better what more can you ask....(and please dont say provide the specs, if you are thinking or saying that Im betting you have no experince in engineering hardware for a commercial market where competition, especially in th 3d accel, is just downright evil)
"Samsung sees potential sales of flat panels for electronic books at 24,973 units this year."
Where the hell does someone get such number ?
I mean do they have some little man hunched over a 10 key in their market reasearch department saying.....click....click....zzzztttt.....click... . lick, YEP BOSS ! Our POTENTIAL Market is 24,973 units, how many of those we will sell I cant say , but thats EXACTLY how many we COULD sell ?
This is creepy, people, yes even us programmers and tech types amaze me, I guess what I mean is I cant belive the arrogance of people that think they can devise a machine that tells someone what is in the heart and intentions of a man, just from looking at him nonetheless. Someone needs to get ahhold of the "geniuses" that are working on this and give then a good ass kicking, just for attempting to be so naieve.
It was developed and fostered in the US for the US.
Its no damm different than anywhere else, If I send an email to the chineese, guess what, who picks up the traffic cost on the other end ? The CHINEESE !
If a chinaman send ME an email whose ISP covers the cost of reciveing it ? MINE !
What armed with this knowledge lets shut down the African ISP's all together send 10 emails a day to some addresses , then maybe Ill stop getting mail from my "friend" in Nigera to speculate on oil wells over there (SPAM).
What communist mentality drives these things to be rights of anyone and everyone regardless of economy ? If you can pay you cant play, leveling the playing field dosent work it just makes for a very dull game.
Do you know where the majority of the photosynthesis occurs in nature ?
Simple, the blue green algae in the ocean.
Why not, (in a BG rich area of the ocean, anchor just such a platform, "bubbling the co2," to a fair depth, by the time it surfaces you should have extracted a good percentage of the dissolved co2.
Using the principals they speak of,using wind as a tranport vector, using area in the ocean, dont have to worry about nearby (surface) plantlife, and creating such a BG rich area would be an amazing boom to localsea life, wonder how feasable a floating shelf 200 square miles is:)
true, so is a one transitor raido, analog as well.
BUT the way transistor logic, logic being the keyword, is APPLIED to computing is what I spoke of and is certainly digital in nature in that application.
I however missed the point one of the above posters made of using resitance values in a binary mode. I have built both binary and analog computers, I have a fondness of Analog computing, I never thought to apply only 2 DISTINCT values to a resitance representation.
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True, you could pull different values (aka 1, 0, hell 2, 3, 4, 5) if you want) from resistance values.
I guess never having worked with resitance values as absolute, It never crossed my mind good point.
I think (I may be wrong) these magnatite are almost like "core memory" from days long gone, where a single bit was represented in memory by a single wound ferrite core, and I guess like you said pull distinct values from diffferent residtance values.
This sounds, upone rereading the article, even more like core memory on a film.
My dad saw, and showed me picture, yes im that old, of core memory being produced at IBM , thousands of ferrite cores beinghand tested and added to boards. Not bad in concept , but then again bubble memory for those old enough to remeber was a great concept too, there is still one Bubble manufacturer out there I am aware of upwards of 2 gigs, theyre using it as a solid state drive instead of ram (non-volitaile with somethinglike a 500? G shoch rating ?!?!)
If the feds say we want you to take our IT guy for a Year ? Do you have to ?
If it is, it is quite simply unconstitutional, a federal employee could be rejected under the soldier quartering provisions, if its no mandatory, what I just said is all moot:)
But fcol, who would WANT a Federal employee, most are worse than union workers, could this person be "fired" from their position if they slack ?
Working in a private sector company with and significant amount of responsiblity is NOTHING like working govt jobs. Lunch ? Yeah right twice a week if Im luck, my choice, but I have a life after work.
Is it just me or does this sound wrong all the way around, good for only one entity the Govt., Private sector is years ahead in most IT, hell you know how many RBASE programmers the Govt still has on staff..........
I guess that part of the equation I, being familiar with them since release 2.0 hadnt thought of....
Well, more hope that itll hit the 4 mark then:)
Or better yet back down to 3 and some change....
Better than caldera the cald 4 for 1 trade to get the value back up , lol....its at 90 now down form 1.40 a week ago, then again Caldera's only, if they have a value, is in SCO im still not sure if thats an asset or liablity
I like RedHat I use RedHat , I made a bundle early with RHAT stock.
Ive been watching the RHAT stock for the last month VERY close waiting to buy at 4.75 (A mark I set, arbitrary at best)
Rhat has AS(advanced Serve) Is it out of beta ?, and 7.? In beta , its the first beta Ive seen with a Beta2 revision from redhat in....well ever....
People are saying nothing but good things about RedHat from a business and finacial standpoint and yet still the stock slides. 7 is a fair value if I can buy at under 5 , rich I tell you Rich Ill be, ok so a little overenthusiasm on my part.
But why in gods name, does the stock continue to slide ? Ideas anyone ?
She thought me to type starting at about age 7 when I first got into computers, (1978)
I am thanks to my mother a very proficient typist, literally over 120wpm, however my error rate and subsequent corrections brings that down to about 90 (I joke about 140 WPM, and 40 CPM on my Bio, its pretty close)
Omissions of characters are my most common error, much of that has to do with key pressure and return at such high speed, I actually wear keyboards out.
The sentence "Amazon lists ANY book out there look at the lead times on out of print sometime " should have read "Amazon lists ANY book out there, look at the lead times on out of print sometime" Meaning very simply , Amazon will TRY to sell you nearly any book ever published if they have a record of that book ever being sold (This include record going back some 15 years from their purchased data), If you look at the ship times you will see sometime 6 weeks plus. The reason is not only don't they have it they don't yet know where to find it. The simple addition or omission of a , can make a difference.
"Maybe it's because English isn't my native language........And it seems to me that slashdot puts us in a downward spiral where people are unlearning the differences between........"
Blah Blah Blah, Buy a Berlitz tape.
You're never going to learn proper English, or American and yes they are different, on Slashdot.
Besides as from the Slashdot FAQ "Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S."
You telling me what I am not doing correctly or am is the singularly most offensive comment I've heard. I am, from that assuming you live in pseudo communist society where free speech is a pipe dream, tell me my spelling and grammar are offensive to you ! I'm glad it makes you angry. You have no idea how much joy that brings to me that a post, words, can actually rise your emotions to "anger"
Actually B&N has bought one of the largest prior listing services, Actually most dealers Became affiliated after they bought interloc, a pre web listing service.
Amazon does just broker the Out of Print books. Period nothing else, Amazon does not stock one single used out of print book. They provide ALL the shipping materials, there is a difference between the normal amazon purchase procedure and marketplace. Actually they force the dealers to take a 15% cut off of THEIR own list price, Say the dealer wants 100 bucks, Amazon says hey you want to sell to us you sell it to us at 85, then they mark up another 15% to the consumer you pay 115, a total of 30%, PLUS the Dealer MUST pay the shipping cost (not the materials, but the actual postage)
I guess unless you own, or work with a rare/op shop on a regular basis you would have no clue about how things work, fact is its getting uglier. BUT prices are on the rise because of the web, Amazon has changed my moms shop (Currently over a million titles, the WS is way out of date) literally from a break even to a profitable business. And at the moment they only have a catalog of about 30k titles listed online.
I agree 100% with the rest of your statements about OP books. The greed has its upside for shops like my moms, she can actuall undersell NEW titles by another 5% less than amazon, B&N anyone, sometimes more. For NEW in Print books, 2 day turnaround.
I need to look at nothing but the back room filled with Amazon shipping materials.
My mom does approx 5k a month through amazon, its not bad,
Market place is SEPERATE and DIFFERENT, there complete descriptions, of the same books are listed for a direct purchase, the cut is different.
You have absolutley no clue what you are talking about.
The above informationholds true if you purchase it through Marketplace, it does NOT if you order the same book through their main interface while searching, althought the book will return both results.
Neither does Barnes and Noble, they broker them from data mined and average pricing, off of used book dealers central listings (Abebooks.com Bibliofind.com, etc)
Heres how it goes, amazon lists ANY book out there look at the lead times on out of print sometime. THEN they Order from a Used book dealer in their distribution channel, theey tak and ADDITIONAL 15% and you (the book dealer) Ship using Amazon shipping materials , lbels boxes, bagging etc, they have supplied, they then to the consumer mark up about another 15% over that (the mandatory 15% cut on YOUR list price).
Amazon and Barnes and Noble SELL NO USED BOOKS THEMSELVES, they BROKER them PERIOD.
Want to buy them cheaper ? Got to bebooks.com Bibliofind.com (one even being owned by B&N) and buy direct from the dealer. Youll get a hell of a lot beter deal. PLUS youll get extended information on the book condition not available on Amazon (Especially important for those tasty first editions).
Amazon will sell you a book they dont have and dont even know wqhereone is , if they can locat it throught their network Great, if they cant they cancel your order. They offer an average pricing based on the books listed previously of that edition/title.
How do I know these things ? My mom in addition to being a F500 exec owns a Rare book shop.
Apparently not a contsituional scholar, and most certainly a dimwit the US constitution IS the law of the land at its highest level and princples.
"A Treaty overrides the USA constitution"
Not to US citizens at home Im sorry it dosent, where did you go to school ? Some public school in Cleveland Ohio ?
"Not all have exclusions for Americans alone in them! Maybe the first one or two did but not ALL treaties! " You were initially reffering to hate speech with the EU.
"Many allow extradition." NONE allow for extraddition of lawful acts performed in the US, by US citizens. None.....
If this were in the LEAST true you would have the French Judges extradite Yahoo executives for trial there, as it is they wont travel there because theyre fair game, just as many pro-nazi site owners operaters dont travel THERE.
Here they CANNOT , I REPEAT CANNOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE BE EXTRADITED FOR CONSTITUTIONALY PROTECTED FREE SPEECH (Acts of subversion or thing not legal within the realm of free speach may, but it wont happen) !!!!!
Like it or not Hate speech is PERFECTLY OK, and PROTECTED in the US , although some PC liberal communist wannabes would rather it not be.
The Klan hands out flyers outside grade schools in the south, they march in rallies (mostly a joke I think) Nazi's show at black rallies, and so on and so on.
Do you even live in the United States ?
And I would seriously question your grasp on Constituional law and its interaction with Treaties as it applies to legal acts by US citizens on US soil. You are sadly misinformed.
Whats more sad is there are those readers out there that may actually belive you.
Wrong, you obviously havent read the treaty or specific exemptions,
In the US it is still perfectly leay to say you hate whoever for whatever reason and they cannon deport you to say france, or isreal.
These exemptions, after the US said it wouldnt sighn were put in specifically for the US and other countries (cant remeber which) that could NOT sigh the agreement with all the provisions in.
You as a US citizen can still say build a PRO-NAZI website in German language, hosted here directed at Germans, with NO fear of extradition or breaking any laws.
Now that said, I sure as hell would never travel ANYWHERE in europe, there they could grab you up and try you under their laws.
"But the US passed a workaround by joining the hate-speech laws the EU adopted and used a TREATY to enjoin the usa citizens... now extraditable to EU for Nazi Speech or White Pride Speech!
A Treaty overrides Constitution evidently.
Thus the locale law becomes moot. "
BZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTT
Where did you ome up with this, is it meant to inflame people or are you really so stupid as to belive it ?
Implement any thing needed from the DOCUMENTATION in a Non-Gpl module, BSD, Apache, or other liscence.
This "LISCENCE" is for the documentation NOT the protocol. So friggin what, Samba team has done a great job reverse engineering other things before, wihtout docs.
Hell have a friend agree to the terms, read it, then TELL you how they do what they do, at that point there is no tactic agreement between you and microsoft, oyu recived the knowledge second hand and you partner had of course "no idea" that the information would be implemented in a GPL app.
Better yet, write a REVIEW of the documentation as a Journalist, a critique, perfectly acceptable under fair use laws, just make sure to critique the authors work on the spiciest bits of Information.
Perhaps the teraforming of venus or mars would be a more practical consideration for the next 100 years.
What the heck does it matter if we find a planet in say , we misses it surrounding Alpha Centarui, our closest stellar neighbor.
We pretty much know there out there , law of averages dictates it. WE (earth), is not an cannot be alone in it planetary type classification, to think so would align you mental reasoning with that of the clergy in the middle ages saying the frigging sun revolved around the earth.
So what dose it matter in the short term if there is another planet even within 20 light years, a very short distance I might add, Propulsion at near the speed of light is fantasy for at least another century. OR until artificial gravity can be harnessed (no not for propulsion but for keeping the people inside from turning to goooo on acceleration a deceleration), add to that the fact space isnt a vacum, a craft travelling at NOV (near optic velocities) well lets say there are more issues than you can imagine if you havent studied the problem.
So, what are we left with ?
Venus and Mars, mars is cold and dry. May be a little watter but its still going to be cold , rocord equator temperatures are not even comfy, there isnt enough CO2 at the caps to produce an atmosphere of enough density for a greenhouse effect to occur.
SO we have venus, wet, HOT as hell and very active. Remeber the percipitation experiments in chemistry class ? How about coming up with a plan to do just tha to the sulfur in the atmosphere ? Man what I wouldnt give to have about 2 liters of venutian atmosphere to play with. Now granted even after it would take some time for the planet to cool even after reduced its atmosphere. And the place would forever smell like rotten eggs, but more habbitable perhaps than mars, at least you have PLENTY of water, albeit bound in sulfuric acids at the moment.
Sooo earth earth where are you ? Does it really matter ? What next drawings of what life may be like on theat planet ? (Remeber the wood carvign of the men on the moon a guy claimed to see with wings and all)
Cool now that I spent the last 2 days installing Visual Studio 7 Enterprise Architect on my Win XP box, I can unload the Rh 7.192 Advanced server test platform I had setup and Was going to upgrade to the current redhat 7.3 beta, and instead spend the next week downloading and installing, compiling and playing with Gentoo , until that is RH 7.4 (or 8 whatever) is released since Solaris 9 isnt going to offer an Intel version I can wipe my solaris 8 intel box and try to load......
Holy shit no wonder I dont ever get any actual work done anymore, between loading new systems to playing with new distros, trying to figure iout this whole ungodly dot.diaster and typing stuff like this on slashdot.....
Time to get back to chasing my tail in circles.....
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I have long thought , and am probably no the only one, that a light storage device could make for an awesome weapon.
Consider a Sphere, 2 way mirrored, on the inside, you put light in, what happens ? It bounces around, indefinatley , well as indefinatley as the quality of your reflective surface.
Now think of charging this for say months wit a high powered laser.
Only to brop and break the sphere. releasing ALL the stored light at once.
Now before you go on ranting how the reflective surface, photons etc. I know but I have wondered if there isnt a way to overcome this, this group may just have the answer.
"Launch Photon Torpedoes" may not be as far off as we think........
Does that mean that next time i want an oracle installation I can benchmark I should have 16 year old install it sho he isnt bound by the terms.
This is STUPID on apples part, this guy showed an affinity and a brightness devoted to apple. They have now alienated him to some degree.
Now that said , if he isnt legally bound by the terms, He could RE-Liscence the code he already wrote and Apple would be forced to remove it.
Thats it lets alienate our developer base. I asked for certain GPL code, modified by Apple and had a hell of a time getting it (no it wassnt on FTP and per GPL didnt need to be, but I litterally had to talk to their legal dept before getting the code sent to me through the written offer clause)
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I would say NVIDIA for one, people complain constantly about closed specs etc.
But the truth is it would be competivley BAD for Nvidia to release the specs, yes others have, they choose not to, thats fine with me, they do provide GOOD drivers, and the SRPMS, as well as tared gzipped kernel modules for you to compile on any Linux setup you wish, the actually libs are closed source but hell they DO provide drivers for an OS that accounts for a VERY small portion of their sales market.
There are other vendors that provide Linux support, to be honest If I was in charge of a HW company, I wouldnt, I would provide the specs under some kind of closed agreement to 3rd party developers.
NVIDIA Does provide nice linux drivers, I have, unlike other never had any problem, they release newer version and each generation (for the most part) they get better what more can you ask....(and please dont say provide the specs, if you are thinking or saying that Im betting you have no experince in engineering hardware for a commercial market where competition, especially in th 3d accel, is just downright evil)
From the article
. . lick, YEP BOSS ! Our POTENTIAL Market is 24,973 units, how many of those we will sell I cant say , but thats EXACTLY how many we COULD sell ?
"Samsung sees potential sales of flat panels for electronic books at 24,973 units this year."
Where the hell does someone get such number ?
I mean do they have some little man hunched over a 10 key in their market reasearch department saying.....click....click....zzzztttt.....click..
This is creepy, people, yes even us programmers and tech types amaze me, I guess what I mean is I cant belive the arrogance of people that think they can devise a machine that tells someone what is in the heart and intentions of a man, just from looking at him nonetheless. Someone needs to get ahhold of the "geniuses" that are working on this and give then a good ass kicking, just for attempting to be so naieve.
The internet number one is not some global right.
Its for those that can pay.
It was developed and fostered in the US for the US.
Its no damm different than anywhere else, If I send an email to the chineese, guess what, who picks up the traffic cost on the other end ? The CHINEESE !
If a chinaman send ME an email whose ISP covers the cost of reciveing it ? MINE !
What armed with this knowledge lets shut down the African ISP's all together send 10 emails a day to some addresses , then maybe Ill stop getting mail from my "friend" in Nigera to speculate on oil wells over there (SPAM).
What communist mentality drives these things to be rights of anyone and everyone regardless of economy ? If you can pay you cant play, leveling the playing field dosent work it just makes for a very dull game.
When I said extracted, I meant the Blue Green Algae should have extracted,
Yes I am thinking I want to PUT the Co2 into the Water and the Algae will "extract" much of it for its own uses (reproduction its air, etc)
I dont want to pull it out of the ocean youre right that wouldnt make sense, I wan the Algae to extract it (or most of it)
Do you know where the majority of the photosynthesis occurs in nature ?
:)
Simple, the blue green algae in the ocean.
Why not, (in a BG rich area of the ocean, anchor just such a platform, "bubbling the co2," to a fair depth, by the time it surfaces you should have extracted a good percentage of the dissolved co2.
Using the principals they speak of,using wind as a tranport vector, using area in the ocean, dont have to worry about nearby (surface) plantlife, and creating such a BG rich area would be an amazing boom to localsea life, wonder how feasable a floating shelf 200 square miles is
true, so is a one transitor raido, analog as well.
BUT the way transistor logic, logic being the keyword, is APPLIED to computing is what I spoke of and is certainly digital in nature in that application.
I however missed the point one of the above posters made of using resitance values in a binary mode. I have built both binary and analog computers, I have a fondness of Analog computing, I never thought to apply only 2 DISTINCT values to a resitance representation.
True, you could pull different values (aka 1, 0, hell 2, 3, 4, 5) if you want) from resistance values.
I guess never having worked with resitance values as absolute, It never crossed my mind good point.
I think (I may be wrong) these magnatite are almost like "core memory" from days long gone, where a single bit was represented in memory by a single wound ferrite core, and I guess like you said pull distinct values from diffferent residtance values.
This sounds, upone rereading the article, even more like core memory on a film.
My dad saw, and showed me picture, yes im that old, of core memory being produced at IBM , thousands of ferrite cores beinghand tested and added to boards. Not bad in concept , but then again bubble memory for those old enough to remeber was a great concept too, there is still one Bubble manufacturer out there I am aware of upwards of 2 gigs, theyre using it as a solid state drive instead of ram (non-volitaile with somethinglike a 500? G shoch rating ?!?!)
What the hell am I gonna do when the boss comes in and my puter is off and I tell him, oh im just rebooting.
Second, isnt resistor logig analog, and not binary (transistor) ?
Is this (on the private sector end) compulsory ?
:)
If the feds say we want you to take our IT guy for a Year ? Do you have to ?
If it is, it is quite simply unconstitutional, a federal employee could be rejected under the soldier quartering provisions, if its no mandatory, what I just said is all moot
But fcol, who would WANT a Federal employee, most are worse than union workers, could this person be "fired" from their position if they slack ?
Working in a private sector company with and significant amount of responsiblity is NOTHING like working govt jobs. Lunch ? Yeah right twice a week if Im luck, my choice, but I have a life after work.
Is it just me or does this sound wrong all the way around, good for only one entity the Govt., Private sector is years ahead in most IT, hell you know how many RBASE programmers the Govt still has on staff..........
lol.....thanks.....
I guess that part of the equation I, being familiar with them since release 2.0 hadnt thought of....
Well, more hope that itll hit the 4 mark then:)
Or better yet back down to 3 and some change....
Better than caldera the cald 4 for 1 trade to get the value back up , lol....its at 90 now down form 1.40 a week ago, then again Caldera's only, if they have a value, is in SCO im still not sure if thats an asset or liablity
I like RedHat I use RedHat , I made a bundle early with RHAT stock.
Ive been watching the RHAT stock for the last month VERY close waiting to buy at 4.75 (A mark I set, arbitrary at best)
Rhat has AS(advanced Serve) Is it out of beta ?, and 7.? In beta , its the first beta Ive seen with a Beta2 revision from redhat in....well ever....
People are saying nothing but good things about RedHat from a business and finacial standpoint and yet still the stock slides. 7 is a fair value if I can buy at under 5 , rich I tell you Rich Ill be, ok so a little overenthusiasm on my part.
But why in gods name, does the stock continue to slide ? Ideas anyone ?
Actually she does and rides me on it constantly.
She thought me to type starting at about age 7 when I first got into computers, (1978)
I am thanks to my mother a very proficient typist, literally over 120wpm, however my error rate and subsequent corrections brings that down to about 90 (I joke about 140 WPM, and 40 CPM on my Bio, its pretty close)
Omissions of characters are my most common error, much of that has to do with key pressure and return at such high speed, I actually wear keyboards out.
The sentence "Amazon lists ANY book out there look at the lead times on out of print sometime " should have read "Amazon lists ANY book out there, look at the lead times on out of print sometime" Meaning very simply , Amazon will TRY to sell you nearly any book ever published if they have a record of that book ever being sold (This include record going back some 15 years from their purchased data), If you look at the ship times you will see sometime 6 weeks plus. The reason is not only don't they have it they don't yet know where to find it. The simple addition or omission of a , can make a difference.
"Maybe it's because English isn't my native language........And it seems to me that slashdot puts us in a downward spiral where people are unlearning the differences between........"
Blah Blah Blah, Buy a Berlitz tape.
You're never going to learn proper English, or American and yes they are different, on Slashdot.
Besides as from the Slashdot FAQ "Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S."
You telling me what I am not doing correctly or am is the singularly most offensive comment I've heard. I am, from that assuming you live in pseudo communist society where free speech is a pipe dream, tell me my spelling and grammar are offensive to you ! I'm glad it makes you angry. You have no idea how much joy that brings to me that a post, words, can actually rise your emotions to "anger"
Its AbeBooks.com (a typo on my part)
Youre Right BibiloFind IS OWNED By Amazon (wasnt always that way, THAT where they get their OP listings)
B&N Owns the some of the other.
BookFinder.com is another Good one......
Actually B&N has bought one of the largest prior listing services, Actually most dealers Became affiliated after they bought interloc, a pre web listing service.
Amazon does just broker the Out of Print books. Period nothing else, Amazon does not stock one single used out of print book. They provide ALL the shipping materials, there is a difference between the normal amazon purchase procedure and marketplace. Actually they force the dealers to take a 15% cut off of THEIR own list price, Say the dealer wants 100 bucks, Amazon says hey you want to sell to us you sell it to us at 85, then they mark up another 15% to the consumer you pay 115, a total of 30%, PLUS the Dealer MUST pay the shipping cost (not the materials, but the actual postage)
I guess unless you own, or work with a rare/op shop on a regular basis you would have no clue about how things work, fact is its getting uglier. BUT prices are on the rise because of the web, Amazon has changed my moms shop (Currently over a million titles, the WS is way out of date) literally from a break even to a profitable business. And at the moment they only have a catalog of about 30k titles listed online.
I agree 100% with the rest of your statements about OP books. The greed has its upside for shops like my moms, she can actuall undersell NEW titles by another 5% less than amazon, B&N anyone, sometimes more. For NEW in Print books, 2 day turnaround.
ZZZTTTT, that is SEPERATE,
I need to look at nothing but the back room filled with Amazon shipping materials.
My mom does approx 5k a month through amazon, its not bad,
Market place is SEPERATE and DIFFERENT, there complete descriptions, of the same books are listed for a direct purchase, the cut is different.
You have absolutley no clue what you are talking about.
The above informationholds true if you purchase it through Marketplace, it does NOT if you order the same book through their main interface while searching, althought the book will return both results.
Neither does Barnes and Noble, they broker them from data mined and average pricing, off of used book dealers central listings (Abebooks.com Bibliofind.com, etc)
Heres how it goes, amazon lists ANY book out there look at the lead times on out of print sometime. THEN they Order from a Used book dealer in their distribution channel, theey tak and ADDITIONAL 15% and you (the book dealer) Ship using Amazon shipping materials , lbels boxes, bagging etc, they have supplied, they then to the consumer mark up about another 15% over that (the mandatory 15% cut on YOUR list price).
Amazon and Barnes and Noble SELL NO USED BOOKS THEMSELVES, they BROKER them PERIOD.
Want to buy them cheaper ? Got to bebooks.com Bibliofind.com (one even being owned by B&N) and buy direct from the dealer. Youll get a hell of a lot beter deal. PLUS youll get extended information on the book condition not available on Amazon (Especially important for those tasty first editions).
Amazon will sell you a book they dont have and dont even know wqhereone is , if they can locat it throught their network Great, if they cant they cancel your order. They offer an average pricing based on the books listed previously of that edition/title.
How do I know these things ?
My mom in addition to being a F500 exec owns a Rare book shop.
Check it out if youere a paper head Snowball Books
Apparently not a contsituional scholar, and most certainly a dimwit the US constitution IS the law of the land at its highest level and princples.
"A Treaty overrides the USA constitution"
Not to US citizens at home Im sorry it dosent, where did you go to school ? Some public school in Cleveland Ohio ?
"Not all have exclusions for Americans alone in them! Maybe the first one or two did but not ALL treaties!
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You were initially reffering to hate speech with the EU.
"Many allow extradition."
NONE allow for extraddition of lawful acts performed in the US, by US citizens. None.....
If this were in the LEAST true you would have the French Judges extradite Yahoo executives for trial there, as it is they wont travel there because theyre fair game, just as many pro-nazi site owners operaters dont travel THERE.
Here they CANNOT , I REPEAT CANNOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE BE EXTRADITED FOR CONSTITUTIONALY PROTECTED FREE SPEECH (Acts of subversion or thing not legal within the realm of free speach may, but it wont happen) !!!!!
Like it or not Hate speech is PERFECTLY OK, and PROTECTED in the US , although some PC liberal communist wannabes would rather it not be.
The Klan hands out flyers outside grade schools in the south, they march in rallies (mostly a joke I think) Nazi's show at black rallies, and so on and so on.
Do you even live in the United States ?
And I would seriously question your grasp on Constituional law and its interaction with Treaties as it applies to legal acts by US citizens on US soil. You are sadly misinformed.
Whats more sad is there are those readers out there that may actually belive you.
Funny....
.....You are right about the liscence that was kinda my point, I like the name too....
About my sig,
You have a typo in your sig however "redering" ?
Seeeee...........
BZZZZTTTTT
Wrong, you obviously havent read the treaty or specific exemptions,
In the US it is still perfectly leay to say you hate whoever for whatever reason and they cannon deport you to say france, or isreal.
These exemptions, after the US said it wouldnt sighn were put in specifically for the US and other countries (cant remeber which) that could NOT sigh the agreement with all the provisions in.
You as a US citizen can still say build a PRO-NAZI website in German language, hosted here directed at Germans, with NO fear of extradition or breaking any laws.
Now that said, I sure as hell would never travel ANYWHERE in europe, there they could grab you up and try you under their laws.
"But the US passed a workaround by joining the hate-speech laws the EU adopted and used a TREATY to enjoin the usa citizens... now extraditable to EU for Nazi Speech or White Pride Speech!
A Treaty overrides Constitution evidently.
Thus the locale law becomes moot.
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BZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTT
Where did you ome up with this, is it meant to inflame people or are you really so stupid as to belive it ?
Implement any thing needed from the DOCUMENTATION in a Non-Gpl module, BSD, Apache, or other liscence.
This "LISCENCE" is for the documentation NOT the protocol. So friggin what, Samba team has done a great job reverse engineering other things before, wihtout docs.
Hell have a friend agree to the terms, read it, then TELL you how they do what they do, at that point there is no tactic agreement between you and microsoft, oyu recived the knowledge second hand and you partner had of course "no idea" that the information would be implemented in a GPL app.
Better yet, write a REVIEW of the documentation as a Journalist, a critique, perfectly acceptable under fair use laws, just make sure to critique the authors work on the spiciest bits of Information.
Well, close but no cigar,
Perhaps the teraforming of venus or mars would be a more practical consideration for the next 100 years.
What the heck does it matter if we find a planet in say , we misses it surrounding Alpha Centarui, our closest stellar neighbor.
We pretty much know there out there , law of averages dictates it. WE (earth), is not an cannot be alone in it planetary type classification, to think so would align you mental reasoning with that of the clergy in the middle ages saying the frigging sun revolved around the earth.
So what dose it matter in the short term if there is another planet even within 20 light years, a very short distance I might add, Propulsion at near the speed of light is fantasy for at least another century. OR until artificial gravity can be harnessed (no not for propulsion but for keeping the people inside from turning to goooo on acceleration a deceleration), add to that the fact space isnt a vacum, a craft travelling at NOV (near optic velocities) well lets say there are more issues than you can imagine if you havent studied the problem.
So, what are we left with ?
Venus and Mars, mars is cold and dry. May be a little watter but its still going to be cold , rocord equator temperatures are not even comfy, there isnt enough CO2 at the caps to produce an atmosphere of enough density for a greenhouse effect to occur.
SO we have venus, wet, HOT as hell and very active. Remeber the percipitation experiments in chemistry class ? How about coming up with a plan to do just tha to the sulfur in the atmosphere ? Man what I wouldnt give to have about 2 liters of venutian atmosphere to play with. Now granted even after it would take some time for the planet to cool even after reduced its atmosphere. And the place would forever smell like rotten eggs, but more habbitable perhaps than mars, at least you have PLENTY of water, albeit bound in sulfuric acids at the moment.
Sooo earth earth where are you ? Does it really matter ? What next drawings of what life may be like on theat planet ? (Remeber the wood carvign of the men on the moon a guy claimed to see with wings and all)
Cool now that I spent the last 2 days installing Visual Studio 7 Enterprise Architect on my Win XP box, I can unload the Rh 7.192 Advanced server test platform I had setup and Was going to upgrade to the current redhat 7.3 beta, and instead spend the next week downloading and installing, compiling and playing with Gentoo , until that is RH 7.4 (or 8 whatever) is released since Solaris 9 isnt going to offer an Intel version I can wipe my solaris 8 intel box and try to load......
Holy shit no wonder I dont ever get any actual work done anymore, between loading new systems to playing with new distros, trying to figure iout this whole ungodly dot.diaster and typing stuff like this on slashdot.....
Time to get back to chasing my tail in circles.....
I have long thought , and am probably no the only one, that a light storage device could make for an awesome weapon.
Consider a Sphere, 2 way mirrored, on the inside, you put light in, what happens ? It bounces around, indefinatley , well as indefinatley as the quality of your reflective surface.
Now think of charging this for say months wit a high powered laser.
Only to brop and break the sphere. releasing ALL the stored light at once.
Now before you go on ranting how the reflective surface, photons etc. I know but I have wondered if there isnt a way to overcome this, this group may just have the answer.
"Launch Photon Torpedoes" may not be as far off as we think........
Does that mean that next time i want an oracle installation I can benchmark I should have 16 year old install it sho he isnt bound by the terms.
This is STUPID on apples part, this guy showed an affinity and a brightness devoted to apple. They have now alienated him to some degree.
Now that said , if he isnt legally bound by the terms, He could RE-Liscence the code he already wrote and Apple would be forced to remove it.
Thats it lets alienate our developer base.
I asked for certain GPL code, modified by Apple and had a hell of a time getting it (no it wassnt on FTP and per GPL didnt need to be, but I litterally had to talk to their legal dept before getting the code sent to me through the written offer clause)