I am anti-car, anti-city, and pro-sprawl, sorry to burst your bubble. The problem isn't sprawl, it's sprawl combined with selective centralization. You can't spread houses out to hell and back and NOT also spread commercial (and government) services the same way. I know people who drive *TWENTY MILES* to go grocery shopping at a mega-chain, or similarly far to get to the post office. Give those people $10/gal gas and maybe the corner grocery store[1] will start looking more appealing.
[1] Or, in the case of "planned housing developments", the inclusion of said corner grocery store in the design. There is no good reason for a residential development designed to comfortably (however you define it) house 3000 people (800 3-4 person homes, not uncommonly large) to not provide for any of the needs of its residents. It is ridiculous that such a development does not include a convenience store, post office, park, and possibly even a school (1000+ of those residents are likely to be school age children).
Plan better. You already leave the house 3 times a week, probably, and could get groceries on the way home. You could buy more fresh food, instead of only buying things that keep for a month. Quality of life goes UP because you are leaving the house less often, and eating better.
Why? If you are an exception, you aren't a relevant data point for discussion of the norm. Most people don't get 80 MPG. And even if you do, I still get more than that alone. I drive a scooter, and get an easy 100MPG with a passenger. And, to be relevant to this discussion, I take up no parking space downtown (counting car spaces), or 1/3 of a space (when I share with other scooters and motorcycles).
I think that one major turning point in American automobile purchasing will be when small vehicles (scooters, motorcycles, maybe even Smart cars) have reached a critical mass (5%?) that results in half size parking spaces being made available in large cities. How many times have you wished you had a handicap sticker just to get the best parking? Imagine seeing that same situation, but for half size spaces. How many times would you have to miss out on those before you started to consider buying a smaller (and likely more efficient) vehicle?
Give it another 10 years after that before we see narrow-vehicle lanes on major highways, and then you've got even MORE incentive to switch. Imagine how much less traffic there would be if every 2-4 lane road in the country had one extra lane, with virtually zero* construction cost.
* - compared to actually adding lanes, repainting is a negligible expense.
OK, you just bought a month's worth of groceries. What is your excuse for the other 29 days? I am assuming here that you are a typical American who drives 30+ miles a day, 5-7 days a week, since
The content as a work belongs to the writer. The information contained within it does not. I can summarize a 1000-word email from you as "You slept with John's wife", completely violating your [incorrectly] expected privacy without violating your copyright.
As a porter of "desktop" games to linux-running portables, I can comfortably say that 99.5% of all floating point math in desktop applications is unnecessary. 80% of it works just fine with integer math, and the remaining can be done with a light fixed point library.
I had a conversation with a friend from Germany recently about the America-centric thinking of us Americans. She has been to dozens of countries, many by hitchhiking/backpacking across Europe. I had to stress the point that from where I am sitting, I can travel a thousand miles in any direction on land and still be in the same country. The impact that has on... cosmopolitanness is significant, compared to her being able to visit three countries *ON FOOT* in the same week.
Most of those same places you can't legally ride a wheelchair, of the electric or manual variety, either. Rarely stops anyone, and if I got a ticket for riding a segway I would find a lawyer willing to argue selective enforcement.
The public domain can be legally redefined, and has been in the past, retroactively in some cases. It is possible (but implausible in most cases) that I could, at a point in the future, become the copyright holder for the work in question. Then the license that I issue you today would become worthwhile.
Yes, my carrier (and at least 3 other carriers that I have encountered) bills for after the Nth ring. N=3 for AT&T, N=5 for Boost, forgot the others. That applies for both prepaid and non accounts. If your carrier does not, I would appreciate knowing who they are and the specifics of your location and plan.
That, being a call-initiating discrepancy, I "blame" on my carrier. The Verizon thing, being a call-accepting discrepancy, I blame on Verizon. Maybe Verizon is doing it "right" and every carrier I have used mishandles the way Verizon is doing it, but Occam's Razor says otherwise.
Then, if you are correct, I can only assume that Verizon's service accepts Answer Supervision responsibility before playing the music. My only concrete data is that when making a call on my prepaid phone, I am not billed if I hang up after 2-N rings when calling most carriers, and I AM billed for 1 minute if I hang up any time during Verizon's music, including 1 second in, in the middle of "Please".
Find any friend with a prepaid phone and have them call someone with that type of musical "ring" service. On a normal phone call, I can hang up after 2-N (varies by provider) rings and not be charged. When calling a Verizon customer, if I hang up after "Pleas" I get charged for 1 minute of airtime.
I expect, and need to verify, that the same is the case if you call a Google Voice number and hang up after it transfers you to another line. As far as your provider is concerned, as soon as GV "answers" to play the next (forwarded line(s))ringback tone to you, you are on the call.
The average tells us little about the distribution. The average could be 20 seconds and the maximum 30 seconds (obviously not the case), or the average could be 20 seconds and 40% of calls be over 45 seconds (also unlikely).
You are obviously not following the thread. I am claiming that more hardware works in linux out of the box. The other poster is claiming that more hardware works in Windows after installing drivers. Both are true, so we have started arguing which case is more relevant.
It is in most corporate environments. I can bring any hardware I want to work (I love my ergonomic keyboard), as long as it works in Windows XP out of the box. No driver downloads/installs allowed.
And don't forget the very large number of home users who are baffled by instructions like "click on the link" or "insert the disc". Installing a driver is, quite often, "a problem".
Yeah, a "certain percentage" being about 25%. If you tack an extra 15 seconds onto 100 calls of otherwise random length, you will use 25 extra minutes of airtime.
And don't get me started on Verizon's new "please enjoy the music while your party is contacted", so that you get charged while their phone is *RINGING*..
Go to the nearest electronics store and buy 20 random pieces of hardware. Plug them into 4 computers, running any modern Linux distro, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Tell me how many of them work without installing additional software on each OS.
Because "fair use" has nothing to do with the meanings of the words "fair" and "use". You can't look at a scenario and go "well, that seems fair". "fair use" is a specific legal term that covers a specific set of criteria that have to be applied to a situation. The judge is saving the defense wasted effort by saying ahead of time "no, there is no way you could possibly have fallen under enough of these criteria for that defense to fly".
Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall includeâ" (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
This system is far smaller than QR codes, works without external lighting, and can convey information such as the angle and distance between the camera and the scanned object.
Technically true, but from what I have seen there is more lag in the Ubuntu release cycle than the average unstable->testing transition for Debian. Which means that, on average, that Ubuntu packages are already in Debian testing by the time they are released as part of Ubuntu.
There is nothing wrong with Debian's release process. The problem lies with release-centric management that refuses to install packages from Debian testing. Debian testing is, in my long and varied desktop experience, more stable than Ubuntu (with a 6 month release cycle mostly based on Debian testing) AND more up to date. For any usage except a mission critical server, I would recommend Debian testing over Debian stable.
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I am anti-car, anti-city, and pro-sprawl, sorry to burst your bubble. The problem isn't sprawl, it's sprawl combined with selective centralization. You can't spread houses out to hell and back and NOT also spread commercial (and government) services the same way. I know people who drive *TWENTY MILES* to go grocery shopping at a mega-chain, or similarly far to get to the post office. Give those people $10/gal gas and maybe the corner grocery store[1] will start looking more appealing.
[1] Or, in the case of "planned housing developments", the inclusion of said corner grocery store in the design. There is no good reason for a residential development designed to comfortably (however you define it) house 3000 people (800 3-4 person homes, not uncommonly large) to not provide for any of the needs of its residents. It is ridiculous that such a development does not include a convenience store, post office, park, and possibly even a school (1000+ of those residents are likely to be school age children).
Plan better. You already leave the house 3 times a week, probably, and could get groceries on the way home. You could buy more fresh food, instead of only buying things that keep for a month. Quality of life goes UP because you are leaving the house less often, and eating better.
Why? If you are an exception, you aren't a relevant data point for discussion of the norm. Most people don't get 80 MPG. And even if you do, I still get more than that alone. I drive a scooter, and get an easy 100MPG with a passenger. And, to be relevant to this discussion, I take up no parking space downtown (counting car spaces), or 1/3 of a space (when I share with other scooters and motorcycles).
I think that one major turning point in American automobile purchasing will be when small vehicles (scooters, motorcycles, maybe even Smart cars) have reached a critical mass (5%?) that results in half size parking spaces being made available in large cities. How many times have you wished you had a handicap sticker just to get the best parking? Imagine seeing that same situation, but for half size spaces. How many times would you have to miss out on those before you started to consider buying a smaller (and likely more efficient) vehicle?
Give it another 10 years after that before we see narrow-vehicle lanes on major highways, and then you've got even MORE incentive to switch. Imagine how much less traffic there would be if every 2-4 lane road in the country had one extra lane, with virtually zero* construction cost.
* - compared to actually adding lanes, repainting is a negligible expense.
OK, you just bought a month's worth of groceries. What is your excuse for the other 29 days? I am assuming here that you are a typical American who drives 30+ miles a day, 5-7 days a week, since
The content as a work belongs to the writer. The information contained within it does not. I can summarize a 1000-word email from you as "You slept with John's wife", completely violating your [incorrectly] expected privacy without violating your copyright.
As a porter of "desktop" games to linux-running portables, I can comfortably say that 99.5% of all floating point math in desktop applications is unnecessary. 80% of it works just fine with integer math, and the remaining can be done with a light fixed point library.
What if you don't use iTunes?
I had a conversation with a friend from Germany recently about the America-centric thinking of us Americans. She has been to dozens of countries, many by hitchhiking/backpacking across Europe. I had to stress the point that from where I am sitting, I can travel a thousand miles in any direction on land and still be in the same country. The impact that has on... cosmopolitanness is significant, compared to her being able to visit three countries *ON FOOT* in the same week.
Most of those same places you can't legally ride a wheelchair, of the electric or manual variety, either. Rarely stops anyone, and if I got a ticket for riding a segway I would find a lawyer willing to argue selective enforcement.
The public domain can be legally redefined, and has been in the past, retroactively in some cases. It is possible (but implausible in most cases) that I could, at a point in the future, become the copyright holder for the work in question. Then the license that I issue you today would become worthwhile.
Yes, my carrier (and at least 3 other carriers that I have encountered) bills for after the Nth ring. N=3 for AT&T, N=5 for Boost, forgot the others. That applies for both prepaid and non accounts. If your carrier does not, I would appreciate knowing who they are and the specifics of your location and plan.
That, being a call-initiating discrepancy, I "blame" on my carrier. The Verizon thing, being a call-accepting discrepancy, I blame on Verizon. Maybe Verizon is doing it "right" and every carrier I have used mishandles the way Verizon is doing it, but Occam's Razor says otherwise.
Then, if you are correct, I can only assume that Verizon's service accepts Answer Supervision responsibility before playing the music. My only concrete data is that when making a call on my prepaid phone, I am not billed if I hang up after 2-N rings when calling most carriers, and I AM billed for 1 minute if I hang up any time during Verizon's music, including 1 second in, in the middle of "Please".
It's not a ringback tone. Verizon's system "answers" the call after 0 rings, and basically places you on hold for 2-20 seconds.
Find any friend with a prepaid phone and have them call someone with that type of musical "ring" service. On a normal phone call, I can hang up after 2-N (varies by provider) rings and not be charged. When calling a Verizon customer, if I hang up after "Pleas" I get charged for 1 minute of airtime.
I expect, and need to verify, that the same is the case if you call a Google Voice number and hang up after it transfers you to another line. As far as your provider is concerned, as soon as GV "answers" to play the next (forwarded line(s))ringback tone to you, you are on the call.
The average tells us little about the distribution. The average could be 20 seconds and the maximum 30 seconds (obviously not the case), or the average could be 20 seconds and 40% of calls be over 45 seconds (also unlikely).
You are obviously not following the thread. I am claiming that more hardware works in linux out of the box. The other poster is claiming that more hardware works in Windows after installing drivers. Both are true, so we have started arguing which case is more relevant.
"Usually very short, typically under a minute."
right... and now every message I leave that is between 45 and 59 seconds long is charged for a second minute.
It is in most corporate environments. I can bring any hardware I want to work (I love my ergonomic keyboard), as long as it works in Windows XP out of the box. No driver downloads/installs allowed.
And don't forget the very large number of home users who are baffled by instructions like "click on the link" or "insert the disc". Installing a driver is, quite often, "a problem".
Yeah, a "certain percentage" being about 25%. If you tack an extra 15 seconds onto 100 calls of otherwise random length, you will use 25 extra minutes of airtime.
And don't get me started on Verizon's new "please enjoy the music while your party is contacted", so that you get charged while their phone is *RINGING*..
Go to the nearest electronics store and buy 20 random pieces of hardware. Plug them into 4 computers, running any modern Linux distro, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Tell me how many of them work without installing additional software on each OS.
Well, you don't have to "pass" all 4 criteria for it to be fair use. Singular exceptions have overridden the other 3 in the past, and vice versa.
Because "fair use" has nothing to do with the meanings of the words "fair" and "use". You can't look at a scenario and go "well, that seems fair". "fair use" is a specific legal term that covers a specific set of criteria that have to be applied to a situation. The judge is saving the defense wasted effort by saying ahead of time "no, there is no way you could possibly have fallen under enough of these criteria for that defense to fly".
USC 17 107
Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall includeâ"
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
This system is far smaller than QR codes, works without external lighting, and can convey information such as the angle and distance between the camera and the scanned object.
Technically true, but from what I have seen there is more lag in the Ubuntu release cycle than the average unstable->testing transition for Debian. Which means that, on average, that Ubuntu packages are already in Debian testing by the time they are released as part of Ubuntu.
There is nothing wrong with Debian's release process. The problem lies with release-centric management that refuses to install packages from Debian testing. Debian testing is, in my long and varied desktop experience, more stable than Ubuntu (with a 6 month release cycle mostly based on Debian testing) AND more up to date. For any usage except a mission critical server, I would recommend Debian testing over Debian stable.