Actually it wouldn't make much financial difference.
Using the normal law of the sea to divide up the north sea oil rights, the oil revenue from Scotland's part of the North Sea is either slightly more or slightly less than the current subsidy, depending on whether a small island is considered habitable.
PPP compares what Guatamalan goods and services Guatamalan people can buy with Guatamalan money in Guatamala compared to what American goods and services Americans can buy with American money in America. It aims to compare all goods and services which are consumed, regardless of whether they are traded across borders.
Exchange rates compare what Guatamalan goods and services American people can buy with American money in America, compared to what American goods and services Guatamalan people can buy with Guatamalan money in Guatamala. I.e. it only accounts for goods and services which are actually traded across borders.
Which one you should use depends on whether you are comparing how well off people are or importing goods.
America was built by invading lands occupied by others and driving them out and/or killing them. That's not how we ought to behave now, but was not too far from a mainstream attitude then.
All countries were created and re-created the same way, many times, over millennia. Look at Britain, created by successive waves of invasion and colonisation. Before America, the indigines did the same thing to each other. Prior to the invention of the modern state and modern democracy, it wasn't even widely considered especially morally wrong, just something you didn't want to be on the wrong end of.
The point is that you are not saying "Listen to this clip, it's really poignant" or "This guy as a really good point, have a loook", or even "Whoah! look at this stunt!".
You are saying: "Here is part of the file. If you can find the other parts, you will have the whole thing!".
If you look at it in a bad light and squint, it looks like paraphrasing. But it is totally different from a human perspective, because the intent of the downloader is to obtain a complete copy (whether of lower quality or not), and the intent of the uploader is to assist them in doing so.
Yeah, except you aren't really paraphrasing it, because you are not taking a portion which is meaningful on its own and restating it in another way. You are purposefully conspiring with others to commit infringement.
Erm, no. They lose the right to copy if they voilate the GPL. But once they comply, they can re-acquire the right to copy in the same way as anyone else, by agreeing to the terms of the GPL.
Nothing in the GPL prevents anyone from using GPL'd works if they have violated the license terms IN THE PAST, only if they are CURRENTLY violating them.
This is the plain-english reading of the GPL, and also the same conclusion a German court recently came to.
Erm... no. In windows, to reduce size, you check the box which says "Compress files to save space". Because NTFS is a grown-up filesystem and can do this.
You make a zip file if you want to send files as a group to someone else.
No, this just means that Verisign will be trusted to sign the certificate which was used to sign the exe. It doesn't mean that the signed exe will be trusted to run on your machine. You would have to trust the leaf certificate with this right specifically.
It matches perfectly. You know where a menu is in Word. You have a connection -- hook -- in that you know that menus are consistent between Word and Excel. This makes it easier for you to learn/know where menus are in Excel.
It only works if there are relationships between the things you know. There are no hooks to help you learn lists of random numbers, hooks exist where there is commonality, and the more commonality, the more hooks there are.
So, under the DMCA, ISPs are immune from being sued for linking to copyrighted material. IANAL, but with the recent bittorrent suits, it would seem that this would help. It also seems that if an ISP runs a tracker or a torrent website, they can't be sued under the DMCA...interesting, very interesting.
No, they are immune from being sued if their actions fall under one of the safe harbour provisions, which are:
a. Common Carrier
b. Temporarily cache, and remove on request (think web proxy or email)
c. At direction of user, and remove on request (think personal hompages)
d. Link only, is unaware that the content is infringing, and removes the link on request
A tracker purporsefully run by an ISP would not fall under the fourth safe harbor unless the
ISP had no way to suspect that the material was infringing.
What is more worrisome to me is what happens in it's next few encounters with Jupiter. According to the JPL Deep Impact web page, Tempel 1 is in a relatively stable but complex orbit which is in "1:2 resonance with Jupiter" (which I assume means that it rendezvous with Jupiter every two Jovian years). I'm sure you're familiar with the concept of "gravity assist."
The answer is that "Gravity Assist" is what keeps it in the resonance with Jupiter. If it gets ahead, jupiter slows it down, and if it gets behind jupiter gives it a kick. So in the long term this will have no effect on it's orbital trajectory whatsoever, and it will continue to plough the same furrow until it is vapourised by the sun.
Interestingly, most large bodies in the solar system are in a resonant orbit with something or other, generally manifesting itself as orbital periods with ratios to each other which are small-integer fractions of each other.
I had the exact same problems. I lowered the motherboard speed and they went away.
I think it is out-of-spec ram, memtest results and Mandrake notwithstanding.
I suspect that it is an interaction between the memory and the graphics card which is exposed by features used by the windows drivers but not used by the mandrake drivers.
Hope this helps.
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The distinction is between random meaning not deterministic and random meaning not predictable.
The second is about the availability of information and the ability to process it. It is certainly true that quantum fluctuations provide a source of numbers which is not predictable in practice, and it can probably be proved that it can't be predicted, given reasonable assumptions about the availability of information about the quantum state of the generator.
For the first, I'm not sure any experiment could prove that it was nondeterministic, even if it were given that quantum mechanics offers a complete description. Which is to say that I suspect it can be proved that a quantum mechanics with non-local copenhagen interpretation is indistinguishable from a deterministic quantum mechanics.
Randomness is typically defined either as Kolmogorov algoritmic randomness, or as "from a random source". What we have been discussing is the meaning of the second, and I think we have shown that there are two possibilities. Actual nondeterminism, and unpredictability. For the second, we can divide again into provable unpredictability (based on the amount of information required to predict it, for example related to the capacity of a thermal reservoir providing thermal noise) and practical unpredictablity (based on the availability of information, for example the fact that the thermal reservoir is packaged inside your CPU, and therefore the information is unavailable).
I am not sure computing applications, even cryptography, ever require anything better than practical unpredictability.
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In China, you can stand as an independent, but no parties other than the Communist party are allowed.
In Iran, parties are allowed, but in order to stand you have to be approved as a candidate by the ruling theocratic elite.
In Palestine, you have to dare to stand for election in a place where doing so will get you shot.
None of those places are democracies.
So do we.
"Root hog or die". Actually that does mean something, but not a lot of people know what, it's rather obscure.
That the escalation in the UK's police powers has gone too far.
Where is the -10 humour impared moderation option when you need it?
Actually it wouldn't make much financial difference.
Using the normal law of the sea to divide up the north sea oil rights, the oil revenue from Scotland's part of the North Sea is either slightly more or slightly less than the current subsidy, depending on whether a small island is considered habitable.
PPP compares what Guatamalan goods and services Guatamalan people can buy with Guatamalan money in Guatamala compared to what American goods and services Americans can buy with American money in America. It aims to compare all goods and services which are consumed, regardless of whether they are traded across borders.
Exchange rates compare what Guatamalan goods and services American people can buy with American money in America, compared to what American goods and services Guatamalan people can buy with Guatamalan money in Guatamala. I.e. it only accounts for goods and services which are actually traded across borders.
Which one you should use depends on whether you are comparing how well off people are or importing goods.
Erm, yes?
What do you think "the conquest of the west" was?
America was built by invading lands occupied by others and driving them out and/or killing them. That's not how we ought to behave now, but was not too far from a mainstream attitude then.
All countries were created and re-created the same way, many times, over millennia. Look at Britain, created by successive waves of invasion and colonisation. Before America, the indigines did the same thing to each other. Prior to the invention of the modern state and modern democracy, it wasn't even widely considered especially morally wrong, just something you didn't want to be on the wrong end of.
Talking about "Is bittorrent like paraphrasing".
The point is that you are not saying "Listen to this clip, it's really poignant" or "This guy as a really good point, have a loook", or even "Whoah! look at this stunt!".
You are saying: "Here is part of the file. If you can find the other parts, you will have the whole thing!".
If you look at it in a bad light and squint, it looks like paraphrasing. But it is totally different from a human perspective, because the intent of the downloader is to obtain a complete copy (whether of lower quality or not), and the intent of the uploader is to assist them in doing so.
Yeah, except you aren't really paraphrasing it, because you are not taking a portion which is meaningful on its own and restating it in another way. You are purposefully conspiring with others to commit infringement.
On the other hand, it would be simple to argue that you were conspiring to commit infringement.
This is what I do. All telephone messages I take for other people become email messages.
If it's something that other people need to know about, I email them.
If it's something I need to know about, I send myself an email. When it is done, I mark it as read, so the unread count acts as the Todo count.
Cheers,
Ben
Triple when you count the better tax schedule.
Quadruple if you count the opportunity to evade tax.
So do it and quit whining.
Mod parent up.
Disagreeing with something doesn't make it a troll!
Erm, no. They lose the right to copy if they voilate the GPL. But once they comply, they can re-acquire the right to copy in the same way as anyone else, by agreeing to the terms of the GPL.
Nothing in the GPL prevents anyone from using GPL'd works if they have violated the license terms IN THE PAST, only if they are CURRENTLY violating them.
This is the plain-english reading of the GPL, and also the same conclusion a German court recently came to.
Mod parent insightful and/or funny...
Erm... no. In windows, to reduce size, you check the box which says "Compress files to save space". Because NTFS is a grown-up filesystem and can do this.
You make a zip file if you want to send files as a group to someone else.
Granted you still want to know the size...
No, this just means that Verisign will be trusted to sign the certificate which was used to sign the exe. It doesn't mean that the signed exe will be trusted to run on your machine. You would have to trust the leaf certificate with this right specifically.
The big bang was a large amount of energy compressed into a very small space, so it had very low entropy.
Since then it has been spreading out, increasing in entropy as it does so.
Simple as that.
It matches perfectly. You know where a menu is in Word. You have a connection -- hook -- in that you know that menus are consistent between Word and Excel. This makes it easier for you to learn/know where menus are in Excel.
It only works if there are relationships between the things you know. There are no hooks to help you learn lists of random numbers, hooks exist where there is commonality, and the more commonality, the more hooks there are.
Cheers.
No, they are immune from being sued if their actions fall under one of the safe harbour provisions, which are:
A tracker purporsefully run by an ISP would not fall under the fourth safe harbor unless the ISP had no way to suspect that the material was infringing.
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The answer is that "Gravity Assist" is what keeps it in the resonance with Jupiter. If it gets ahead, jupiter slows it down, and if it gets behind jupiter gives it a kick. So in the long term this will have no effect on it's orbital trajectory whatsoever, and it will continue to plough the same furrow until it is vapourised by the sun.
Interestingly, most large bodies in the solar system are in a resonant orbit with something or other, generally manifesting itself as orbital periods with ratios to each other which are small-integer fractions of each other.
I had the exact same problems. I lowered the motherboard speed and they went away.
I think it is out-of-spec ram, memtest results and Mandrake notwithstanding.
I suspect that it is an interaction between the memory and the graphics card which is exposed by features used by the windows drivers but not used by the mandrake drivers.
Hope this helps.
+1 Funny anyone?
An on-topic joke, methinks.
+1 Funny, methinks.
Agreed.
The distinction is between random meaning not deterministic and random meaning not predictable.
The second is about the availability of information and the ability to process it. It is certainly true that quantum fluctuations provide a source of numbers which is not predictable in practice, and it can probably be proved that it can't be predicted, given reasonable assumptions about the availability of information about the quantum state of the generator.
For the first, I'm not sure any experiment could prove that it was nondeterministic, even if it were given that quantum mechanics offers a complete description. Which is to say that I suspect it can be proved that a quantum mechanics with non-local copenhagen interpretation is indistinguishable from a deterministic quantum mechanics.
Randomness is typically defined either as Kolmogorov algoritmic randomness, or as "from a random source". What we have been discussing is the meaning of the second, and I think we have shown that there are two possibilities. Actual nondeterminism, and unpredictability. For the second, we can divide again into provable unpredictability (based on the amount of information required to predict it, for example related to the capacity of a thermal reservoir providing thermal noise) and practical unpredictablity (based on the availability of information, for example the fact that the thermal reservoir is packaged inside your CPU, and therefore the information is unavailable).
I am not sure computing applications, even cryptography, ever require anything better than practical unpredictability.