Goodwill is a term of art in accounting. There's a brief summary on Wikipedia. Essentially, "goodwill" is the magic dark matter of accounting that is used to explain whither otherwise inexplicable money goes and whence it comes. For instance, say one of your company's buildings appraised for $1 million but somebody else bought it for $2 million. That goes down as $1 million of "goodwill" so that the numbers balance out. Conversely, if someone else's building appraised for $2 million but he sold it to you for $1 million, that's another example of $1 million of goodwill on your books.
Hint relevant to this situation: it applies to securities as well.
As more people sign on to high-speed access, how long will it be before we start seeing the cable companies (such as Comcast) start dropping their prices to levels which compete directly with dial-up
Hmmm... yeah....
So you mean as demand increases with a constant supply, we should start seeing price decrease?
IR is carried over photons too; we emit that (at least those of us warmer than room temperature do).
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Well, it's not a port or an implementation; it's a wrapper to a DLL. That's the fun of dynamically loaded libraries: you can call opengl, gtk, qt, COM, CORBA, $WHATEVER_YOU_WANT from $WHATEVER_LANGUAGE_YOU_WANT as long as you take the time and effort to write a wrapper label, which this guy did, and he wasn't the first.
You're right that info is something closer, but (a) I've been in userland in Solaris since '94, linux since '99, and OS X since '01, and I've never heard of it before;
You've been using Unix or something like it for 10 years and you've never heard of "info"?
(b) it's basically flat. Some of the information is there, but even a pile of HTML running in lynx (etc) would be easier.
That's basically what info is. Did you try following any of the links in the info pages? (They're linked together rather like html.) Try "info info" or "man info" (or google "using unix info") for tips on navigating the info links.
Ok, I didn't research this more than typing "help" on a Debian stable box and "help" on an OS X box, both under tcsh.
Ah, I'm not sure whether/how tcsh implements "help"; I know bash uses it basically as man pages for the built-in bash commands (I think ksh does too).
I do think it's important that "help" bring up information-root level help, rather than something more specific.
I whole-heartedly agree, though don't forget to look past the first page of the manual. (Lots of stuff has a page-1 entry and people forget to look in page 8 or page 2 or whatever.)
while i can read your command just fine, please notice that no part of it contains "format" or "floppy" or even "disk".
hmmm.... so/dev/fd0 (short for DEVices: Floppy Drive #0) is cryptic and unguessable but A: is perfectly intuitive?
a CLI program called "help": you type "help", it runs. it gives a menu of help options - matching natural language to a man page for a command, or giving a general introduction to the filesystem structure, or maybe even a glossary, or the jargon file... whatever. but presented quickly, nicely, in natural language, with obvious (read: printed on-screen) navigation commands... how hard is it to understand how many people this would help?i>
"Help" is taken (used for commands that are part of the shell). What you're looking for sounds kind of like "info". Or "google". Though actually I've been working on something like that called "helpme"; I'll let you know if I ever finish it.
The other misuse of "unique" that gets to me is how it's used as praise, as if simply being "unique" (or, more often, "one of the most unique...") were a good thing in itself.
I don't think you can get a BA in physics, but maybe I'm wrong
Depends on the schools. A lot of universities that run their physics program out of their college of arts & sciences give BA's. I guess the implication is it's a more broad-based curriculum than the physics degree you'd get at another university's school of physics or school of applied sciences or whatever, but YMMV.
I certainly wouldn't knock an AB in physics from Harvard, however. They've got a great lab.
Credit where it's due; Microsoft's clipboard, like a lot (but not quite all) of their user interface, is very good. My only real complaint is the difficulty sometimes of pasting a richtext or html selection as plain text in a richtext- or html-aware application. Though I've found with the better apps (Office, Visual Studio.NET, etc.) this is handled rather elegantly.
Eh? Gnome, KDE, and WindowMaker all have clipboard managers that integrate & abstract the various toolkit clipboards. That's why, for example, in Gnome you can copy from a QT app and paste to a GTK app. That's the "clipboard" I was talking about, not the toolkit clipboards (though those are also very interesting).
The copy-paste inconsistencies are collateral damage from having various window managers to choose from. Gnome (which was originally intended as a sort of COM-for-Linux) was supposed to simplify and standardize object transfers through copy/paste, but A) it doesn't do it quite consistently with itself and B) it never caught on outside of Gnome projects.
GNUStep has a pretty good clipboard, and I hear KDE does too... one of the biggest problems is setting a standard set of keys that apps won't listen for so the window manager can use it to copy & paste (unless you just do a clipboard widget like GNUStep).
And what do you do for apps that have their own clipboard/kill ring? Do you make the top of the emacs kill ring equal the clipboard? And what happens if you have a clipboard that handles objects and not just text and the app being pasted to has no handler for that object type?
How could I have been so ignorant...apparently piracy is a "new method of distribution" for the artists...
Well, authorized piracy (ie, musician-sanctioned file/tape/cd sharing) in fact is the favored method of distribution for many musicians, not the least of which are the Grateful Dead, along with many smaller bands (which for whatever reason happen to be the musicians I enjoy listening to, so politics and taste coincide here for me).
It's been a while since I read Catch 22, but wasn't there a point in the book where one of Yossarian's friends was buying eggs at 12 cents per and selling them at 9 cents per but making money because he owned both ends of the deal? I think it was the same guy who walked around with horse apples in his cheeks.
I happen to have a system here with icc, uclibc, and BSD make & textutils, running on Linux. If I gave John Q. User an account on this box he would not know or care that I don't use the GNU tools (well, maybe he would if he liked Emacs).
Once upon a time, RMS was right that Linux was only a small part of the equation and that most of the credit was due to the GNU team. However, the roles have reversed now: Linux is what is keeping gcc, glibc, Gnome, etc. afloat (doesn't RH actually fund gcc development, for that matter?).
One of the principles of free software is that I should be able to hack up my hardware however I want. Sun is making an end run around this.
If I rent hardware from Sun, it's not my hardware. Just like my landlord says I can't paint my apartment, Sun would have every right to say "this is *our* hardware; you can only run software we approve on it."
This is part of the ongoing struggle to make all individual computer users consumers only.
HTML lacks loops and is therefore not turing complete.
I wonder what you meant with 'HTML', probably JavaScript?
No, he meant HTML. It's not a programming language but it is a computer language, and it's a good place to start: it teaches ideas like the importance of correct spelling, the difference between directives and data, etc.
Incidentally, you don't need "loops" to make a language turing complete. "if" and "goto" with variable assignment will suffice. So will lambda abstraction. So will a control stack (consider Forth or PostScript; both are turing complete but "loops" are just macros to manipulate a control stack).
A nice thing to have: a computer program that knows many important theorems I1, I2, I3,... so that the user can specify "apply I12" followed by an application of I19 and then I6 and so on. The program doesn't have to understand the theorems, just use them in a sequence of deductions, as directed by a mathematician.
As I RTFA'd, I saw that he had a fairly sensible way to determine how much a human life is worth: he used data on how much we are willing to spend to protect our own lives. So, we seem to consider our own lives worth $10 million (or whatever the figure was).
I meant, of course, the 10th amendment, not the 9th. The 9th is equally interesting in that it says the enumeration of certain individual rights shall not be construed to disparage rights not enumerated (totally pulling the rug out from under the "right to privacy isn't in the Constiution" people.
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Goodwill is a term of art in accounting. There's a brief summary on Wikipedia. Essentially, "goodwill" is the magic dark matter of accounting that is used to explain whither otherwise inexplicable money goes and whence it comes. For instance, say one of your company's buildings appraised for $1 million but somebody else bought it for $2 million. That goes down as $1 million of "goodwill" so that the numbers balance out. Conversely, if someone else's building appraised for $2 million but he sold it to you for $1 million, that's another example of $1 million of goodwill on your books.
Hint relevant to this situation: it applies to securities as well.
Hmmm... yeah....
So you mean as demand increases with a constant supply, we should start seeing price decrease?
Something sounds wrong with that...
IR is carried over photons too; we emit that (at least those of us warmer than room temperature do).
Well, it's not a port or an implementation; it's a wrapper to a DLL. That's the fun of dynamically loaded libraries: you can call opengl, gtk, qt, COM, CORBA, $WHATEVER_YOU_WANT from $WHATEVER_LANGUAGE_YOU_WANT as long as you take the time and effort to write a wrapper label, which this guy did, and he wasn't the first.
Great distro for newcomers.
You've been using Unix or something like it for 10 years and you've never heard of "info"?
That's basically what info is. Did you try following any of the links in the info pages? (They're linked together rather like html.) Try "info info" or "man info" (or google "using unix info") for tips on navigating the info links.
Ah, I'm not sure whether/how tcsh implements "help"; I know bash uses it basically as man pages for the built-in bash commands (I think ksh does too).
I whole-heartedly agree, though don't forget to look past the first page of the manual. (Lots of stuff has a page-1 entry and people forget to look in page 8 or page 2 or whatever.)
hmmm.... so /dev/fd0 (short for DEVices: Floppy Drive #0) is cryptic and unguessable but A: is perfectly intuitive?
"Help" is taken (used for commands that are part of the shell). What you're looking for sounds kind of like "info". Or "google". Though actually I've been working on something like that called "helpme"; I'll let you know if I ever finish it.
Remind me what was so difficult about that?
WTF does pluperfect mean in the context of a noun's declension?
The other misuse of "unique" that gets to me is how it's used as praise, as if simply being "unique" (or, more often, "one of the most unique...") were a good thing in itself.
Depends on the schools. A lot of universities that run their physics program out of their college of arts & sciences give BA's. I guess the implication is it's a more broad-based curriculum than the physics degree you'd get at another university's school of physics or school of applied sciences or whatever, but YMMV.
I certainly wouldn't knock an AB in physics from Harvard, however. They've got a great lab.
Credit where it's due; Microsoft's clipboard, like a lot (but not quite all) of their user interface, is very good. My only real complaint is the difficulty sometimes of pasting a richtext or html selection as plain text in a richtext- or html-aware application. Though I've found with the better apps (Office, Visual Studio.NET, etc.) this is handled rather elegantly.
Eh? Gnome, KDE, and WindowMaker all have clipboard managers that integrate & abstract the various toolkit clipboards. That's why, for example, in Gnome you can copy from a QT app and paste to a GTK app. That's the "clipboard" I was talking about, not the toolkit clipboards (though those are also very interesting).
The copy-paste inconsistencies are collateral damage from having various window managers to choose from. Gnome (which was originally intended as a sort of COM-for-Linux) was supposed to simplify and standardize object transfers through copy/paste, but A) it doesn't do it quite consistently with itself and B) it never caught on outside of Gnome projects.
GNUStep has a pretty good clipboard, and I hear KDE does too... one of the biggest problems is setting a standard set of keys that apps won't listen for so the window manager can use it to copy & paste (unless you just do a clipboard widget like GNUStep).
And what do you do for apps that have their own clipboard/kill ring? Do you make the top of the emacs kill ring equal the clipboard? And what happens if you have a clipboard that handles objects and not just text and the app being pasted to has no handler for that object type?
Well, authorized piracy (ie, musician-sanctioned file/tape/cd sharing) in fact is the favored method of distribution for many musicians, not the least of which are the Grateful Dead, along with many smaller bands (which for whatever reason happen to be the musicians I enjoy listening to, so politics and taste coincide here for me).
It's been a while since I read Catch 22, but wasn't there a point in the book where one of Yossarian's friends was buying eggs at 12 cents per and selling them at 9 cents per but making money because he owned both ends of the deal? I think it was the same guy who walked around with horse apples in his cheeks.
Maybe Baystar got themselves some of that...
I happen to have a system here with icc, uclibc, and BSD make & textutils, running on Linux. If I gave John Q. User an account on this box he would not know or care that I don't use the GNU tools (well, maybe he would if he liked Emacs).
Once upon a time, RMS was right that Linux was only a small part of the equation and that most of the credit was due to the GNU team. However, the roles have reversed now: Linux is what is keeping gcc, glibc, Gnome, etc. afloat (doesn't RH actually fund gcc development, for that matter?).
One of the principles of free software is that I should be able to hack up my hardware however I want. Sun is making an end run around this.
If I rent hardware from Sun, it's not my hardware. Just like my landlord says I can't paint my apartment, Sun would have every right to say "this is *our* hardware; you can only run software we approve on it."
This is part of the ongoing struggle to make all individual computer users consumers only.
Hey! Look everybody! Larry Wall has invented a language called Perl! It's great for extracting reports from text.
Randall put this out like almost 3 years ago. And frankly I find HLA more confusing than as or nasm.
No, he meant HTML. It's not a programming language but it is a computer language, and it's a good place to start: it teaches ideas like the importance of correct spelling, the difference between directives and data, etc.
Incidentally, you don't need "loops" to make a language turing complete. "if" and "goto" with variable assignment will suffice. So will lambda abstraction. So will a control stack (consider Forth or PostScript; both are turing complete but "loops" are just macros to manipulate a control stack).
Yeah, it's amazing nobody ever thought of that.
As I RTFA'd, I saw that he had a fairly sensible way to determine how much a human life is worth: he used data on how much we are willing to spend to protect our own lives. So, we seem to consider our own lives worth $10 million (or whatever the figure was).
I meant, of course, the 10th amendment, not the 9th. The 9th is equally interesting in that it says the enumeration of certain individual rights shall not be construed to disparage rights not enumerated (totally pulling the rug out from under the "right to privacy isn't in the Constiution" people.
Read Amendment 9 to the COTUS. Any right not directly given to the government is retained by the People or the States.
Not that we've followed that amendment for the past century or so...
At any rate, time to go buy some pink dinosaurs...
Didn't you know they have 13 months per year in England? Lousy Smarch weather...