And for intercontinental flights, I'd pay even more if the seats were arranged as bunk beds so I could lie down the whole time. Trains have had sleeper cars for ages, but so far I've never seen beds on a plane.
Go up to business or first class. Haven't you seen the ads extolling the "flat beds" in the upper class cabins?
It does annoy me that you have to pay like 5 times more to lie down than sit (unless you get on a fairly empty flight and can take three seats, as occasionally happens). Two-level bunks would take up no more room than seats, and need be no heavier (you need less padding on a bed than a seat), as on long-distance trains.
My answer: when you hear both sides, it's a fairly constant drone. When you only hear one, it's a random period of silence, followed by a voice at full volume, silence, etc. I think when you hear a voice start up from silence, you naturally pay attention for a few seconds, in case it's someone talking to you. Even if you know this isn't true, you can't control the reaction. So you are constantly startled every time the person at your end speaks intead of being able to tune out a normal conversation, even at the same volume (and we all know that people speak louder on a cellphone).
Isn't it really hard to get signal when you're flying? I'd imagine this would only be relevant near takeoff and landing.
RTFA, which is about the airplane being the cell, and then transmitting it via satellite, not phone-direct-to-ground-antenna, whihc you can do now if they don't notice you.
>Actually, the contents of Websters Dictionary never had copyright protection,
Yet another claim completely opposite to easily testable facts, just like everything else you've added to this thread.
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If the original statement above refers to Noah Webster's Dictionaries, they DID have copyright, which however expired about 150 years ago (exact dates are unimportant I think). Even the (Merriam) Webster Unabridged 1913 Dictionary is now in the public domain. (You can find it on Project Gutenerg, and many other places online, legally.) The copyright notice quoted refers to a current edition, which is copyright (and under the current regime will probably be so forever).
To prevent misunderstandings: this is about the continuation of agreements to which many users feel compelled to on the short term; this does not change the fact that on mid and long term, the alternative of open source software receives all attention.
It's meaningless; "mid and long term" just gives them an excuse to ALWAYS say that it'll be considered for the "next" contract. And gives them a club to beat MS with to get bigger discounts.
No one including yourself has absolutely no idea what percentage of what is being offered with BitTorrent.
Which is why I said "probably". Specifically, I was thinking about the large number of Linux ISOs and apps.
nothing is "on" BitTorrent at all as there is no BitTorrent network in any way shape or form.
You're arguing about the definition of "on"? I thought it was obvious that in this case "on" means offered by someone via BitTorrent. Analogous to saying something is "on TV" or "on the web".
AMD Sempron(TM) 3000+ (2.0GHz 333MHz); 80GB disk,7200 RPM; 256 MB RAM (which is plenty to run FreeDOS), etc. I don't think it includes the monitor. Which does make it quite a bit more expensive than a similar white box machine you could buy in China. Of course, the white box comes loaded with anything you want at no extra charge, so they're sidestepping the hopeless task of trying to compete with these for software.
That is what I am pondering, the only purpose for a tracker handling a file that is illegal to download is to download the illegal file.
That assumes that the tracker has a way of knowing which files are illegal. There isn't any reliable way for it to know that; it can't be accused of knowingly facilitating illegal transfers. There is more and more quite legal content on BitTorrent (though probably not a large percentage).
The same logic would give "the only reason for FedEx to handle an illegal substance is to deliver it to a criminal". Every method of communication and transport can be used illegally, that doesn't mean you can make the whole structure in itself illegal.
One of the few SF writers who have kept going withour turning into an old fart recycling the stories from their youth (Niven). He's improved as a writer and still does very interesting readable stuff, as he has for the last 50 years.
"...disallow access from countries whose goverments aren't being responsible when it comes to their citizens respecting the rights of others in the online community?"
words that can be analysed into an English root and an -eyes suffix -ize. There exist rare verbs with a noun in -ition which also end -ize. "recognize" for instance, unlike "ignite", "micturate", "demolish" and "add";
all words where the "eyes" sound is spelt using a "y" -yse, not -yze (these are from the Greek verb luo, meaning "I loose"),
and words that cannot be analysed as before -ise,...
.... The practice in most other British universities and in the media and novels, is to end "eyes" words in -ise regardless.
I saw a few episodes here in Hong Kong when it was on TV, got into it about the third series. They never showed the 5th season. A few months ago I found the DVDs on sale in China, bought 5 box sets, the entire series, at about $12/box. Now I'm working my way through them at one episode every day or two. One nice thing is that I can check out the Lurker's Guide after watching each episode to see commentary, and especially JMS's responses, on various things. As far as media SF goes, it's pretty cool, way better than Trek.
Kathy Feaganes Allen... No mention of it on Accoona at all, plenty on Google.
Six or so links to news sites now. But to be fair, it's touted as a web search, not news specifically. There are plenty of sites if you want breaking news.
If you've bought other stuff in the US - especially plastic and 'die-cast' metal good in the US - most of them are (coincidentally) Chinese made and are chintzy compared to what you'd have got 20 years ago.
They're cheap and nasty because that's what the American clients specified.
but I've never heard of Levono so I guess I'll have to start looking for alternatives.
Lenovo. They're a big name (the biggest) in China, used to be called "Legend"; good quality. Obviously a lot of the value of the purchase for them is to get the international IBM brand recognition. And you know that just about 99% of PCs and laptops (including Macs) are made in China or Taiwan?
Man, that one is such a big pet peeve of mine. I wish people would remember that English is read from top to bottom, and therefore top- posting leads to an ugly middle-endian order post.
My boss always top posted. He never cut or interleaved text with the message he was replying to, just let messages grow a huge tail, becoming less and less legible with layers of quote markers and weird wrapping, and dozens of sig blocks. Sometimes he would forward a message to me, one paragraph he intended, followed by 20k of previous emails with someone else; quite illuminating, especially when he was talking about what a jerk I was and how he wanted to get rid of me. (I eventually quit and went through a long court case to get my salary paid up.)
Most people I'm dealing with now always top post replies, and sometimes they send me back large attachments that I sent them; I choke back my impulse to flame them as they really have no idea what they're doing and I only deal with each for a few weeks.
Perhaps too much reliance on Word's (obviously insufficient) grammar checker is part of the problem?
Most of the "suggestions" from the grammar checker would change the meaning to something completely different than intended. I've foound maybe 1/4 of Word's green squiggles make any sense. So rather than waste the time going through them it's often better just to print it out and proof it the old fashioned way (i.e., eyeball it).
Word's spell checker is also riddled with errors, particularly if you're using non-American English. Some really bizarre spellings are suggested if you have "Australian" as your language; I've given up that and use "UK", though that has its share of bogus entries.
why should you waste an extra 20 seconds checking your grammar?
1) So the recipient doesn't have to spend 20 seconds trying to work out what your meant, or wasting both his and your time by replying asking for a clarification.
2) So people don't think you're a moron.
3) So people outside the company don't think you're all morons (if the message is forwarded, as often happens, sometimes inadvertently).
Anything you write, anywhere, can come back to haunt you.
You've completely missed the point. The point being that there's no advantage to a "traditional" encyclopaedia.
Well, bullshit. "Traditional" encyclopedia have a reputation on the line. If they get it wrong, they lose that, and prestige, and ultimately sales. Also the authors are (for Brittanica, last time I looked) listed and you can check their qualifications. Wiki is just whoever wants to elect themselves an expert.
Is there some sort of guarantee from Britannica or Microsoft that I get my money back if they get something wrong? Oh, I have the assurance of a corporation that it's correct. OK
And with Wiki, the guarantee you have is?
I have no idea about MS. They screw up enough in their spellcheckers that I have little faith in their accuracy. As for Brittanica, you believe they have no academic oversight?
disingenuously describing Linux as "Red Hat's Linux" - the community will upbraid him, for certain.
"Red Hat's" Linux simply distinguished it from "Suse's Linux", Mandrake's", etc, etc. The only implication is that Schwartz sees RH as the most important brand/distro or whatever, according to his commercial criteria, which may be debateable, but hardly insulting to "the community".
Why didn't the submitter link to the actual blog, instead of someone else selectively quoting from it? Schwartz's blog is here:
Confidence, commitment and execution are the three things every Sun constituent should expect from us. We'll deliver the systems, the innovation, the partner models, the services and ultimately the results that represent the best source of opportunity for everyone involved. We have never had a stronger product line to solve the problems faced by the developers, deployers and operators of network services. And with another UNIX falling by the wayside, it's increasingly evident the OS wars are down to three - Microsoft Windows, Sun's Solaris, and Red Hat's Linux. Not surprinsgly, I agree with the aforementioned HP customer. Enough is enough. We're happy to help all HP's constituents move on in life - better you walk away from the football, than have it walk away from you.
ps - I guess I did a miserably poor job of communicating with George Colony. And he didn't take me up on reading my blog. Red Hat does not equal linux, and linux is not evil. But, linux in the enterprise datacenter (that is, not your basement or startup or dorm room or gamebox) does equal Red Hat - and competing against a company is what we do for a living. Competing against a social movement we helped to found is a waste of energy, George. My fault for not more effectively communicating. (2004-09-30 22:48:07.0)
How about the fucking submitter, or editor, RTFA before wasting everyone's time with a beatup like this?
I reinstalled XP for my aunt who stopping using her pc, within minutes of being on the internet it was getting nailed. I couldn't even download patches.
You can boot from a Knoppix CDR, go to MS to download the patches, pick up ZoneAlarm or your choice of several free firewalls, then pull the network cable, eject the CD, boot up and install.
The gold standard? I tried running it from DVD, and it was unbearably slow
By "gold standard", I wasn't referring to the interface, but the quality of the articles. I've got an older version, since it runs off a CD. I'm about to upgrade my hard disk so then I'll install it to that, along with the Oxford Dictionary. Could only have dreamed of owning the paper versions when I was at school, but got these for a few dollars as used "OEM" discs.
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Go up to business or first class. Haven't you seen the ads extolling the "flat beds" in the upper class cabins?
It does annoy me that you have to pay like 5 times more to lie down than sit (unless you get on a fairly empty flight and can take three seats, as occasionally happens). Two-level bunks would take up no more room than seats, and need be no heavier (you need less padding on a bed than a seat), as on long-distance trains.
My answer: when you hear both sides, it's a fairly constant drone. When you only hear one, it's a random period of silence, followed by a voice at full volume, silence, etc. I think when you hear a voice start up from silence, you naturally pay attention for a few seconds, in case it's someone talking to you. Even if you know this isn't true, you can't control the reaction. So you are constantly startled every time the person at your end speaks intead of being able to tune out a normal conversation, even at the same volume (and we all know that people speak louder on a cellphone).
RTFA, which is about the airplane being the cell, and then transmitting it via satellite, not phone-direct-to-ground-antenna, whihc you can do now if they don't notice you.
Yet another claim completely opposite to easily testable facts, just like everything else you've added to this thread.
Copyright Notice MERRIAM-WEBSTER ONLINE contains copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information.
If the original statement above refers to Noah Webster's Dictionaries, they DID have copyright, which however expired about 150 years ago (exact dates are unimportant I think). Even the (Merriam) Webster Unabridged 1913 Dictionary is now in the public domain. (You can find it on Project Gutenerg, and many other places online, legally.) The copyright notice quoted refers to a current edition, which is copyright (and under the current regime will probably be so forever).
It's meaningless; "mid and long term" just gives them an excuse to ALWAYS say that it'll be considered for the "next" contract. And gives them a club to beat MS with to get bigger discounts.
Which is why I said "probably". Specifically, I was thinking about the large number of Linux ISOs and apps.
nothing is "on" BitTorrent at all as there is no BitTorrent network in any way shape or form.
You're arguing about the definition of "on"? I thought it was obvious that in this case "on" means offered by someone via BitTorrent. Analogous to saying something is "on TV" or "on the web".
AMD Sempron(TM) 3000+ (2.0GHz 333MHz); 80GB disk,7200 RPM; 256 MB RAM (which is plenty to run FreeDOS), etc. I don't think it includes the monitor. Which does make it quite a bit more expensive than a similar white box machine you could buy in China. Of course, the white box comes loaded with anything you want at no extra charge, so they're sidestepping the hopeless task of trying to compete with these for software.
That assumes that the tracker has a way of knowing which files are illegal. There isn't any reliable way for it to know that; it can't be accused of knowingly facilitating illegal transfers. There is more and more quite legal content on BitTorrent (though probably not a large percentage).
The same logic would give "the only reason for FedEx to handle an illegal substance is to deliver it to a criminal". Every method of communication and transport can be used illegally, that doesn't mean you can make the whole structure in itself illegal.
One of the few SF writers who have kept going withour turning into an old fart recycling the stories from their youth (Niven). He's improved as a writer and still does very interesting readable stuff, as he has for the last 50 years.
MOST SPAMMERS LIVE IN FLORIDA.
The "Brittanica" is published in Chicago; so that's not really relevant. Personally (Australian) I use "ise" whenever there's a choice.
I saw a few episodes here in Hong Kong when it was on TV, got into it about the third series. They never showed the 5th season. A few months ago I found the DVDs on sale in China, bought 5 box sets, the entire series, at about $12/box. Now I'm working my way through them at one episode every day or two. One nice thing is that I can check out the Lurker's Guide after watching each episode to see commentary, and especially JMS's responses, on various things. As far as media SF goes, it's pretty cool, way better than Trek.
Six or so links to news sites now. But to be fair, it's touted as a web search, not news specifically. There are plenty of sites if you want breaking news.
They're cheap and nasty because that's what the American clients specified.
Lenovo. They're a big name (the biggest) in China, used to be called "Legend"; good quality. Obviously a lot of the value of the purchase for them is to get the international IBM brand recognition. And you know that just about 99% of PCs and laptops (including Macs) are made in China or Taiwan?
My boss always top posted. He never cut or interleaved text with the message he was replying to, just let messages grow a huge tail, becoming less and less legible with layers of quote markers and weird wrapping, and dozens of sig blocks. Sometimes he would forward a message to me, one paragraph he intended, followed by 20k of previous emails with someone else; quite illuminating, especially when he was talking about what a jerk I was and how he wanted to get rid of me. (I eventually quit and went through a long court case to get my salary paid up.)
Most people I'm dealing with now always top post replies, and sometimes they send me back large attachments that I sent them; I choke back my impulse to flame them as they really have no idea what they're doing and I only deal with each for a few weeks.
Most of the "suggestions" from the grammar checker would change the meaning to something completely different than intended. I've foound maybe 1/4 of Word's green squiggles make any sense. So rather than waste the time going through them it's often better just to print it out and proof it the old fashioned way (i.e., eyeball it).
Word's spell checker is also riddled with errors, particularly if you're using non-American English. Some really bizarre spellings are suggested if you have "Australian" as your language; I've given up that and use "UK", though that has its share of bogus entries.
1) So the recipient doesn't have to spend 20 seconds trying to work out what your meant, or wasting both his and your time by replying asking for a clarification.
2) So people don't think you're a moron.
3) So people outside the company don't think you're all morons (if the message is forwarded, as often happens, sometimes inadvertently).
Anything you write, anywhere, can come back to haunt you.
Well, bullshit. "Traditional" encyclopedia have a reputation on the line. If they get it wrong, they lose that, and prestige, and ultimately sales. Also the authors are (for Brittanica, last time I looked) listed and you can check their qualifications. Wiki is just whoever wants to elect themselves an expert.
Because I have a meeting once or sometimes twice a month (eg, the dentist).
For some people, work /= meetings.
And with Wiki, the guarantee you have is?
I have no idea about MS. They screw up enough in their spellcheckers that I have little faith in their accuracy. As for Brittanica, you believe they have no academic oversight?
"Red Hat's" Linux simply distinguished it from "Suse's Linux", Mandrake's", etc, etc. The only implication is that Schwartz sees RH as the most important brand/distro or whatever, according to his commercial criteria, which may be debateable, but hardly insulting to "the community".
Why didn't the submitter link to the actual blog, instead of someone else selectively quoting from it? Schwartz's blog is here:
And he followed it up with an explanationHow about the fucking submitter, or editor, RTFA before wasting everyone's time with a beatup like this?
You can boot from a Knoppix CDR, go to MS to download the patches, pick up ZoneAlarm or your choice of several free firewalls, then pull the network cable, eject the CD, boot up and install.
By "gold standard", I wasn't referring to the interface, but the quality of the articles. I've got an older version, since it runs off a CD. I'm about to upgrade my hard disk so then I'll install it to that, along with the Oxford Dictionary. Could only have dreamed of owning the paper versions when I was at school, but got these for a few dollars as used "OEM" discs.