can't slashdot put some configurable javascript to run a regexp to hide_remove_destroy....
That's what moderation is supposed to do. If it annoys enough people it gets modded down. Try adjusting your preferences to negatively weigh "funny" and "redundant" and you'll get rid of most of them.
Your analogy is flawed. Reading the source code to the program would be like having the sheet music, or the outlines/notes the author used when writing the novel.
Your analogies are just wrong in basic assumptions, let alone conclusions.
Trained musicians must be able to write down a tune they hear (i.e. "sheet music") as a basic part of their studies. (There are no secrets in the notation.)
Few authors use outline notes at all, most just write it down. Those that do write notes for the most part it'd be fragmentary gibberish that makes little sense to anyone else. (A minority do plan the whole thing out. But really it's the execution that makes a book readable, not an outline.)
-- speaking as someone who's known quite a few music graduates and worked in publishing.
Apple did it with iTunes, why can't they do it with these ROMs?
A $1 iTune lasts for 3-4 minutes. How many times will you play it?
How long does it take to play an average game?
Also, Apple may reasonably expect their iTune buyers to buy dozens or even hundreds of tracks in a year. How many games would the average buyer use? Also, the total number of video games is much less than the millions of music tracks available, so even an avid game buyer who buys the whole catalogue is going to spend much less than an avid iPod user.
To argue that $2 is overcharging seems a bit dog in the manger.
You realize that 99% of government has nothing whatsoever to do with some office worker typing letters in word or open office.
Have you actually ever been inside a government office? 99% of government office workers do spend their day either on the telephone or typing letters in Word or open office, or sending email.
# Law. A right granted by a government giving exclusive control over a specified commercial activity to a single party.
So, in fact, they used the word correctly.
No, because the proposal was not to use Linux in particular, but Open Source (which includes at least a few varieties of BSD, or even FreeDOS). And even if it had, Linux is not a "single party".
For the others of you who did not RTFA, I would also like to point out that the CCAGW was not criticizing the value of using open-source open-source itself
Well, in the FA they make the rather contentious statement:
Maintenance, training and support are far more expensive with open source than proprietary software.
And that seems to be the basis of their "cost" argument.
Of course, it wouldn't be hard to find an MS-financed report that stated exactly that.
there are 'pdf2html' converters readily available,
Thay work on PDFs with actual text as text. These are scans, images. In this case the PDF is essentailly a multi-page JPEG. You need an OCR step in between to guess at what the original text said, as opposed to what it looked like.
As a replacement for air mail, however, it has much greater potential.
Not really; it has no advantage over faxes, except for personal mail, to friends or family who don't have email or faxes, and for that sending a real handwritten letter is usually more appreciated than a printout.
Besides, how many spammers have you stopped lately, eh?
I think the point is that the spammer wasn't "stopped", he just lost one ISP account. Spammers churn through these at a great rate anyway. Has he stopped or even slowed down? Did he even notice that he'd been "hunted down"? (I was expecting/hoping that he'd turned up on the spammer's door with a bailiff or maybe a shotgun.) Was he fined one cent for impersonating the poor artist and costing him thousands of dollars in lost time and business and damage to his reputation?
If Marin had sued the bastard for any of these crimes I'd be impressed and it might have some effect.
[Adobe] were aware of just how much people dislike [activation]... on the other hand, they've been getting burned so badly on copying that they were (at the time) considering it.
MS Windows and Office are universally used in countries where bootleg software is the norm. MS is actually happy about this, (or they should be) because it locks individuals, companies and governments into their software due to it being the only thing people have any exposure to. Eventually, when the local economy advances to the point they have money and can afford to buy software, and are forced to go legit due to US govt pressure on trade issues (you can't export your sweatshop goods unless you "respect IP") they sign up with MS.
A similar mechanism works for Adobe. Anyone with a PC can buy Photoshop on a $1 CDROM. Why use the cheaper PaintShop, PhotoPaint, let alone GIMP when you can have the industry standard. It's irrelevant what the retail price is. Now those few who progress to real jobs in graphics are already trained in PS, they sneer at everything else (lots of examples of that in other posts here); result is hardly anything else is used in professional environments where the software has to be bought. A lot of this network effect would be lost if casual users had to choose software and pay the real price.
Disney, along with two other motion picture animation studios... decided to jointly fund the development of a Windows-to- Linux porting solution... using the Wine emulator to run Adobe Photoshop on Linux.
In a "normal" work environment, the corporate food chain annoys those of us with a clue
Most people seem to be using corporate white collar life as a comparison, because that's what most of us have more experience with, and are horrified that the lives at stake don't change the modes of thought. But many industries have caused many more than 7 deaths through similar disregard for safety of their workers or the public. Toxic waste, automobiles, food (BSE, etc), agriculture (pesticides, etc).... Even more starkly, look at the military culture, where troops are slaughtered at the order of officers more concerned with career advancement than the lives of the troops. For extremes of bureaucratic negligent homicide, look at some communist states, like China during the Great Leap Forward, where no one wanted to tell their superiors that agricultural targets weren't being met, and so tens of millions died of starvation. This is obviously a deeply-seated tendency of people in large organisations, as it just grew back in NASA a few years after Challenger despite all promises and attempts to make a "safety culture". You have to make a culture that doesn't punish those who blow the whistle, but it's basically impossible -- you DO NOT get advancement by telling your boss he is wrong. At best you'll be tolerated, but much more likely you'll be sidelined and neutered if not forced out.
This is the only plant survivor from the Jurassic age.
That line wasn't in the BBC article. It seems very unlikely. A cursory Google search turns up Jurassic Plants which says
Conifers (like Araucarioxylon) were the dominant land plant during the Jurassic period. Other land plants included Ginkgophytes (like Ginkgos), club mosses, horsetails, ferns, seed ferns, Sphenopsids (like Neocalamites), Filincophyta (like Matonidium), Cycadeodia (like Otozamites, Ptilophyllum, and Cycadeoidea), and cycadophytes.
Mesozoic Era conifers included redwoods, yews, pines, the monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria), cypress, Pseudofrenelopsis (a Cheirolepidiacean).
Several of the trees listed are still around. No need to be over-dramatic. It's a plant that was thought extinct for millions of years; that's a distinction enough.
It's not really a security hole worth worrying about though, since an attacker would almost have to have physical access to the machine in the first place.
When you buy bootleg software you really don't want to have autorun before you check it out with a virus scan. Though in dozens of such so far I've never had a virus detected, despite the BSA and others' blather about warez being a massive virus vector. Generally though I don't want the installer to start up till I've browsed the disk just to check it out (and opened the serial.txt file, of course).
It will take years for it to settle with the people, but formally England is firmly on it's way to a pure metric system.
Australia went metric about 1970. After a transition period of dual measurements, they made Imperial units obsolete. Once you don't have the crutch of waiting to hear the temp in F instead of C, for instance, you quickly adapt to the new units. You'll never make it if you don't strongly discourage old units, as making shop scales, for instance, illegal if not in kilos. You don't have to get KGB about it, there are enough regulations on weights and measures already that can be enforced fro retail sales, cosntruction, etc.
The ideal system would be a free-text search of all the books in the catalogue. But until we can do that, keywords and searchable abstracts are more useful than categories. Just put the damn books on the shelf in order of author.
I rather strongly disagree. I've found many excellent books just by browsing near books on the same or similar subjects. With non-fiction, the subject is usually what you're primarily interested in rather than the author.
You have to shelve books in one and only one place, so I vote for subject, imperfect though it often is. Having a good online catalogue is vital too, but can't replace actually looking at the shelves.
Fiction is a whole other problem. It used to be (where I lived anyway) that libraries divided fiction up by genre then author, so I could head to the SF or historical or crime shelf as the mood took me and look for new stuff. Later it became somehow politically incorrect to categorise fiction, so they all went into the same big pile, ordered by author. Thus readers lost the ability to find new authors in whatever genre turned you on by just browsing.
(CDs, on the other hand, do use 1024: the "700MB" CDs I use are 736,966,656 (data) bytes = 703*2^20.
A few months ago I wanted to burn the Knoppix ISO. It's 710,474 KB, and I "only" had disks labelled 80 minute/700 MB. I went on a fruitless search to find larger capacity CDRs (this was before 90 min/805MB disks were common), before the pin finally dropped when I saw some labelled 80 min/730 MB.
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That's what moderation is supposed to do. If it annoys enough people it gets modded down. Try adjusting your preferences to negatively weigh "funny" and "redundant" and you'll get rid of most of them.
Your analogies are just wrong in basic assumptions, let alone conclusions.
- Trained musicians must be able to write down a tune they hear (i.e. "sheet music") as a basic part of their studies. (There are no secrets in the notation.)
- Few authors use outline notes at all, most just write it down. Those that do write notes for the most part it'd be fragmentary gibberish that makes little sense to anyone else. (A minority do plan the whole thing out. But really it's the execution that makes a book readable, not an outline.)
-- speaking as someone who's known quite a few music graduates and worked in publishing.A $1 iTune lasts for 3-4 minutes. How many times will you play it?
How long does it take to play an average game?
Also, Apple may reasonably expect their iTune buyers to buy dozens or even hundreds of tracks in a year. How many games would the average buyer use? Also, the total number of video games is much less than the millions of music tracks available, so even an avid game buyer who buys the whole catalogue is going to spend much less than an avid iPod user.
To argue that $2 is overcharging seems a bit dog in the manger.
Have you actually ever been inside a government office? 99% of government office workers do spend their day either on the telephone or typing letters in Word or open office, or sending email.
# Law. A right granted by a government giving exclusive control over a specified commercial activity to a single party.
So, in fact, they used the word correctly. No, because the proposal was not to use Linux in particular, but Open Source (which includes at least a few varieties of BSD, or even FreeDOS). And even if it had, Linux is not a "single party".
Well, in the FA they make the rather contentious statement:
And that seems to be the basis of their "cost" argument.Of course, it wouldn't be hard to find an MS-financed report that stated exactly that.
Thay work on PDFs with actual text as text. These are scans, images. In this case the PDF is essentailly a multi-page JPEG. You need an OCR step in between to guess at what the original text said, as opposed to what it looked like.
Not really; it has no advantage over faxes, except for personal mail, to friends or family who don't have email or faxes, and for that sending a real handwritten letter is usually more appreciated than a printout.
Which is:
what it costs -- Monthly fee: AU$26.95, plus postage etc
Nothing for a business, but significant on a personal basis.
I think the point is that the spammer wasn't "stopped", he just lost one ISP account. Spammers churn through these at a great rate anyway. Has he stopped or even slowed down? Did he even notice that he'd been "hunted down"? (I was expecting/hoping that he'd turned up on the spammer's door with a bailiff or maybe a shotgun.) Was he fined one cent for impersonating the poor artist and costing him thousands of dollars in lost time and business and damage to his reputation?
If Marin had sued the bastard for any of these crimes I'd be impressed and it might have some effect.
Did anyone (Timothy?) actually read this incomprehensible garbage masquerading as a English sentence?
MS Windows and Office are universally used in countries where bootleg software is the norm. MS is actually happy about this, (or they should be) because it locks individuals, companies and governments into their software due to it being the only thing people have any exposure to. Eventually, when the local economy advances to the point they have money and can afford to buy software, and are forced to go legit due to US govt pressure on trade issues (you can't export your sweatshop goods unless you "respect IP") they sign up with MS.
A similar mechanism works for Adobe. Anyone with a PC can buy Photoshop on a $1 CDROM. Why use the cheaper PaintShop, PhotoPaint, let alone GIMP when you can have the industry standard. It's irrelevant what the retail price is. Now those few who progress to real jobs in graphics are already trained in PS, they sneer at everything else (lots of examples of that in other posts here); result is hardly anything else is used in professional environments where the software has to be bought. A lot of this network effect would be lost if casual users had to choose software and pay the real price.
Penguin Moves to Disney
InCopy 2.0 ame oout in June 2002.
even if you don't do anything but regurgitate press releases, look at some of the older ones as well.
How many San Franciscos to the Texas?
Most people seem to be using corporate white collar life as a comparison, because that's what most of us have more experience with, and are horrified that the lives at stake don't change the modes of thought. But many industries have caused many more than 7 deaths through similar disregard for safety of their workers or the public. Toxic waste, automobiles, food (BSE, etc), agriculture (pesticides, etc).... Even more starkly, look at the military culture, where troops are slaughtered at the order of officers more concerned with career advancement than the lives of the troops. For extremes of bureaucratic negligent homicide, look at some communist states, like China during the Great Leap Forward, where no one wanted to tell their superiors that agricultural targets weren't being met, and so tens of millions died of starvation. This is obviously a deeply-seated tendency of people in large organisations, as it just grew back in NASA a few years after Challenger despite all promises and attempts to make a "safety culture". You have to make a culture that doesn't punish those who blow the whistle, but it's basically impossible -- you DO NOT get advancement by telling your boss he is wrong. At best you'll be tolerated, but much more likely you'll be sidelined and neutered if not forced out.
I think you misunderstood that you were supposed to use the glue on your shoes, not smoke it.
Australia has some of the most ancient exposed rocks known, 4.3 billion years.
That line wasn't in the BBC article. It seems very unlikely. A cursory Google search turns up Jurassic Plants which says
Several of the trees listed are still around. No need to be over-dramatic. It's a plant that was thought extinct for millions of years; that's a distinction enough.When you buy bootleg software you really don't want to have autorun before you check it out with a virus scan. Though in dozens of such so far I've never had a virus detected, despite the BSA and others' blather about warez being a massive virus vector. Generally though I don't want the installer to start up till I've browsed the disk just to check it out (and opened the serial.txt file, of course).
I like the line This is glue. Strong stuff..
Is it? Why couldn't it mean "on"?
Australia went metric about 1970. After a transition period of dual measurements, they made Imperial units obsolete. Once you don't have the crutch of waiting to hear the temp in F instead of C, for instance, you quickly adapt to the new units. You'll never make it if you don't strongly discourage old units, as making shop scales, for instance, illegal if not in kilos. You don't have to get KGB about it, there are enough regulations on weights and measures already that can be enforced fro retail sales, cosntruction, etc.
I rather strongly disagree. I've found many excellent books just by browsing near books on the same or similar subjects. With non-fiction, the subject is usually what you're primarily interested in rather than the author.
You have to shelve books in one and only one place, so I vote for subject, imperfect though it often is. Having a good online catalogue is vital too, but can't replace actually looking at the shelves.
Fiction is a whole other problem. It used to be (where I lived anyway) that libraries divided fiction up by genre then author, so I could head to the SF or historical or crime shelf as the mood took me and look for new stuff. Later it became somehow politically incorrect to categorise fiction, so they all went into the same big pile, ordered by author. Thus readers lost the ability to find new authors in whatever genre turned you on by just browsing.
A few months ago I wanted to burn the Knoppix ISO. It's 710,474 KB, and I "only" had disks labelled 80 minute /700 MB. I went on a fruitless search to find larger capacity CDRs (this was before 90 min/805MB disks were common), before the pin finally dropped when I saw some labelled 80 min/730 MB.