but I was at home visiting my peoples last month, and I scanned a class reunion photo at a high DPI for archiving. Windows Vista Home (new Dell desktop). The file was 300MB. I stuck a blank CD in the drive, some software popped up, I dragged the file over, and it burned the file to the CD. Well, actually, it kinda hung. So I rebooted and tried again. Same result. Had to catch my flight, so I got back and tried the CDs in my computer. Coasters. Is there some clever way to burn data CDs in Vista? I hope DRM controls weren't the problem.
Phrases like this, "capable female engineers" and "qualified minorities", are so tiring because they're used by people who are generally suspect of the innate capabilities of women and underrepresented non-whites.
So RMS is at war with Linus? No. Really, if you ever listen to or read Stallman, it's clear he's not an egotist. Linus ("I'm an Oppenheimer"; "I might be wrong, but I don't care"), on the other hand, obviously is.
I would personally offer service without a contract to anyone willing to pay $1,000,000/month. That's not the point. The point is that for a person who uses their phone semi-regularly, the cost of a non-contract service is much higher than contract service, which is way overpriced anyway. The current prices are not what people are willing to pay, but HAVE to pay. This is not a free market. Consider the effect Google's info number 1-800-GOOG-411 (or text info: "GOOGL") have on the $2 usually charged for calling information on a ell phone.
I've used prepaid for a few years, and a regular contract for the prior three years. I'm back to a paid plan now with Cingular. It's overpriced at $51/month ($39.99 plan plus taxes), and has by far the worst reception in all parts of the USA where I've traveled, but the rollover minutes are compelling, especially for someone like myself who doesn't live on the phone, and my mother and gf both are on Cingular, so I talk to them for free. Prepaid is good too, if you don't live on the phone, but people do get annoyed when I refuse to add minutes and the phone is off (didn't mind it that much, really, but I had to get a regular line for other reasons).
Math with matrices requires different operator precedence.
What are you speaking of? Matrix multiplication and addition are associative. If you're working with non-associative algebras, there are much better and more readable constructs you can think of.
So, what is the problem with a blackboard? Be precise.
The chalk is all over my hands when I finish, which sucks (latex gloves suck took). Erasing the board wastes minutes every day. Sometimes I inhale chalk and sneeze. Sometimes writing makes a screeching noise which drives everyone nuts. Once I slammed my finger with a sliding blackboard, and blood was gushing from my thumb, so I had to waste time running to the bathroom. Some of the students complain when I don't erase the board completely clean. etc...
Actually, I thought the goatse reference might increase the number of people who clicked the link (seriously). But anyway, I've never been asked by an author to read his book, so I think I might print some pages and read them on my flight tomorrow. Couldn't you advertise your book using StumbleUpon, or something like it? I am considering doing the same for a technical book I'm planning to write with a friend. Also, some book publishers give away free chapters of novels on college campuses. In my experience the hardcore math/science nerds at Ivy League schools devour scifi books like pizza. Good luck!
Does that make any rational sense? It doesn't to me, yet there appear to be many people out there who still think that SCOX has value.
Actually, for those who bought at $0.44/share, their investment is worth $0.68/share now-- a 54.5% increase in value, in about a week. There are lots of investors who buy when they think the stock is at its lowest possible value (short term or long term). Yes, they're taking a risk, but whether they think SCOX "has value" is irrelevant. I think history tells us that SCO always does a stunt to raise its stock price after a crisis, so some people might think you're foolish not to invest in SCO at $0.44.
Actually, the Adobe brand itself could make such a product compete with MS office, IMO. If they use ODF and include compatibility with their other expensive office apps (PageMaker?), I bet they could take a huge chunk, even if their.doc converters are only as good as the ones in OOo. Obviously their office suite will include that curiously often withheld feature, export to PDF.
Of course, they will never do this. But I bet it would work.
I think the claim was that antibacterial soap is not more effective than plain soap. It is consistent with common sense-- in either case, you wash the germs down the drain, but for people who don't wash their hands thoroughly, the people who use antibacterial soap are gonna have the more resistant bacteria on their hands. It isn't necessarily true that germs resistant to the bactericide are more resistant to the human immune system, but the opposite seems highly unlikely.
Win95: looked cool, but crashed a lot, never really used it
Win 98: purchased this with my first PC, thinking I would find Cygwin usable. Not. Installed Mandrake instead, which was a breath of fresh air
Win ME: realized that Win98 was, by far, the best OS Microsoft every published
Win 2000: never used
Win XP: Came with a Toshiba laptop I bought. Didn't crash as randomly as Win 98. Impressed that MS finally "got it"
Win Vista: Configured a Dell for the folks at home. Very, very impressed with the new security features that make it difficult to install trojans. Also loved that this dual core Athlon system did suspend to ram flawlessly, like my Mandrake computer back in 2000 (!) with APM, but unlike any computer I've owned since Linux 2.6 ACPI.
Eight years later, there isn't a single authorized music service that can compete with the original Napster.
I call bullshit. I played "stump the DJ" with a friend who has rhapsody, and it was no less impressive than Napster, at least for all the obscure titles I know that I was amazed to find on Napster.
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but I was at home visiting my peoples last month, and I scanned a class reunion photo at a high DPI for archiving. Windows Vista Home (new Dell desktop). The file was 300MB. I stuck a blank CD in the drive, some software popped up, I dragged the file over, and it burned the file to the CD. Well, actually, it kinda hung. So I rebooted and tried again. Same result. Had to catch my flight, so I got back and tried the CDs in my computer. Coasters. Is there some clever way to burn data CDs in Vista? I hope DRM controls weren't the problem.
Phrases like this, "capable female engineers" and "qualified minorities", are so tiring because they're used by people who are generally suspect of the innate capabilities of women and underrepresented non-whites.
Really, though, there's probably a good reason Intel doesn't rate those chips at higher speeds. "Stable" is relative.
But the accountants know better than anyone else where payroll funds come from, and probably whether there is enough money there
Stallman believes in a world where everyone writes code for the betterment of humanity. That's communism.
No it isn't. It's a world full of cool people. Communism is an economic system.
So RMS is at war with Linus? No. Really, if you ever listen to or read Stallman, it's clear he's not an egotist. Linus ("I'm an Oppenheimer"; "I might be wrong, but I don't care"), on the other hand, obviously is.
Did he say it was? My students have heard my cell phone ring numerous times, but I never have it on while teaching class.
I would personally offer service without a contract to anyone willing to pay $1,000,000/month. That's not the point. The point is that for a person who uses their phone semi-regularly, the cost of a non-contract service is much higher than contract service, which is way overpriced anyway. The current prices are not what people are willing to pay, but HAVE to pay. This is not a free market. Consider the effect Google's info number 1-800-GOOG-411 (or text info: "GOOGL") have on the $2 usually charged for calling information on a ell phone.
No, not true. For the major carriers, you have to buy a 1 or 2 year contract to get the lowest price.
I've used prepaid for a few years, and a regular contract for the prior three years. I'm back to a paid plan now with Cingular. It's overpriced at $51/month ($39.99 plan plus taxes), and has by far the worst reception in all parts of the USA where I've traveled, but the rollover minutes are compelling, especially for someone like myself who doesn't live on the phone, and my mother and gf both are on Cingular, so I talk to them for free. Prepaid is good too, if you don't live on the phone, but people do get annoyed when I refuse to add minutes and the phone is off (didn't mind it that much, really, but I had to get a regular line for other reasons).
Math with matrices requires different operator precedence.
What are you speaking of? Matrix multiplication and addition are associative. If you're working with non-associative algebras, there are much better and more readable constructs you can think of.
So, what is the problem with a blackboard? Be precise.
The chalk is all over my hands when I finish, which sucks (latex gloves suck took). Erasing the board wastes minutes every day. Sometimes I inhale chalk and sneeze. Sometimes writing makes a screeching noise which drives everyone nuts. Once I slammed my finger with a sliding blackboard, and blood was gushing from my thumb, so I had to waste time running to the bathroom. Some of the students complain when I don't erase the board completely clean. etc...
Actually, I thought the goatse reference might increase the number of people who clicked the link (seriously). But anyway, I've never been asked by an author to read his book, so I think I might print some pages and read them on my flight tomorrow. Couldn't you advertise your book using StumbleUpon, or something like it? I am considering doing the same for a technical book I'm planning to write with a friend. Also, some book publishers give away free chapters of novels on college campuses. In my experience the hardcore math/science nerds at Ivy League schools devour scifi books like pizza. Good luck!
That's what you get for shamelessly plugging your book.
click the pdf button or the text button under "Downlowd as:" on the left side of the page.
Does that make any rational sense? It doesn't to me, yet there appear to be many people out there who still think that SCOX has value.
Actually, for those who bought at $0.44/share, their investment is worth $0.68/share now-- a 54.5% increase in value, in about a week. There are lots of investors who buy when they think the stock is at its lowest possible value (short term or long term). Yes, they're taking a risk, but whether they think SCOX "has value" is irrelevant. I think history tells us that SCO always does a stunt to raise its stock price after a crisis, so some people might think you're foolish not to invest in SCO at $0.44.
In what part of Alabama don't you need heat in the winter?
funniest post ever...
Among other things, they probably considered that mistakes made while attempting to repair the gouge might make things worse.
Actually, the Adobe brand itself could make such a product compete with MS office, IMO. If they use ODF and include compatibility with their other expensive office apps (PageMaker?), I bet they could take a huge chunk, even if their .doc converters are only as good as the ones in OOo. Obviously their office suite will include that curiously often withheld feature, export to PDF.
Of course, they will never do this. But I bet it would work.
I think the claim was that antibacterial soap is not more effective than plain soap. It is consistent with common sense-- in either case, you wash the germs down the drain, but for people who don't wash their hands thoroughly, the people who use antibacterial soap are gonna have the more resistant bacteria on their hands. It isn't necessarily true that germs resistant to the bactericide are more resistant to the human immune system, but the opposite seems highly unlikely.
For me
Win95: looked cool, but crashed a lot, never really used it
Win 98: purchased this with my first PC, thinking I would find Cygwin usable. Not. Installed Mandrake instead, which was a breath of fresh air
Win ME: realized that Win98 was, by far, the best OS Microsoft every published
Win 2000: never used
Win XP: Came with a Toshiba laptop I bought. Didn't crash as randomly as Win 98. Impressed that MS finally "got it"
Win Vista: Configured a Dell for the folks at home. Very, very impressed with the new security features that make it difficult to install trojans. Also loved that this dual core Athlon system did suspend to ram flawlessly, like my Mandrake computer back in 2000 (!) with APM, but unlike any computer I've owned since Linux 2.6 ACPI.
"...without the [Linux] kernel, the GNU tools would hardly be as advanced as they are today..."
C'mon, everybody was using GNU tools on SunOS back in the day. You might be wrong.
There was good in Sauron?
Eight years later, there isn't a single authorized music service that can compete with the original Napster.
I call bullshit. I played "stump the DJ" with a friend who has rhapsody, and it was no less impressive than Napster, at least for all the obscure titles I know that I was amazed to find on Napster.