the whole piece is 5 x 5 mm, approx. 3/16" the 100 pieces are said to be of dust grain size (now handle that - and don't you sneeze!). its extremely short pulses (1 Femtosec. = 10e-15 sec.) make this a great tool for cutting materials without damaging or burning them.
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... will eventually file for bankruptcy, once they discover hotmail / MS Passport and the endless privacy invasion possibilities these offer to M$... complaining about google seems slightly disproportionate...
who's feeling that this might be overdoing things a little?! i mean, when genetically altered material is released into the wild right now, as far as i could gather they don't really know what they're doing. they're glad it works, but they can only guess how. they can't tell what it might cause in the long run, as none of these techniques are thoroughly tested within the "come to market" period.
now, releasing anything you don't fully understand into the ecosystem on a larger scale should be considered as a great risk, and as with common plants having additions of (non-natural) pharmaceutically active constituents... the way they intrude into systems they don't understand...that really gives me the shivers...
well, if you click the i symbol next to each ipa transcription (the pic with the phonetic spelling), you get a list of generalisations (ie in how far the speaker differs from standard variation).
anyone can submit a recording
university labs will gladly take part in adding to the collection, I guess. sub standard recordings can still be rejected. no problem there...
not sure that it outweighs the drawbacks
Students of Linguistics are working with material of much worse quality - I'm sure they'll welcome the project rather than running it down.
what I find a bit problematic is that they have the readers speak the same text only and not an additional conversation - that would be excellent material for my sampler...at least I have enough plastic snake samples to last me a lifetime.
If Microsoft even starts to contemplate charging royalties on every single program that people write and distribute for the operating system, I can bet we'll see one of the largest shifts to Linux development in history.
great! so let's hope they badly need those bucks and start charging real soon!:)
seriosly, though: selling your software / IP instead of opening your sources is not a bad thing per se. I know most posters would rather disseize M$, when in fact it would be sufficient to just force them to at least play by the rules (hard enough already). the royalties you mention would certainly speed up the shift towards Linux a lot, but even without those unlikely royalties, Linux will definitely rise, M$ decline even further. from all the end user complaints we've heard, and counting all the M$-related worm/virus/vulnerability/spam hassles, and money it costs, this process can only go faster, but it can't be stopped or reversed. or so I think. I guess.
so they better do nothing and let M$ become even more powerful. great idea. that might also mean that the laws aren't much good. read We'll have to pay if we fine them, so let's rather not. Better let them grow until they take over the world. We could try and improve legislation, but we're too busy kissing asses.
A great device, I recommend it, too. Its successor, NEC ND-2500A is for sale at 99,- EUR in Germany right now, similar pricing throughout Euroland. Highly recommended.
now, no kidding for a moment: I was doing tech support for some company, and one guy wrote, he'd accidentially (yup, you know how things go...) put two disks in his cdrom drive. ever since, the crunching sound kinda annoyed him and he bought a new drive eventually. he wrote in to ask what he could to to prevent similar damage in the future. I wrote back that there's not much he could do, but if he'd position his box - and on top of it a lamp to light the cd tray when open - at apropriate height and angle, the lamp would shine in his face, reflected from the cd inside the drive, whenever he opens the tray. if his face remains dark, he could safely insert a disk...
where's those wrecked modpoints when you need'em?!
I fully agree, there's not much of a reason to spend your bucks now, just because the industry has decided to come to market with yet another poorly conceived technology to let it ripe at consumers' homes. wait and watch the market, - until then, an extra blank dvd will do.
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the whole piece is 5 x 5 mm, approx. 3/16"
the 100 pieces are said to be of dust grain size (now handle that - and don't you sneeze!).
its extremely short pulses (1 Femtosec. = 10e-15 sec.) make this a great tool for cutting materials without damaging or burning them.
you mean like with M$ and the ...unless a better OS comes along dreaming?
try and force someone like...say, Coca Cola for example, out of business...
or you might go with the music label that is not evil.:
there's always an alternative... or two.
well, let the voter decide who should do all the testing. no, wait...
consequently, Microsoft will not open its Windows or Office sources, so that people will not lose the petty rest of confidence in the products.
... will eventually file for bankruptcy, once they discover hotmail / MS Passport and the endless privacy invasion possibilities these offer to M$ ... complaining about google seems slightly disproportionate ...
well, my bass guit is the one with only 4 strings, right?!
where do i plug in my guit?!
this is awesome. really, incredibly oversized and inappropriate - but absolutely awesome.
now, releasing anything you don't fully understand into the ecosystem on a larger scale should be considered as a great risk, and as with common plants having additions of (non-natural) pharmaceutically active constituents ... the way they intrude into systems they don't understand...that really gives me the shivers...
well, I think she might be right. but I wonder, when was the last time that ethics ever made a difference?? they'll do it anyway...
well, if you click the i symbol next to each ipa transcription (the pic with the phonetic spelling), you get a list of generalisations (ie in how far the speaker differs from standard variation).
anyone can submit a recording
university labs will gladly take part in adding to the collection, I guess. sub standard recordings can still be rejected. no problem there...
not sure that it outweighs the drawbacks
Students of Linguistics are working with material of much worse quality - I'm sure they'll welcome the project rather than running it down.
what I find a bit problematic is that they have the readers speak the same text only and not an additional conversation - that would be excellent material for my sampler...at least I have enough plastic snake samples to last me a lifetime.
it's not. of course. phew.
Mach 7? if my math is right, a trip around earth would take about 89.25 minutes at that speed?!
yes but... there's no anchovies in your post!
does not compute.
well, that explaines a lot. browse /. at -1 and see what we're doing with those big brains! I want my tree back.
great! so let's hope they badly need those bucks and start charging real soon! :)
seriosly, though: selling your software / IP instead of opening your sources is not a bad thing per se. I know most posters would rather disseize M$, when in fact it would be sufficient to just force them to at least play by the rules (hard enough already). the royalties you mention would certainly speed up the shift towards Linux a lot, but even without those unlikely royalties, Linux will definitely rise, M$ decline even further. from all the end user complaints we've heard, and counting all the M$-related worm/virus/vulnerability/spam hassles, and money it costs, this process can only go faster, but it can't be stopped or reversed. or so I think. I guess.
so they better do nothing and let M$ become even more powerful. great idea. that might also mean that the laws aren't much good. read We'll have to pay if we fine them, so let's rather not. Better let them grow until they take over the world. We could try and improve legislation, but we're too busy kissing asses.
definitely!
and the remaining 0,01% just called to ask how they can rename multiple files...
NOT using something like ren *.jpeg *.jpg
A great device, I recommend it, too. Its successor, NEC ND-2500A is for sale at 99,- EUR in Germany right now, similar pricing throughout Euroland. Highly recommended.
now, no kidding for a moment: I was doing tech support for some company, and one guy wrote, he'd accidentially (yup, you know how things go...) put two disks in his cdrom drive. ever since, the crunching sound kinda annoyed him and he bought a new drive eventually. he wrote in to ask what he could to to prevent similar damage in the future.
I wrote back that there's not much he could do, but if he'd position his box - and on top of it a lamp to light the cd tray when open - at apropriate height and angle, the lamp would shine in his face, reflected from the cd inside the drive, whenever he opens the tray. if his face remains dark, he could safely insert a disk...
I fully agree, there's not much of a reason to spend your bucks now, just because the industry has decided to come to market with yet another poorly conceived technology to let it ripe at consumers' homes. wait and watch the market, - until then, an extra blank dvd will do.
java can only succeed if the runtime is part of consumer OSs? right now, I think it is not... . probably got this one wrong, dunno...
yet, if that's true, you don't seem to belong here. there's no base, no clod and no cluster reference in your post?!
and where's the profit?