"The libraries had permission to buy the papers and allow access to them in the first place. Internet Archive had no such agreement with this company."
You make it sound as if the internet archive archived pages that required authorization. All pages they authorized were available to the public at that point in time, therefore no contract is required. IANAL so correct me if I'm wrong, obviously their lawyers would say that I am, but I think this lawsuit is frivilous.
Me either, and I'm not sure the editors even looked at the article. My first response was, "Wow that's ugly looking, I don't want my laptop poking out of the back of my desk like that". My second response was that, "I don't even have a back to my desk, there's no hutch", and my third response was, "wtf..." followed by some more bewilderment.
This article summed up, "Hey you can mount your laptopn on the back of your desk with wood!"
This is news? I was hoping for some cool glass-seethrough-ish laptop holder. Ah well...
The quick access to google cache is still there, it's just not on by default. Visit the options panel, there are a few more features burried in this toolbar than you see initially.
Cheers,
Ninwa
You complain about him posting interesting articles on slashdot and referencing his blog to make some advertisement revenue, but you don't complain about the advertisements on the side of slashdot itself. As long as his articles are good reads, I personally don't mind, and I think these constant "ROLAND WARNINGS" should be considered harrassment and modded flamebait, not insightful.
Essentially what I got out of this article is that our thought process is much like google's auto-search that will guess the word you want to search for as you;re typing itm but wont know for sure until the entire word is finished.
Hm, duh?
In all seriousness though, I wonder how the curvature of the mouse shows gravitation to one side versus the other, maybe they're just a quake2 player and enjoy cirlce-strafing.
People don't seem to understand that Apple has no intentions on selling their software standalone, or atleast they havn't announced this yet. This means that Macs will be virtually unchanged to the end user. Although it has other implications (such as the ability to run x86 Linux and Windows on Macs) this change is as insignificant to the Mac business model as would be changing the type of RAM or the video card. When you look at it from that perspective you suddenly realize that all of these claims about Linux dieing because of OS X are derived from misunderstanding and pure speculation.
"pit their automatic poker-playing programs against each other"
Wouldn't this be BORING though? You wouldn't get to watch the game, merely see the results of it afterwards. Part of poker is the emotions and the experience. This would just be algorithms and would execute uninterstingly fast.
I don't use a calendar. Maybe this has to do with how young I am (17, going into my senior year of HS) but I've never found calendar applications useful. I use mozilla and gmail for my web/mail applications but there's just no need for a calendar. My calendar would consist of "Wake up at 3 PM, hack a little, eat, and repeat".:o)
despite Microsoft's generally sleazy business practices
They do what they do to stay in busineses, I don't think anything they've done has been ethically wrong. I know this is OT but everyone always points back to how it started with them buying "Quick and Dirty DOS" for 50,000... saying they "stole it". I see that as a good business move, they didn't steal anything.
From the sounds of it, if they're doing simple things like converting fractions to decimals, they're not going to understand x/y even if it seems extrordinarily simple to you.
I think there's always application for them. I'm only in pre-calculus but we've done a lot of things that involve chugging numbers where we would use a different number in the same equation three times, solving in this on paper would have been very redundant. X-> new_number , hitting up, and hitting enter, was time saving. Of course we know how to do the stuff on paper too, it's required that we know that before we can use calculators, and we're not allowed using programable calculators on tests. I think that saying it has no application in math is invalid, it has an amazing amount, not limited to the simple example I gave, I just think that it's imperative to teach how it works before you teach the quick and fast ways of calculating things.
Jack Sparrow: [after Will draws his sword] Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again.
Will Turner: You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you.
Jack Sparrow: That's not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it?
It annoys me because I feel that people should be allowed the freedom to do and write anything unto the internet, it shouldn't be regulated by anyone, and I'm slightly sad for the chinese people who are having this right taken away.
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This article summed up, "Hey you can mount your laptopn on the back of your desk with wood!"
This is news? I was hoping for some cool glass-seethrough-ish laptop holder. Ah well...
There's no need to hide here, we know when you say wife you mean pet turtle.
Cheers,
Ninwa
The quick access to google cache is still there, it's just not on by default. Visit the options panel, there are a few more features burried in this toolbar than you see initially. Cheers, Ninwa
You complain about him posting interesting articles on slashdot and referencing his blog to make some advertisement revenue, but you don't complain about the advertisements on the side of slashdot itself. As long as his articles are good reads, I personally don't mind, and I think these constant "ROLAND WARNINGS" should be considered harrassment and modded flamebait, not insightful.
My 2c.
Essentially what I got out of this article is that our thought process is much like google's auto-search that will guess the word you want to search for as you;re typing itm but wont know for sure until the entire word is finished.
Hm, duh?
In all seriousness though, I wonder how the curvature of the mouse shows gravitation to one side versus the other, maybe they're just a quake2 player and enjoy cirlce-strafing.
Don't feel left out, about 95% of all of the workstations at Google are Linux workstations. None of them get to use it either.
" That will have to come from company trust really... "
From somebody like... Google?
Glad to see it worked out for you. You may be aware of these but these are good Ubuntu resources. Maybe they can help with your problem:
Ubuntu Wiki
Ubuntu Beginner Guide
Ubuntu Discussion Forums
Cheers!
People don't seem to understand that Apple has no intentions on selling their software standalone, or atleast they havn't announced this yet. This means that Macs will be virtually unchanged to the end user. Although it has other implications (such as the ability to run x86 Linux and Windows on Macs) this change is as insignificant to the Mac business model as would be changing the type of RAM or the video card. When you look at it from that perspective you suddenly realize that all of these claims about Linux dieing because of OS X are derived from misunderstanding and pure speculation.
I think you'll strike gold with Ubuntu. It works great with my Thinkpad T-20, and that's a pretty old model!
I beg to differ. I would rather have no map over an incorrect one.
I read 'blank' as well, glad I'm not the only one. I didn't even realize until I saw your reply. :o)
"pit their automatic poker-playing programs against each other" Wouldn't this be BORING though? You wouldn't get to watch the game, merely see the results of it afterwards. Part of poker is the emotions and the experience. This would just be algorithms and would execute uninterstingly fast.
I don't use a calendar. Maybe this has to do with how young I am (17, going into my senior year of HS) but I've never found calendar applications useful. I use mozilla and gmail for my web/mail applications but there's just no need for a calendar. My calendar would consist of "Wake up at 3 PM, hack a little, eat, and repeat". :o)
You're clearly three words too long. Even shorter answer: Yes.
You should be proud of her sense of justice but slightly concerned for her ability to distinguish a show from reality.
I wonder whether or not it had to do with, oh I don't know, the house being full of SMOKE, or the teflon.
In the unlikely event that all of this happens could you send me your autograph signed on a postcard?
If they understand algebra but cannot convert fractions to decimals something's off.
From the sounds of it, if they're doing simple things like converting fractions to decimals, they're not going to understand x/y even if it seems extrordinarily simple to you.
I think there's always application for them. I'm only in pre-calculus but we've done a lot of things that involve chugging numbers where we would use a different number in the same equation three times, solving in this on paper would have been very redundant. X-> new_number , hitting up, and hitting enter, was time saving. Of course we know how to do the stuff on paper too, it's required that we know that before we can use calculators, and we're not allowed using programable calculators on tests. I think that saying it has no application in math is invalid, it has an amazing amount, not limited to the simple example I gave, I just think that it's imperative to teach how it works before you teach the quick and fast ways of calculating things.
Jack Sparrow: [after Will draws his sword] Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again.
:]
Will Turner: You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you.
Jack Sparrow: That's not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it?
I love that movie.
It annoys me because I feel that people should be allowed the freedom to do and write anything unto the internet, it shouldn't be regulated by anyone, and I'm slightly sad for the chinese people who are having this right taken away.
That's why I'm annoyed.