Doesn't the other side believe the same thing? If they have a will to get rid of piracy (copyright infringement), then there is a way to get rid of it. Even if it means locking everybody in cage, and throwing away the key. There's two outcomes to this. People will eventually decide that copyright infringement isn't worth the likelihood and cost of getting caught, or there will be a revolution.
I would imagine that it would be more counted on number of downloads of a new software product, and not updates to an existing product that people already had installed.
Well, parallel programming is hard. It's not so hard that it can't be done, but it's harder than sequential programming. Unless your app will have a specific advantage because of this parallel programming, then it isn't worth the effort to do it in the first place. The nice thing however, would be that you could run each process on a separate core, and there wouldn't be any task switching needed. This would speed things up quite a bit. Also, if you locked a process or thread to each core, then one slow down wouldn't take out the entire system.
So if I had a passport account linked to a hotmail.com email address, and I changed it to a different email address, would all my MSN contacts still have me on their list, even though my hotmail.com email address was no longer attached to that passport, and they used the hotmail email to register me on their list?
Well, if you go to passport.com, the first option is to create a hotmail address. Most users won't go past that. It seems to be a lot easier to get a passport for a non-hotmail address than it used to be. I rememer when I signed up for msn messenger, that it was very difficult to sign up under a different address. Either way, it's still tied to a specific email address. Which seems to be a bad thing if you ever want to change your email address.
The problem with MSN, is that they make it quite difficult to sign up with your actual email address, so 98% of people sign up for a hotmail address just to get on MSN. And then your contacts start sending you email at that address, even though you never check it. I would much rather be a number, and be able to change my email address in my info, rather than have my IM tied to my email address, in the case where I would want to switch email addresses. Many people use email addresses from their ISP, it would be quite annoying if you had to redo all your IM stuff simply because you switched ISPs. I don't have a problem with being a number. It has worked fine with phone numbers.
I only stayed signed on to ICQ because I could, without opening another client. I have been using Pidgin, and I figured, why not, It's not like I have to open another program. If I have to install the official version of ICQ just to use it, I won't use it. That being said, ICQ was miles ahead of MSN (the current defacto standard among my contacts). I figure the reason it lost out, is because MSN came already installed on all windows computers. I wish ICQ wouldn't have died. It's truly a better system.
I think that as people request more power efficiency from their laptops, that we will be able to turn off logging, and any other unnecessary writing to the disk. I already boot up my laptop with the "noatime" option so that it doesn't cause an extra write to the disk every time I read a file. I think there's a lot we could do in order to cut down on the number of reads and writes we do. And since spin-up, and spin-down isn't a problem with SSD, we should definitely be trying to cut down on how much we use the drive.
Not only that, but compare the power consumption when the disk is completely idle. Or at least when the computer isn't requesting any information from the disk. Most of the time, if your computer has enough RAM, it will access the drive quite infrequently, especially in many cases where power drain would be of concern, such as in those UMPCs.
Can they charge you to receive messages? That doesn't seem right, considering that you have no choice in the matter. If I don't want to pay for a phone call, I can just not pick up. Or, if I'm in the middle of a phone call, and I decide that it is going on too long, and it is going to cost me too much, I can just hang up. All the services I've seen only charge for outgoing. Is it common for them to charge for receiving a message? That would be a good way to get back at someone you didn't like. Send them 10000 text messages via MSN, and get their wireless bill to skyrocket.
Seems to be popular in discrete math. My professor did the same. My university actually has it's own press (OK, it's a bunch of photocopiers with a bunch of binding machines) but they make quite a lot of material available to the students this way. A lot cheaper than textbooks, and again, a lot more relavent to the course. Most of my professors when recommending textbooks (very seldom were they required), would recommend really good books that would be useful later on in our career, and were actually worth the $100 price tag. Even if we didn't realize it at the time.
That's just silly. The people behind the counter don't develop pictures. They just put the pictures in the envelope, and give the envelope of pictures to you in exchange for money. The actual "developing" process is completely automatic. Pictures aren't even developed anymore. They are printed out from a digital image.
As for my personal opinion, I think that the vast majority of medical conditions can be dealt with by someone with significantly less training/licensing (eg. nurses, online/telephone professionals, etc) than is currently demanded;
In Ontario this is actually the the stance taken. They have set up a telehealth phoneline staffed by nurses and other qualified people so that people don't go down to the emergency room, or run to the doctor every time you have a rash or a cough. We've used their services quite a few times, and the answers they give are quite good. It's really nice to have a nice way to get quick qualified answers to health questions.
It was a joke. However, in government, all people above a certain level, such as managers of departments and such, are supposed to be completely bilingual. The idea is that in a meeting, people speak whichever language they prefer, and everyone else can understand them.
I really don't see why they would be worried about that. People buy $1500 handbags because they are $1500 handbags. Not because they couldn't get something similar or identical for $50. By paying $1500 they get the right to say they bought a $1500 handbag, so they can prove how rich they are, and how much better than everybody else. I think the real reason they are suing, is because they are greedy, but also because if you don't defend your trademark than you lose it. It would be too detrimental to their business for them to risk losing their trademark altogether. Therefore, they have no option but to sue. Now, the whole thing about not selling even legit items is just the lawyers going too far, but the basic premise of defending your trademark isn't too bad. At least you can still buy Louis Vitton skateboard trucks.
Meh. You think that's bad. In Canada, you have to have all your meetings in French and English. Meetings take twice as long. And by the time the French part is done being spoken, the English speakers have completely forgotten what was being said in the first place.
The best thing about a device like that, is that you could probably equip it with a microphone and have it automatically flip the page when you reach the end of the current page. Another option would be to have it continuously scroll by, but that might make it a little hard to follow. Hard to say since I don't play music. I guess a third option would be to have it shift one line at a time, as you reached the end of the line. Oh, and a fourth possibility. Have a really short screen, in terms of height, but longer than the average one, like around 20 inches across. The display a single line of music, and have it just scroll across. You could even accomplish this with a simple black and white display, or even just LCD like the wristwatches, with a good backlight. You could probably get it accomplished for pretty cheap.
Since I'm a Mandriva user, in the spirit of Mandrake + Connectiva = Mandriva, I vote for Xandros + Linspire = Xanspire. Or maybe Lindros, but I think that may give people a concussion.
What if a 14 year old buys himself an M rated game for the DS? A kid could easily hide a DS game and never have his parents find out about it. Also, while only playing while outside the house, it would be pretty difficult for his parents to catch him playing.
Wouldn't it be just as easy for the parents to do a little research on the game to figure out of it was right for their kids? OK, it probably wouldn't be just as easy, but the parents could make a much better judgement call if they downloaded the demo, or just went to a few review sites to see what the game was like. Instead of trusting the ratings blindly.
Can't say I've had any problems with mine. Had it for over a year, and still no problems. This review speaks very favourably of it, and even shows some pictures of it disassembled. Doesn't show any soldering problems from what I can see.
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Doesn't the other side believe the same thing? If they have a will to get rid of piracy (copyright infringement), then there is a way to get rid of it. Even if it means locking everybody in cage, and throwing away the key. There's two outcomes to this. People will eventually decide that copyright infringement isn't worth the likelihood and cost of getting caught, or there will be a revolution.
I would imagine that it would be more counted on number of downloads of a new software product, and not updates to an existing product that people already had installed.
I'm just waiting for KOffice and KDE4 to be stable on windows.
Well, parallel programming is hard. It's not so hard that it can't be done, but it's harder than sequential programming. Unless your app will have a specific advantage because of this parallel programming, then it isn't worth the effort to do it in the first place. The nice thing however, would be that you could run each process on a separate core, and there wouldn't be any task switching needed. This would speed things up quite a bit. Also, if you locked a process or thread to each core, then one slow down wouldn't take out the entire system.
So if I had a passport account linked to a hotmail.com email address, and I changed it to a different email address, would all my MSN contacts still have me on their list, even though my hotmail.com email address was no longer attached to that passport, and they used the hotmail email to register me on their list?
Well, if you go to passport.com, the first option is to create a hotmail address. Most users won't go past that. It seems to be a lot easier to get a passport for a non-hotmail address than it used to be. I rememer when I signed up for msn messenger, that it was very difficult to sign up under a different address. Either way, it's still tied to a specific email address. Which seems to be a bad thing if you ever want to change your email address.
The problem with MSN, is that they make it quite difficult to sign up with your actual email address, so 98% of people sign up for a hotmail address just to get on MSN. And then your contacts start sending you email at that address, even though you never check it. I would much rather be a number, and be able to change my email address in my info, rather than have my IM tied to my email address, in the case where I would want to switch email addresses. Many people use email addresses from their ISP, it would be quite annoying if you had to redo all your IM stuff simply because you switched ISPs. I don't have a problem with being a number. It has worked fine with phone numbers.
I only stayed signed on to ICQ because I could, without opening another client. I have been using Pidgin, and I figured, why not, It's not like I have to open another program. If I have to install the official version of ICQ just to use it, I won't use it. That being said, ICQ was miles ahead of MSN (the current defacto standard among my contacts). I figure the reason it lost out, is because MSN came already installed on all windows computers. I wish ICQ wouldn't have died. It's truly a better system.
I think that as people request more power efficiency from their laptops, that we will be able to turn off logging, and any other unnecessary writing to the disk. I already boot up my laptop with the "noatime" option so that it doesn't cause an extra write to the disk every time I read a file. I think there's a lot we could do in order to cut down on the number of reads and writes we do. And since spin-up, and spin-down isn't a problem with SSD, we should definitely be trying to cut down on how much we use the drive.
Not only that, but compare the power consumption when the disk is completely idle. Or at least when the computer isn't requesting any information from the disk. Most of the time, if your computer has enough RAM, it will access the drive quite infrequently, especially in many cases where power drain would be of concern, such as in those UMPCs.
Based on the current exchange rate on xe.com, .8 INR is equal to .018 USD. That's 1.8 cents per text message.
Can they charge you to receive messages? That doesn't seem right, considering that you have no choice in the matter. If I don't want to pay for a phone call, I can just not pick up. Or, if I'm in the middle of a phone call, and I decide that it is going on too long, and it is going to cost me too much, I can just hang up. All the services I've seen only charge for outgoing. Is it common for them to charge for receiving a message? That would be a good way to get back at someone you didn't like. Send them 10000 text messages via MSN, and get their wireless bill to skyrocket.
We can just start building boats out of carbon fibre.
Seems to be popular in discrete math. My professor did the same. My university actually has it's own press (OK, it's a bunch of photocopiers with a bunch of binding machines) but they make quite a lot of material available to the students this way. A lot cheaper than textbooks, and again, a lot more relavent to the course. Most of my professors when recommending textbooks (very seldom were they required), would recommend really good books that would be useful later on in our career, and were actually worth the $100 price tag. Even if we didn't realize it at the time.
That's just silly. The people behind the counter don't develop pictures. They just put the pictures in the envelope, and give the envelope of pictures to you in exchange for money. The actual "developing" process is completely automatic. Pictures aren't even developed anymore. They are printed out from a digital image.
In Ontario this is actually the the stance taken. They have set up a telehealth phoneline staffed by nurses and other qualified people so that people don't go down to the emergency room, or run to the doctor every time you have a rash or a cough. We've used their services quite a few times, and the answers they give are quite good. It's really nice to have a nice way to get quick qualified answers to health questions.
It was a joke. However, in government, all people above a certain level, such as managers of departments and such, are supposed to be completely bilingual. The idea is that in a meeting, people speak whichever language they prefer, and everyone else can understand them.
I really don't see why they would be worried about that. People buy $1500 handbags because they are $1500 handbags. Not because they couldn't get something similar or identical for $50. By paying $1500 they get the right to say they bought a $1500 handbag, so they can prove how rich they are, and how much better than everybody else. I think the real reason they are suing, is because they are greedy, but also because if you don't defend your trademark than you lose it. It would be too detrimental to their business for them to risk losing their trademark altogether. Therefore, they have no option but to sue. Now, the whole thing about not selling even legit items is just the lawyers going too far, but the basic premise of defending your trademark isn't too bad. At least you can still buy Louis Vitton skateboard trucks.
Meh. You think that's bad. In Canada, you have to have all your meetings in French and English. Meetings take twice as long. And by the time the French part is done being spoken, the English speakers have completely forgotten what was being said in the first place.
Actually, another name for Avogadros is alligator pear.
The best thing about a device like that, is that you could probably equip it with a microphone and have it automatically flip the page when you reach the end of the current page. Another option would be to have it continuously scroll by, but that might make it a little hard to follow. Hard to say since I don't play music. I guess a third option would be to have it shift one line at a time, as you reached the end of the line. Oh, and a fourth possibility. Have a really short screen, in terms of height, but longer than the average one, like around 20 inches across. The display a single line of music, and have it just scroll across. You could even accomplish this with a simple black and white display, or even just LCD like the wristwatches, with a good backlight. You could probably get it accomplished for pretty cheap.
Since I'm a Mandriva user, in the spirit of Mandrake + Connectiva = Mandriva, I vote for Xandros + Linspire = Xanspire. Or maybe Lindros, but I think that may give people a concussion.
What if a 14 year old buys himself an M rated game for the DS? A kid could easily hide a DS game and never have his parents find out about it. Also, while only playing while outside the house, it would be pretty difficult for his parents to catch him playing.
Wouldn't it be just as easy for the parents to do a little research on the game to figure out of it was right for their kids? OK, it probably wouldn't be just as easy, but the parents could make a much better judgement call if they downloaded the demo, or just went to a few review sites to see what the game was like. Instead of trusting the ratings blindly.
Can't say I've had any problems with mine. Had it for over a year, and still no problems. This review speaks very favourably of it, and even shows some pictures of it disassembled. Doesn't show any soldering problems from what I can see.