Taxes tend to be levied on "typical use". For example, if you go to the gas station and buy a gallon of gas to start your barbeque or run your outboard motor you'll still probably be paying some sort of road user tax built in to the fuel cost (depending on country/state etc). If significant alternative use exists then alternative taxing regimes get introduced (eg. many countries tax diesel fuel differently to allow for non-road usage).
The most typical use of ipods is probably playing commercial music. If enough people lobby that a sizeable different usage exists (eg. people playing public domain music, or lectures and podcasts) then possibly some sort of "tax-free" ipods will emerge.
If time travel into the past is impossible, then surely that means that all time travel must be impossible. In other words, time travel into the future must be impossible too.
Consider if this was not the case... A and B start out together. A travels into the future (from B's perspective). Surely, from A's perspective that is the same as B travelling into the past. The only way to tell the difference is if you have a bunch of cues/landmarks that you use as a time reference. If we remove those cues then it is no longer easy to tell what is happening.
Lets suppose we make A = the whole universe - B. Then shifting A into the future is indistinguishable from shifting B into the past.
After Sept 11. the FBI etc have PR issues trying to convince the world that they are on the ball and protecting Joe Citizen. These sorts of statement are not necessarily true. They could just be "feel good" measures like making you take your shoes off at airports.
A fatally flawed project can often not be recovered or redirected. There is nothing special about IT projects. All projects from civil engineering through to social engineering exercises and time sheet programs can fail if not well designed and well executed.
The phases in a doomed project seem to be:
1)Can we ignore it? Maybe the probelms will just go away and our asses will be saved. 2)Can we fix it? Take some corrective action to save the day. 3)The project is doomed. Can we reuse some of it? At least then we didn't waste all the time and money. 4) Reuse disk space. Find a scapegoat.
Thanks for the correction. I'd forgotten that diesel engines were originally run on plant oils and petro-diesel were then introduced as a cheaper alternative and now we're going back to bio-diesels again.
Jet fuel is just kerosene which was first made in 1807... 200 years ago and was the first distilled hydrocarbon fuel. The processes to get kerosene, rather than diesel, shoukld be well understood by now.
Having access to the source is one thing. Keeping the best people engaged in those projects is quite another.
There are many very valuable projects that get very little funding - insufficient to pay the programmers who give that value. If the contributors cannot live by their work then they have to go find payment elsewhere.
As open source matures, people will come to understand that taking without giving back is not a sustainable model.
People dedicated enough to read the out of focus pictures will still buy a properly printed book too.
The same really applies to those movie rip-offs shot with a video cam from the back row. Anybody buying a fuzzy/shaky rip-off will still buy a legal version later.
MS has had a really bad year in terms of execution. Zune. XBox. Vista. All of these have underperformed which must make for a very unpleasant stock holders' meeting.
Shareholders are the ultimate customers of the company and MS needs to do something to show that they are fixing the problems. They need to demonstrate a "correction" of sorts.
MS has too much invested in Vista. However, Zune and Xbox (which have bled cash badly) can be sacrificed. MS needs to do this to be perceived as a worthwhile investment.
I have both a 1100 and a 1110i. I bought the 1110i because the 1100 is such a great simple phone and thought the 1110i might be too.
The 1110i is a confused lump of shit in comparison to the 1100. Nokia have added more features than the phone layout can handle, making it far more complicated to use than the 1100.
Most rational people understand that Google supports its free services by displaying ads. You have already paid MS a lot of money soi why should they feel they have a right to invade your desktop?
First off, let's state that the typical Linux user is using Linux in an embedded form and does not even know they are running Linux. The hardware they are using probably will get no benefit from this new scheduling policy. A lot of systems will get far more benefit from the realtime patches that provide priority inheretance etc (ie a decidely unfair scheduler).
Then there's the American Dream sheduler where you get priority if you work hard at it. You can't just inheret your priority like some rich child process.
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The most typical use of ipods is probably playing commercial music. If enough people lobby that a sizeable different usage exists (eg. people playing public domain music, or lectures and podcasts) then possibly some sort of "tax-free" ipods will emerge.
Blaming it on the Poles changing.
The 'a' got changed to an 'e' by flipping bit 0x04.
... if all the pop is removed?
Half the point of smoking weed is to show Uncle Sam the finger. Gets a bit pointless if it is legal!
Consider if this was not the case... A and B start out together. A travels into the future (from B's perspective). Surely, from A's perspective that is the same as B travelling into the past. The only way to tell the difference is if you have a bunch of cues/landmarks that you use as a time reference. If we remove those cues then it is no longer easy to tell what is happening.
Lets suppose we make A = the whole universe - B. Then shifting A into the future is indistinguishable from shifting B into the past.
After Sept 11. the FBI etc have PR issues trying to convince the world that they are on the ball and protecting Joe Citizen. These sorts of statement are not necessarily true. They could just be "feel good" measures like making you take your shoes off at airports.
The phases in a doomed project seem to be:
1)Can we ignore it? Maybe the probelms will just go away and our asses will be saved.
2)Can we fix it? Take some corrective action to save the day.
3)The project is doomed. Can we reuse some of it? At least then we didn't waste all the time and money.
4) Reuse disk space. Find a scapegoat.
Thanks for the correction. I'd forgotten that diesel engines were originally run on plant oils and petro-diesel were then introduced as a cheaper alternative and now we're going back to bio-diesels again.
will come with their harpoons!
Algae is good stuff. The proposal is to grow more of it.
Jet fuel is just kerosene which was first made in 1807 ... 200 years ago and was the first distilled hydrocarbon fuel. The processes to get kerosene, rather than diesel, shoukld be well understood by now.
The remains can be used as cattle feed suppliment, or fertilizer, or served to economy passengers!
No identity to steal!
so it doesn't run Windows!
There are many very valuable projects that get very little funding - insufficient to pay the programmers who give that value. If the contributors cannot live by their work then they have to go find payment elsewhere.
As open source matures, people will come to understand that taking without giving back is not a sustainable model.
The same really applies to those movie rip-offs shot with a video cam from the back row. Anybody buying a fuzzy/shaky rip-off will still buy a legal version later.
Shareholders are the ultimate customers of the company and MS needs to do something to show that they are fixing the problems. They need to demonstrate a "correction" of sorts.
MS has too much invested in Vista. However, Zune and Xbox (which have bled cash badly) can be sacrificed. MS needs to do this to be perceived as a worthwhile investment.
The 1110i is a confused lump of shit in comparison to the 1100. Nokia have added more features than the phone layout can handle, making it far more complicated to use than the 1100.
Most rational people understand that Google supports its free services by displaying ads. You have already paid MS a lot of money soi why should they feel they have a right to invade your desktop?
You must be new here too!
occam was built explicitely to write parallel programs. I'd like to see it ported to multi-core CPUs.
The American Dream scheduler allocates 500% of the CPU. You just charge the other 400% to Visa.
First off, let's state that the typical Linux user is using Linux in an embedded form and does not even know they are running Linux. The hardware they are using probably will get no benefit from this new scheduling policy. A lot of systems will get far more benefit from the realtime patches that provide priority inheretance etc (ie a decidely unfair scheduler).
Then there's the American Dream sheduler where you get priority if you work hard at it. You can't just inheret your priority like some rich child process.