My experience - in physics - is that many publishers [1] *ask* for a publication charge. That is, your article gets published whether you pay or not. Paying is voluntarily.
I don't know about CS, though.
[1] E.g. APS (Americal Physical Society) and AIP (American Institute of Physics) do it this way. Except Nature and Science, those two publish the journals a physicist wants to appear in.
I don't understand why then U.S. is so keen on using electronic counting. I mean even optical scanners are quite a system.
What speaks against a letting volunteers count the vote like in lots of other countries? It sure is at least as safe as electronic voting, much cheaper and not that much slower.
For a real challenge, after you finish your studies, try to determine whether P = NP. You *do* realize that P=NP is a fairly complex problem. So complex that it hasn't been solved yet. So extraordinary complex that the the Clay Institute will award a million dollar prize for anyone who solves it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems.
I reckon you joked a little bit. I won't elaborate on the rest of your comment, the other replys cover that part pretty well.
Does this really improve the odds of finding him?
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I suppose there are already trained people looking at the images. From the Police, Fire-Department, or whatever organization handles these kinds of emergencies in Nevada. I stress the word trained because the satellite data definetely needs experienced eyes to look out for the right stuff.
The article starts by explaining what to look for on these images. This is good, but to substitute for experience in looking at such images.
I fully agree with you on your points 1. to 3.
Write to their auditors and the stock exchange were they are listed; point out that there is a big risk that their flagship product may need to be pulled because of copyright infringement. Say that you have told the company and that they are hiding this important information from the stock exchange. However, as for No 4, I don't know. This could become a liability issue. You don't want the company to sue you in return for publicly damage their reputation.
You definetely should never, ever do this:
[..], better still post it on a web site with the companie's name plastered all over it (so that the search engines find it). They sue you right away. At least, I would do that if I were a company.
You're right. And because of the fact that you pay the subscription fees whether you use the phone or not, the phone doesn't even need to be locked. I can plug in any SIM card I want into my phone and use it, not the just the one from my original provider. (applies to me in germany, at least)
All parties got their money, both Apple and AT&T. And quite a lot of it. So I think they are really overdoing this digital rights thing by additionally locking the iPhone to AT&T cards.
>That's because, to date, no Christian > fundamentalists have strapped on semtex vests > and walked into pizza parlors, or flown jet > liners into office buildings.
No, but there were many wars faught in the name of the christian god. In the middle-age, the roman-catholic church was an imperialistic power. It seeked control of both the religious and the ordinary world. Too many popes faught wars for the control of Italy.
Oh, and did I mention today's Northern Ireland?
> I would love it if that were true. But the > fact is that Islam, in its present form, is a > curse upon the peaceful people of the world. > Islam, in its present form, begets violence, > and Muslims aren't doing anything to change > that.
Have you *ever* talked* to a muslim? You seem to mistake the angry palaestine-mob you see in CNN with *the islam*. The islam is like christianity a religion of peace and love-for-your-nearest-one. The islam is as violent as christianity!
Islamic fundamentalism is a totally different thing. It's a minority, although this minority is very dominant in the media, which makes for the impression that fundamentalism = islam.
You cannot fight this fundamentalism by killing people. It's not a war against terror. This is a horrible saying.
Didn't Bush ask the Paris Club to relieve Iraq of half of its 100 billion $ foreign debts? Just hours after Wolfowitz declared that no contracts should go to countries opposing the war?
The three major nations in the club regarding Iraq are... germany, france and russia.
If Bush wants other countries to pay for Iraq he shouldn't openly insult them. Basic rule of politics...
I think you're confused here. Qt (pronounced "Cute" not to be confused with QT which is the abbreviation for QuickTime) is dual licensed under either the GPL or the Trolltech commercial license. Qt costs a lot of money to use commercially. IIRC, Trolltech wants like $1k a seat or something ridiculous like that. Your other option with Qt is to use the GPL. So, what do *companies want*: to pay a fee to Trolltech and own their own code or to avoid the fee and "give it away" with the GPL and the GPL-licensed Qt.
The original poster wrote about in-house. The GPL doesn't force you to make your application available to everyone in the world. It just says that if you do so, you also have to include the source. You can do contract-work using GPL'ed libraries, the only string is that you have to hand over the source-code to your client as well (something which every reasonable client should demand anyways).
> One problem with these figures is the exchange > rate between Euro and the US$. 18 months ago, when > one Euro was 0.86 US$, your figures were > "correct". > > Nowadays one Euro is woth about 1.15 US$. Suddenly > the GDP measured in US$ per capita jumped up > nearly 30%. So did germany close the gap while > being in recession? No!
The german economy is nowhere near being in a good state. It's the middle and small-sized companies that struggle a lot these days.
Your comparison of exchange rates isn't completely correct, though. The Euro started with a rate of 1.18 US-$ (which meant something like 1.60 DM per Dollar, which was a reasonable exchange rate in the 90s). It was the Euro that dropped later and recovered just last year. In my opinion the current GDP numbers reflect reality quite good.
Why not go back to using ballots made of paper, marked with an ordinary pen. Counting the votes isn't much slower than using a machine (come on, two hours more or less do not matter if the election will have an honest result). And, you can store the ballots to check them later again, if necessary.
My old K6/200 runs happily at 250 Mhz (2,5*100Mhz instead of 3*66Mhz), and I even lowered the core-voltage to reduce heat-emission. Now *that* was some serious overclocking!:)
"64-bits is the domain of workstations and servers, it has no point in low and mid-end computing."
For now. A few years ago, I was happy to have 16 MB RAM in my computer; now I have 16 times that much RAM and couldn't possibly think of doing anything with only 16 MB.
Did you read my post? I said China and the USSR are *not* (no, nein, njente, nada) communist states. You condemn a good, albeit utopic idea, with simple dictatorships that oppress their people.
Quite a few capitalist states have oppressive governments, too. Do you condemn capitalism?
"In the US, totally different story. The US wasn't anti anything European, in fact most of us feel a historic attachment to it. After Iraq though, a good portion of Americans are VERY anti French, German, etc..."
I think those americans who dislike the french and german, should think twice. Criticism is good. You may be surprised by it and may hurt at first. Ignoring criticism is just plain stupid, it leads to mistakes and makes you do things you may regret later.
If a friend tells you that you are an arrogant bastard, you may be deeply insulted. But if you come to think about it, the *friend* may not to be completely wrong. He must have a reason to say such a thing, and it better be a good one if he was to use such harsh words.
That said, neither europeans nor americans have found the ultimate right or wrong. As long as both have the same idea about the very basic things, things are in the green. The rest can be discussed!
(While I'm at it, I was very surprised to find this quite good article. The author is not always on the right track, but it's good, sensible stuff: http://www.newamericancentury.org/kagan-052002.htm )
China, as was the USSR, is *not* a communist country. An oppressive socialist one, yes; a communist one, no.
Communism is a completely theoretical thing. It requires either abundant ressources so everybody can get everything or a new kind of man. Neither exists.
> Is also attacking a nation-state like Iraq before they get thier shit togeather enough to bother a Kuwait or an Israel again. > > Prevention didn't fly for the Bush Administration as an excuse for the war in many circles.
Constructing a satellite navigation system isn't exactly like fighting a war... there's a fine difference... maybe you can spot it;)
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My experience - in physics - is that many publishers [1] *ask* for a publication charge. That is, your article gets published whether you pay or not. Paying is voluntarily.
I don't know about CS, though.
[1] E.g. APS (Americal Physical Society) and AIP (American Institute of Physics) do it this way. Except Nature and Science, those two publish the journals a physicist wants to appear in.
I don't understand why then U.S. is so keen on using electronic counting. I mean even optical scanners are quite a system. What speaks against a letting volunteers count the vote like in lots of other countries? It sure is at least as safe as electronic voting, much cheaper and not that much slower.
I reckon you joked a little bit. I won't elaborate on the rest of your comment, the other replys cover that part pretty well.
I suppose there are already trained people looking at the images. From the Police, Fire-Department, or whatever organization handles these kinds of emergencies in Nevada. I stress the word trained because the satellite data definetely needs experienced eyes to look out for the right stuff.
The article starts by explaining what to look for on these images. This is good, but to substitute for experience in looking at such images.
You're right. And because of the fact that you pay the subscription fees whether you use the phone or not, the phone doesn't even need to be locked. I can plug in any SIM card I want into my phone and use it, not the just the one from my original provider. (applies to me in germany, at least)
All parties got their money, both Apple and AT&T. And quite a lot of it.
So I think they are really overdoing this digital rights thing by additionally locking the iPhone to AT&T cards.
>That's because, to date, no Christian
> fundamentalists have strapped on semtex vests
> and walked into pizza parlors, or flown jet
> liners into office buildings.
No, but there were many wars faught in the name of the christian god. In the middle-age, the roman-catholic church was an imperialistic power. It seeked control of both the religious and the ordinary world. Too many popes faught wars for the control of Italy.
Oh, and did I mention today's Northern Ireland?
> I would love it if that were true. But the
> fact is that Islam, in its present form, is a
> curse upon the peaceful people of the world.
> Islam, in its present form, begets violence,
> and Muslims aren't doing anything to change
> that.
Have you *ever* talked* to a muslim? You seem to mistake the angry palaestine-mob you see in CNN with *the islam*. The islam is like christianity a religion of peace and love-for-your-nearest-one. The islam is as violent as christianity!
Islamic fundamentalism is a totally different thing. It's a minority, although this minority is very dominant in the media, which makes for the impression that fundamentalism = islam.
You cannot fight this fundamentalism by killing people. It's not a war against terror. This is a horrible saying.
Didn't Bush ask the Paris Club to relieve Iraq of half of its 100 billion $ foreign debts? Just hours after Wolfowitz declared that no contracts should go to countries opposing the war?
The three major nations in the club regarding Iraq are... germany, france and russia.
If Bush wants other countries to pay for Iraq he shouldn't openly insult them. Basic rule of politics...
I wonder what you smoked today. Must be pretty cool stuff.
The original poster wrote about in-house. The GPL doesn't force you to make your application available to everyone in the world. It just says that if you do so, you also have to include the source. You can do contract-work using GPL'ed libraries, the only string is that you have to hand over the source-code to your client as well (something which every reasonable client should demand anyways).
I think you're confusing some things.
Well, things definetely have improved over the years. Looks like the germans learned a good lesson by heart... as opposed to their former 'teacher'...
(Sorry for that, but your comment screamed for that...)
> I have hired someone for accounting. That
> 'integrity' example I gave was actually for an
> accounting position.
I'm really curious. What did the person answer?
I may not live in France, but my university just got the 600 million EURO to build itself a free electron laser...
Please, please cut down your prejudices an dinform yourself better next time!
> One problem with these figures is the exchange
> rate between Euro and the US$. 18 months ago, when
> one Euro was 0.86 US$, your figures were
> "correct".
>
> Nowadays one Euro is woth about 1.15 US$. Suddenly
> the GDP measured in US$ per capita jumped up
> nearly 30%. So did germany close the gap while
> being in recession? No!
The german economy is nowhere near being in a good state. It's the middle and small-sized companies that struggle a lot these days.
Your comparison of exchange rates isn't completely correct, though. The Euro started with a rate of 1.18 US-$ (which meant something like 1.60 DM per Dollar, which was a reasonable exchange rate in the 90s). It was the Euro that dropped later and recovered just last year. In my opinion the current GDP numbers reflect reality quite good.
Why not go back to using ballots made of paper, marked with an ordinary pen. Counting the votes isn't much slower than using a machine (come on, two hours more or less do not matter if the election will have an honest result). And, you can store the ballots to check them later again, if necessary.
Oops, looks like I messed up my history knowledge. My fault.
Somebody said:
;-): "Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."'
"Quidquid id est timeo danaos et DONA ferentes"
and you wrote:
'For those of us whose latin is a bit rusty
Actually, it's not the Greek but the Danaer, an italic tribe neighboring ancient Rome (~600BC).
Bavaria is as nice a place to live as anywhere in germany. It has its up's and down's.
I think we should remember that when we start one of our beloved state-flames.
My old K6/200 runs happily at 250 Mhz (2,5*100Mhz instead of 3*66Mhz), and I even lowered the core-voltage to reduce heat-emission. Now *that* was some serious overclocking! :)
"64-bits is the domain of workstations and servers, it has no point in low and mid-end computing."
For now. A few years ago, I was happy to have 16 MB RAM in my computer; now I have 16 times that much RAM and couldn't possibly think of doing anything with only 16 MB.
Did you read my post? I said China and the USSR are *not* (no, nein, njente, nada) communist states. You condemn a good, albeit utopic idea, with simple dictatorships that oppress their people.
Quite a few capitalist states have oppressive governments, too. Do you condemn capitalism?
"So the US has to take counter-measures (against our allies)and be capable of disrupting Galileo during wartime."
That's totally fine. As long as you don't oppose if other nations do it vice-versa, that is, developing technology to disable GPS at any given time.*
(*I mean this seriously.)
"In the US, totally different story. The US wasn't anti anything European, in fact most of us feel a historic attachment to it. After Iraq though, a good portion of Americans are VERY anti French, German, etc..."
m )
I think those americans who dislike the french and german, should think twice. Criticism is good. You may be surprised by it and may hurt at first. Ignoring criticism is just plain stupid, it leads to mistakes and makes you do things you may regret later.
If a friend tells you that you are an arrogant bastard, you may be deeply insulted. But if you come to think about it, the *friend* may not to be completely wrong. He must have a reason to say such a thing, and it better be a good one if he was to use such harsh words.
That said, neither europeans nor americans have found the ultimate right or wrong. As long as both have the same idea about the very basic things, things are in the green. The rest can be discussed!
(While I'm at it, I was very surprised to find this quite good article. The author is not always on the right track, but it's good, sensible stuff: http://www.newamericancentury.org/kagan-052002.ht
China, as was the USSR, is *not* a communist country. An oppressive socialist one, yes; a communist one, no.
Communism is a completely theoretical thing. It requires either abundant ressources so everybody can get everything or a new kind of man. Neither exists.
> Is also attacking a nation-state like Iraq before they get thier shit togeather enough to bother a Kuwait or an Israel again.
;)
>
> Prevention didn't fly for the Bush Administration as an excuse for the war in many circles.
Constructing a satellite navigation system isn't exactly like fighting a war... there's a fine difference... maybe you can spot it