But will this mean a significant decrease in already overpriced college textbooks? Not a chance.
No, but it will improve the quality for those professors who like to use their own material. I hated those plastic-bound photocopy jobs that I had so often as an upperclassman.
Lulu calls the size you are referring to "pocket size."
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Contrariwise, a good photographer who is used to the fantastic tools (ie. photoshop) may well find the Gimp limiting.
Not precisely, according to the article you cited. Ken Rockwell's other point was that a good photographer who is used to photoshop would not find the Gimp limiting, but merely inconvenient.
2) Why are there four dissenting votes? More to the point, what's tacked onto this that would make a congressmen go on record as appearing to vote against energy efficiency?
One of the four dissenters, Mr. Flake, happens to be the representative from my district, so I'm very familiar with his voting record and motivations.
Mr. Flake has a much broader definition of pork than most members of Congress. Basically, what's "tacked on" is a requirement for the EPA to allocate resources to conduct a study on computer servers, which is wasteful big government in his opinion. He's going on record as being anti-pork, which in my opinion will be a lot more memorable than how he voted on an obscure energy bill.
They all technically can read CD-ROMs, but you have to be careful because Microsoft Windows is much more "interoperable" than the other two. All three operating systems can read the filesystem from a CD created by a Windows machine, but it is possible to make CD filesystems on a Mac or Linux machine that a Windows machine doesn't even know how to read!
It doesn't stop there. Linux people also like to use OpenDocument format, which is so non-interoperable that Microsoft Word doesn't even support it!
I also will watch any commercial that catches my eye during fast forward. I'm pretty sure that I watch every commercial at least once. However, commercials are repeated so often, that even someone who watches a lot of TV will only see maybe one or two new commercials a week. I'll still see an old commercial in fast forward and think, "Oh yeah, I wanted to try that," so I definitely think companies are getting their money's worth. I think this proposal is based on paranoia and not on an actual decrease in ad effectiveness.
The only time that I really paid attention to every commercial, every time was just after I had gone two years without watching any TV.
Let's see. Microsoft Office didn't come into widespread use until about 1995. That means the first children to use it throughout their entire education are still in high school. The first people to use it throughout high school are now about 25 years old. The rest of us are at a serious disadvantage.
Don't worry though. The software we used in school is better anyway. I use logo for all my graphic design work. Did you know that the newfangled photoshop software doesn't even have a turtle? As for that email stuff, I can't think of any message anyone could possibly want to send that can't fit on a tombstone in Oregon Trail. I heard that MS exchange doesn't even have oxen!
If you get all your political news from the media, you are missing out on the great sources of information that senate committee hearings are. Sure, lobbyists with questionable experts might have started the ball rolling on this legislation, but as usual, the list of (I believe unpaid) experts who testified at the committee hearing on the subject is impressive:
Mr. Vinton Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Mr. Walter McCormick
President and CEO, United States Telecom Association
Mr. Jeffrey Citron
Chairman and CEO, Vonage
Mr. Kyle McSlarrow
President and CEO, National Cable & Telecommunications Association
Mr. Earl Comstock
President and CEO, CompTel
Mr. Kyle Dixon
Senior Fellow and Director of the federal Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
Mr. Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law, Standford Law School
Mr. J. Gregory Sidak
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Mr. Gary Bachula
Vice President for External Affairs, Internet2
You can disagree with the end decision all you like, but it's pretty hard to look at the above list and claim that Senators don't have all the information they need about every angle of the issue. Believe it or not, smart people can get expert advice and still come to a different conclusion than you.
You can cringe at an accent and still love the country. I'm American, and after living in Australia for a few months (without a TV), I started to cringe at American accents. Once you get used to a softer accent, all Americans start sounding like Fran Drescher or Janice from Friends. The effect is worse because of the gradual acclimatization where you don't realize that you have become unaccustomed to the accent you have heard your entire life. The weird thing is that it happens even when your own accent is still readily identifiable as American, even though it has softened a bit.
What we need is for unsolicited bulk email to be more expensive. I envision a system that checks a white list when an email is received. If the sender is on the list, then the mail is received for free. If not, then the email cannot be received unless some transfer of money occurs. When the recipient reads the email, he has the choice of refunding the toll or not.
The toll can default to the price of a first class stamp, but individual users could raise or lower it depending on their level of tolerance for unsolicited email versus fear of locking out legitimate new correspondents. For an extreme example, a $100 toll would keep out virtually all spammers, but might also prevent a long lost roommate from contacting me.
A legitimate bulk mailer like yourself would simply have to warn people to put you on their white list in order to subscribe to the mailing list.
One could also get tricky and add features like having a limit of free messages from one sender per day or some sort of keyword filter. For example, I may want to receive order confirmations from a company for free, but charge for advertisements.
don't you find it curious that there has NOT been another successful attack in four and a half years
I think some people in Iraq, Cairo, London, and Madrid might disagree with you on that point.
The conspiracy theorist in me sometimes wonders if some terrorist attacks against americans are covered up as accidents. After all, terrorists are not completely successful if they fail to create terror. For example, a coal mine accident is devastating, but on the other hand is a known risk when you take the job. However, fear of a series of targeted terrorist attacks against coal mines might seriously disrupt energy supplies.
You obviously don't understand the full ramifications of the ruling, either. You now have the right to post truthful comments, but no protection against downmodding.
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Great. If you start a new line after every sentence.
Well, if you have seen the code for both, then you are either a Microsoft developer or otherwise heavily invested in Microsoft products. Therefore, I question your impartiality. If you haven't seen the code for both, then you have no basis to make such a claim.
The last time I needed laptops, I shopped around for a while, and ended up buying two Dell Inspiron 1200s. It ended up the cheapest, even though I never even booted the windows partitions once before wiping them out. Battery life is about 2 hours, and could probably be more if I fooled around with power saving settings. Suspend to disk works great. The recommended wifi card works just fine with ndiswrapper. If I boot up away from my home network, then it automatically connects to the strongest access point. I use gentoo, but the Ubuntu live cd worked fine when I tried it on my laptop.
My previous linux laptop ran Mandrake until the hard drive crashed due to the sudden deceleration after a 6 foot drop. I ran it just fine with a Knoppix CD for over two years, until it stopped working piece by piece. The built in keyboard, touchpad, and battery all died one by one until I finally had to stop using it when the CD-ROM drive gave out. Call me stingy, but being able to run Linux on that laptop when I was a poor college student really saved me some money.
Basically, running Linux on a laptop is no different than on a desktop. Just be a little bit careful about checking hardware compatibility and you should have no problem. Enough people run the big names like Dells that finding help should be relatively easy.
We were told that if we didn't sign the request form, we wouldn't be allowed to take our child home.
Of course that is wrong. Kidnapping is illegal. But you could be liable instead of the hospital if you leave against their advice and something happens to your child soon after.
I believe there was a box to check on the birth certificate form if we wanted to apply for a social security number at the same time. In our case we needed a social security number anyway. My daughter qualifies for supplemental social security of about $15 per month because of her disability (cerebral palsy). Just enough to cover gas money to her extra doctor visits.
The irony is that I pay $360 a month toward social security and it is likely to be bankrupt shortly after I retire in 35 years.
Ironically, it is the republicans that usually DO take your guns away
I'm afraid you're going to have to actually back that one up with a reference. Guns were illegally confiscated by the Democrat controlled government in New Orleans. In response, our (Arizona's) Republican legislature specifically prohibited confiscation of firearms during declared emergencies. Since I only own a gun for those situations when law enforcement resources are stretched thin, I was very happy about that. Until our democrat governor vetoed the bill.
The Linux world focuses far too much on the negatives about MS and Windows and far too little on whatever positives they have.
If by "Linux World" you mean "people who initiate threads about Linux on slashdot stories about Microsoft," then I agree wholeheartedly. Of course, they are often baited with phrases like, "no viable alternative."
Look on sites and mailing lists for Linux distros and developers, and you'll scarcely see a mention of Microsoft except in passing.
The same can be said for the Windows advocates around here. The highest praise I have seen in a while about Windows is "everyone uses it" and "I haven't had a problem in a long time and you wouldn't either if you patched religiously, never opened suspicious emails or installed suspicious software, and ran a firewall and 2 different malware scanners." That is, until your "benevolant [sic] monopoly" comment, which I'm not sure even Bill Gates would believe.
Apparently not. I blame my (hopefully temporary) lack of a sense of humor on having a two year old daughter with the flu and having the flu myself during the stress of finals week.
It was meant to be a comment that mixing up "its" and "it's" is as blatant of a mistake to an avid reader as mixing up "hers" and "she's," which is the same mistake grammatically. "His" and "he's" may have been a better choice, since at least those sound the same when pronounced by someone with a thick foreign accent. Not that I'm criticizing people with thick foreign accents; I've been that guy. After two years in Australia, people still couldn't tell if I was talking about a ball or a bowl.
A missing or extra apostrophe in a book, magazine, or newspaper throws me off enough that I have to go back and reread the sentence. What's funny is that it doesn't even phase me on slashdot anymore.
Don't forget to make it only work for the kernel, konqueror, kontact, and koffice. And only release security patches once a month.
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Vim is one of those things that is only worth doing if you do it completely. You only get the benefit after a lot of initial investment in learning more efficient ways of doing things that you must use select/c-x/c-v for in other editors.
I constantly get frustrated in other editors by the lack of efficient commands to do something as simple as delete everything from here to the end of the sentence ("dt." in vim), for example. That's why I use vim to type all my forum posts, like this one, then paste it into my web browser.
My university had a short required vi class, but I didn't use it much until I was reintroduced to it a few years later in a corporate training class on perl. The teacher's editor seemed to read his mind. The class was hard to follow sometimes because he would frequently say something like, "Move those 3 lines to the end of the other function," and it would be done before he was finished saying it. And he was slowing down for the benefit of the class.
That impressed me enough to give vi another try, and 10 years later, it is as natural as touch typing, yet I still occasionally learn better ways to do something.
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Lulu calls the size you are referring to "pocket size."
It doesn't stop there. Linux people also like to use OpenDocument format, which is so non-interoperable that Microsoft Word doesn't even support it!
The only time that I really paid attention to every commercial, every time was just after I had gone two years without watching any TV.
I have two neighbors within range that share their broadband connection for free, although I doubt they are aware of it.
Don't worry though. The software we used in school is better anyway. I use logo for all my graphic design work. Did you know that the newfangled photoshop software doesn't even have a turtle? As for that email stuff, I can't think of any message anyone could possibly want to send that can't fit on a tombstone in Oregon Trail. I heard that MS exchange doesn't even have oxen!
- Mr. Vinton Cerf
- Mr. Walter McCormick
- Mr. Jeffrey Citron
- Mr. Kyle McSlarrow
- Mr. Earl Comstock
- Mr. Kyle Dixon
- Mr. Lawrence Lessig
- Mr. J. Gregory Sidak
- Mr. Gary Bachula
You can disagree with the end decision all you like, but it's pretty hard to look at the above list and claim that Senators don't have all the information they need about every angle of the issue. Believe it or not, smart people can get expert advice and still come to a different conclusion than you.Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
President and CEO, United States Telecom Association
Chairman and CEO, Vonage
President and CEO, National Cable & Telecommunications Association
President and CEO, CompTel
Senior Fellow and Director of the federal Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
Professor of Law, Standford Law School
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Vice President for External Affairs, Internet2
You can cringe at an accent and still love the country. I'm American, and after living in Australia for a few months (without a TV), I started to cringe at American accents. Once you get used to a softer accent, all Americans start sounding like Fran Drescher or Janice from Friends. The effect is worse because of the gradual acclimatization where you don't realize that you have become unaccustomed to the accent you have heard your entire life. The weird thing is that it happens even when your own accent is still readily identifiable as American, even though it has softened a bit.
Am I the only one who wondered why the Washington Post has a massive DNA database?
The toll can default to the price of a first class stamp, but individual users could raise or lower it depending on their level of tolerance for unsolicited email versus fear of locking out legitimate new correspondents. For an extreme example, a $100 toll would keep out virtually all spammers, but might also prevent a long lost roommate from contacting me.
A legitimate bulk mailer like yourself would simply have to warn people to put you on their white list in order to subscribe to the mailing list.
One could also get tricky and add features like having a limit of free messages from one sender per day or some sort of keyword filter. For example, I may want to receive order confirmations from a company for free, but charge for advertisements.
I think some people in Iraq, Cairo, London, and Madrid might disagree with you on that point.
The conspiracy theorist in me sometimes wonders if some terrorist attacks against americans are covered up as accidents. After all, terrorists are not completely successful if they fail to create terror. For example, a coal mine accident is devastating, but on the other hand is a known risk when you take the job. However, fear of a series of targeted terrorist attacks against coal mines might seriously disrupt energy supplies.
Not to mention that the vast majority of suicide bombers never commit a second offense.
You obviously don't understand the full ramifications of the ruling, either. You now have the right to post truthful comments, but no protection against downmodding.
Great. If you start a new line after every sentence.
Well, if you have seen the code for both, then you are either a Microsoft developer or otherwise heavily invested in Microsoft products. Therefore, I question your impartiality. If you haven't seen the code for both, then you have no basis to make such a claim.
My previous linux laptop ran Mandrake until the hard drive crashed due to the sudden deceleration after a 6 foot drop. I ran it just fine with a Knoppix CD for over two years, until it stopped working piece by piece. The built in keyboard, touchpad, and battery all died one by one until I finally had to stop using it when the CD-ROM drive gave out. Call me stingy, but being able to run Linux on that laptop when I was a poor college student really saved me some money.
Basically, running Linux on a laptop is no different than on a desktop. Just be a little bit careful about checking hardware compatibility and you should have no problem. Enough people run the big names like Dells that finding help should be relatively easy.
Of course that is wrong. Kidnapping is illegal. But you could be liable instead of the hospital if you leave against their advice and something happens to your child soon after.
I believe there was a box to check on the birth certificate form if we wanted to apply for a social security number at the same time. In our case we needed a social security number anyway. My daughter qualifies for supplemental social security of about $15 per month because of her disability (cerebral palsy). Just enough to cover gas money to her extra doctor visits.
The irony is that I pay $360 a month toward social security and it is likely to be bankrupt shortly after I retire in 35 years.
I'm afraid you're going to have to actually back that one up with a reference. Guns were illegally confiscated by the Democrat controlled government in New Orleans. In response, our (Arizona's) Republican legislature specifically prohibited confiscation of firearms during declared emergencies. Since I only own a gun for those situations when law enforcement resources are stretched thin, I was very happy about that. Until our democrat governor vetoed the bill.
I know I did. And that's just in the 2004 general election.
If by "Linux World" you mean "people who initiate threads about Linux on slashdot stories about Microsoft," then I agree wholeheartedly. Of course, they are often baited with phrases like, "no viable alternative."
Look on sites and mailing lists for Linux distros and developers, and you'll scarcely see a mention of Microsoft except in passing.
The same can be said for the Windows advocates around here. The highest praise I have seen in a while about Windows is "everyone uses it" and "I haven't had a problem in a long time and you wouldn't either if you patched religiously, never opened suspicious emails or installed suspicious software, and ran a firewall and 2 different malware scanners." That is, until your "benevolant [sic] monopoly" comment, which I'm not sure even Bill Gates would believe.
Apparently not. I blame my (hopefully temporary) lack of a sense of humor on having a two year old daughter with the flu and having the flu myself during the stress of finals week.
It was meant to be a comment that mixing up "its" and "it's" is as blatant of a mistake to an avid reader as mixing up "hers" and "she's," which is the same mistake grammatically. "His" and "he's" may have been a better choice, since at least those sound the same when pronounced by someone with a thick foreign accent. Not that I'm criticizing people with thick foreign accents; I've been that guy. After two years in Australia, people still couldn't tell if I was talking about a ball or a bowl.
A missing or extra apostrophe in a book, magazine, or newspaper throws me off enough that I have to go back and reread the sentence. What's funny is that it doesn't even phase me on slashdot anymore.
Don't forget to make it only work for the kernel, konqueror, kontact, and koffice. And only release security patches once a month.
I constantly get frustrated in other editors by the lack of efficient commands to do something as simple as delete everything from here to the end of the sentence ("dt." in vim), for example. That's why I use vim to type all my forum posts, like this one, then paste it into my web browser.
My university had a short required vi class, but I didn't use it much until I was reintroduced to it a few years later in a corporate training class on perl. The teacher's editor seemed to read his mind. The class was hard to follow sometimes because he would frequently say something like, "Move those 3 lines to the end of the other function," and it would be done before he was finished saying it. And he was slowing down for the benefit of the class.
That impressed me enough to give vi another try, and 10 years later, it is as natural as touch typing, yet I still occasionally learn better ways to do something.