Now I don't teach at a university and catch plagiarists, but my mom does. And she talks about people being excluded from all public Universities in the country (Norway) for an entire year when being caught cheating. Latest story she told me was about some idiot who had copied 85% of two assignments straight off the Internet, got a bad grade (without anyone realizing it was plagiarism), and complained about it. Stupid fuckhead got my mom on the complaint commision, haha.
1) What if someone makes a robot that wants to kill 100 people and then wants to be killed while doing so?
You, my man, touched upon exactly why I don't like the "do unto others..." rule. "Put yourself in the other's shoes" is a much better rule, as it allows for people to actually have different wishes without them conflicting. Screw Confucious. Go Gautama.
Are you sure about the NiMH batteries? I was under the impression that only the NiCads needed this procedure, and it was not necessary for NiMH batteries... Thanks.
Uh. So they write it in their own language? Like, you know, when English speakers refer to "air mail" instead of "par avion"? "Par avion" was used first, so why did English speakers make their own term? How stupid!
How about starting a Shoutcast station in Winamp and playing from localhost in iTunes? Can forward anything there that you can play in Winamp, and I'm sure there are plugins that let you capture the system audio to do that... Not sure Shoutcast supports any lossless coding, though.
i have a few photos of friends so their faces come up when it rings but its so low quality its just a gimik. i will never want to look at photos on my phone,
Yeah? I live in Japan and got a cheap (free with subscription) phone with a high-color 240x320 screen and 640x320 camera. I take pictures in 240z320 resolution and show them to people for conversation. It's nice. It's like carrying around small pictures in your wallet, except you don't need the wallet. Sure, the quality isn't that good, but it's still nice.
Don't underestimate film! Old film photos have at least as much detail as modern digital cameras. Many professionals still refuse to use digital because film offers much more detail. Particularly if the authors of this software intend to extract these images from professional photographers' pictures, they WILL be high quality.
I don't think it's available outside Japan. The model name is A1402S. There's an English manual available. Don't think that one specifies the display size, though. The provider's page does, but it's in Japanese which I can't paste in Slashdot. Scroll down the page, though, and you will see that it says "240x320" next to (blurry) screenshots of the display.
It's true that it's smaller than most flip phones. It really is very small; shorter and thinner (when folded) than my old Nokia 3310. 47 (W) × 89 (H) × 22 (D) mm.
Sounds like Tu-Ka phones. Those suck, me, I've got au (another cell phone service provider) with a really small Sony-Ericsson with infra-red (useful for exchanging contact information), 240x320 display, scroll wheel, and I can play Tetris on it. The camera is only 640x480, but who cares? This phone was free with the cheapass subscription; I pay 2400 ($22 US) yen a month (student rebate, one year contract) including tax, and I never pass the limits after which you have to pay extra. If I used the internet functions more, or sent picture mails, it'd get expensive, but I only use that for an online dictionary. Cheap, and functionality fucks any phone you can get anywhere else in the world considering the price, in the ass.
I did my own Google search ("last mohicans sold copies") and came up with this site: http://www.geocities.com/nelstomlinson/Reading.and.Phonics.html
To give some idea of the effectiveness of the phonetic method of reading, in the American Colonies at the time of the revolution, literacy was ubiquitous. Thomas Paine's pamphlet ``Common Sense'' sold 600,000 copies to a population of 3,000,000: one in five people bought a copy. This was at a time when 95% of the population were poor farmers. A few years later, in 1830, James Fenimore Cooper's novel ``The Last of the Mohicans'' sold 5,000,000 copies to a population of fewer than 20,000,000, most of them still farmers. It has been estimated that by the end of the 19th century, the literacy rate was over 98% in the Northern U.S. Today, the literacy rate is, depending on your definition of ``literate'', anywhere from 50% to 85%.
That's a Geocities site, so not sure it's reliable... Here's another site: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/3b.htm
Last of the Mohicans, published in 1826, sold so well that a contemporary equivalent would have to move 10 million copies to match it.
10 million out of around 200 million? That's more like 1 million of 20 million, isn't it? But here's another site with the 5 out of 20 million statistic: http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2003/07/04
There was a wide variety of private schools, some free, some inexpensive, some expensive. Many immigrant-organized schools taught both English and their native tongue. America was admirably well-educated, and recognized as such around the world. For example, the novel "Last of the Mohicans", in 1818, sold 5 million copies in a population of less than 20 million people.
But... That one says 1818, and the other sources say 1830 and 1826. Not to mention it's a blog. Wikipedia says 1826. Here's a less informative source: http://i2i.org/article.aspx?ID=878
he Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper sold in the millions.
This is just confusing me. This page says that the US population was under 13 million in 1830. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h986.html
Well, stating the obvious but... If the store makes claims like that, then someone might assume they do have lowest prices and not do their own research.
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Now I don't teach at a university and catch plagiarists, but my mom does. And she talks about people being excluded from all public Universities in the country (Norway) for an entire year when being caught cheating. Latest story she told me was about some idiot who had copied 85% of two assignments straight off the Internet, got a bad grade (without anyone realizing it was plagiarism), and complained about it. Stupid fuckhead got my mom on the complaint commision, haha.
But it's ON THE INT... wait. IN A ROBOT!
Not prior art... The patent applies specifically for video game consoles
Are you sure about the NiMH batteries? I was under the impression that only the NiCads needed this procedure, and it was not necessary for NiMH batteries... Thanks.
This is like when you water cool your computer case, except it's for buildings. Get it?
Eh? It was going to be drunk anyway.
Merkin... On my Norwegian keyboard, "/" is typed by holding shift and pressing "7".
Uh. So they write it in their own language? Like, you know, when English speakers refer to "air mail" instead of "par avion"? "Par avion" was used first, so why did English speakers make their own term? How stupid!
"IANAET"? I Am Not An Extra Terrestrial?
How about starting a Shoutcast station in Winamp and playing from localhost in iTunes? Can forward anything there that you can play in Winamp, and I'm sure there are plugins that let you capture the system audio to do that... Not sure Shoutcast supports any lossless coding, though.
Didn't early Nintendo game credit a certain Mr. "Miyahon"? ;)
Maybe he doesn't want to buy twice, and he wants to support Mac porters. Dunno.
Now we just need Microsoft to the rescue with Longhorn. :)
Just a search engine? Orkut? Google Groups? Catalog? Google News?
Don't underestimate film! Old film photos have at least as much detail as modern digital cameras. Many professionals still refuse to use digital because film offers much more detail. Particularly if the authors of this software intend to extract these images from professional photographers' pictures, they WILL be high quality.
It's true that it's smaller than most flip phones. It really is very small; shorter and thinner (when folded) than my old Nokia 3310. 47 (W) × 89 (H) × 22 (D) mm.
Well... I use it for JapaneseEnglish word lookups, of course... :)
Didn't he already do that? "after fees to the labels and hardware/software/people costs"
The Apple/Red Hat/Sun/SGI tracking is mostly useless, since this website only tracks MSIE users on Windows who've installed their spyware.
Sounds like Tu-Ka phones. Those suck, me, I've got au (another cell phone service provider) with a really small Sony-Ericsson with infra-red (useful for exchanging contact information), 240x320 display, scroll wheel, and I can play Tetris on it. The camera is only 640x480, but who cares? This phone was free with the cheapass subscription; I pay 2400 ($22 US) yen a month (student rebate, one year contract) including tax, and I never pass the limits after which you have to pay extra. If I used the internet functions more, or sent picture mails, it'd get expensive, but I only use that for an online dictionary. Cheap, and functionality fucks any phone you can get anywhere else in the world considering the price, in the ass.
This is just confusing me. This page says that the US population was under 13 million in 1830. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h986.html
Well, stating the obvious but... If the store makes claims like that, then someone might assume they do have lowest prices and not do their own research.