"Considering how highly educated our people are, many can't write clearly in their day-to-day work."
The article doesn't once mention the possibility that the authors of some of these emails may not have learned English as their primary language. Here's a new flash for them: English is not the most widely spoken language in the world (Chinese is).
As we have more and more global influence in America's corporate workplace, we're going to see more and more people who have learned English as a 2nd language, which is probably the real reason why "corporate America can't build a sentence".
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1.
An average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient (arousing lustful feelings) interest;
2.
The material must depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable law; and
3.
The material, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Indecency is defined as language or material that, in context, describes or depicts, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community broadcast standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities. Indecent programming contains patently offensive sexual or excretory references that do not rise to the level of obscenity. As such, the courts have held that indecent material is protected by the First Amendment and cannot be banned entirely. It may, however, be restricted in order to avoid its broadcast during times of the day when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience. As such, broadcasts -- both on television and radio -- that fit within the indecency definition and that are aired between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. are subject to indecency enforcement action.
Most people lose it after a few months, usually sooner, or totally forget about it. Two years is a long time.
I've discovered a good trick, which is to tape the receipt to the equipment itself - you'll never lose it! Unfortunately it makes TV a little harder to watch.
It looks like Yoper has been created primarily for maximum performance on x86 machines. Although Gentoo is indeed fast as well, the main differentiating factor with Gentoo is that you build most of your system from source, which has other benefits (disadvantages) than simply execution speed.
I would not jump to the conclusion that it's competition for Gentoo just because it's also fast.
Please, there's only so much you can do with "digital enhancement". If you don't have the bits of resolution in the first place, I don't care what technology you are using, you're not going to create something from nothing.
Well apparently Dubai is spending $2.6 billion thinking that people will still play chess. If you read the article, they expect over 60 million visitors per year.
I don't understand why people complain so loudly about having a choice. Competition is good, folks! Get several protocols out there in the market, and let the best one win (hopefully).
Sure, the market might fragment initially, but at least the better standard stands some kind of chance to gain dominance. Imagine if everyone settled on FireWire for the high-speed peripheral bus, and USB never got a chance? We wouldn't have the benifits of USB, namely bus-powered devices, lower cost, support for many devices on the same bus; and then much later, high-speed USB which can finally compete with FireWire regarding bandwidth.
Actually, usernames are restricted to a minimum of 6 characters, so john@gmail.com is not possible.
The real reason people will flock to gmail is because the interface is super fast and clean. I've been using it for a week, and I'm hooked. The 1G of space is just icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.
From the article: Forty-two percent said Iraq was better off because of the war, while 39 percent said it was worse off. Given the sampling error, those figures indicated a dead heat
Well, for throwing more than $80 BILLION dollars at this "problem", I would hope to see better results than that. Imagine if you threw $80 BILLION dollars at a different problem, such as homelessness, drug addiction, or poverty in the US, and I guarantee you would see more than 50% of those "helped" saying they were better off.
Regardless, I bet those poll results (taken in March-early April) are going to look very different now.
You may be trolling, but that is an interesting question - there are definitely arguments for releasing it as BSD licensed. I don't agree at all with the moderators for modding the comment as Flamebait.
Here's one reason to make it GPL - it makes financial sense. Since they have invested money and time into this project, they should strive to maximize their potential return.
By making it GPL, their initial investment can be improved upon by anyone, and the Kst project can reap the benifits.
From the product
details The HP 33s is HP's most advanced, programmable scientific calculator, packing 31 kilobytes of user memory along with the powerful "HP Solve" application into a shirt-pocket-sized unit weighing only 119 grams (4.2 ounces).
Wow, how do they manage to "pack" an entire 31K into something that can fit into your shirt pocket!?! Amazing!
Seriously, I'm sure the calculator is fine, but they really need to find some better marketing people.
When you receive an HD program - whether that's via an off-air ATSC reciever, a cable set-top box, or via satellite - that HD program is actually transmitted as an MPEG compressed transport stream. It's then decoded by your receiver/stb and sent to your TV.
The quality difference you see on your TiVo is due to the MPEG encoding done by the TiVo. Because it's got to to real-time encoding and encode at a relatively low bit-rate to save disk space, the encoding isn't going to be that wonderful, and you see the poor results when it's decoded and sent to your TV.
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The article doesn't once mention the possibility that the authors of some of these emails may not have learned English as their primary language. Here's a new flash for them: English is not the most widely spoken language in the world (Chinese is).
As we have more and more global influence in America's corporate workplace, we're going to see more and more people who have learned English as a 2nd language, which is probably the real reason why "corporate America can't build a sentence".
They have:
Information about Broadcast Obscenity/Indecency Laws:
The Courts have said that obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment and cannot be broadcast at any time. To be considered obscene, material must meet a 3-prong test:
1. An average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient (arousing lustful feelings) interest;
2. The material must depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable law; and
3. The material, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Indecency is defined as language or material that, in context, describes or depicts, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community broadcast standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities. Indecent programming contains patently offensive sexual or excretory references that do not rise to the level of obscenity. As such, the courts have held that indecent material is protected by the First Amendment and cannot be banned entirely. It may, however, be restricted in order to avoid its broadcast during times of the day when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience. As such, broadcasts -- both on television and radio -- that fit within the indecency definition and that are aired between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. are subject to indecency enforcement action.
I've discovered a good trick, which is to tape the receipt to the equipment itself - you'll never lose it! Unfortunately it makes TV a little harder to watch.
it always gets recycled.
These things work great, are real cheap, don't leave an orange spray all over the place, and are safe for kids.
I would not jump to the conclusion that it's competition for Gentoo just because it's also fast.
Please, there's only so much you can do with "digital enhancement". If you don't have the bits of resolution in the first place, I don't care what technology you are using, you're not going to create something from nothing.
does it run Linux?
Well apparently Dubai is spending $2.6 billion thinking that people will still play chess. If you read the article, they expect over 60 million visitors per year.
If anything, the Slashdot crowd will drive up their sales, thinking they're getting a better deal with a hacked Digital Rebel over, say, a Nikon 70D.
Come on now, your computer must have some use, even though it's slow and only runs Linux! ;-)
ring tone downloads at 54Mbps!
Sure, the market might fragment initially, but at least the better standard stands some kind of chance to gain dominance. Imagine if everyone settled on FireWire for the high-speed peripheral bus, and USB never got a chance? We wouldn't have the benifits of USB, namely bus-powered devices, lower cost, support for many devices on the same bus; and then much later, high-speed USB which can finally compete with FireWire regarding bandwidth.
The real reason people will flock to gmail is because the interface is super fast and clean. I've been using it for a week, and I'm hooked. The 1G of space is just icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.
Forty-two percent said Iraq was better off because of the war, while 39 percent said it was worse off. Given the sampling error, those figures indicated a dead heat
Well, for throwing more than $80 BILLION dollars at this "problem", I would hope to see better results than that. Imagine if you threw $80 BILLION dollars at a different problem, such as homelessness, drug addiction, or poverty in the US, and I guarantee you would see more than 50% of those "helped" saying they were better off.
Regardless, I bet those poll results (taken in March-early April) are going to look very different now.
That's interesting, if that's the case, software created directly by the US Gov't can not be GPL...
Yes, kinda like the Iraq invasion...
Here's one reason to make it GPL - it makes financial sense. Since they have invested money and time into this project, they should strive to maximize their potential return.
By making it GPL, their initial investment can be improved upon by anyone, and the Kst project can reap the benifits.
It's easy to generate png/pdf/ps plots and they look really nice.
The Patent Busting Project
The EFF Patent Busting Project: http://eff.org/Patent/20040419_eff_pr_patent.php
The HP 33s is HP's most advanced, programmable scientific calculator, packing 31 kilobytes of user memory along with the powerful "HP Solve" application into a shirt-pocket-sized unit weighing only 119 grams (4.2 ounces).
Wow, how do they manage to "pack" an entire 31K into something that can fit into your shirt pocket!?! Amazing!
Seriously, I'm sure the calculator is fine, but they really need to find some better marketing people.
Is he talking about a hummer?
That, and there are a lot of compliants about quality issues when scaling SD -> HD. No, I don't think the poster RTFA...
The quality difference you see on your TiVo is due to the MPEG encoding done by the TiVo. Because it's got to to real-time encoding and encode at a relatively low bit-rate to save disk space, the encoding isn't going to be that wonderful, and you see the poor results when it's decoded and sent to your TV.