WTF would a rickshaw do with CNG - Swallow it and then light his farts?
"His"? Perhaps "Rick Shaw" is a man but a rickshaw is a machine. (Specifically it's a three wheeled covered contraption whose engine is similar to a scooter's.)
If you lived in New York City, you wouldn't want to own a car. First, because parking is expensive, second, because you don't need one: they've imported this strange concept from Europe called "public transport" and it actually works rather well.
As I understand it, nobody plays the original Beethovan|Bach|whoever scores, because modern instruments don't sound the same as the ones he composed for.
As others have pointed out: not true. The sound of the instrument has nothing to do with the score.
What a score may do is point out appropriate fingering -- but unless it's a transcription to a totally different instrument (eg, piano to guitar), the notes are exactly as Beethoven wrote them. There's certainly a copyright on the score but it's rather hard to tell from a recording which score was used when the notes are the same, and I'd doubt that the publisher of the score is entitled to royalties from the recording anyway.
I can't find the exact quote offhand, but Dijkstra said something like a necessary precondition for being a good computer scientist is absolute command over your native language.
I also sincerely doubt he's overly concerned with the opinions of people who can't even name more than 3 of his songs in the first place.
Girl of the north country. Who killed Davey Moore? Fourth time around.
What's common to those? They all borrow heavily from earlier works. The first two are basically rewritings of standard folk songs (which Simon & Garfunkel sang as "Scarborough Fair" and "Sparrow" respectively). The third is a take-off on the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" -- he'd never get away with that today. A number of his other songs owe a lot to older blues and folk songs.
All this is fine and admirable; what's not admirable is then turning around and saying that copyrights need to be extended infinitely and infringements should be clamped down on. He really has sold out.
You keep saying this and people keep answering, but you don't note the answers: I guess that's what makes you an old fogey, not your age.
I'm 31, and only started using a cell phone at 29. SMS is incredibly useful because: (a) you don't disturb others in a public place, (b) you don't need to strain to hear the other person in a noisy place, (c) if your recipient is busy -- which, in some professions, is very often -- he/she can still see your message and respond later, (d) it costs almost nothing.
You see, the whole point of a cell phone is you can use it when you're not at home or in your office. But if you're not there, you're probably in a public place and some consideration for others may often be appropriate.
But no, you're the type who probably bellows your private life into your phone in the presence of a dozen strangers who'd really rather not listen. So you can't imagine why text messaging could appeal to anyone at all.
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Apparently everyone in the US can receive a broadband connection.
Two years ago, I happened to live in the heart of Manhattan. I got a phone connection with Verizon. Did they supply broadband? Nope. However, Time Warner supplied cable internet, and I went for that.
Some months later, Verizon called and said they now offer DSL. I said no thanks, I'm not interested. But they called again. And again. And again. Meanwhile, I've been told by many people in suburban America that they still can't get anything better than dialup. It's not cost-effective for the phone company to provide it. So, no, not everyone in the US can receive a broadband connection.
for instance, if you have a fault with a line, their engineers will only come out between 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.
Wow, exactly like Time Warner's engineers in New York. And not even at a fixed time. They'll show up at your home sometime between 9 am and 1 pm; they can't give you a more exact time.
By the way, broadband internet was the least of my issues in my first couple of months in the US. I have a mild amount of sympathy with this yank in Britain, but not much, really.
And yet an illiterate individual represents the same consumption of any state-run services (such as healthcare) as a literate person would.
Unfortunately not true. State-run services in the villages suck.
What this does mean, however, is that whoever is productive in India is very damned productive. It also means they're probably taxed out the wazoo as well to support the lower-producing rest of the country.
Taxes are not all that high (though they were at one time). When I was in the US I was covered by a tax treaty but otherwise I'd have paid much more tax as a percentage of my income.
Mainly, (1) costs are much lower in India, (2) ISRO (the space organisation) gets significant money providing launch services to others, etc, it's not just a black hole for government funds, (3) indirectly, the remote sensing and weather satellites have probably saved huge money in other areas, and benefited farmers and other rural people greatly, so the government -- and others -- the money is worth it. There are "bleeding-heart liberals" in India, but NONE of them think the satellite programme should be scrapped in favour of feeding/educating the poor, as far as I know.
The problem with GSView is that it doesn't have a browser plugin, at least not for Mozilla, AFAIK.
Why would you want a browser plugin? I click on pdf files, and xpdf opens them in a new window. I like that.
That said, if you want it opened in your browser, use konqueror (it can embed kpdf), or try plugger.
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The GP was a joke, but since you're serious, this is exactly what the "bootstrapping" build of gcc does: it builds a stage 1 build with the system compiler, then a stage 2 build with the stage 1 build, then -- if you want -- a stage 3 build with the stage 2 build, and verifies that the stage 2 and stage 3 builds are the same.
since these are all national libraries. The US equivalent, the Library of Congress, isn't part of Google's effort. Moreover, European copyrights expire sooner than American copyrights, at the moment. So a lot of valuable 20th-century material could become available.
Still, I'm wondering, wouldn't it have been easier to join Google rather than fight them? Or did they think of that, and did Google not want to play along?
It should be interesting for you to know that they are not ok with software patents, but ok with copyrights.
There's only one reason for that. Most of them are Bengali, and view Rabindranath Tagore as a sort of fragile god who must be protected; so they fought for decades to prevent his work from entering the public domain. Tagore became India's Mickey Mouse -- the excuse to extend copyright limits ad nauseam (happily, no longer, but a lot of damage has been done already).
If enough people within the WTO speak up, the WTO's own rules can be changed. Recent trade rounds have seen the emergence of a group of developing nations (India, Brazil, South Africa and others) aggressively pushing their concerns. The WTO has on the whole been very good for developing countries in trade disputes with the developed world, frequently ruling against the US and other powerful countries. For example, every WTO country is required to give "most favoured nation" status to every other WTO country; discriminatory tariffs are not allowed. A country outside the WTO has to negotiate separate bilateral trade agreements with every other country it wants to trade with and has no recourse against discriminatory trade barriers. The cited article suggests that even India's hidebound lefties now realise how bad that would be.
the government is sort of centre-left, but supported by far-left (ie, communist) parties who must be kept happy.
The government was required by the WTO to adopt a new patent regime in the pharmaceutical sector. There was plenty of opposition to this, mainly from the left, though leaving the WTO is simply not an option and everyone realises that.
So what the government does is have a temporary ordinance, not ratified by the parliament, that's somewhat more draconian that it needs to be. I think the software patents thing was one of those items that the government was always willing to chop. There were also lots of safeguards in the pharma sector itself (regarding making of generic drugs in the national interest), allowed by the WTO, that the government omitted from the ordinance. Even the New York Times had a strong editorial criticising the Indian Government for its unnecessarily restrictive ordinance.
When the time comes to pass it through parliament, voila, the government "accommodates" the left parties by introducing these safeguards and removing things like software patents. The left, in return, supports the bill. And everyone's happy.
For example, Annals of Physics (commercial, published by Academic Press) does charge but has a worse reputation than Physical Review (non profit) which charges a lot.
Sorry, I don't think Physical Review (excepting possibly Phys Rev Letters) has a good reputation. Phys Rev B alone, that's just condensed matter, prints 4000 pages a month and most of it is frankly garbage. One may as well just read the preprints on arxiv.org.
Actually, I think the reason the open access movement hasn't caught on in physics is the existence of arxiv.org: in some field, every paper of any importance is now deposited there by the authors so you can bypass the journals, who'll take months to publish it anyway.
A similar preprint culture didn't exist in the biological sciences, so the exorbitant pricing of journals, in this internet age, annoyed people sufficiently that they decided to do something about it.
You know, I choose to drive a vehicle I bought from a proprietary car manufacturer because it works better than anything I am able to build myself. I hope you don't think less of me.
I can't build a car by myself, and I can't write Linux by myself. In both cases someone else put it together. I would, however, hesitate to buy a car I could not fix myself (or pay the garage down the road to fix). "The windows take forever to open!" "Wait for service pack 2." No thanks.
Con is French slang for a fool or idiot. I haven't heard of this other meaning (but I'm not French so what do I know).
Denis MacShane, Britain's Europe minister, got into trouble for making a rude joke about "les neo-cons". Still, I don't think the joke was as rude as you suggest...
By programming my computer to independently examine and verify the proof.
If you can write a verifiable program that checks the correctness of the proof (ie, it can be verified independently that your program is correct), then the proof is verifiable.
Slashdot Mirror
The esc key.
(used a root shell to kill wine
Root shell? Regular user shell will work, unless you're running it as root (why would you do that?)
If you want to link, link to the genuine site, not a cybersquatter.
I think you mean, as "abstain" is to "abstinacy".
"His"? Perhaps "Rick Shaw" is a man but a rickshaw is a machine. (Specifically it's a three wheeled covered contraption whose engine is similar to a scooter's.)
NYC's the only truly civilised place in the US.
Try a BSD daemon.
As others have pointed out: not true. The sound of the instrument has nothing to do with the score.
What a score may do is point out appropriate fingering -- but unless it's a transcription to a totally different instrument (eg, piano to guitar), the notes are exactly as Beethoven wrote them. There's certainly a copyright on the score but it's rather hard to tell from a recording which score was used when the notes are the same, and I'd doubt that the publisher of the score is entitled to royalties from the recording anyway.
I can't find the exact quote offhand, but Dijkstra said something like a necessary precondition for being a good computer scientist is absolute command over your native language.
Girl of the north country. Who killed Davey Moore? Fourth time around.
What's common to those? They all borrow heavily from earlier works. The first two are basically rewritings of standard folk songs (which Simon & Garfunkel sang as "Scarborough Fair" and "Sparrow" respectively). The third is a take-off on the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" -- he'd never get away with that today. A number of his other songs owe a lot to older blues and folk songs.
All this is fine and admirable; what's not admirable is then turning around and saying that copyrights need to be extended infinitely and infringements should be clamped down on. He really has sold out.
Given that non-English language skills are the problem, Americans are still out of luck...
I'm 31, and only started using a cell phone at 29. SMS is incredibly useful because: (a) you don't disturb others in a public place, (b) you don't need to strain to hear the other person in a noisy place, (c) if your recipient is busy -- which, in some professions, is very often -- he/she can still see your message and respond later, (d) it costs almost nothing.
You see, the whole point of a cell phone is you can use it when you're not at home or in your office. But if you're not there, you're probably in a public place and some consideration for others may often be appropriate.
But no, you're the type who probably bellows your private life into your phone in the presence of a dozen strangers who'd really rather not listen. So you can't imagine why text messaging could appeal to anyone at all.
My Nokia can pick out numbers from text messages.
Two years ago, I happened to live in the heart of Manhattan. I got a phone connection with Verizon. Did they supply broadband? Nope. However, Time Warner supplied cable internet, and I went for that.
Some months later, Verizon called and said they now offer DSL. I said no thanks, I'm not interested. But they called again. And again. And again. Meanwhile, I've been told by many people in suburban America that they still can't get anything better than dialup. It's not cost-effective for the phone company to provide it. So, no, not everyone in the US can receive a broadband connection.
for instance, if you have a fault with a line, their engineers will only come out between 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.
Wow, exactly like Time Warner's engineers in New York. And not even at a fixed time. They'll show up at your home sometime between 9 am and 1 pm; they can't give you a more exact time.
By the way, broadband internet was the least of my issues in my first couple of months in the US. I have a mild amount of sympathy with this yank in Britain, but not much, really.
Unfortunately not true. State-run services in the villages suck.
What this does mean, however, is that whoever is productive in India is very damned productive. It also means they're probably taxed out the wazoo as well to support the lower-producing rest of the country.
Taxes are not all that high (though they were at one time). When I was in the US I was covered by a tax treaty but otherwise I'd have paid much more tax as a percentage of my income.
Mainly, (1) costs are much lower in India, (2) ISRO (the space organisation) gets significant money providing launch services to others, etc, it's not just a black hole for government funds, (3) indirectly, the remote sensing and weather satellites have probably saved huge money in other areas, and benefited farmers and other rural people greatly, so the government -- and others -- the money is worth it. There are "bleeding-heart liberals" in India, but NONE of them think the satellite programme should be scrapped in favour of feeding/educating the poor, as far as I know.
Why would you want a browser plugin? I click on pdf files, and xpdf opens them in a new window. I like that.
That said, if you want it opened in your browser, use konqueror (it can embed kpdf), or try plugger.
The GP was a joke, but since you're serious, this is exactly what the "bootstrapping" build of gcc does: it builds a stage 1 build with the system compiler, then a stage 2 build with the stage 1 build, then -- if you want -- a stage 3 build with the stage 2 build, and verifies that the stage 2 and stage 3 builds are the same.
Still, I'm wondering, wouldn't it have been easier to join Google rather than fight them? Or did they think of that, and did Google not want to play along?
It may sound even more offensive in French, as neo-con does.
There's only one reason for that. Most of them are Bengali, and view Rabindranath Tagore as a sort of fragile god who must be protected; so they fought for decades to prevent his work from entering the public domain. Tagore became India's Mickey Mouse -- the excuse to extend copyright limits ad nauseam (happily, no longer, but a lot of damage has been done already).
If enough people within the WTO speak up, the WTO's own rules can be changed. Recent trade rounds have seen the emergence of a group of developing nations (India, Brazil, South Africa and others) aggressively pushing their concerns. The WTO has on the whole been very good for developing countries in trade disputes with the developed world, frequently ruling against the US and other powerful countries. For example, every WTO country is required to give "most favoured nation" status to every other WTO country; discriminatory tariffs are not allowed. A country outside the WTO has to negotiate separate bilateral trade agreements with every other country it wants to trade with and has no recourse against discriminatory trade barriers. The cited article suggests that even India's hidebound lefties now realise how bad that would be.
The government was required by the WTO to adopt a new patent regime in the pharmaceutical sector. There was plenty of opposition to this, mainly from the left, though leaving the WTO is simply not an option and everyone realises that.
So what the government does is have a temporary ordinance, not ratified by the parliament, that's somewhat more draconian that it needs to be. I think the software patents thing was one of those items that the government was always willing to chop. There were also lots of safeguards in the pharma sector itself (regarding making of generic drugs in the national interest), allowed by the WTO, that the government omitted from the ordinance. Even the New York Times had a strong editorial criticising the Indian Government for its unnecessarily restrictive ordinance.
When the time comes to pass it through parliament, voila, the government "accommodates" the left parties by introducing these safeguards and removing things like software patents. The left, in return, supports the bill. And everyone's happy.
Sorry, I don't think Physical Review (excepting possibly Phys Rev Letters) has a good reputation. Phys Rev B alone, that's just condensed matter, prints 4000 pages a month and most of it is frankly garbage. One may as well just read the preprints on arxiv.org.
Actually, I think the reason the open access movement hasn't caught on in physics is the existence of arxiv.org: in some field, every paper of any importance is now deposited there by the authors so you can bypass the journals, who'll take months to publish it anyway.
A similar preprint culture didn't exist in the biological sciences, so the exorbitant pricing of journals, in this internet age, annoyed people sufficiently that they decided to do something about it.
I can't build a car by myself, and I can't write Linux by myself. In both cases someone else put it together. I would, however, hesitate to buy a car I could not fix myself (or pay the garage down the road to fix). "The windows take forever to open!" "Wait for service pack 2." No thanks.
Denis MacShane, Britain's Europe minister, got into trouble for making a rude joke about "les neo-cons". Still, I don't think the joke was as rude as you suggest...
If you can write a verifiable program that checks the correctness of the proof (ie, it can be verified independently that your program is correct), then the proof is verifiable.