If 25ml of ink can cover some 20 pages with solid black, and not turn them to sludge in the process, the ink has to be VERY black. Makes for clear, sharp pattern.
The ink will be adversely affected by air... especially if the cartridge was never removed from the box, with airtight sticker on the printer head preventing air access.
Get a laser. Used laser printers cost peanuts and still work reasonably well. Fast and awesome cost per page too. Want driver compatibility? Get Postscript.
Lexmark: very shitty printers, expensive ink. Canon: ink still rather on the steep side, very expensive (though quality) printers. Kodak: expensive like hell....?
Look. The ink is totally particle-free. No stray unfiltered contaminations bigger than 0.000001mm The quality is assured through a 25,000,000 chineese employees, each monitoring a total 0.01 mm^3 of ink per hour under a microscope, and removing any contaminants with laser tweezers. That means only about 10 cartridges can be produced every hour, and despite minimizing the production costs, the price of the average 2,500,000 of chineese labour man-hours per cartridge really adds up! The resulting $35 price tag is really the bare minimum to prevent starvation of the employees.
He's a customer - a licensee of GPL'd software. As such, he is entitled to sources, build environment and toolset, and he can sue to have them delivered. Just like a customer can sue a TV manufacturer that his TV was shipped without a remote control despite being advertized to come with one.
The situation is different concerning Microsoft - after all they lose money, and get them back through the lawsuit. Linux, OTOH, is gaining popularity. The lawsuit is likely only to make the manufacturer to give up using Linux permanently - a loss for all. A peaceful solution is needed if you want the manufacturer to comply with GPL instead.
This only adds bad press to Linux. OTOH an offer to cooperate with freeing up the firmware? Sign an NDA on a tool-set for the company, then release a free version. Simply reverse-engineer it with manufacturer's cooperation, access to docs and tools, then "hack" it in a blessed way that doesn't violate the company's licenses and complies with GPL. I'm sure they would be glad if someone helped them comply with GPL instead of forcing them to do it themselves.
Unless the driver can override it at will and only consent to it by switching the feature on or off at will. Most would leave it on, because it saves fuel=money...
There's one significant problem with that: you can consistently sync lights on one direction total with more than two crossings. The opposite direction may be partially synchronized - on pairs of crossings but not between them, and the sideways traffic - within two crossings top. That is with the typical # street layout. Now with Y-crossings it breaks further. And of course it breaks accomodation: people on side streets -will- have to wait for green because the main road got a "green wave" window of opportunity.
The science of minimizing wait time and maximizing flow at n intersections in irregular layout is an NP-hard problem... and it also depends on drivers behaving in a predictable way: no waiting while on green, no left turn from right lane, no running red lights, keeping within reasonable distance from the car ahead of you...
It would be significantly shorter than 500 years if they knew -where- Copernicus was buried... Location of his grave was one of bigger historical secrets in Poland. (and the fact that the suspected location was a chamber filled with thousands of bones from many, many corpses, mixed in disarray, didn't make it any easier. It's been a luck that his corpse was found in a casket, and not in 300 pieces mixed with all the rest...
Still, Apple could say "This is bad to our PR. We will give you $x more from which 70% is to go to the ground employees. If it does not, no deal."
This isn't like you arguing with a lady at a cash register in Wal-Mart that the can of oysters scould cost $13.56 and not $14.99 . This is big business and -everything- is a subject for negotiation.
seems logical if slightly redundant. So we need some objects instead of plaintext names...
dst_key_name = dst_uri.object_name + os.sep + src_uri.object_name...wtf... oh, we are trying to create a local filename... that's some convoluted way to do it.
err... so our local disk file needs to be placed at... "pets/dogs/poodle.jpg". Now that's some way to get there!
dst_key = new_dst_uri.new_key()
oh, that was just the NAME of the new key... so we need the actual "key"... again, what for?
src_key = src_uri.get_key()
again, if we have the URI object, why do we need some "key" object? Isn't the dedicated URI object good enough?
tmp = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
src_key.get_file(tmp)
tmp.seek(0)...can't we read directly from a file instead of creating temporary one? So the "uri" of a file is not good enough, the "key" of a file is not good enough, we need a "tempfile" object extra?
dst_key.set_contents_from_file(tmp)
I recommend a reading about a hammer factory factory factory. This one doesn't overdo factories, just abstraction layers. I can spot four: filename (string), URI, key, file handle within the key. WHO needs that???
By encouraging breaking the conspiracy you make it more short-lived. A price-fixing conspiracy is based on mutual trust shared between all the partners. If you violate the trust, the conspiracy can't exist. If you provide a good incentive to destroy the trust, you fight it efficiently. Actually providing the "traitor" with long-term market benefits (say, a tax relief) that give them an upper hand above competition would be even better, breaking up the conspiracies even earlier.
Also, by setting the fine above the profits, you fight it efficiently.
TV has been invented. Now that is a very novel invention. Patent A. They worked out the apparatus and technique to broadcast a celluloid tape film over TV without use of a cinema screen and in perfect sync of frames. Patent B. But then someone patents broadcasting movies - "A method of showing cinema movies to the TV audience, patent C" that consists of "load up a tape that contains a movie into apparatus from patent B, proceed like in patent B". Most of data stored on tapes are movies. This is an obvious and simple application of patent B. It wasn't obvious how to broadcast movies at reasonable quality before Patent B was invented. But once it was - it became obvious. Using it to broadcast any kinds of media that are stored on tape is not patent-worthy.
Still, "random" as in "inherently unpredictable, ever" is not necessary for these algorithms to function correctly. "unpredictable for a person willing to crack it" is perfectly sufficient.
Take an atom of uranium. You know the half-life of the element. You know the exact probability the atom will break up in the next second. You have NO way of determining when it breaks up. It can be in a second or in a thousand years.
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If 25ml of ink can cover some 20 pages with solid black, and not turn them to sludge in the process, the ink has to be VERY black. Makes for clear, sharp pattern.
The ink will be adversely affected by air... especially if the cartridge was never removed from the box, with airtight sticker on the printer head preventing air access.
Get a laser.
Used laser printers cost peanuts and still work reasonably well. Fast and awesome cost per page too.
Want driver compatibility? Get Postscript.
Could you recommend any?
Lexmark: very shitty printers, expensive ink. ...?
Canon: ink still rather on the steep side, very expensive (though quality) printers.
Kodak: expensive like hell.
Q: What does it mean if the person at cash register in Wal-mart is smiling to you?
A: She got a fresh diaper.
Look. The ink is totally particle-free. No stray unfiltered contaminations bigger than 0.000001mm
The quality is assured through a 25,000,000 chineese employees, each monitoring a total 0.01 mm^3 of ink per hour under a microscope, and removing any contaminants with laser tweezers. That means only about 10 cartridges can be produced every hour, and despite minimizing the production costs, the price of the average 2,500,000 of chineese labour man-hours per cartridge really adds up! The resulting $35 price tag is really the bare minimum to prevent starvation of the employees.
He's a customer - a licensee of GPL'd software. As such, he is entitled to sources, build environment and toolset, and he can sue to have them delivered. Just like a customer can sue a TV manufacturer that his TV was shipped without a remote control despite being advertized to come with one.
The situation is different concerning Microsoft - after all they lose money, and get them back through the lawsuit. Linux, OTOH, is gaining popularity. The lawsuit is likely only to make the manufacturer to give up using Linux permanently - a loss for all. A peaceful solution is needed if you want the manufacturer to comply with GPL instead.
This only adds bad press to Linux. OTOH an offer to cooperate with freeing up the firmware?
Sign an NDA on a tool-set for the company, then release a free version. Simply reverse-engineer it with manufacturer's cooperation, access to docs and tools, then "hack" it in a blessed way that doesn't violate the company's licenses and complies with GPL. I'm sure they would be glad if someone helped them comply with GPL instead of forcing them to do it themselves.
All your concerns are solved by a nice small "override" button.
Unless the driver can override it at will and only consent to it by switching the feature on or off at will. Most would leave it on, because it saves fuel=money...
There's one significant problem with that: you can consistently sync lights on one direction total with more than two crossings. The opposite direction may be partially synchronized - on pairs of crossings but not between them, and the sideways traffic - within two crossings top. That is with the typical # street layout. Now with Y-crossings it breaks further. And of course it breaks accomodation: people on side streets -will- have to wait for green because the main road got a "green wave" window of opportunity.
The science of minimizing wait time and maximizing flow at n intersections in irregular layout is an NP-hard problem... and it also depends on drivers behaving in a predictable way: no waiting while on green, no left turn from right lane, no running red lights, keeping within reasonable distance from the car ahead of you...
I'm afraid there's a plenty of prior art on that.
It would be significantly shorter than 500 years if they knew -where- Copernicus was buried...
Location of his grave was one of bigger historical secrets in Poland. (and the fact that the suspected location was a chamber filled with thousands of bones from many, many corpses, mixed in disarray, didn't make it any easier. It's been a luck that his corpse was found in a casket, and not in 300 pieces mixed with all the rest...
Still, Apple could say "This is bad to our PR. We will give you $x more from which 70% is to go to the ground employees. If it does not, no deal."
This isn't like you arguing with a lady at a cash register in Wal-Mart that the can of oysters scould cost $13.56 and not $14.99 . This is big business and -everything- is a subject for negotiation.
These suicides occured -in- the factory.
The number doesn't take into account suicides that happen at home or in other locations.
What's the China's average suicide rate -at the workplace-?
So the capitalist First World will pressure Communist China into behaving in more communist way...?
It's not about being too difficult. It's about being way too overcomplicated.
Let's look at the code.
config = boto.config
okay here. We need config.
bucket_name = "dogs"
remote dir. So they made a half-assed directories system. Can't be nested, data can't be outside them. Piss-poor but let's say "okay" here.
name = "poodle.jpg"
dir_name = "pets"
so far so good.
src_uri = boto.storage_uri(bucket_name + "/" + name, "gs")
dst_uri = boto.storage_uri(dir_name, "file")
seems logical if slightly redundant. So we need some objects instead of plaintext names...
dst_key_name = dst_uri.object_name + os.sep + src_uri.object_name ...wtf... oh, we are trying to create a local filename... that's some convoluted way to do it.
new_dst_uri = dst_uri.clone_replace_name(dst_key_name)
err... so our local disk file needs to be placed at... "pets/dogs/poodle.jpg". Now that's some way to get there!
dst_key = new_dst_uri.new_key()
oh, that was just the NAME of the new key... so we need the actual "key"... again, what for?
src_key = src_uri.get_key()
again, if we have the URI object, why do we need some "key" object? Isn't the dedicated URI object good enough?
tmp = tempfile.TemporaryFile() ...can't we read directly from a file instead of creating temporary one? So the "uri" of a file is not good enough, the "key" of a file is not good enough, we need a "tempfile" object extra?
src_key.get_file(tmp)
tmp.seek(0)
dst_key.set_contents_from_file(tmp)
I recommend a reading about a hammer factory factory factory. This one doesn't overdo factories, just abstraction layers. I can spot four: filename (string), URI, key, file handle within the key. WHO needs that???
Just wait till they port Clippy to one of them...
By encouraging breaking the conspiracy you make it more short-lived. A price-fixing conspiracy is based on mutual trust shared between all the partners. If you violate the trust, the conspiracy can't exist. If you provide a good incentive to destroy the trust, you fight it efficiently.
Actually providing the "traitor" with long-term market benefits (say, a tax relief) that give them an upper hand above competition would be even better, breaking up the conspiracies even earlier.
Also, by setting the fine above the profits, you fight it efficiently.
No, this is not it.
TV has been invented. Now that is a very novel invention. Patent A. They worked out the apparatus and technique to broadcast a celluloid tape film over TV without use of a cinema screen and in perfect sync of frames. Patent B. But then someone patents broadcasting movies - "A method of showing cinema movies to the TV audience, patent C" that consists of "load up a tape that contains a movie into apparatus from patent B, proceed like in patent B". Most of data stored on tapes are movies. This is an obvious and simple application of patent B. It wasn't obvious how to broadcast movies at reasonable quality before Patent B was invented. But once it was - it became obvious. Using it to broadcast any kinds of media that are stored on tape is not patent-worthy.
Still, "random" as in "inherently unpredictable, ever" is not necessary for these algorithms to function correctly. "unpredictable for a person willing to crack it" is perfectly sufficient.
Oh, okay, send him to jail. For a couple of months, in UK, for hacking. Not for fucking 16 years in US for terrorism!
You said these situations are very similar. I underlined one difference that makes them very dissimilar...
quanta themselves are random.
Take an atom of uranium. You know the half-life of the element. You know the exact probability the atom will break up in the next second. You have NO way of determining when it breaks up. It can be in a second or in a thousand years.
Quantize this.
Look. From a Pole's viewpoint it really sounds like explanation of a blonde who totalled a car against a wall and claims "But I was honking!"