they dont really need to block traffic, all they need to do is drop enough packets to make the quality below the standards that US customers are used to.
the foundation of any open source project is the community that develops/uses/tests it. windows just doesnt foster that community, it doesnt attract people who want to tinker and debug and read manpages and go on irc at 2am to talk to developers in broken english across the world. so when you develop for windows, you pretty much exclude all the people who could possibly become fanatical about your work.
its a shame that they wont risk it. it sickens me when a company that owes everything that it has to the inaliable rights garanteed by USA will bend over backwards for chinese yuen. If anything they should do everything they can to circumvent any attempts to stop free exchange of information. TOR should be built into google, cashes should use stegnography and encryption etc... until that day fuck you google, you are no better then IG Farben.
its to bad someone marked this as a troll. i would really like for someone to explain to me why is it the governments job to help you with your personal affairs.
This is a really bad example. I hope are using CustomObject as a numerical value, then you can just inherit from your favorite numerical type. Its when you are not using custom object as a numerical value then you get into trouble. is customobject1*customobject2 the same thing as sum(customobjects1) custtomobject2 times? can i integrate over customobjects? whats the square root of customobject1? wtf does it mean to multipy two objects which have no numerical value. unless you are writing a phd in abstract algebra you really dont need this.
i feel the same way. Anytime someone mentiones the spread of democracy and human rights everyone is all cheery about about, but as soon as someone mentions that hitler built great highways or stalin ran a tight ship all the fanboys cry foul.
p.s. the parallel there is that pushing closed source and proprietery standard software by a convicted monopoly is bad, while pushing open standards and open source software by a company who is yet to do any evil is good.
i think it would be hallarious if apple moved itunes to russia and started offering music at 1c a megabyte. is there a levy on importing digital copyrighted works, or copyrighted works in general? if i buy a song on itunes uk, i can bring it to the states without paying a dime afaik.
that works in kde as well. granted its kind of hidden for some reason, in the print dialgo there is an options button, under text settings you can select "print selected text only".
huh? kde works with cups lpr lpd and rlpr. setting up yor printer is outside the scope of kde and should be done by your distro/admin, but once printing is working its fairly trivial to select that printer that you use. my office uses lpr, and my laptop running gentoo automatically finds all the printers on the network. i can select the one that i want to print using, you guessed it File->Print. A dialog box pops up where you can select the printer that you want to use under Name:. so wtf r u talking about?
how about forcing libraries to ask each publisher/author if they can buy their book and lend it to people. as i recall my unversity library had a pretty extensive search system. although it mostly searched abstracts of papers/journals.
this has really nothing to do with 'us', the consumers, and more to do with the industry. Why do you think I can still go to a gun store and by a semi automatic rifle and a semi/auto conversion kit? Its because the gun manufacturers have a powerfull lobby group that makes sure that we, the consumers, have the right to buy what they sell. the industry needs to get its act together and start lobbying for our rights to buy violent and pornographic games.
since i dont think there is a video game lobby group, get a list of lobby groups that support the runner up in your state elections, and send a letter to your current congressman telling her that every month this law is in effect you will send 1 dollar to each of those groups. then every month follow up with a bank statement showing checks cashed by those groups. eventually she'll get the point.
i believe it is still legal a person to analyze the protocol and publish the results in a paper. that paper can then be used by someone who has no contact with the original game to develop a compatible server. isnt this Clean-Room Reverse-Engineering?
it depends on what market you are in. In the US i believe you have 1 year to file your patent application from the date that you show your product to the public. this can be something as small as a leaflet, or a speculative story on some technophile site. UK and EU i believe are zero day markets, so you better have everything patented before you release anything about your product. ianal...
thats what i thought when i read the story as well. maybe they are using some sort of a spectrum for which there is no reflective material. there may be no such thing as a perfect mirror, so some of the energy must be translated into heat, but i would image it would be a lot easier to make a mirror 10 times more pure then to increase the laser 10 times in power.
seriously though, this wouldnt be such a bad idea, if it would take 20 cpu's 1 hour to rebuild my gentoo box on demand i wouldn't mind shelling out 20 bucks for it. then again i could just use ubuntu.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.
japan gdp/capita 29,400 yearly working time 1828 productivity = 16 dollars/hour france gdp/capita = 28,700, yearly working time 1346 productivity = 21 dollars/hour
looks like the french are 30% more productive then the japanesse.
hehe, i went through 1 cpu upgrade 2 video cards, 2 hd upgrades, and through two new memory sticks, a handfull of cd/dvd/burners whithout having to reinstall gentoo once:).
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step 3 watch the stock double
step 4 dump the stock before the market closes and profit
they dont really need to block traffic, all they need to do is drop enough packets to make the quality below the standards that US customers are used to.
i think the mods missed the point, that comment should have been marked +5 funny.
thats why i keep myself perpetually intoxicated, making any contract i sign not legaly binding.
because stealing cedega is cheaper then stealing windows in bandwith costs.
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Combinatorial Algorithms
Programming Language Design
good luck on not killing yourself.
the foundation of any open source project is the community that develops/uses/tests it. windows just doesnt foster that community, it doesnt attract people who want to tinker and debug and read manpages and go on irc at 2am to talk to developers in broken english across the world. so when you develop for windows, you pretty much exclude all the people who could possibly become fanatical about your work.
its a shame that they wont risk it. it sickens me when a company that owes everything that it has to the inaliable rights garanteed by USA will bend over backwards for chinese yuen. If anything they should do everything they can to circumvent any attempts to stop free exchange of information. TOR should be built into google, cashes should use stegnography and encryption etc... until that day fuck you google, you are no better then IG Farben.
its to bad someone marked this as a troll. i would really like for someone to explain to me why is it the governments job to help you with your personal affairs.
This is a really bad example. I hope are using CustomObject as a numerical value, then you can just inherit from your favorite numerical type. Its when you are not using custom object as a numerical value then you get into trouble. is customobject1*customobject2 the same thing as sum(customobjects1) custtomobject2 times? can i integrate over customobjects? whats the square root of customobject1? wtf does it mean to multipy two objects which have no numerical value. unless you are writing a phd in abstract algebra you really dont need this.
i feel the same way. Anytime someone mentiones the spread of democracy and human rights everyone is all cheery about about, but as soon as someone mentions that hitler built great highways or stalin ran a tight ship all the fanboys cry foul.
p.s.
the parallel there is that pushing closed source and proprietery standard software by a convicted monopoly is bad, while pushing open standards and open source software by a company who is yet to do any evil is good.
can they get the same people that verify the brethalyzer source code test if this turring machine I've got in my garage halts?
i think it would be hallarious if apple moved itunes to russia and started offering music at 1c a megabyte. is there a levy on importing digital copyrighted works, or copyrighted works in general? if i buy a song on itunes uk, i can bring it to the states without paying a dime afaik.
that works in kde as well. granted its kind of hidden for some reason, in the print dialgo there is an options button, under text settings you can select "print selected text only".
huh? kde works with cups lpr lpd and rlpr. setting up yor printer is outside the scope of kde and should be done by your distro/admin, but once printing is working its fairly trivial to select that printer that you use. my office uses lpr, and my laptop running gentoo automatically finds all the printers on the network. i can select the one that i want to print using, you guessed it File->Print. A dialog box pops up where you can select the printer that you want to use under Name:. so wtf r u talking about?
how about forcing libraries to ask each publisher/author if they can buy their book and lend it to people. as i recall my unversity library had a pretty extensive search system. although it mostly searched abstracts of papers/journals.
this has really nothing to do with 'us', the consumers, and more to do with the industry. Why do you think I can still go to a gun store and by a semi automatic rifle and a semi/auto conversion kit? Its because the gun manufacturers have a powerfull lobby group that makes sure that we, the consumers, have the right to buy what they sell. the industry needs to get its act together and start lobbying for our rights to buy violent and pornographic games. since i dont think there is a video game lobby group, get a list of lobby groups that support the runner up in your state elections, and send a letter to your current congressman telling her that every month this law is in effect you will send 1 dollar to each of those groups. then every month follow up with a bank statement showing checks cashed by those groups. eventually she'll get the point.
i believe it is still legal a person to analyze the protocol and publish the results in a paper. that paper can then be used by someone who has no contact with the original game to develop a compatible server. isnt this Clean-Room Reverse-Engineering?
it depends on what market you are in. In the US i believe you have 1 year to file your patent application from the date that you show your product to the public. this can be something as small as a leaflet, or a speculative story on some technophile site. UK and EU i believe are zero day markets, so you better have everything patented before you release anything about your product. ianal...
thats what i thought when i read the story as well. maybe they are using some sort of a spectrum for which there is no reflective material. there may be no such thing as a perfect mirror, so some of the energy must be translated into heat, but i would image it would be a lot easier to make a mirror 10 times more pure then to increase the laser 10 times in power.
seriously though, this wouldnt be such a bad idea, if it would take 20 cpu's 1 hour to rebuild my gentoo box on demand i wouldn't mind shelling out 20 bucks for it. then again i could just use ubuntu.
i wish they would switch to metric time. Remember this moment, people: 80 past 2 on April 47th.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.
Thank you.
japan gdp/capita 29,400 yearly working time 1828 productivity = 16 dollars/hour
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france gdp/capita = 28,700, yearly working time 1346
productivity = 21 dollars/hour
looks like the french are 30% more productive then the japanesse.
sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yearly_working
and google for gdp/capita
hehe, i went through 1 cpu upgrade 2 video cards, 2 hd upgrades, and through two new memory sticks, a handfull of cd/dvd/burners whithout having to reinstall gentoo once :).