I'd agree. Looking at my classes that I'm in, the few people who have taken a gap year are having a very difficult time getting back into the "grove" of studying. I think its a lot easier to you just go directly through with it.
However, a more accurate way to look at this would be the present value. Let's assume (hypothetically) that you wanted to keep all of your music for ever (even so far as to pass it on for generations). Then we look at the yearl cost: $180 Assume a reasonable rate of return (10%) , then to be able to pay that $180 for ever would be $1800. Now that the same as purchasing 1800 tracks, which when you think about your entire lifetime is fairly reasonable.
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slashdot \neq IT More seriously there are a number of possible reasons for this. I would hazord a guess that a large number of women entered IT for the sake of the $ and now that the $ is harder to get they are moving to other fields. Not that men didnt do this, but if you look at the major universities they have essentially been bribing women to go into technical fields (engineering, cs , etc.) so I would hazord a guess that those efforts recruited people more interested int he $ than the love of the field. Of course I could be entirely of base.
Well, if there going for 19.9% it strikes me as an investment rather than a acquisition. See accounting rules say that anything above 20% and you have to consider the other company a "subisduary" for accounting purposes. 19.9% strikes me as a deliberate attempt for them to avoid this implication. Note: I am not an account, although I am reading slashdot when I should be studying for my AFM101 exam tommorow.
Another popular provider on the market is primus. There local package is 19.95/month , (15.95/month if you have the hardware) going up to 45.95/month (or 41.95/month if you have the hardware) for there unlimited package , with many stops in between .
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You seem to be abusing big O notation a bit my friend. You cant say O(n) best case , since it O(n) is a bounding above by a function. What your looking to say is that the algorithm is O(n^2) and Omega(n)
Not really. See university of phoenix isnt like your open university in the sense of its funding and the quality of its programs. Something like athabasca is more simnilar to Open University (they actually call them selves Canada's Open University). They are publicly funded and there programs are actually recognized , they might not be the best out there but.....
But why the hell would you be affriad of being sued if two seperate rullings have indicated its perfectly legal because of the coppyright levy? The only case in which I see iTunes being able to be able to use the not get sued philosphy is with audio books (which are illegal). For iTunes to be successfull in Canada it will have to emphasice that artists are getting a fair share , since otherwise people will just continue to legally download music without paying for it.
I see where you going with this, but suing IBM is a bit pretty much david vs. golithy except no ones cheering david. IBM has a fairly large patent portfolio on there own and if you decide to sue IBM for infinging on one of your patents not so supprisingly IBM will be able to find quite a few patents vague enough to have you violating them. Not to mention IBM is in a relatively profitable position and has a rather sharp legal team so they unlikely to be scared by such tactics.
Firstly I am not a software engineer (go Faculty of Math!) but more seriously. Its not so much about the one satellite its about the freedom of a soveirgn nation. I would argue that by the US shooting down a sat launch they have violated that nations soverignty and should expect an appropriate response.
Personally if I were a leader of a country and the US air force shot down a satellite or any other sort of space launch I would declare full and all out war on the US. The US should not be able to say what a soverign nation can and can not launch into space and if they attempt to control that I would wholelly support action (be it military or otherwise) against the US.
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Personally I think they are realling in part on high compression ratios that can be obtained with text. Think about it , 1% of 100gb is only 1gb. With the cost of hard drive space that works out to slightly less than $1 (assuming no backups). Considering the large amount of adds shouldnt be hard for them (so long as they limmit attachments hard core).
I know what you mean . I'm an RCC (resnet computer consultant) at waterloo and we provided everyone with simple step by step guides to install norton and turn there firewall on yet we disconnected over 10% of people for getting infected with a form which the default windows firewall stops. Add to our luck that norton doesnt detect the worm and we have a computing experience which reminds people of the old BBs days. Lets just say I dont were my nametag except when required to:-)
Personally I know a number of people who dont send out worms/viruses simply becauses of the consequences, but if your dead whats going to happen to you?
The idea though behind allowing arists and inventors to profit is to encourage inovattion. For example if I cant make any money making music then I wont be able to spend a lot of time making music (I'd have to get a day job and only do music in my spare time).
All well and good , but the spirit of the constituational law must be considered not just the exact wording. THe purpose is to increase innovation/creativity and allow artist/inventers to prosper from there work (within reason) and then, once that time has expired, allow all of the public to benefit. By prevent the recording of the live concerts the spirt of the law, that at one point all of society will be able to benefit is obstructed (since there are no recordings). So I say f33r my 13g41 skillzors (IE I am not a lawyer, not a law student, and I dont even watch law and order that much , but I took gr12 law awhile back and hey its slashdot:-)
The best way is to bypass your city and instead go after the individual business that would benefit from this. Citys tend to be fairly beurcratic, but if you can go to say a coffee shop and say X more poeple would buy coffee from you if you had wireless which would cost Y dollars (where Y is less than X multiplied by there marginal profit over the span of 3 months) then they will almost always go for it because they can increase there profit As for convincing an entire city, unless its really small I think your pretty much screwed.
Its not like novell "killed" netware. Netware was designed to add good networking functionallity to operating system(s) with limmited support. Then all of a sudden microsoft came along and started including a lot of the features novell had been offering (admittedly a hell of a lot worse, but that M$ for you) in there standard OS. Suddenly there was a lot less of a need for netware. So its not really like novell "killed" netware, netware got killed (although novell probably could have worked a bit better at keeping it alive).
Novell definitly is a sleaping giant. WHile they have a lot of controll we have let to see them leverge this into anything particularily exciting. If this ("linux is unproven you need a long term company to help you with it") is their, SUn's, strategy to stay alive novell could certainlly whip there asses. Of course this is slashdot so....
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I'd agree.
Looking at my classes that I'm in, the few people who have taken a gap year are having a very difficult time getting back into the "grove" of studying.
I think its a lot easier to you just go directly through with it.
However, a more accurate way to look at this would be the present value. Let's assume (hypothetically) that you wanted to keep all of your music for ever (even so far as to pass it on for generations).
Then we look at the yearl cost: $180
Assume a reasonable rate of return (10%) , then to be able to pay that $180 for ever would be $1800.
Now that the same as purchasing 1800 tracks, which when you think about your entire lifetime is fairly reasonable.
slashdot \neq IT
More seriously there are a number of possible reasons for this. I would hazord a guess that a large number of women entered IT for the sake of the $ and now that the $ is harder to get they are moving to other fields.
Not that men didnt do this, but if you look at the major universities they have essentially been bribing women to go into technical fields (engineering, cs , etc.) so I would hazord a guess that those efforts recruited people more interested int he $ than the love of the field.
Of course I could be entirely of base.
Well, if there going for 19.9% it strikes me as an investment rather than a acquisition. See accounting rules say that anything above 20% and you have to consider the other company a "subisduary" for accounting purposes. 19.9% strikes me as a deliberate attempt for them to avoid this implication.
Note: I am not an account, although I am reading slashdot when I should be studying for my AFM101 exam tommorow.
Its eh not ay!
Crazy americans.....
Another popular provider on the market is primus. There local package is 19.95/month , (15.95/month if you have the hardware) going up to 45.95/month (or 41.95/month if you have the hardware) for there unlimited package , with many stops in between .
Bah. The solution is to get an IPAQ and put Linux on it. > Familar Linux</a> is amazing for the IPAQs and with a portable keyboard you can be using all of those wonderful CLI aps you have come to know and love (You dont need the keyboard but it makes things a hell of a lot faster) :-)
You seem to be abusing big O notation a bit my friend.
You cant say O(n) best case , since it O(n) is a bounding above by a function. What your looking to say is that the algorithm is O(n^2) and Omega(n)
Not really. See university of phoenix isnt like your open university in the sense of its funding and the quality of its programs. Something like athabasca is more simnilar to Open University (they actually call them selves Canada's Open University). They are publicly funded and there programs are actually recognized , they might not be the best out there but .....
But why the hell would you be affriad of being sued if two seperate rullings have indicated its perfectly legal because of the coppyright levy? .
The only case in which I see iTunes being able to be able to use the not get sued philosphy is with audio books (which are illegal)
For iTunes to be successfull in Canada it will have to emphasice that artists are getting a fair share , since otherwise people will just continue to legally download music without paying for it.
Movies are illegal but music is legal for P2P , in Canada. :-)
Also there is ikobo,although there fees are a bit high.
I see where you going with this, but suing IBM is a bit pretty much david vs. golithy except no ones cheering david.
IBM has a fairly large patent portfolio on there own and if you decide to sue IBM for infinging on one of your patents not so supprisingly IBM will be able to find quite a few patents vague enough to have you violating them. Not to mention IBM is in a relatively profitable position and has a rather sharp legal team so they unlikely to be scared by such tactics.
Thats because the link is http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.indymedia.orgo t everything is a .com you know
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"news for Nerds" or "stuff that matters"
Firstly I am not a software engineer (go Faculty of Math!) but more seriously.
Its not so much about the one satellite its about the freedom of a soveirgn nation. I would argue that by the US shooting down a sat launch they have violated that nations soverignty and should expect an appropriate response.
Personally if I were a leader of a country and the US air force shot down a satellite or any other sort of space launch I would declare full and all out war on the US.
The US should not be able to say what a soverign nation can and can not launch into space and if they attempt to control that I would wholelly support action (be it military or otherwise) against the US.
Personally I think they are realling in part on high compression ratios that can be obtained with text. .
Think about it , 1% of 100gb is only 1gb
With the cost of hard drive space that works out to slightly less than $1 (assuming no backups).
Considering the large amount of adds shouldnt be hard for them (so long as they limmit attachments hard core).
I know what you mean . I'm an RCC (resnet computer consultant) at waterloo and we provided everyone with simple step by step guides to install norton and turn there firewall on yet we disconnected over 10% of people for getting infected with a form which the default windows firewall stops. :-)
Add to our luck that norton doesnt detect the worm and we have a computing experience which reminds people of the old BBs days.
Lets just say I dont were my nametag except when required to
Personally I know a number of people who dont send out worms/viruses simply becauses of the consequences, but if your dead whats going to happen to you?
The idea though behind allowing arists and inventors to profit is to encourage inovattion.
For example if I cant make any money making music then I wont be able to spend a lot of time making music (I'd have to get a day job and only do music in my spare time).
All well and good , but the spirit of the constituational law must be considered not just the exact wording. :-)
THe purpose is to increase innovation/creativity and allow artist/inventers to prosper from there work (within reason) and then, once that time has expired, allow all of the public to benefit.
By prevent the recording of the live concerts the spirt of the law, that at one point all of society will be able to benefit is obstructed (since there are no recordings).
So I say f33r my 13g41 skillzors (IE I am not a lawyer, not a law student, and I dont even watch law and order that much , but I took gr12 law awhile back and hey its slashdot
The best way is to bypass your city and instead go after the individual business that would benefit from this. Citys tend to be fairly beurcratic, but if you can go to say a coffee shop and say X more poeple would buy coffee from you if you had wireless which would cost Y dollars (where Y is less than X multiplied by there marginal profit over the span of 3 months) then they will almost always go for it because they can increase there profit
As for convincing an entire city, unless its really small I think your pretty much screwed.
Its not like novell "killed" netware.
Netware was designed to add good networking functionallity to operating system(s) with limmited support. Then all of a sudden microsoft came along and started including a lot of the features novell had been offering (admittedly a hell of a lot worse, but that M$ for you) in there standard OS.
Suddenly there was a lot less of a need for netware.
So its not really like novell "killed" netware, netware got killed (although novell probably could have worked a bit better at keeping it alive).
Novell definitly is a sleaping giant. WHile they have a lot of controll we have let to see them leverge this into anything particularily exciting.
If this ("linux is unproven you need a long term company to help you with it") is their, SUn's, strategy to stay alive novell could certainlly whip there asses.
Of course this is slashdot so....