No, the correct comparison I would like to make is "eBook prices would be much lower than the cost of an equivalent paperback, much like downloadable mp3 prices are significantly lower than CDs due to reduced production costs."
Case in point, let me open up iTunes. There we go, top of the page, LotR Return of the King soundtrack - 19 tracks, $12 for the album. Amazon.com has it for $15.
A more drastic example would be Sarah McLachlan's Remixed, which goes for $10 electronically, but $15 for a hard copy.
I don't know about that. If I had a decent device that was capable of viewing "standard" ebook formats, could hold a fair amount of text (say 6-7 novels the size of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books), was easy to read (and maybe backlit) I wouldn't mind picking one up for my bus rides to/from work.
It would mean no need to muss marking my page, and a smaller package to stick in my pocket. Plus without paper production costs, I could see ebooks selling for $2 or so, compared to $10 or so for paperback these days.
Yeah but who uses the scroll bar for regular navigation anyways? As I'm reading an article I use either my scroll wheel, the page down key, or the spacebar to scroll the page. Home brings me to the top, End to the bottom.
Only time I ever use the scroll bar is if I know the approximate location of what I'm lookin for on the page, and even then it's easier (in firebird) to just start typing and find-as-you-type picks up on it. (Note that it's better if you disable the option that only does find-as-you-type for links)
If (by some strange coincidence) you're running a windows CE-based palm, you could give JWPce a shot - it is written more as a word processor, but it has kanji lookups and a pretty decent dictionary. It's GPL and will also run on regular windows if you want to give it a quick run-by.
OTOH, I've noticed that while my friends can get 300k/s downloads on Shaw (from decently fast servers) I can hit a hardware cap of 160k down, 64k up with Telus. Shaw wants to limit usage on the human level (which is the only way they can do it based on how cable net works) whereas Telus can get away with limits on the single lines.
"To me it sounds like this has got to be against the law," Levinson said. "To tell people to kill a particular group of people? That has to violate some law."
Ok, lets replace the line with "kill the bastards" instead of "kill the haitians" - this makes no difference to the context. In that case, the 'particular group of people' we are being told to kill are SPECIFICALLY the X number of haitian characters shooting at us, IN THE GAME.
How this could possibly be construed as a hate crime is beyond me. Sure, they're taking a lot of incorrect and poor stereotypes into the game (italian mobsters to start with) but that's part of the stereotyped setting they're going for (almost 70s-ish).
If they were to replace all Haitian references with Aliens, it would spoil the mood and setting, but at least we wouldn't have alien activists acting like idiots about it.
Using Access to teach concepts isn't a problem. It allows you to quickly set up the database, easily change errors on the fly, and provides a decent automated system for adding data.
Just make sure that you start with the general "wizard" approach, and then move on to using real SQL for things. They can build a query (or whatnot) and switch to the SQL view to check things as needed, which is a boon while learning.
Then have an in-class demonstration of benchmarks between Access and any other DB:P
Also compare/contrast data sizes - I know when I converted a 3.8mb (compacted) Access database to mySQL the total filesize dropped down to 860k - and performance skyrocketed from mysqld/apache vs access/odbc/apache.
I believe the optimoz mouse gestures plugin also has a feature like this, highlight the text of the link, then mouse gesture for a new tab/window. Loads link in background.
If you get the Tabbrowser Extensions plugin for Firebird, you can configure it to be a single window application, with open in a tab as the default action. Then just use Thunderbird normally, click a link, and poof Firebird gets it in a new tab. And with Tbird 0.4 properly sending links to default browser in linux, it should work there too:)
Disclaimer, I use this all the time and it works, but I'm running Win XP.
L: Guess what, R? I've got a great new theory and I can prove it. It's that your eyes are purple.
R: I'm a bit skeptical, but I'd like to hear your proof.
L: Well the statement "your eyes are purple" is true exactly when when this is true: "for every X such that X is not purple, X is not your eyes".
R: Well, yes. But how will you show that my eyes are purple?
L: Well you see that telephone over there? It's not purple and its not your eyes. And you see this pencil? It's not purple and it's not your eyes. This table isn't purple and it's not your eyes. So we can see by induction that everything that isn't purple is not your eyes.
R: That is pretty persuasive, but the problem is that when I look in a mirror, I can see that my eyes are not purple.
L: That may be true. But there is a lot about mirrors that we don't understand yet.
Unfortunately, that's logically flawed. What L is doing is a proof by example, which won't work. A proof by counterexample would work though.
The google cache didn't index the 2nd page, so here's the first 12 of 25 for all the systems:
XBox:
Soul Calibur II
Freedom Fighters
Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
Capcom vs. SNK 2: EO
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
Burnout 2: Point of Impact
Counter-Strike
Dino Crisis 3
Enter the Matrix
Midnight Club II
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
PS2:
Final Fantasy X-2
SOCOM 2: US Navy Seals
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando
Silent Hill 3
Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven
Soul Calibur II
Madden NFL 2004
Jak II
Manhunt
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Everquest Online Adventures: Frontiers
Primal
PC:
Halo: Combat Evolved
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of World War II
Homeworld 2
Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Counter Strike: Condition Zero
Call of Duty
Midnight Club II
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Gamecube:
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Viewtiful Joe
Soul Calibur II
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
NBA Live 2004
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
I-Ninja
F-Zero GX
Need For Speed Underground
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
Freedom Fighters
Handhelds:
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Medal of Honor: Infiltrator
Boktai
Banjo-Kaozzie: Grunty's Revenge
Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition
Madden NFL 2004
Monster Truck Madness
Stuntman
Mega Man Battle Network 3 Blue
Mega Man Battle Network 3 White
The Simpson's Road Rage
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
What it sounds like he wants to do is integrate the functionality of PopFile inside firebird.
And I don't see why it'd be too hard to modify the current bayesian filter that identifies messages matching "spam" and have some parallel ones identifying any old kind of mail.
Wow - and to think that anyones browsing slashdot using IE clicking on that link would have their C: formatted... provided that the URL got pasted right, and that they didn't have anything invariably using that drive (like windows)
Silly trolls getting modded interesting by mods that didn't even look at the link, let alone notice its sinister purpose.
Keep in mind that the Final Fantasy III they mention is the NES version, and has never been released to North America.
Those funny guys at Square, not being able to keep counts... Final Fantasy 1 was the only FF NES game to make it over to the States on the NES, Final Fantasy 4 and 6 on the SNES made it over as FF 2 and 3 - this is the FF 3 most people have played. Once Square went over to the PSX they synched the game numbering with FF 7, and have brought over FF 2 and 5 as part of collection CDs on the PSX.
To have played the original FF 3, you would need either a translated ROM image, or you would need to know Japanese and have imported it or something.
They actually might be ready - somewhere on the site it says that they'll release a standalone version (for local runs) once Igor debugs 1000 programs. This way the get a decent-sized test so they can squish more bugs. And yes, they use Igor to delta debug itself:)
Slashdot Mirror
Case in point, let me open up iTunes. There we go, top of the page, LotR Return of the King soundtrack - 19 tracks, $12 for the album. Amazon.com has it for $15.
A more drastic example would be Sarah McLachlan's Remixed, which goes for $10 electronically, but $15 for a hard copy.
I don't know about that. If I had a decent device that was capable of viewing "standard" ebook formats, could hold a fair amount of text (say 6-7 novels the size of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books), was easy to read (and maybe backlit) I wouldn't mind picking one up for my bus rides to/from work. It would mean no need to muss marking my page, and a smaller package to stick in my pocket. Plus without paper production costs, I could see ebooks selling for $2 or so, compared to $10 or so for paperback these days.
Only time I ever use the scroll bar is if I know the approximate location of what I'm lookin for on the page, and even then it's easier (in firebird) to just start typing and find-as-you-type picks up on it. (Note that it's better if you disable the option that only does find-as-you-type for links)
If (by some strange coincidence) you're running a windows CE-based palm, you could give JWPce a shot - it is written more as a word processor, but it has kanji lookups and a pretty decent dictionary. It's GPL and will also run on regular windows if you want to give it a quick run-by.
OTOH, I've noticed that while my friends can get 300k/s downloads on Shaw (from decently fast servers) I can hit a hardware cap of 160k down, 64k up with Telus. Shaw wants to limit usage on the human level (which is the only way they can do it based on how cable net works) whereas Telus can get away with limits on the single lines.
Ok, lets replace the line with "kill the bastards" instead of "kill the haitians" - this makes no difference to the context. In that case, the 'particular group of people' we are being told to kill are SPECIFICALLY the X number of haitian characters shooting at us, IN THE GAME.
How this could possibly be construed as a hate crime is beyond me. Sure, they're taking a lot of incorrect and poor stereotypes into the game (italian mobsters to start with) but that's part of the stereotyped setting they're going for (almost 70s-ish).
If they were to replace all Haitian references with Aliens, it would spoil the mood and setting, but at least we wouldn't have alien activists acting like idiots about it.
Just make sure that you start with the general "wizard" approach, and then move on to using real SQL for things. They can build a query (or whatnot) and switch to the SQL view to check things as needed, which is a boon while learning.
Then have an in-class demonstration of benchmarks between Access and any other DB :P
Also compare/contrast data sizes - I know when I converted a 3.8mb (compacted) Access database to mySQL the total filesize dropped down to 860k - and performance skyrocketed from mysqld/apache vs access/odbc/apache.
I believe the optimoz mouse gestures plugin also has a feature like this, highlight the text of the link, then mouse gesture for a new tab/window. Loads link in background.
Disclaimer, I use this all the time and it works, but I'm running Win XP.
L: Guess what, R? I've got a great new theory and I can prove it. It's that your eyes are purple. R: I'm a bit skeptical, but I'd like to hear your proof. L: Well the statement "your eyes are purple" is true exactly when when this is true: "for every X such that X is not purple, X is not your eyes". R: Well, yes. But how will you show that my eyes are purple? L: Well you see that telephone over there? It's not purple and its not your eyes. And you see this pencil? It's not purple and it's not your eyes. This table isn't purple and it's not your eyes. So we can see by induction that everything that isn't purple is not your eyes. R: That is pretty persuasive, but the problem is that when I look in a mirror, I can see that my eyes are not purple. L: That may be true. But there is a lot about mirrors that we don't understand yet. Unfortunately, that's logically flawed. What L is doing is a proof by example, which won't work. A proof by counterexample would work though.
Defies the notion that nobody reads the articles before posting, doesn't it?
And at the same time, reveals the cause.
The google cache didn't index the 2nd page, so here's the first 12 of 25 for all the systems:
XBox:
Soul Calibur II
Freedom Fighters
Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
Capcom vs. SNK 2: EO
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
Burnout 2: Point of Impact
Counter-Strike
Dino Crisis 3
Enter the Matrix
Midnight Club II
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
PS2:
Final Fantasy X-2
SOCOM 2: US Navy Seals
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando
Silent Hill 3
Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven
Soul Calibur II
Madden NFL 2004
Jak II
Manhunt
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Everquest Online Adventures: Frontiers
Primal
PC:
Halo: Combat Evolved
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of World War II
Homeworld 2
Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Counter Strike: Condition Zero
Call of Duty
Midnight Club II
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Gamecube:
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Viewtiful Joe
Soul Calibur II
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
NBA Live 2004
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
I-Ninja
F-Zero GX
Need For Speed Underground
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
Freedom Fighters
Handhelds:
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Medal of Honor: Infiltrator
Boktai
Banjo-Kaozzie: Grunty's Revenge
Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition
Madden NFL 2004
Monster Truck Madness
Stuntman
Mega Man Battle Network 3 Blue
Mega Man Battle Network 3 White
The Simpson's Road Rage
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
Gamespy's Final Fantasy X-2 review
Tony Hawk Underground review
Or search yourself: PS2 Review list on gamespy
And I don't see why it'd be too hard to modify the current bayesian filter that identifies messages matching "spam" and have some parallel ones identifying any old kind of mail.
So what's the difference between a regular CDR and an audio CDR?
If they stick a roof on it, I'm all over it (It's really wet here on the west coast)
What's that you mean? Fat Wallet might actually have a fat wallet?
There's also a feature film based on his life, called A Beautiful Mind - quite a good show too.
Silly trolls getting modded interesting by mods that didn't even look at the link, let alone notice its sinister purpose.
Yeah, this sounds awfully like a mini-"expansion pack" kind of deal to me...
Actually I see the occasional ad placement for it on Gamespy, and quite often it's on the rotation at PvP
no, it just means that they think it's good enough that it can work for them :)
Those funny guys at Square, not being able to keep counts... Final Fantasy 1 was the only FF NES game to make it over to the States on the NES, Final Fantasy 4 and 6 on the SNES made it over as FF 2 and 3 - this is the FF 3 most people have played. Once Square went over to the PSX they synched the game numbering with FF 7, and have brought over FF 2 and 5 as part of collection CDs on the PSX.
To have played the original FF 3, you would need either a translated ROM image, or you would need to know Japanese and have imported it or something.
They actually might be ready - somewhere on the site it says that they'll release a standalone version (for local runs) once Igor debugs 1000 programs. This way the get a decent-sized test so they can squish more bugs. And yes, they use Igor to delta debug itself :)
yeah, I don't remember the Permian era and the article talks about the boundary between the two, so likely it's very early Triassic.