I've found E-Prime worthwhile enough to suggest it to others when they ask for writing tips. I use it for pretty much all my writing when I need to write for clarity. It has a simple rule: don't use the verb "to be" which includes be, being, am, is, are, was, and were. That rule makes passives sentences almost entirely impossible to construct, for one. I like to use the example that "mistakes were made" cannot be used. Instead, a writer has to put down "X made a mistake".
I'll try not to go into too much detail about it, but that's an NAND gate made up of 4 transistors. Two of them are green rectangles at the top with the yellow border around it. The other two is the green rectangle at the bottom with the green border rectangle around it. Aside from an inverter, this is about as simple a layout as you can get.
Now, onto the relative size. The white-bordered green squares are just metal connections for wires. The square's width and length must be at least twice the processing technology. So if using a 90nm process, they would be 180nm x 180nm. Counting the top tranistors, I get 6x14 steps each or 360nm x 1260nm
Using your 30-60 nm estimate, they could easily fit four transistors in a single connector! Many more into the entire area of the tranistor. 360*1260/ (60^2) is about 1200 transistors in the area of a single transistor. (Which doesn't take into account wires and routing)
So I believe that their estimate of 100 times is in ballpark of being correct.
KDE might have more of what you want. It uses what are called ioslaves that can hook into different network filesystem through the kde environment: sftp and ftp, for example
I've used it for sftp. In konqueror, I typed sftp://username@hostname, got prompted for a password and it acted just like a local folder. I opened a file from the remote server (I believe it used Kate) and whenever I hit save it'd upload the new version of the file.
You'd have to try it out for samba as I don't know if the implementation is different. I would be surprised if it didn't work the same but you never know. I don't know if there's a way for non-kde apps to work as seamlessly as kde apps do. So unfortunately if your preferred editor doesn't start with a k or have a kde-ified version, then you may be back at square one.
I'd say put in a Knoppix CD to try out the KDE environment. Put samba://whatever in konqueror. If it works and you like it, you could install a distribution that is based off of KDE like Kubuntu if the Ubunutu distribution is your preferred choice. (Or maybe just install KDE inside ubuntu? I thought I saw some kde entries in that package manager of theirs.)
Although it isn't a linux box, a phillips dvp642 seems like it will do what you want. You would still have to burn cd's, but they don't have to be in vcd or dvd format. It reads the filesystem on the discs and you can choose what you want to play.
It plays pretty much anything I throw at it. Dvix, xvid, mp3's and they can be on cd or dvd. I burn some stuff I want to watch or listen to onto RW's, watch it, and enjoy. It comes with a remote. For $70 it might be worth a shot. If it meets everything you need, you've just saved yourself a bunch of time, probably money too if you had to put a system together from mostly scratch.
It seems you missed the news about Providence, RI's mayor Buddy Cianci being charged and convicted under the RICO Act for corruption.
At the time, it was surprising that government officials could fall under the act. I'm sure RICO could be applied to Microsoft as well if the evidence was right.
"Patented" copper bracelet with magic healing powers
Yeh, but they isn't much wrong with their patent. They have a design patent which as far as I can tell only covers the look and not use.
From the USPTO: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/design/#defUnlike a utility application, where the "claim" describes the invention in a lengthy written explanation, the claim in a design patent application protects the overall visual appearance of the design, "described" in the drawings. It is essential that the applicant present a set of drawings (or photographs) of the highest quality which conform to the rules and standards which are reproduced in this guide.
The biggest gap was 10% more for Kerry over Bush, and that Post-Graduate. The lower education differences were at most 6%. So it appears that people "don't get it" across the board.
It's was simulation to see how well the overall happiness of the voting population was affected by voter error (i.e. mistakes, political lies) and number of choices. It found that One-vote and IRV had quite a lot less tolerance for errors than Rated, Approval, and Condorcet.
The order of best happiness was Rated, Condorcet, Approval, IRV, one-vote. However, he admits that he did not take into consideration strategic voting. He recommends Approval over Rated and Condorect due to this.
I'm not sure about your $9,000 number. I saw Kerry say it, too, but Factcheck, and I, disagree. It is not a statistic relating the jobs being created. It is a statistic relating to the industry-wide average.
From the Kerry report itself, "[T]he average wage in sectors that have gained jobs over the past three years was 30 percent lower than the average wage in industries that lost jobs." [CIBC World Markets, US Employment Quality Index, 6/21/2004]
Note that this is about industry and not specific jobs. If an industry fires the bottom-of-the-chain, low wage people and keeps the higher ups, who usually make more money, then the averge pay of the industry will go up. If an industry hires low wage people, then the average pay per person go down.
Also, the industries marked with growth, are the generally lower paying industries: education, hospitality, and construction. The industries that shrank were high paying industries: Information Services, Utilities.
With that said, there's still a job problem, but it's with the fact that most new jobs are the bottom-tier jobs. They aren't paying any less, it's the opportunity for the high paying jobs have decreased. Maybe the end result is the same, but I don't think that if you tried to get a job now vs the same job last year, you would get a $9000 less salary offer.
I would like to add that if you happen to lose your MBR, you can try gpart to recover it for you before you give it up as a loss. It scans the disks looking for partitions and assembles a MBR record based on it. I've used it to recover a few drives. The man pages are quite thorough.
I've invested more than two full working days on just the sound problem ...none of the Linux distributions I've tried so far on this PC succeeded in getting the sound working. That includes majors, such as two versions of Slackware, two versions of SuSE, plus Debian, Xandros, and Lindows; as well as several specialty distros like Knoppix, Knotix, Morphix, and Gentoo.
I call shenanigans. No way he could have installed Gentoo in less than two days.
Hi, I just want to say thanks to you and all your co-workers at ResNet for doing that.
I was seeing off a friend of mine who's going back to Rochester and I realized her computer has been off the internet all summer. So her computer's unpatched and I was worried that she'd get infected.
So, yeh. Thanks for making me feel relievied that I won't have to direct her over the phone on how to install the patches and if she didn't patch fast enough, possibly clean an infected system.
First off, the paper wrote:
The U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to enact copyright laws "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors... the exclusive Right to their respective Writings...." Art. 1, section 8, clause 8. (pg 5) [Emphasis mine]
Then it says:
"Nonetheless, based on the facts known about most of the systemic and extensive P2P file sharing by students in order to avoid purchases, including the copying of entire works and the widespread making available of those works, and the possibility of a showing of adverse market effects, a successful fair use defense is not likely. Such file sharing involves essentially exact copying of entire creative works, typically in ways that do not add to the store of knowledge or the creation of new works. Although there is some conflicting evidence, courts that have considered the issue have accepted the recording industry's evidence and arguments that file sharing is damaging the market for copyrighted works." (pg 6) [Emphasis mine]
I think i've found the silver bullet, for lack of a better term.
"Filesharing involes...[uses] that do not add to the store of knowledge or the creation of new works."
And Copyright is setup to "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
If the RIAA and all claim that what is being distributed does not add to the store of knowledge nor creation of new works, then I will claim the works are therefore not useful art.
Copyright is not setup to protect unuseful art, only useful, so they cannot claim protection under copyright.
If however, their works do add to the knowledge and creation of works and the filesharers are not making money off of this, then it is for educational use and falls under "fair use".
"I am not a fan of fiction anymore, I am an adult, and find the story to be a waste of time."
Okay, so you don't like fiction and you find it to be a waste of time. Nothing wrong with that. I find it ironic, however, that you use the argument "I am an adult" in your reasoning since you said you read CS Lewis stories when you were a kid.
Lewis himself wrote in the essay "On Three Ways of Writing for Children": "Critics who treat "adult" as a term of approval instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence...When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
He also wrote in either "On Stories" or the "Three Ways" essay, I can't remember, and I'm paraphrasing: Growing up implies adding on, to make more of oneself. If I liked fantasies as a child and then I throw it away when I become an adult to start reading non-fiction, you could not say that I had added non-fiction. I merely changed my reading.
Could you point a link to where "Some Unknown company" is stated?
I searched around on the link you provided, but couldn't find those words. I also searched google, but 'VM "Some Unknown company"' and 'microsoft "Some Unknown company"' didn't turn up any relevant links. And 'microsoft java "Some unknown company"' turns up 0 results.
I wouldn't have bothered but you put it in quotes and I would like to see it myself.
Slashdot Mirror
I've found E-Prime worthwhile enough to suggest it to others when they ask for writing tips. I use it for pretty much all my writing when I need to write for clarity. It has a simple rule: don't use the verb "to be" which includes be, being, am, is, are, was, and were. That rule makes passives sentences almost entirely impossible to construct, for one. I like to use the example that "mistakes were made" cannot be used. Instead, a writer has to put down "X made a mistake".
You can check out the wikipedia article for an overview. Then you can peruse some of the journal articles written about it in ETC at http://learn-gs.org/library/etc/#is
Since no one has put up a picture of a transiter layout, here's a link to one: http://www.bridgeport.edu/~matanya/images/ict2.gif
I'll try not to go into too much detail about it, but that's an NAND gate made up of 4 transistors. Two of them are green rectangles at the top with the yellow border around it. The other two is the green rectangle at the bottom with the green border rectangle around it. Aside from an inverter, this is about as simple a layout as you can get.
Now, onto the relative size. The white-bordered green squares are just metal connections for wires. The square's width and length must be at least twice the processing technology. So if using a 90nm process, they would be 180nm x 180nm. Counting the top tranistors, I get 6x14 steps each or 360nm x 1260nm
Using your 30-60 nm estimate, they could easily fit four transistors in a single connector! Many more into the entire area of the tranistor. 360*1260/ (60^2) is about 1200 transistors in the area of a single transistor. (Which doesn't take into account wires and routing) So I believe that their estimate of 100 times is in ballpark of being correct.
KDE might have more of what you want. It uses what are called ioslaves that can hook into different network filesystem through the kde environment: sftp and ftp, for example
I've used it for sftp. In konqueror, I typed sftp://username@hostname, got prompted for a password and it acted just like a local folder. I opened a file from the remote server (I believe it used Kate) and whenever I hit save it'd upload the new version of the file.
You'd have to try it out for samba as I don't know if the implementation is different. I would be surprised if it didn't work the same but you never know. I don't know if there's a way for non-kde apps to work as seamlessly as kde apps do. So unfortunately if your preferred editor doesn't start with a k or have a kde-ified version, then you may be back at square one.
I'd say put in a Knoppix CD to try out the KDE environment. Put samba://whatever in konqueror. If it works and you like it, you could install a distribution that is based off of KDE like Kubuntu if the Ubunutu distribution is your preferred choice. (Or maybe just install KDE inside ubuntu? I thought I saw some kde entries in that package manager of theirs.)
Although it isn't a linux box, a phillips dvp642 seems like it will do what you want. You would still have to burn cd's, but they don't have to be in vcd or dvd format. It reads the filesystem on the discs and you can choose what you want to play.
It plays pretty much anything I throw at it. Dvix, xvid, mp3's and they can be on cd or dvd. I burn some stuff I want to watch or listen to onto RW's, watch it, and enjoy. It comes with a remote. For $70 it might be worth a shot. If it meets everything you need, you've just saved yourself a bunch of time, probably money too if you had to put a system together from mostly scratch.
It seems you missed the news about Providence, RI's mayor Buddy Cianci being charged and convicted under the RICO Act for corruption.
At the time, it was surprising that government officials could fall under the act. I'm sure RICO could be applied to Microsoft as well if the evidence was right.
Yeh, but they isn't much wrong with their patent. They have a design patent which as far as I can tell only covers the look and not use.
From the USPTO: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/design/#def Unlike a utility application, where the "claim" describes the invention in a lengthy written explanation, the claim in a design patent application protects the overall visual appearance of the design, "described" in the drawings. It is essential that the applicant present a set of drawings (or photographs) of the highest quality which conform to the rules and standards which are reproduced in this guide.
the cartridge was retested yesterday and there were no problems. He couldn't explain why the computer reader malfunctioned.
/cynic
Because yesterday the date wasn't November 2nd.
Check out the results from this election in the "Vote by education" section at cnn
The biggest gap was 10% more for Kerry over Bush, and that Post-Graduate. The lower education differences were at most 6%. So it appears that people "don't get it" across the board.
You might find this study interesting.
Simulation Of Various Voting Models for Close Elections by Brian Olsen
It's was simulation to see how well the overall happiness of the voting population was affected by voter error (i.e. mistakes, political lies) and number of choices. It found that One-vote and IRV had quite a lot less tolerance for errors than Rated, Approval, and Condorcet.
The order of best happiness was Rated, Condorcet, Approval, IRV, one-vote. However, he admits that he did not take into consideration strategic voting. He recommends Approval over Rated and Condorect due to this.
I found this yesterday when I was looking for election simulators. I think the UI works nicely. (The website says it only works in firefox)
o rcet.html
http://home.student.uu.se/nidi9661/condorcet/cond
I'm not sure about your $9,000 number. I saw Kerry say it, too, but Factcheck, and I, disagree. It is not a statistic relating the jobs being created. It is a statistic relating to the industry-wide average.
From the Kerry report itself,
"[T]he average wage in sectors that have gained jobs over the past three years was 30 percent lower than the average wage in industries that lost jobs." [CIBC World Markets, US Employment Quality Index, 6/21/2004]
Note that this is about industry and not specific jobs. If an industry fires the bottom-of-the-chain, low wage people and keeps the higher ups, who usually make more money, then the averge pay of the industry will go up. If an industry hires low wage people, then the average pay per person go down.
Also, the industries marked with growth, are the generally lower paying industries: education, hospitality, and construction. The industries that shrank were high paying industries: Information Services, Utilities.
With that said, there's still a job problem, but it's with the fact that most new jobs are the bottom-tier jobs. They aren't paying any less, it's the opportunity for the high paying jobs have decreased. Maybe the end result is the same, but I don't think that if you tried to get a job now vs the same job last year, you would get a $9000 less salary offer.
It is included with knoppix, last I checked.
I've invested more than two full working days on just the sound problem
...none of the Linux distributions I've tried so far on this PC succeeded in getting the sound working. That includes majors, such as two versions of Slackware, two versions of SuSE, plus Debian, Xandros, and Lindows; as well as several specialty distros like Knoppix, Knotix, Morphix, and Gentoo.
;-)
I call shenanigans. No way he could have installed Gentoo in less than two days.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/cs/bushvideos/
check out "Fool me once..."
Hi, I just want to say thanks to you and all your co-workers at ResNet for doing that.
I was seeing off a friend of mine who's going back to Rochester and I realized her computer has been off the internet all summer. So her computer's unpatched and I was worried that she'd get infected.
So, yeh. Thanks for making me feel relievied that I won't have to direct her over the phone on how to install the patches and if she didn't patch fast enough, possibly clean an infected system.
Ah that is quite interesting. Thanks
First off, the paper wrote: ... the exclusive Right to their respective Writings ...." Art. 1, section 8, clause 8. (pg 5) [Emphasis mine]
The U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to enact copyright laws "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors
Then it says:
"Nonetheless, based on the facts known about most of the systemic and extensive P2P file sharing by students in order to avoid purchases, including the copying of entire works and the widespread making available of those works, and the possibility of a showing of adverse market effects, a successful fair use defense is not likely. Such file sharing involves essentially exact copying of entire creative works, typically in ways that do not add to the store of knowledge or the creation of new works. Although there is some conflicting evidence, courts that have considered the issue have accepted the recording industry's evidence and arguments that file sharing is damaging the market for copyrighted works." (pg 6) [Emphasis mine]
I think i've found the silver bullet, for lack of a better term. "Filesharing involes...[uses] that do not add to the store of knowledge or the creation of new works." And Copyright is setup to "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
If the RIAA and all claim that what is being distributed does not add to the store of knowledge nor creation of new works, then I will claim the works are therefore not useful art.
Copyright is not setup to protect unuseful art, only useful, so they cannot claim protection under copyright.
If however, their works do add to the knowledge and creation of works and the filesharers are not making money off of this, then it is for educational use and falls under "fair use".
"I am not a fan of fiction anymore, I am an adult, and find the story to be a waste of time."
Okay, so you don't like fiction and you find it to be a waste of time. Nothing wrong with that. I find it ironic, however, that you use the argument "I am an adult" in your reasoning since you said you read CS Lewis stories when you were a kid.
Lewis himself wrote in the essay "On Three Ways of Writing for Children":
"Critics who treat "adult" as a term of approval instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence...When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
He also wrote in either "On Stories" or the "Three Ways" essay, I can't remember, and I'm paraphrasing:
Growing up implies adding on, to make more of oneself. If I liked fantasies as a child and then I throw it away when I become an adult to start reading non-fiction, you could not say that I had added non-fiction. I merely changed my reading.
Could you point a link to where "Some Unknown company" is stated?
I searched around on the link you provided, but couldn't find those words. I also searched google, but 'VM "Some Unknown company"' and 'microsoft "Some Unknown company"' didn't turn up any relevant links. And 'microsoft java "Some unknown company"' turns up 0 results.
I wouldn't have bothered but you put it in quotes and I would like to see it myself.