Maybe he cares about the company he works for? Maybe he, like most of us, just gets irritated with doing something that is detrimental to everyone simply because he is told to by someone with less understanding than he has. Who are you to tell him that either of those is wrong?
Maybe it's been broadcast in a way that we just don't recognize yet. A mere few centuries ago, no-one would have thought to look for alien life (if they thought to at all), by looking at radio waves. Radio what? It's easily possible that there is another great leap just around the corner that is pretty obvious once you reach a certain level of technological or scientific know-how. Maybe someone will discover a sub-ether-o-matic and the whole sky will light up. It's also possible that life forms frequently move toward a smaller population base and thus give off less indicators of their presence.
So the customer is essentially the municipality? And the proposed law essentially says they're not allowed to do things for themself at any amount of cost that is better than getting someone else to do it? Even though there would inherently be less cost as there's no profit skimming overhead? Is that right?
I suppose it's better than the existing law if that just says you can't do anything for yourself.
Rehabilitation? Did they change the circumstances that caused the person to commit the crime whilst he was inside? Or does he come out into the same environment with the same pressures as he had when he went in? There is a reason why jail-worthy crimes are committed more by certain groups of the population, And if that is the case, then society needs to look at these reasons as much as at the individual involved. Maybe more so.
I'm genuinely having trouble believing this is serious. Can there be people working in a news station that are this ignorant? I watched a couple of spoof news videos on the Onion site last week and this is actually harder to believe!
A while ago I saw a one-handed, chording keyboard advertised that would have been great to use. Instead of something you needed to lay flat on a desk, or hold with one hand and type with the other, it was simply a joystick that you gripped lightly with a loop that went round the back of your hand to hold it in place. Looked very comfortable and the ability to type at any angle, in any position, would have been great. Unfortunately, they had stopped making them when I saw them and I've never been able to find the same device since.
In classical fashion, Eris has upset the applecart by triggering an argument over whether calling Pluto a planet or not is the fairest decision. What is the gold standard?
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Amen! This is a very good thing that Apple have done. If they can just be persuaded to now open their store to Linux users, then it will be perfect for me. But all round, this is fine. The article writer and editor to accepted this should be ashamed of themselves.
Somebody who doesn't understand what DRM is, objects to their customer information being embedded in the file that they purchase. There are three responses to the embedded information - one is to say that the information is easily stripped if you want to do that. This does not account for the possibility that a harder to strip version will be introduced later. Two (my own reaction) is to say it's absolutely fine as it doesn't affect my enjoyment in any way at all and I'm quite happy for Apple to watermark files that I purchase to discourage sharing. It happens with PDFs I buy all the time. The third response it to irrationally leap up and down about conspiracy and DRM the way that this article and summary does.
I doubt people would be too confused. It's reasonably simple to grasp the difference between 'protected' and 'unprotected.' You give too little credit. Often the distinction between the techie and the non-techie is not one of understanding, but simply a lag in that understanding. The people who browse/. know things ahead of the curve. Doesn't mean the rest of the people wont be close behind. It just takes a while for information to spread.
The vast majority of the British populace have a TV. Why be concerned about the tiny minority that would freeload. Of course, there is the rest of the World, but what the heck? We're doing it anyway and it works, so why not share it around. About time our country did something positive again.
I never realised there was a specific reason for this. But I had definitely noticed it. Many of my newer CDs sound quite flat and other times I've been astonished by the clarity that comes out of the same system with a different CD.
This is really useful to know and will save me from frustratedly fiddling with my system trying to make it sound less muted, which I'm driven to every now and again.
Unfortunately, I can no longer use iTunes on my Linux system and the Apple Store is not accessible without it. So I'm still sitting here waiting to be able buy music from my computer. Surely someone else is going to start selling the non-DRM music soon, aswell? It can't just be Apple.
Joking aside, I think that you're actually right! It *does* sound ruder when you put the stars in. Just saying shit is just saying shit and is very casual for many of us. Putting the asterisks in, indicates that the writer considers the word to be offensive themself, and thus makes it clear that this word is used as such. Had never thought of it like that!
Well in that case, I'm not really convinced. I don't think it is the percentage that matters. It's how your margin of error compares to the variability of other factors that affect it. An example would be threading a needle. Say the thread is 80% the width of the needle's eye, then that doesn't give me much space on either side to get it right. But suppose I'm 80% as wide as my doorway (that's about right for a UK doorway and most people), does it take as many attempts to get through as it does to thread the needle? Of course not. It's not the margin of error as a percentage that is critical. It is the margin of error as a real value that matters. Obviously they increase together, but it's not acceptable to say 62% is too close. It would depend on scale of the thread's strength to the variability of the factors affecting it.
This isn't saying you're wrong necessarily, just that I don't understand something. When you say "notice how slim the margin is" when comparing 62 gigapascals needed with the 100 gigapascals achievable, that seems to be a lot to me. 48 gigpascals is equivalent to 1,000,000 metric tons falling a metre, isn't it? Sounds like quite a lot.
If you're going to say "shit" say "shit." Don't say "S...". Using dots instead of letters doesn't conceal what you intend to say so isn't any politer. All it does is make it look as though someone has the right to stop you using the word.
I would sooner children see the beliefs of a prejudiced person taken apart by a teacher, rather than never see any rational discussion and then be exposed to it elsewhere and suddenly discover "hey, it makes sense."
And we should be able to counter it with rational discussion because if we can't then we weren't right in the first place. Teaching children to accept the opinions that we tell them are right and to demonise that which we tell them is wrong without showing why, is doing them a great diservice. Once, the beliefs of the KKK and other such groups were the public opinion. And it was the allowance of rational discourse that provided the ammunition to turn the tables. Without rational discourse, without seeing incorrect arguments taken apart, people have no defence against them later on.
So instead of being able to counter racist propaganda with reasoned debate and counter evidence, it all goes underground and spreads unchallenged and unopposed.
Saying that people you disagree with are not allowed to talk makes it look as though you are unable to counter what they say.
Out of curiousity, what comment would you make about Japan or China excluding US scientists access to this research? Would you object? Because the way things are going, the US is going to be increasingly finding itself in the position of other countries having a lead in certain technological areas.
As to India not signing up to the NPT, that would carry a little more moral weight if the US wasn't ignoring the treaty itself.
And Iranian students seeking bombs, is that a particular problem at your university?
It would be far more efficient, and have far better long-term security, if this "additional" content were on the disc in the first place. I mean, Blu-Ray and HDDVD have a bit more capacity than DVDs, don't they?;) And even if you really have packed the whole thing out, surely the it would cost just pence to put two discs in the same box. The only reasons that makes sense for the additional content to be downloadable are (a) to tie you to a partial download so that you don't fully own what you have purchased and (b) to charge you again for the extras that you once expected on your DVD as standard.
I can tell you a little bit about British politics. I can tell you that in the last election, the Labour government was voted for by 22% of the electorate. Turn out was about 63% meaning two-thirds of the voting public voted against Labour. And what was the result of this? Labour got around 56% of the seats in the House of Commons, giving them power to do whatever they wanted assuming Blair could keep the party in line (which with a varying degrees of heavy-handedness, he has).
So while I agree that the British people put way too much trust in their government, I think it's also good to note the sad fact that more British people didn't trust their government... but they still got it. Sucks to be us.
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Maybe he cares about the company he works for? Maybe he, like most of us, just gets irritated with doing something that is detrimental to everyone simply because he is told to by someone with less understanding than he has. Who are you to tell him that either of those is wrong?
Gosh! Really?
Maybe it's been broadcast in a way that we just don't recognize yet. A mere few centuries ago, no-one would have thought to look for alien life (if they thought to at all), by looking at radio waves. Radio what? It's easily possible that there is another great leap just around the corner that is pretty obvious once you reach a certain level of technological or scientific know-how. Maybe someone will discover a sub-ether-o-matic and the whole sky will light up. It's also possible that life forms frequently move toward a smaller population base and thus give off less indicators of their presence.
So the customer is essentially the municipality? And the proposed law essentially says they're not allowed to do things for themself at any amount of cost that is better than getting someone else to do it? Even though there would inherently be less cost as there's no profit skimming overhead? Is that right?
I suppose it's better than the existing law if that just says you can't do anything for yourself.
Rehabilitation? Did they change the circumstances that caused the person to commit the crime whilst he was inside? Or does he come out into the same environment with the same pressures as he had when he went in? There is a reason why jail-worthy crimes are committed more by certain groups of the population, And if that is the case, then society needs to look at these reasons as much as at the individual involved. Maybe more so.
I'm genuinely having trouble believing this is serious. Can there be people working in a news station that are this ignorant? I watched a couple of spoof news videos on the Onion site last week and this is actually harder to believe!
I think we should judge for ourselves. Can't someone post a screenshot?
A while ago I saw a one-handed, chording keyboard advertised that would have been great to use. Instead of something you needed to lay flat on a desk, or hold with one hand and type with the other, it was simply a joystick that you gripped lightly with a loop that went round the back of your hand to hold it in place. Looked very comfortable and the ability to type at any angle, in any position, would have been great. Unfortunately, they had stopped making them when I saw them and I've never been able to find the same device since.
In classical fashion, Eris has upset the applecart by triggering an argument over whether calling Pluto a planet or not is the fairest decision. What is the gold standard?
Amen! This is a very good thing that Apple have done. If they can just be persuaded to now open their store to Linux users, then it will be perfect for me. But all round, this is fine. The article writer and editor to accepted this should be ashamed of themselves.
Somebody who doesn't understand what DRM is, objects to their customer information being embedded in the file that they purchase. There are three responses to the embedded information - one is to say that the information is easily stripped if you want to do that. This does not account for the possibility that a harder to strip version will be introduced later. Two (my own reaction) is to say it's absolutely fine as it doesn't affect my enjoyment in any way at all and I'm quite happy for Apple to watermark files that I purchase to discourage sharing. It happens with PDFs I buy all the time. The third response it to irrationally leap up and down about conspiracy and DRM the way that this article and summary does.
I doubt people would be too confused. It's reasonably simple to grasp the difference between 'protected' and 'unprotected.' You give too little credit. Often the distinction between the techie and the non-techie is not one of understanding, but simply a lag in that understanding. The people who browse
The vast majority of the British populace have a TV. Why be concerned about the tiny minority that would freeload. Of course, there is the rest of the World, but what the heck? We're doing it anyway and it works, so why not share it around. About time our country did something positive again.
I never realised there was a specific reason for this. But I had definitely noticed it. Many of my newer CDs sound quite flat and other times I've been astonished by the clarity that comes out of the same system with a different CD.
This is really useful to know and will save me from frustratedly fiddling with my system trying to make it sound less muted, which I'm driven to every now and again.
Unfortunately, I can no longer use iTunes on my Linux system and the Apple Store is not accessible without it. So I'm still sitting here waiting to be able buy music from my computer. Surely someone else is going to start selling the non-DRM music soon, aswell? It can't just be Apple.
Joking aside, I think that you're actually right! It *does* sound ruder when you put the stars in. Just saying shit is just saying shit and is very casual for many of us. Putting the asterisks in, indicates that the writer considers the word to be offensive themself, and thus makes it clear that this word is used as such. Had never thought of it like that!
Well in that case, I'm not really convinced. I don't think it is the percentage that matters. It's how your margin of error compares to the variability of other factors that affect it. An example would be threading a needle. Say the thread is 80% the width of the needle's eye, then that doesn't give me much space on either side to get it right. But suppose I'm 80% as wide as my doorway (that's about right for a UK doorway and most people), does it take as many attempts to get through as it does to thread the needle? Of course not. It's not the margin of error as a percentage that is critical. It is the margin of error as a real value that matters. Obviously they increase together, but it's not acceptable to say 62% is too close. It would depend on scale of the thread's strength to the variability of the factors affecting it.
This isn't saying you're wrong necessarily, just that I don't understand something. When you say "notice how slim the margin is" when comparing 62 gigapascals needed with the 100 gigapascals achievable, that seems to be a lot to me. 48 gigpascals is equivalent to 1,000,000 metric tons falling a metre, isn't it? Sounds like quite a lot.
If you're going to say "shit" say "shit." Don't say "S...". Using dots instead of letters doesn't conceal what you intend to say so isn't any politer. All it does is make it look as though someone has the right to stop you using the word.
I would sooner children see the beliefs of a prejudiced person taken apart by a teacher, rather than never see any rational discussion and then be exposed to it elsewhere and suddenly discover "hey, it makes sense."
And we should be able to counter it with rational discussion because if we can't then we weren't right in the first place. Teaching children to accept the opinions that we tell them are right and to demonise that which we tell them is wrong without showing why, is doing them a great diservice. Once, the beliefs of the KKK and other such groups were the public opinion. And it was the allowance of rational discourse that provided the ammunition to turn the tables. Without rational discourse, without seeing incorrect arguments taken apart, people have no defence against them later on.
So instead of being able to counter racist propaganda with reasoned debate and counter evidence, it all goes underground and spreads unchallenged and unopposed.
Saying that people you disagree with are not allowed to talk makes it look as though you are unable to counter what they say.
Out of curiousity, what comment would you make about Japan or China excluding US scientists access to this research? Would you object? Because the way things are going, the US is going to be increasingly finding itself in the position of other countries having a lead in certain technological areas.
As to India not signing up to the NPT, that would carry a little more moral weight if the US wasn't ignoring the treaty itself.
And Iranian students seeking bombs, is that a particular problem at your university?
It would be far more efficient, and have far better long-term security, if this "additional" content were on the disc in the first place. I mean, Blu-Ray and HDDVD have a bit more capacity than DVDs, don't they?
Russian countries?
I can tell you a little bit about British politics. I can tell you that in the last election, the Labour government was voted for by 22% of the electorate. Turn out was about 63% meaning two-thirds of the voting public voted against Labour. And what was the result of this? Labour got around 56% of the seats in the House of Commons, giving them power to do whatever they wanted assuming Blair could keep the party in line (which with a varying degrees of heavy-handedness, he has).
So while I agree that the British people put way too much trust in their government, I think it's also good to note the sad fact that more British people didn't trust their government... but they still got it. Sucks to be us.