Yeah, for instance gas pipes in houses here in Italy are still measured in inches so we need English wrenches for them (we call them so, not Imperial). The reason is that moving that kind of infrastructure to a different set of pipe size is very expensive and maybe even dangerous. Maybe converting the shuttle design and manufacturing chain to metric is dangerous as well.
About everything else I can think about here is metric. Wait, TV screens and monitors are measured in inches as well. Sailboats can be in feet or meters, it depends on the manufacturer, but a 46 feet looks bigger than a 14 meters even if the latter is 2 cm longer.
On the other side, they told me that the UK started to sell gas (petrol!) by the liters instead of gallons when a gallon started to cost more than one pound. Who knows, maybe US pumps will start selling it by the liters too when gas will become very costly again and people will get a taste for the metric system. Gas at $0.80 per liter looks cheaper than at $3 per gallon, right?:-)
By the way, US engineers are trained to use what, imperial or metric units? I understood that science is done with metric units, but engineering is a different beast.
There should be some legislation that either forces companies to unlock your DRM'd content or give you back the money. Walmart was not going out of business so both options were open to them. A company filing for Chapter 11 should just unlock content, that is swap the DRM'd files with unprotected ones. Labels/majors will probably say that unlocking content breaks the agreement in place with the distributor but the law should protect customers in the first place.
Never buy DRM'd content until some legislation like that is in effect: chances are that you survive most of the companies in this business and/or the DRM technologies they use.
I'm also using 9.04. I never tried to uninstall it but I know how to hide it: right click on it, Remove from Panel. To get it back: right click on a panel, select User Switcher, Add.
You're right. I've been tricked by the first title of the page "Ubuntu Tutorials: Dapper - Hardy - Intrepid - Jaunty". I didn't realize it applied only to 7.04. I thought it applied to all of them. Sorry!
Cars are another bright example of fragmentation and lack of standards. Why don't we have only one car model? Lucky us we don't!
Going back to Linux: there will never be a single standard UI in an open sourced environment. Somebody will always fork it and try new things and somebody will like them and include them a distribution.
Please don't mod parent as Funny but as Informative. I'm using Emacs right now and have been using it since too many years to tell. It works fine, I can even add to it all those fancy little windows (Files, Projects, Navigation, Debug, Watch, etc) that fill up the screen in IDEs, but never felt the need for it. I'm also using Netbeans 6.5 when some customer forces me too, but Emacs is better and requires 10 times less RAM.
1) Do you have evidence that the pirate copies make you/any other author lose money? People looking for free books might not be willing to pay even one dollar for a legitimate copy so they won't be your customers in any case. But if you can really prove that you are losing money, go ahead and try your best to take down all those pirate sites.
2) Do you have evidence that the pirate copies are not actually boosting your/any other author sales? Cory Doctorow wrote "my biggest threat as an author isn't piracy, it's obscurity" in Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google, Feb 14, 2006. If you eventually end up thinking like him, start distributing your book for free and encourage everybody to copy and copy it. He does so.
If you don't have evidence of either losing or gaining money thanks to piracy, well... what's the rationale behind your reaction?
I feel that accessing the Internet is one of the things that allow me to pursue my right to liberty and happiness. It's no different than access to air and water. If governments want to give free Internet access to the people of the world I won't oppose that. Just allow me to chose a different ISP if I like so.
The defendant is not considered guilty until final judgment is passed.
I expect every democratic county to have the same statement in its constitutional chart even if governments (US included) sometimes find ways to work around those principles.
So nobody will be able to do another ugly reader with a small screen and a keyboard (wasn't that supposed to be a reader???). Competitors will be forced to make devices with larger screens and no keys. I love patents today:-)
I second that as I'm a very small content provider and I might consider paying to upload videos on the largest video platform of the Internet. However:
I'll keep uploading videos on other free video sites
I'll hope YouTube goes broke quickly and shuts down so I don't have to pay anything
I'll embed videos from other sites to accelerate the downfall of YouTube
As a content viewer I won't like pay per view and won't have to since a lot of interesting videos will be uploaded to free sites
That was the long answer. The short one is: good idea but it won't work.
PS: maybe a pay-per-post YouTube will get much smaller but profitable.
Why such a tight release schedule? Version 1.9.2.6 automatically and permanently removes the cotroversial NoScript Development Support Filterset deployed with NoScript 1.9.2.4. I sincerely apologize with those ABP users who missed the information about it given on the AMO install page, on this site's install page, on this very release note page and in the FAQ. Not including a prompt asking for permission beforehand from the start has been a very bad omission, and I want all the ABP users who felt betrayed to know how much I'm sorry for that. As a sign of good will, current NoScript 1.9.2.6 completely removes the filterset itself, if found there, on startup with no questions asked. Thanks for your patience. -- Giorgio
Yes, Adobe has a 64-bit Flash 10 plugin for Linux and it works. I know because I use if every day on my pc. This places Adobe far ahead of Google which consistently releases 32-bit-only plugins. Don't they have any PC with 4 GB of RAM at Google?
There is a fairly large chance that I read a spammer message dropped into my physical mailbox before I throw it away in the paper recycle bin. There is almost no chance that I read one sent by email: they just don't get into my mailbox and even when they do, I spot them by the subject/sender and delete them without reading them.
Furthermore, paper spammers usually do business close to me so there is a better chance that their message is of some interest. Email spammers from the other side of the world usually have nothing to sell me anyway.
Summing up the two things, it is true that sending me an email costs very little but it gives zero return so it's not as cost effective as sending me a more expensive piece of paper.
Spending public money sometimes is a way to get rich, so the real usefulness of the expense is not important as long as it gets approved. I'll answer your last question with another one: who's getting paid to implement the system and which decision makers are close to some of those companies?
Disclaimer: I'm sure these things don't happen in the UK so any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental, etc.
Something strange is going on. These limitations turn the G1 Dev into just a unit and functional test platform for your application. You need another G1 to perform integration tests, but if you could debug the integration system easily why would you need the G1 Dev? I wonder if Google does develop applications in that way.
EULAs tell gamers what they can and cannot do. If gamers violate the EULA, companies sue them. LA tells to people what they can and cannot do. If people break the law, LA jails them. As you know, neither the EULA or the law can prevent misconduct.
So "Don't violate copyright law" would work as well as EULAs and the law, if all companies want is copyright protection.
What a nice opportunity to increase sales for manufacturers of a brand new lines of wifi hotspots with an embedded storage device, or with a connection to web services that store logs in the cloud:-) And also an opportunity to get a huge amount of money off the pockets of US citizens...
Actually I believe that it will damage Apple in the short and mid term. Apple will lose revenues for selling the hardware and the option of raising the price of the OS won't be welcomed by customers. I think that Apple doesn't care to have OSX on 20% of the pcs if that means gaining less money than they do now with a 9-10% share.
If a market of clones will bring OSX on 80% of pcs then Apple will gain more than now, but that will change what Apple is. Basically they're an hardware company developing software to help selling the hardware, much like HP and Sun. They're very different from software companies like Microsoft which occasionally develop hardware (XBOX, Zune, etc) to sell the software (Windows, which in turn sells Office).
Anyway, hell yes! As a consumer I'll be happy to see lower priced macs.
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Yeah, for instance gas pipes in houses here in Italy are still measured in inches so we need English wrenches for them (we call them so, not Imperial). The reason is that moving that kind of infrastructure to a different set of pipe size is very expensive and maybe even dangerous. Maybe converting the shuttle design and manufacturing chain to metric is dangerous as well.
About everything else I can think about here is metric. Wait, TV screens and monitors are measured in inches as well. Sailboats can be in feet or meters, it depends on the manufacturer, but a 46 feet looks bigger than a 14 meters even if the latter is 2 cm longer.
On the other side, they told me that the UK started to sell gas (petrol!) by the liters instead of gallons when a gallon started to cost more than one pound. Who knows, maybe US pumps will start selling it by the liters too when gas will become very costly again and people will get a taste for the metric system. Gas at $0.80 per liter looks cheaper than at $3 per gallon, right? :-)
By the way, US engineers are trained to use what, imperial or metric units? I understood that science is done with metric units, but engineering is a different beast.
There should be some legislation that either forces companies to unlock your DRM'd content or give you back the money.
Walmart was not going out of business so both options were open to them. A company filing for Chapter 11 should just unlock content, that is swap the DRM'd files with unprotected ones. Labels/majors will probably say that unlocking content breaks the agreement in place with the distributor but the law should protect customers in the first place.
Never buy DRM'd content until some legislation like that is in effect: chances are that you survive most of the companies in this business and/or the DRM technologies they use.
I'm also using 9.04. I never tried to uninstall it but I know how to hide it: right click on it, Remove from Panel. To get it back: right click on a panel, select User Switcher, Add.
You're right. I've been tricked by the first title of the page "Ubuntu Tutorials: Dapper - Hardy - Intrepid - Jaunty". I didn't realize it applied only to 7.04. I thought it applied to all of them. Sorry!
It seems that it must be installed: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/06/01/fast-user-switching-applet-ubuntu-704/
Cars are another bright example of fragmentation and lack of standards. Why don't we have only one car model? Lucky us we don't!
Going back to Linux: there will never be a single standard UI in an open sourced environment. Somebody will always fork it and try new things and somebody will like them and include them a distribution.
Please don't mod parent as Funny but as Informative. I'm using Emacs right now and have been using it since too many years to tell. It works fine, I can even add to it all those fancy little windows (Files, Projects, Navigation, Debug, Watch, etc) that fill up the screen in IDEs, but never felt the need for it. I'm also using Netbeans 6.5 when some customer forces me too, but Emacs is better and requires 10 times less RAM.
It's a way to keep trojan writers locked into an old technology :-)
Two things to think about:
1) Do you have evidence that the pirate copies make you/any other author lose money? People looking for free books might not be willing to pay even one dollar for a legitimate copy so they won't be your customers in any case. But if you can really prove that you are losing money, go ahead and try your best to take down all those pirate sites.
2) Do you have evidence that the pirate copies are not actually boosting your/any other author sales? Cory Doctorow wrote "my biggest threat as an author isn't piracy, it's obscurity" in Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google, Feb 14, 2006. If you eventually end up thinking like him, start distributing your book for free and encourage everybody to copy and copy it. He does so.
If you don't have evidence of either losing or gaining money thanks to piracy, well... what's the rationale behind your reaction?
The first thing I thought after seeing the headline was "Good! Another 20 years and they'll go Nethack" :-)
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I feel that accessing the Internet is one of the things that allow me to pursue my right to liberty and happiness. It's no different than access to air and water. If governments want to give free Internet access to the people of the world I won't oppose that. Just allow me to chose a different ISP if I like so.
It's not only an American thing. We've got the same in Italy, Europe. Check Article 27 at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Italy
The defendant is not considered guilty until final judgment is passed.
I expect every democratic county to have the same statement in its constitutional chart even if governments (US included) sometimes find ways to work around those principles.
So nobody will be able to do another ugly reader with a small screen and a keyboard (wasn't that supposed to be a reader???). :-)
Competitors will be forced to make devices with larger screens and no keys. I love patents today
I second that as I'm a very small content provider and I might consider paying to upload videos on the largest video platform of the Internet. However:
That was the long answer. The short one is: good idea but it won't work.
PS: maybe a pay-per-post YouTube will get much smaller but profitable.
Giorgio released version 1.9.2.6 which disables the filter. I quote from http://noscript.net/?ver=1.9.2.6&prev=1.9.2.5
It seems that he eventually got it right.
Yes, Adobe has a 64-bit Flash 10 plugin for Linux and it works. I know because I use if every day on my pc. This places Adobe far ahead of Google which consistently releases 32-bit-only plugins. Don't they have any PC with 4 GB of RAM at Google?
There is a fairly large chance that I read a spammer message dropped into my physical mailbox before I throw it away in the paper recycle bin. There is almost no chance that I read one sent by email: they just don't get into my mailbox and even when they do, I spot them by the subject/sender and delete them without reading them.
Furthermore, paper spammers usually do business close to me so there is a better chance that their message is of some interest. Email spammers from the other side of the world usually have nothing to sell me anyway.
Summing up the two things, it is true that sending me an email costs very little but it gives zero return so it's not as cost effective as sending me a more expensive piece of paper.
French for quorum is "quorum". It's a Latin word inherited without changes by many languages.
Ants do have more intelligent beings in charge, and gets stomped all the times.
For that reason I don't like the idea of somebody substantially more intellingent than me in charge: they'll care about them, not about us.
I don't think it's a good idea to create a super intellingence. It's going to make our lives more miserable and/or way much shorter.
Spending public money sometimes is a way to get rich, so the real usefulness of the expense is not important as long as it gets approved. I'll answer your last question with another one: who's getting paid to implement the system and which decision makers are close to some of those companies?
Disclaimer: I'm sure these things don't happen in the UK so any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental, etc.
Something strange is going on. These limitations turn the G1 Dev into just a unit and functional test platform for your application. You need another G1 to perform integration tests, but if you could debug the integration system easily why would you need the G1 Dev? I wonder if Google does develop applications in that way.
EULAs tell gamers what they can and cannot do. If gamers violate the EULA, companies sue them. LA tells to people what they can and cannot do. If people break the law, LA jails them. As you know, neither the EULA or the law can prevent misconduct.
So "Don't violate copyright law" would work as well as EULAs and the law, if all companies want is copyright protection.
What a nice opportunity to increase sales for manufacturers of a brand new lines of wifi hotspots with an embedded storage device, or with a connection to web services that store logs in the cloud :-) And also an opportunity to get a huge amount of money off the pockets of US citizens...
I dissent: in Soviet Russia the National Operating System produces you! But I agree on the irony of choosing a distribution derived from a Red one :-)
Actually I believe that it will damage Apple in the short and mid term. Apple will lose revenues for selling the hardware and the option of raising the price of the OS won't be welcomed by customers. I think that Apple doesn't care to have OSX on 20% of the pcs if that means gaining less money than they do now with a 9-10% share.
If a market of clones will bring OSX on 80% of pcs then Apple will gain more than now, but that will change what Apple is. Basically they're an hardware company developing software to help selling the hardware, much like HP and Sun. They're very different from software companies like Microsoft which occasionally develop hardware (XBOX, Zune, etc) to sell the software (Windows, which in turn sells Office).
Anyway, hell yes! As a consumer I'll be happy to see lower priced macs.