And it doesn't need to be. Of course, they can't prosecute anyone who "pirates" the freely disseminated version, but then.. maybe they don't want to prosecute people who obviously like their product and therefore might become customers with a small nudge, and if they displace real pirated copies, then they cut down on piracy either way, although the recipients might still think their copies are, in fact, pirated.
200 years ago, people could buy cannons, though. And they did. Privately owned cannons were the majority of the artillery fielded by the fledgling navy and continental navy, so I really fail to see why howitzers should be a problem today.
The main thing keeping people from buying howitzers is the same thing keeping people from buying cannons 200 years ago: A giant milled tube of steel isn't exactly inexpensive to manufacture, and then you have to find a place to keep it.
If you don't think it will get you in trouble, could you try and find out why they would bother with that? The Genie is out of the bottle now, and there's no stuffing it back in.
I can see why they might not want you visiting the site to post more secrets, but viewing the stuff that's already released? Stuff that not only may or may not be real, but is basically a catalogue of rumor and hearsay anyway? Why bother?
Keeping YOU from reading it isn't going to prevent our enemies from reading it, after all.
It's called turning around in your seat. You're not supposed to use the rear-view mirror for traveling, it's there to check what's approaching from behind when you're traveling forward.
Put your arm on the passenger seat and look down the middle of the car and out the back. How are people learning to drive these days, anyway, are they just getting in the car and hoping it works out???
No, the camera is there to replace your field of vision. You cannot simultaneously be looking out the back window AND looking at a monitor on your dash.
Now, if they were putting a downward looking camera in the back and had an auxiliary monitor in the back, so that you can see things that don't come up to the bottom of the window, that could reasonably be described as augmenting and not replacing.
If you examine your sig, you'll see that it can't possibly be true:
rule number 1 of slashdot: ANY thread can be twisted into a bash of microsoft. no exceptions.
You appear to have focused on the second part, without realizing that some threads (and indeed, whole articles) start out as microsoft bashing, and therefore can only be twisted into something other than a microsoft bash, if indeed, they can be twisted at all.
That's hardly a fair criticism. It's if-then-else all the way down, no matter how complex you make it...
Furthermore, it's not the complexity, but the simplicity of the pac-man monster rules that is impressive, specifically just how challenging and fun and unpredictable a game could be with basically four simple rules and a maze.
The interface still could use a bit of work (the biggest improvement imo was the 1.4 update).
I think they may not have put enough thought into the design paradigm they would be using, as the short height of the touch screen gives very little throw to scroll menus with, and there is no part of the screen that is safe from registering a "button push" if you intended to scroll.
But the reading itself is great, (t's already turned me off to paper books for the most part) and the latest update made the page turns significantly faster.
The recent update also added a kind-of directory system to keep your books together (why they didn't do tags/labels instead is a mystery to me, though. The physical folder model is a limitation of imagination, not of the actual hardware)
Browsing the library does not use the network, though. I'm not sure why you got that impression from your test. I can only guess that some of the slowness was maybe cover-show mode, or that the original interface used a more cumbersome highlight method that took longer to draw/erase.
The best thing that I could say for it, though, is that unlike the Kindle, it reads ePubs natively. The format allows DRM, but does not require it; you can hand craft them from text without too much difficulty if you feel like it, and since they're just marked-up text, they reflow pretty easily.
Anyway, the 1.5 release is quite a bit improved from what they were shipping last year. If you're on the fence, it might be worth it to try it out in the store again.
But medical mistakes aren't deliberate killings. "Death Row" implies that we are deliberately ending the lives of the people on it.
Further, you can divide the number of deaths due to medical mistakes by the number of attempted procedures and get the ratio of accidental deaths to improved or lengthened lives. You can delve deeper, by examining the likelihoods of improvement. There are a lot of people whose lives are improved by medical interventions every year, so the fraction of accidental deaths is going to be quite low.
Now, there aren't a lot of people on death row. If there really are 4,000 innocent people there, that represents a *much* larger fraction of the total number of attempts at justice than the medical death fraction. Further, every one of those deaths is a avoidable.
Well, to be fair, I've got the other nook. I like it very much, but there are plenty of spots for improvement. So, I am a bit selfish in that regard, not wanting them to eschew resources on the nook I actually like...
Seriously, though, a traffic prediction algorithm that worked ok actually would be useful for designing changes to the roadway to reduce traffic, but I suspect that Australia is probably similar to the US: you probably know what causes the traffic, but for whatever reason, you're unwilling to do what it takes to cut it down. For instance, designing roads for peak capacity instead of average capacity, putting pressure on businesses to spread out work hours more to flatten the curve a bit, and finishing roadwork projects in a timely manner so that the highway isn't in a state of constant (dis)repair with obstructions and distractions.
It helps that Baen's non-free ebook prices are also very reasonable. With bundles of five or six books for $15 through webscriptions, or individual books (by their best authors, even) in the $4-$6 ranges typically.
Can you run adobe digital editions? If you use that to manage your ebooks on your pc, you can put them on any device associated with the software.
I know this works with the 2-week loans from my library, I haven't checked yet if it works with books downloaded from B&N. At the moment, though, it doesn't look to me like you can move stuff *from* the nook onto the pc in this way.
You can, however, read the stuff in your nook library on any device with nook software. This includes PC software, an iPod app, and an android app, all at no charge. Devices that connect to the internet will even sync your last page read between them, with the latest software update.
It's starting to look like they're going for more of the "steam" model of DRM. Now they just need to migrate the prices to account for the much lower utility of a book only one person can read.
I mean, it's almost all of the expense of a tablet, without the features, and you can't read it as well in the daytime as the original nook. B&N should focus on doing their core business - stuff people read - well.
They just stick that stuff in there. It's probably not enforceable.
The real issue is the spaghetti approach to contracts that our current legal system seems to create a preference for: just throw any onerous terms in and see if anything sticks, maybe you'll slip something through the courts.
I think the solution would be to get rid of severability. If you want contract terms to be separable, they should be in separate contracts.
The colons and hex are for typing it in. It stored in 16 bytes on disk, just like ipv4 addresses are stored in 4 bytes currently. There are lots of ways of representing a v6 address, though, just like there are lots of ways of representing a v4 address (hex, being among them, iirc, and for a while firefox would let you type in the unsigned integer that the 4 bytes represent and would translate that directly.)
The rest of us will just use a lookup service to map an easily remembered string to the v6 numerical address. At the moment, though, I'm not sure I cann think of an analogous service for ipv4, but I'm sure someone's doing it.
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And it doesn't need to be. Of course, they can't prosecute anyone who "pirates" the freely disseminated version, but then.. maybe they don't want to prosecute people who obviously like their product and therefore might become customers with a small nudge, and if they displace real pirated copies, then they cut down on piracy either way, although the recipients might still think their copies are, in fact, pirated.
On Zuckerberg's facebook, the product is YOU.
200 years ago, people could buy cannons, though. And they did. Privately owned cannons were the majority of the artillery fielded by the fledgling navy and continental navy, so I really fail to see why howitzers should be a problem today.
The main thing keeping people from buying howitzers is the same thing keeping people from buying cannons 200 years ago: A giant milled tube of steel isn't exactly inexpensive to manufacture, and then you have to find a place to keep it.
hmm..
What kind of safety regulations do you expect to be able to comply with?
Didn't facebook basically start out as an idea hacked together out of shell scripts and spaghetti code?
They will be conduced by federal workers, who will spend much of the time looking for shoes, apparently. So, it blows up very quickly.
Indeed. The only people who governments treat with less respect than civil servants, are the ones paying the bills...
If you don't think it will get you in trouble, could you try and find out why they would bother with that? The Genie is out of the bottle now, and there's no stuffing it back in.
I can see why they might not want you visiting the site to post more secrets, but viewing the stuff that's already released? Stuff that not only may or may not be real, but is basically a catalogue of rumor and hearsay anyway? Why bother?
Keeping YOU from reading it isn't going to prevent our enemies from reading it, after all.
When you set the clipping distance way down?
It's called turning around in your seat. You're not supposed to use the rear-view mirror for traveling, it's there to check what's approaching from behind when you're traveling forward.
Put your arm on the passenger seat and look down the middle of the car and out the back. How are people learning to drive these days, anyway, are they just getting in the car and hoping it works out???
No, the camera is there to replace your field of vision. You cannot simultaneously be looking out the back window AND looking at a monitor on your dash.
Now, if they were putting a downward looking camera in the back and had an auxiliary monitor in the back, so that you can see things that don't come up to the bottom of the window, that could reasonably be described as augmenting and not replacing.
You're using an encyclopedia for grant-level research?
If you examine your sig, you'll see that it can't possibly be true:
rule number 1 of slashdot: ANY thread can be twisted into a bash of microsoft. no exceptions.
You appear to have focused on the second part, without realizing that some threads (and indeed, whole articles) start out as microsoft bashing, and therefore can only be twisted into something other than a microsoft bash, if indeed, they can be twisted at all.
That's hardly a fair criticism. It's if-then-else all the way down, no matter how complex you make it...
Furthermore, it's not the complexity, but the simplicity of the pac-man monster rules that is impressive, specifically just how challenging and fun and unpredictable a game could be with basically four simple rules and a maze.
The interface still could use a bit of work (the biggest improvement imo was the 1.4 update).
I think they may not have put enough thought into the design paradigm they would be using, as the short height of the touch screen gives very little throw to scroll menus with, and there is no part of the screen that is safe from registering a "button push" if you intended to scroll.
But the reading itself is great, (t's already turned me off to paper books for the most part) and the latest update made the page turns significantly faster.
The recent update also added a kind-of directory system to keep your books together (why they didn't do tags/labels instead is a mystery to me, though. The physical folder model is a limitation of imagination, not of the actual hardware)
Browsing the library does not use the network, though. I'm not sure why you got that impression from your test. I can only guess that some of the slowness was maybe cover-show mode, or that the original interface used a more cumbersome highlight method that took longer to draw/erase.
The best thing that I could say for it, though, is that unlike the Kindle, it reads ePubs natively. The format allows DRM, but does not require it; you can hand craft them from text without too much difficulty if you feel like it, and since they're just marked-up text, they reflow pretty easily.
Anyway, the 1.5 release is quite a bit improved from what they were shipping last year. If you're on the fence, it might be worth it to try it out in the store again.
But medical mistakes aren't deliberate killings. "Death Row" implies that we are deliberately ending the lives of the people on it.
Further, you can divide the number of deaths due to medical mistakes by the number of attempted procedures and get the ratio of accidental deaths to improved or lengthened lives. You can delve deeper, by examining the likelihoods of improvement. There are a lot of people whose lives are improved by medical interventions every year, so the fraction of accidental deaths is going to be quite low.
Now, there aren't a lot of people on death row. If there really are 4,000 innocent people there, that represents a *much* larger fraction of the total number of attempts at justice than the medical death fraction. Further, every one of those deaths is a avoidable.
That's not a very good argument against police patrolling dark alleys, though....
Well, to be fair, I've got the other nook. I like it very much, but there are plenty of spots for improvement. So, I am a bit selfish in that regard, not wanting them to eschew resources on the nook I actually like...
Int(s0..sf,ds/v(s))
Seriously, though, a traffic prediction algorithm that worked ok actually would be useful for designing changes to the roadway to reduce traffic, but I suspect that Australia is probably similar to the US: you probably know what causes the traffic, but for whatever reason, you're unwilling to do what it takes to cut it down. For instance, designing roads for peak capacity instead of average capacity, putting pressure on businesses to spread out work hours more to flatten the curve a bit, and finishing roadwork projects in a timely manner so that the highway isn't in a state of constant (dis)repair with obstructions and distractions.
It helps that Baen's non-free ebook prices are also very reasonable. With bundles of five or six books for $15 through webscriptions, or individual books (by their best authors, even) in the $4-$6 ranges typically.
Can you run adobe digital editions? If you use that to manage your ebooks on your pc, you can put them on any device associated with the software.
I know this works with the 2-week loans from my library, I haven't checked yet if it works with books downloaded from B&N. At the moment, though, it doesn't look to me like you can move stuff *from* the nook onto the pc in this way.
You can, however, read the stuff in your nook library on any device with nook software. This includes PC software, an iPod app, and an android app, all at no charge. Devices that connect to the internet will even sync your last page read between them, with the latest software update.
It's starting to look like they're going for more of the "steam" model of DRM. Now they just need to migrate the prices to account for the much lower utility of a book only one person can read.
I mean, it's almost all of the expense of a tablet, without the features, and you can't read it as well in the daytime as the original nook. B&N should focus on doing their core business - stuff people read - well.
Didn't wikileaks wiki leak the climategate emails..?
They just stick that stuff in there. It's probably not enforceable.
The real issue is the spaghetti approach to contracts that our current legal system seems to create a preference for: just throw any onerous terms in and see if anything sticks, maybe you'll slip something through the courts.
I think the solution would be to get rid of severability. If you want contract terms to be separable, they should be in separate contracts.
The colons and hex are for typing it in. It stored in 16 bytes on disk, just like ipv4 addresses are stored in 4 bytes currently. There are lots of ways of representing a v6 address, though, just like there are lots of ways of representing a v4 address (hex, being among them, iirc, and for a while firefox would let you type in the unsigned integer that the 4 bytes represent and would translate that directly.)
The rest of us will just use a lookup service to map an easily remembered string to the v6 numerical address. At the moment, though, I'm not sure I cann think of an analogous service for ipv4, but I'm sure someone's doing it.