So don't use their DNS server. There are heaps of others out there.
Google for a list and pick one with a low ping time. OpenDNS is good, or just use Google's own DNS (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4)
Not all publishers are evil. Given the above, it's hard to believe you missed Baen Books, but you don't mention them.
No DRM, cheap ebooks, many free books, especially older titles and the early entries in series.
I hope he runs in Vic. I'd vote for him.
The senate has proportional voting. Everyone ranks all the candidates, then they start counting. As soon as a candidate has enough to get elected, any further votes move to the second preference. You can end up with some funny results if everyone puts the major party they don't like last.
You don't understand how it works. Yes, you pay a hundred. The government pays an unknown amount more.
The ones geting rich aren't the government, it is those the money is paid to.
Even the romans knew that - "Cui Bono?".
Yeah, but the thing is, the "editors, copy editors, typesetters, etc." are all on a wage or salary. They already got paid before the book hit the market. If the author wants his/her next book to be as good, he/she will pay them out of the profits of the last book. You really are only hurting the publisher.
I work for a printer, and strange as it may seem, the physical costs of printing/shipping are a very small part of the cost of a book. Paperbacks probably less than a dollar per book, and hardcovers are not much more.
However, I don't see why the publisher can't set up their own online store, and bypass the retail markup, which is a significant part of the price.
I Do !!! . I have several in my collection.
But if you've been buying paperbacks since the sixties, I would bet that the paper is yellowing and starting to get brittle. The cheap shit they print on has a limited life.
The paper model may be dying, but printing presses are cheap as shit to run these days. It's a shrinking, cut-throat commodity market. A 300 page paperback, 100,000 run, would cost less than a dollar per unit. How much less would depend on how desperate your printer is and how much of a hard-arse negotiator you are. And it only goes down as the run goes up.
Interesting situation really, printers are not about to disappear like buggy whp makers, but the market is definitely shinking. Combine that with a lot of old, sometimes very old, printing companies often with considerable resources and the competition is somewhere way past fierce.
Why are you using canned vegetables? Go to the local produce shop and buy what's in season, locally. Way better than canned crap from China*, and usually cheaper too.
*Read the label - if it says "from imported ingredients" then it is likely grown in China, no matter where it was canned and labelled.
I can't quite figure out how you could copyright birdsong any more than you could copyright an audible variant of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation or the sound of deep sea volcanic vents.
Try some of Charlie Stross's work. Accelerando is free on the net. He writes a range - some of his books are far-out hard fiction, - Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise, others involve magic and british bureaucracy - The Jennifer Morgue, The Atrocity Archives, Glasshouse. They are all pretty good.
It's actually about 40% of the consumed oxygen by those figures, and it ends up in H2O, either exhaled or excreted. (exact figures would depend on whether the percentages given are by mass or volume)
The part about minerals is nonesense, it's not enough to warrant the military expenditure.
Certainly, it isn't if you're the one paying the expense. However, if someone else pays for the military and the damage, anything you walk away with is pure profit. Who do you think actually pays for wars?
Actually, Australia doesn't have compulsory car insurance. It has compuslory insurance against car-accident related injury, but the cars are not covered by it, only the occupants. It is not uncommon for someone to get hit by some retard with no insurance, and their own insurance is left on the hook for the damage. Side effect of this is that most policies have no penalty for claiming, if they judge the crash wasn't your fault and the other car is uninsured.
I recommend the Panasonic TZ series. Latest model is the TZ10.
Points in their favour:
Awesome Leica lens for a P&S - 25mm to 384mm zoom, reasonably fast max F3.3(wide) -F5.9(tele), very sharp glass.
Resisted the megapixel race - generally half to three quarters of their competitors.
Latest model TZ has optional manual focus and aperture control. (PASM modes)
Built in GPS so you can tag photos with location.
The IA mode really lets you just point and click, and is a better photographer than 95% of the camera weilding public.:)
Very good HD movie recording
Pretty good image stabilisation
Downsides:
The ISO can't compare to a DSR. Personally I find the noise at 400 to be noticable, and 800 is really pushing it.
The built in flash is a little weak, and no hotshoe. (max range about 5 metres)
Pretty chunky for a P&S due to the big lens.
Oblig. disclaimer: I have a TZ7, and would love to upgrade to the TZ10 but can't justify it at the moment.
I don't deny the climate is changing. I even think it is likely the human activity is one of the major factors, if not the entire cause. My disagreement is that I think global warming is a good thing. Turning Siberia and Canada into fertile temperate zones, increasing rainfall worldwide, tropical storms over deserts, resettling Greenland, what's not to like?
The most fecund period in history had much higher CO2 levels and global temperatures.
So we have to adapt. That's what life is, adapt or die.
The obvious answer is to tag them with specific isotopes, rather than chemicals. You start getting significant quantities of C14 in your methane, you know something is leaking.
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I'm guessing either he meant the analysis of impurities, (which would be easily mimicked anyway) or else he watches too much CSI.
So don't use their DNS server. There are heaps of others out there.
Google for a list and pick one with a low ping time.
OpenDNS is good, or just use Google's own DNS (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4)
You can get acceptable quality for that, but it won't shake the the neighbours house. Reasonably Cheap, Good, Loud - pick two.
Not all publishers are evil. Given the above, it's hard to believe you missed Baen Books, but you don't mention them.
No DRM, cheap ebooks, many free books, especially older titles and the early entries in series.
I hope he runs in Vic. I'd vote for him.
The senate has proportional voting.
Everyone ranks all the candidates, then they start counting. As soon as a candidate has enough to get elected, any further votes move to the second preference. You can end up with some funny results if everyone puts the major party they don't like last.
You don't understand how it works. Yes, you pay a hundred. The government pays an unknown amount more.
The ones geting rich aren't the government, it is those the money is paid to.
Even the romans knew that - "Cui Bono?".
Yeah, but the thing is, the "editors, copy editors, typesetters, etc." are all on a wage or salary. They already got paid before the book hit the market.
If the author wants his/her next book to be as good, he/she will pay them out of the profits of the last book. You really are only hurting the publisher.
I work for a printer, and strange as it may seem, the physical costs of printing/shipping are a very small part of the cost of a book. Paperbacks probably less than a dollar per book, and hardcovers are not much more.
However, I don't see why the publisher can't set up their own online store, and bypass the retail markup, which is a significant part of the price.
Anyone out there remember Ace Doubles?
I Do !!! . I have several in my collection.
But if you've been buying paperbacks since the sixties, I would bet that the paper is yellowing and starting to get brittle. The cheap shit they print on has a limited life.
As long as it's a Sony battery, you should be fine.
The paper model may be dying, but printing presses are cheap as shit to run these days. It's a shrinking, cut-throat commodity market.
A 300 page paperback, 100,000 run, would cost less than a dollar per unit. How much less would depend on how desperate your printer is and how much of a hard-arse negotiator you are. And it only goes down as the run goes up.
Interesting situation really, printers are not about to disappear like buggy whp makers, but the market is definitely shinking. Combine that with a lot of old, sometimes very old, printing companies often with considerable resources and the competition is somewhere way past fierce.
Why are you using canned vegetables? Go to the local produce shop and buy what's in season, locally. Way better than canned crap from China*, and usually cheaper too.
*Read the label - if it says "from imported ingredients" then it is likely grown in China, no matter where it was canned and labelled.
"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more and no less" - Howard Tayler (Schlock Mercenary).
I can't quite figure out how you could copyright birdsong any more than you could copyright an audible variant of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation or the sound of deep sea volcanic vents.
Damn, I'd buy that record.
Causality, Relativity, FTL Communication. Pick any two.
If I get a choice, I'll take Causality and FTL Communication thanks.
Sounds a lot like a the trilogy of books by Harry Harrison - Homeworld, Wheelworld, Starworld.
Try some of Charlie Stross's work. Accelerando is free on the net.
He writes a range - some of his books are far-out hard fiction, - Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise, others involve magic and british bureaucracy - The Jennifer Morgue, The Atrocity Archives, Glasshouse.
They are all pretty good.
It's actually about 40% of the consumed oxygen by those figures, and it ends up in H2O, either exhaled or excreted. (exact figures would depend on whether the percentages given are by mass or volume)
Certainly, it isn't if you're the one paying the expense. However, if someone else pays for the military and the damage, anything you walk away with is pure profit.
Who do you think actually pays for wars?
Asking Earthlings for ideas on space flight is like asking a sheep how to cook beef. They're just clueless.
huh. You haven't seen the feral little ovine bastards around here. Buggers will pinch your cows and turn 'em into steaks before you can blink.
Actually, Australia doesn't have compulsory car insurance.
It has compuslory insurance against car-accident related injury, but the cars are not covered by it, only the occupants.
It is not uncommon for someone to get hit by some retard with no insurance, and their own insurance is left on the hook for the damage. Side effect of this is that most policies have no penalty for claiming, if they judge the crash wasn't your fault and the other car is uninsured.
I recommend the Panasonic TZ series. Latest model is the TZ10. : :)
Points in their favour
Awesome Leica lens for a P&S - 25mm to 384mm zoom, reasonably fast max F3.3(wide) -F5.9(tele), very sharp glass.
Resisted the megapixel race - generally half to three quarters of their competitors.
Latest model TZ has optional manual focus and aperture control. (PASM modes)
Built in GPS so you can tag photos with location.
The IA mode really lets you just point and click, and is a better photographer than 95% of the camera weilding public.
Very good HD movie recording
Pretty good image stabilisation
Downsides:
The ISO can't compare to a DSR. Personally I find the noise at 400 to be noticable, and 800 is really pushing it.
The built in flash is a little weak, and no hotshoe. (max range about 5 metres)
Pretty chunky for a P&S due to the big lens.
Oblig. disclaimer: I have a TZ7, and would love to upgrade to the TZ10 but can't justify it at the moment.
I don't deny the climate is changing. I even think it is likely the human activity is one of the major factors, if not the entire cause.
My disagreement is that I think global warming is a good thing.
Turning Siberia and Canada into fertile temperate zones, increasing rainfall worldwide, tropical storms over deserts, resettling Greenland, what's not to like?
The most fecund period in history had much higher CO2 levels and global temperatures.
So we have to adapt. That's what life is, adapt or die.
A judge can set aside a guilty verdict, but he/she cannot touch an acquittal. If the jury says "not guilty" you're walking ot of there.
The obvious answer is to tag them with specific isotopes, rather than chemicals. You start getting significant quantities of C14 in your methane, you know something is leaking.