I know the squares. 6x6 is 36. Add 6 to that. Seperate the 6 from the 36, add the new 6 to that (=12), add the 12 back onto the 30, (=42). That's fast enough and less wasteful of valuable education time in childhood.
Does that make me the only person who remembered how "boobless" is spelt and just typed 55318008 into the calculator when they wanted something to snigger at?
that's what exam boards are for: "Why does your class have a 90% fail rate?" "I insta-fail anyone who doesn't buy my textbook" "Erm, right. We're giving everyone a concessionary pass and giving this module to someone else next year."
OTOH, this is my 4th year in taught academia, and I have only just come across a lecturer who directly set questions from a textbook - I always used to chuckle when I saw references to textbook exercises being used directly. If you get to give feedback at the end of the module - make sure that everyone complains about being forced to buy the textbook. During the term, make sure to complain to anyone within earshot about it too.
France still has trouble to come to terms with no longer being a super power any more.
Which is interesting, because that happened in 1815, meaning that, by my rough estimate, they're now at least 3 generations removed from anyone who remembers a time when France was a superpower.
yes, unfortunately, "Those orders were illegal" has recently been roundly thrown out as a defence for not following orders by a military judge who didn't want to know and refused even to hear the argument, calling it a 'political question'. (someone else find the reference). The average soldier\marine\airborne (wait, are airborn army or air force?) is stuck between a rock & a hard place.
Not a big deal for someone that eats a few Snickers bars every month, but a noticeable pain for someone who eats them every day.
Except that's not the way that it pans out. The people who want a Mars (who in the hell would voluntarily eat a Snickers?) 3 or 4 times a day will pay the tax irregardless, and whilst they may notice the pain in their wallet, it won't stop them. On the other hand, the guy who has a Mars bar once a week perhaps when he needs some calories quickly will notice, and be rightfully annoyed when he sees that he has to pay extra for one because someone thinks that too many Mars bars are bad for him. So in the end, nobody's behaviour is changed, and everyone is a little bit poorer.
I'm vaguely running xubuntu on a 600 MHz Celery with 64MB RAM. It can just about handle a firefox window with 3 or 4 tabs, or mythTV (photos), or Azureus at a real pinch. My point being that it doesn't even need 128MB, although I wouldn't recommend that you try to make it work full time on 64.
In exchange for being able to leave your job without giving some nominal notice period (which will be useful one time in a million - what new employer won't be able to wait for your notice period to be up, really?) you get NO JOB SECURITY, AT ALL!
I'm not saying this is your position (\me avoids accusations of straw-man), but I really don't understand people who trumpet, as an employee, at-will employment being a good thing for them. It's like sitting down for a game of cards, but first extracting the aces from the pack & giving them to your opponent.
But some lawyers are themselves scum who try to have innocent non-scum sent to prison, even after they've been shown that it's unlikely that a crime ever existed, let alone that the widow that they're going after like rabid attack dogs is no more likely to be guilty than anyone else (if, indeed, there ever was a crime).
Museums and art galleries can charge you for a print because they created a new work when they photographed or scanned the original. I have several photographs of paintings taken in the Hermitage, I took the photographs, so the copyright is mine. The Hermitage don't in any sense, and never did, own the copyright on my photos. I didn't need their permission to take photographs of the works (I may need their permission ot have a camera with me in the museum if I don't want to be thrown out when they see me holding one). But once the works enter the public domain, you can't legally stop people making copies (you can use other legal means to attempt to prevent them from making copies, but they wouldn't be infringing any right of yours if they somehow made the copies anyway).
(ok, I'm surmising about the state of copyight law in the Russian Federation, but if the Hermitage were in the UK, that would be the situation) Just to recap. (assume that the painting is old enough to be in the public domain) A photograph or scan of it would constitute a new work with it's own copyright term, assigned to whoever made the photograph or scan. I hold the copyright if I take a photograph The gallery would have no specific right to stop me photographing the painting (that is, they could ban cameras, and require me to leave if they saw me with one, but would have no recourse to have me destroy an image that I did make) nor would such an image be infringing their copyright (because their copyright is on the prints that they sell, not the original).
Or, at least, that's what i understood the situation to be when I read about it several years ago.
really? I don't like mandelbrot, it's just a sort of blob with a line coming out of it, like an alien vessel from some extremely low budget sci-fi show. I think the Julia set is much more aesthetically pleasing. (like this). Each to his own.
keep the present system, but have the court pay a sufficiently competent lawyer to represent the defendant. At the conclusion of the case, the defendant then has to pay the court back (for which they may immediately recieve the cash if they win and the judge decides that they should be given lawyers fees) rather than having to try and pay for their defence up-front.
If you've got a bunch of old cases that you can get your hands on then you might be able to do something useful.
1) Don't expect to use the smaller drives - turn the platters into coasters! 1) (a) If some of them are 7200rpm drives (or raptors), you could roll them out to individual workstations as swap space 2) Get all the 3.5" enclosures out of the old cases, attach together, put into some sort of sturdy frame. Voila, lots of 3.5" drive space. Find a motherboard which has 2 IDE connectors and as many PCI slots as you can find. And get stuffing them with IDE controllers. Now, you need a motherboard with a pci-express slot as well, and either onboard graphics or onboard gigabit LAN. Try for the former as onboard network adapters are notoriously flakey. You then get a PCI-express dual, or quad, channel network adapter. With 4 PCI slots and the onboard controllers, you now have 10 IDE controllers = 20 drives (+1 new SATA drive for the system to run on). Pick the 20 best drives and fit those to your shiny drive rack. (If you don't fancy that, buy a new case, though I can't find any that will fit more than 18 drives (a Lian-Li), don't forget to get internal enclosures to fit extra drives in 5.25" bays). You'll also need to get a beefy power supply. 3) Do some totting up an realize that the whole scheme has cost substantially more than buying a bunch of new drives.
A few of the bigger drives may be good for medium storage requirements; see if you can buy your employer out of them if you want to build a MythTV box at home; but other than that, I'd say that you've saved yourself a turkey. Which is the basic rule of thumb when saving any consumer-grade hardware
Australia, like many countries, pays far below the average wage for jurors (juror pay: AU$125, average wage AU$220). In the immortal words of Lisa Simpon: "meh; slave labor - you get what you pay for".
In defense of the Australian system, juror pay is not limited only to lost wages, it's made up of AU$20 base, then up to AU$105 for lost wages, expenses etc. This means that those people not normally earning wages, such as students in their holiday, don't find themselves forced to turn up to do essentially free work.
but if it's sent back this year, and sent back next year, Gordon will be out before he gets the chance to put it through (and force it) a third time. Hopefully.
I feel less inclined to copy if I'm cheapskating over a reasonable price (when I say 'less inclined', I've never actually copied anything that wasn't abandonware, but feel more tempted to when it's something that I can't stretch to than something that I won't stretch to). If you're charging £15 I'll buy it, or I'll do without, I might even push that to £20 for something that had a good demo, but if you're charging £35 I won't buy it. *I* won't copy it either, but you still don't get a sale. The point is that with a reasonable price for the product you'll get the middle-ground people (who have some moral compunction against copying but lose it when they realise that you're trying to rip them off) to cough up. You probably get the same amount of money overall, I suppose the status quo lets you keep those pirate figures up.
Perhaps the point of a reasonable price as copy protection is that your average man on the street likes to see rip-off merchants get ripped-off themselves. If you had someone come to your door, offer to clean your windows for "two-fifty", and then ask for £250 when the work was done, not £2.50, would you have any problem with writing a cheque for £250 and immediately cancelling it, thus getting whatever work was done for free? I don't think that most people would, and it's getting those 'most people' to not see the game publisher as the rip-off merchant, and thus be willing to pay the price asked for what they're getting, that reasonable-price-as-copy-protection is aimed at. If someone offers you a deal that is clearly a rip-off, do you just politely decline, or do you try to twist the deal so that you get to do the ripping off? Quite a lot of people would do the latter - that's the spirit behind quite a lot of piracy, and threatening people that they'd better accept your rip-off deal or else isn't going to make that spirit go away - not appearing to rip them off will. The fool and his money are easily parted - the rest of us don't like people who try to demonstrate the former of us by doing the latter.
yeah, and if can stretch to three sets of supplies again, all the better - that way you don't have to wait for one set to arrive back before you can go again.
it's a great wheeze, isn't it? They save money by reducing services, and then MAKE money by fining people for not picking up the slack now that the services are gone.
Your rubbish needs to be collected - you will now pay us for the privilege of doing most of the work yourself, and go to prison if you don't pay, and pay us more money if you don't do the work.
They should have found or made the extra space necessary to get a laptop-sized optical drive in there (Nintendo have with the similar-sized Wii). One of those desktop Eee's with a DVD drive would be a killer client-only box for MythTV (so long as you can turn DVI-out into appropriate TV-in). It's dinky, stylish enough to have in your living room, presumably pretty quiet, cheap, and more powerful than reusing an old box. What's not to like? (and if you get the bluetooth option, you can get One of these, or something similar but cheaper)
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I know the squares. 6x6 is 36. Add 6 to that. Seperate the 6 from the 36, add the new 6 to that (=12), add the 12 back onto the 30, (=42). That's fast enough and less wasteful of valuable education time in childhood.
I suspect that a laptop would not survive the dishwasher treatment. How about some gamma radiation?
Does that make me the only person who remembered how "boobless" is spelt and just typed 55318008 into the calculator when they wanted something to snigger at?
to make it work again? When did it work before?
that's what exam boards are for:
"Why does your class have a 90% fail rate?"
"I insta-fail anyone who doesn't buy my textbook"
"Erm, right. We're giving everyone a concessionary pass and giving this module to someone else next year."
OTOH, this is my 4th year in taught academia, and I have only just come across a lecturer who directly set questions from a textbook - I always used to chuckle when I saw references to textbook exercises being used directly. If you get to give feedback at the end of the module - make sure that everyone complains about being forced to buy the textbook. During the term, make sure to complain to anyone within earshot about it too.
Which is interesting, because that happened in 1815, meaning that, by my rough estimate, they're now at least 3 generations removed from anyone who remembers a time when France was a superpower.
How about when he died in office? Was he incapacitated then?
yes, unfortunately, "Those orders were illegal" has recently been roundly thrown out as a defence for not following orders by a military judge who didn't want to know and refused even to hear the argument, calling it a 'political question'. (someone else find the reference). The average soldier\marine\airborne (wait, are airborn army or air force?) is stuck between a rock & a hard place.
Except that's not the way that it pans out. The people who want a Mars (who in the hell would voluntarily eat a Snickers?) 3 or 4 times a day will pay the tax irregardless, and whilst they may notice the pain in their wallet, it won't stop them. On the other hand, the guy who has a Mars bar once a week perhaps when he needs some calories quickly will notice, and be rightfully annoyed when he sees that he has to pay extra for one because someone thinks that too many Mars bars are bad for him.
So in the end, nobody's behaviour is changed, and everyone is a little bit poorer.
And bets on wether goggle will be around in 20 years?
I'm vaguely running xubuntu on a 600 MHz Celery with 64MB RAM. It can just about handle a firefox window with 3 or 4 tabs, or mythTV (photos), or Azureus at a real pinch.
My point being that it doesn't even need 128MB, although I wouldn't recommend that you try to make it work full time on 64.
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That's a pretty crappy deal.
In exchange for being able to leave your job without giving some nominal notice period (which will be useful one time in a million - what new employer won't be able to wait for your notice period to be up, really?) you get NO JOB SECURITY, AT ALL!
I'm not saying this is your position (\me avoids accusations of straw-man), but I really don't understand people who trumpet, as an employee, at-will employment being a good thing for them. It's like sitting down for a game of cards, but first extracting the aces from the pack & giving them to your opponent.
Kitty porn isn't illegal, so long as there aren't any people involved.
But some lawyers are themselves scum who try to have innocent non-scum sent to prison, even after they've been shown that it's unlikely that a crime ever existed, let alone that the widow that they're going after like rabid attack dogs is no more likely to be guilty than anyone else (if, indeed, there ever was a crime).
The whole system is a mess
Museums and art galleries can charge you for a print because they created a new work when they photographed or scanned the original. I have several photographs of paintings taken in the Hermitage, I took the photographs, so the copyright is mine. The Hermitage don't in any sense, and never did, own the copyright on my photos. I didn't need their permission to take photographs of the works (I may need their permission ot have a camera with me in the museum if I don't want to be thrown out when they see me holding one). But once the works enter the public domain, you can't legally stop people making copies (you can use other legal means to attempt to prevent them from making copies, but they wouldn't be infringing any right of yours if they somehow made the copies anyway).
(ok, I'm surmising about the state of copyight law in the Russian Federation, but if the Hermitage were in the UK, that would be the situation)
Just to recap.
(assume that the painting is old enough to be in the public domain)
A photograph or scan of it would constitute a new work with it's own copyright term, assigned to whoever made the photograph or scan.
I hold the copyright if I take a photograph
The gallery would have no specific right to stop me photographing the painting (that is, they could ban cameras, and require me to leave if they saw me with one, but would have no recourse to have me destroy an image that I did make) nor would such an image be infringing their copyright (because their copyright is on the prints that they sell, not the original).
Or, at least, that's what i understood the situation to be when I read about it several years ago.
really? I don't like mandelbrot, it's just a sort of blob with a line coming out of it, like an alien vessel from some extremely low budget sci-fi show. I think the Julia set is much more aesthetically pleasing. (like this). Each to his own.
keep the present system, but have the court pay a sufficiently competent lawyer to represent the defendant. At the conclusion of the case, the defendant then has to pay the court back (for which they may immediately recieve the cash if they win and the judge decides that they should be given lawyers fees) rather than having to try and pay for their defence up-front.
If you've got a bunch of old cases that you can get your hands on then you might be able to do something useful.
1) Don't expect to use the smaller drives - turn the platters into coasters!
1) (a) If some of them are 7200rpm drives (or raptors), you could roll them out to individual workstations as swap space
2) Get all the 3.5" enclosures out of the old cases, attach together, put into some sort of sturdy frame. Voila, lots of 3.5" drive space. Find a motherboard which has 2 IDE connectors and as many PCI slots as you can find. And get stuffing them with IDE controllers. Now, you need a motherboard with a pci-express slot as well, and either onboard graphics or onboard gigabit LAN. Try for the former as onboard network adapters are notoriously flakey. You then get a PCI-express dual, or quad, channel network adapter.
With 4 PCI slots and the onboard controllers, you now have 10 IDE controllers = 20 drives (+1 new SATA drive for the system to run on). Pick the 20 best drives and fit those to your shiny drive rack. (If you don't fancy that, buy a new case, though I can't find any that will fit more than 18 drives (a Lian-Li), don't forget to get internal enclosures to fit extra drives in 5.25" bays). You'll also need to get a beefy power supply.
3) Do some totting up an realize that the whole scheme has cost substantially more than buying a bunch of new drives.
A few of the bigger drives may be good for medium storage requirements; see if you can buy your employer out of them if you want to build a MythTV box at home; but other than that, I'd say that you've saved yourself a turkey. Which is the basic rule of thumb when saving any consumer-grade hardware
Australia, like many countries, pays far below the average wage for jurors (juror pay: AU$125, average wage AU$220). In the immortal words of Lisa Simpon: "meh; slave labor - you get what you pay for".
In defense of the Australian system, juror pay is not limited only to lost wages, it's made up of AU$20 base, then up to AU$105 for lost wages, expenses etc. This means that those people not normally earning wages, such as students in their holiday, don't find themselves forced to turn up to do essentially free work.
oooh, Ferrari. I though he was talking about a Ferry - they only go at about 10 mph most of the time anyway - I thought it was a bizarre example.
but if it's sent back this year, and sent back next year, Gordon will be out before he gets the chance to put it through (and force it) a third time. Hopefully.
I feel less inclined to copy if I'm cheapskating over a reasonable price (when I say 'less inclined', I've never actually copied anything that wasn't abandonware, but feel more tempted to when it's something that I can't stretch to than something that I won't stretch to). If you're charging £15 I'll buy it, or I'll do without, I might even push that to £20 for something that had a good demo, but if you're charging £35 I won't buy it. *I* won't copy it either, but you still don't get a sale. The point is that with a reasonable price for the product you'll get the middle-ground people (who have some moral compunction against copying but lose it when they realise that you're trying to rip them off) to cough up. You probably get the same amount of money overall, I suppose the status quo lets you keep those pirate figures up.
Perhaps the point of a reasonable price as copy protection is that your average man on the street likes to see rip-off merchants get ripped-off themselves. If you had someone come to your door, offer to clean your windows for "two-fifty", and then ask for £250 when the work was done, not £2.50, would you have any problem with writing a cheque for £250 and immediately cancelling it, thus getting whatever work was done for free? I don't think that most people would, and it's getting those 'most people' to not see the game publisher as the rip-off merchant, and thus be willing to pay the price asked for what they're getting, that reasonable-price-as-copy-protection is aimed at.
If someone offers you a deal that is clearly a rip-off, do you just politely decline, or do you try to twist the deal so that you get to do the ripping off? Quite a lot of people would do the latter - that's the spirit behind quite a lot of piracy, and threatening people that they'd better accept your rip-off deal or else isn't going to make that spirit go away - not appearing to rip them off will. The fool and his money are easily parted - the rest of us don't like people who try to demonstrate the former of us by doing the latter.
yeah, and if can stretch to three sets of supplies again, all the better - that way you don't have to wait for one set to arrive back before you can go again.
it's a great wheeze, isn't it? They save money by reducing services, and then MAKE money by fining people for not picking up the slack now that the services are gone.
Your rubbish needs to be collected - you will now pay us for the privilege of doing most of the work yourself, and go to prison if you don't pay, and pay us more money if you don't do the work.
They should have found or made the extra space necessary to get a laptop-sized optical drive in there (Nintendo have with the similar-sized Wii). One of those desktop Eee's with a DVD drive would be a killer client-only box for MythTV (so long as you can turn DVI-out into appropriate TV-in).
It's dinky, stylish enough to have in your living room, presumably pretty quiet, cheap, and more powerful than reusing an old box. What's not to like? (and if you get the bluetooth option, you can get One of these, or something similar but cheaper)