Actually, I thought of that too. I figured my purpose is to leave the earth a little better than it would have been without me around. In other words, if you do not have a purpose, you can make one. No faith required.
The argument MS would make to the government would be that "knowledge of Windows is a marketable skill, as a majority of the people are using it." in a sort of circular argument.
Thank you. I think they are essentially making a reductio ad absurdum example by suing many people over what is commonly perceived as non-infringing behaviour. The only problem with these is if they are taken seriously (c.f. "The Yes Men Fix The World", where the two are trying to make a reductio ad absurdum example and are taken seriously when introducing a "human death toll in dollars calculator" at an industrial conference).
Apart from regulatory issues, most problems came from substandard work coming out of the US. When shown that their work was not good enough (the component wasn't working to design specifications), instead of admitting cost-cutting and labor-cutting measures had resulted in a substandard component, they were adamant to find loopholes in the contract, blame others, threatened to sue and make communication hard and tough.
The alternative was to admit they had made a mistake and to fix it.
It seems to me from stories of colleagues and family (all outside the US), that dealing with entities in the US can be a great PITA as they tend to try to screw you in all kinds of unwanted positions. Could this have something to do with it?
breasts and genitalia?
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quick question, does it show breasts and genitalia? The images on the "you need chrome"-page suggest otherwise. Which would be a great step backwards in terms of biology education, but completely intelligible from an america-centric self-censorship perspective.
I got out of a ticket once, by being polite, but refusing to implicate myself. The officer was asking: "how fast do you think you were going", upon which my answer was: "exactly the speed limit".
Notice that there are always two officers, one asking the questions, and the second recording the response. If you admit you have been speeding, they do not have to prove a thing. If you do not admit it (granted, it has to be around borderline case), the burden of proof is on them.
Being polite helps, though, even in the Netherlands.
Cloud is just the latest word for "outsourcing". Although they do not want to call it that, because in many cases, outsourcing simply does not work or is not cheaper.
I remember (but I cannot find) that a one-time lump sum handout to families in developing countries actually turned out to help quite well, as the family usually invested the money sensibly.
As for the malaria, you can actually change the parasites' behaviour by installing malaria nets. The reason for that was explained in a ted talk: ill people, infected, will stay indoors and are no longer accessible to other mosquitoes, thereby preventing the spread of the parasite. It is therefore in the parasites' best interest not to render the patient bedridden, and changes in the parasites' characteristics can be seen within years. (and damn, I cannot find that either because for some reason the ted.com site is incredulously slow now..).
I live here too, but I have a us-international keyboard (MacBook Pro). The advantage is that I have a larger spacebar, but character set switching is not as easy as I'd have liked. caps lock helps in this case.
For that to work, though, you should use ISO 100 (Tmax or somesuch) or ISO 50 film, with very fine grain, and then develop it in the right way. The way I go about it is to shoot medium format (6x7 cm) film, which allows for much faster film and much sloppier developing and still get incredible resolution. I still have to take my 9x12 cm large format camera out one of these days and blow the MP bar sky-high.
Surprisingly much. Depending on the trip (and I usually go for extended stays of a month or more), I need up to 7GB of software, and from 50GB of data. If I go for measurements, I can easily collect up to half a TB of data which have to be shipped across. (it goes fast with images).
My laptop HD only contains a subset of all the data (or partially processed data), so that would amount to about 200GB. Spending days before my trip to transfer that data to another set of drives and ship those drives, or to upload it onto some online repository is not on my shortlist of things to do (yet)...
Fine, but with over 200G of data on my hard drive, it will take an age to upload to a dropbox account, and an even longer age to download it again once in the destination country. How to solve that?
Well, this is an understandable result of trying to hand out science nobel prizes. The science these days is more the effort of many groups competing and collaborating than that of a single individual. Picking out an individual therefore, worthy of the Nobel Prize, is bound to be inaccurate. The prizes should be given to groups instead...
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Actually, I thought of that too. I figured my purpose is to leave the earth a little better than it would have been without me around. In other words, if you do not have a purpose, you can make one. No faith required.
The argument MS would make to the government would be that "knowledge of Windows is a marketable skill, as a majority of the people are using it." in a sort of circular argument.
I think they would gladly make an "exception" here and offer it for free.
or "if you want it to work you can write it yourself". Which is the attitude that moved me towards Mac OS X.
I fear the "open source software" will be very quickly replaced with "windows", just like what happened with the OLPC.
I find Ghostery to be quite helpful in blocking tracking shit.
Thank you. I think they are essentially making a reductio ad absurdum example by suing many people over what is commonly perceived as non-infringing behaviour. The only problem with these is if they are taken seriously (c.f. "The Yes Men Fix The World", where the two are trying to make a reductio ad absurdum example and are taken seriously when introducing a "human death toll in dollars calculator" at an industrial conference).
Still think I am trolling?
Apart from regulatory issues, most problems came from substandard work coming out of the US. When shown that their work was not good enough (the component wasn't working to design specifications), instead of admitting cost-cutting and labor-cutting measures had resulted in a substandard component, they were adamant to find loopholes in the contract, blame others, threatened to sue and make communication hard and tough.
The alternative was to admit they had made a mistake and to fix it.
I'd say good luck to them. The more they press the issue, the more ammo we have to show that the DMCA is full of shit.
It seems to me from stories of colleagues and family (all outside the US), that dealing with entities in the US can be a great PITA as they tend to try to screw you in all kinds of unwanted positions. Could this have something to do with it?
quick question, does it show breasts and genitalia? The images on the "you need chrome"-page suggest otherwise. Which would be a great step backwards in terms of biology education, but completely intelligible from an america-centric self-censorship perspective.
Why, then, not enlighten us with this information?
+ infinite and move this comment somewhere right underneath the fucking summary so that it gets read first thing.
I got out of a ticket once, by being polite, but refusing to implicate myself. The officer was asking: "how fast do you think you were going", upon which my answer was: "exactly the speed limit".
Notice that there are always two officers, one asking the questions, and the second recording the response. If you admit you have been speeding, they do not have to prove a thing. If you do not admit it (granted, it has to be around borderline case), the burden of proof is on them.
Being polite helps, though, even in the Netherlands.
Cloud is just the latest word for "outsourcing". Although they do not want to call it that, because in many cases, outsourcing simply does not work or is not cheaper.
I remember (but I cannot find) that a one-time lump sum handout to families in developing countries actually turned out to help quite well, as the family usually invested the money sensibly.
As for the malaria, you can actually change the parasites' behaviour by installing malaria nets. The reason for that was explained in a ted talk: ill people, infected, will stay indoors and are no longer accessible to other mosquitoes, thereby preventing the spread of the parasite. It is therefore in the parasites' best interest not to render the patient bedridden, and changes in the parasites' characteristics can be seen within years. (and damn, I cannot find that either because for some reason the ted.com site is incredulously slow now..).
I live here too, but I have a us-international keyboard (MacBook Pro). The advantage is that I have a larger spacebar, but character set switching is not as easy as I'd have liked. caps lock helps in this case.
on Mac OS X, it's shift-ctrl-command-space. Still, only one button is easier than any key combination..
On top of that, in Japan, you can use the caps lock key to switch to a different kind of characterset. Quite useful, really...
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You do know that the EPUK.org article was an april fool's joke, right? Still, so close to reality...
For that to work, though, you should use ISO 100 (Tmax or somesuch) or ISO 50 film, with very fine grain, and then develop it in the right way. The way I go about it is to shoot medium format (6x7 cm) film, which allows for much faster film and much sloppier developing and still get incredible resolution. I still have to take my 9x12 cm large format camera out one of these days and blow the MP bar sky-high.
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The scalpers are creating an artificial scarcity to push up the price of the tickets. That is what is wrong.
Surprisingly much. Depending on the trip (and I usually go for extended stays of a month or more), I need up to 7GB of software, and from 50GB of data. If I go for measurements, I can easily collect up to half a TB of data which have to be shipped across. (it goes fast with images).
My laptop HD only contains a subset of all the data (or partially processed data), so that would amount to about 200GB. Spending days before my trip to transfer that data to another set of drives and ship those drives, or to upload it onto some online repository is not on my shortlist of things to do (yet)...
Fine, but with over 200G of data on my hard drive, it will take an age to upload to a dropbox account, and an even longer age to download it again once in the destination country. How to solve that?
Well, this is an understandable result of trying to hand out science nobel prizes. The science these days is more the effort of many groups competing and collaborating than that of a single individual. Picking out an individual therefore, worthy of the Nobel Prize, is bound to be inaccurate. The prizes should be given to groups instead...