An extra 8 GB of storage is nice. Even better, though, would be double the battery life, which is the eee's main weakness (2.5 hours in realistic scenarios, without using wireless, and if you're careful).
You're thinking of Athens, not of Greece generally, and even Athens used slaves in its navy. Hence the social importance of the battle of Arginousai: after the battle the assembly voted to give freedom to slaves who fought in the battle.
Idiot, moron, retard and many other such words were originally medical terms, but they were eventually turned into derogatory slurs.
For reference, the first two of those may possibly have been medical terms at some time but that certainly wasn't their original usage. "Idiot" and "moron" have always been derogatory. "Idiot" originally meant "someone who doesn't participate in public life", hence "someone completely lacking social skills"; and "moron" meant quite simply "stupid". And "retard" was never a medical term, though it is derived from one.
Maybe I've been sheltered, but this is honestly the first time I've seen what truly seems to be astroturfing for free and open source software. I find it hard to believe that there is actually someone outside Mozilla who thinks the Awesome Bar and OS integration are good ideas. Can anyone independently confirm/deny whether the parent works for Mozilla?
If I can gain an advantage by getting others to follow phony rules, good for me, but I'm not bound by them.
Note that this is significantly different than treaties,
You seem to be under the impression that the WTO is an organisation that just appeared out of thin air -- rather than, say, as a result of lots of countries signing up to binding agreements -- also known as "treaties" (such as GATT and the Marrakesh Agreement).
If you think it's a good thing for your country to abdicate the responsibilities it has itself assumed under the provisions of treaties it willingly signed, then you are simply wanting your country to be a criminal, or rogue state.
By the way, remind me never to sign any contract with you...
For no other reason than that I have a few days' holiday and can't go out much because I need to rest following a minor operation, I have to quibble with the grammar of your sig.
You've presented the future tense debuget as though it comes from a 3rd conjugation verb, debugo, -ere. However, the noun debugatorem is clearly based on a 1st conjugation verb, debugo, -are. So either the first one needs to be changed to a 1st conjugation debugabit, or the noun needs to be changed to reflect the 3rd conjugation verb, viz. debuctorem (cf. rego, -ere => rector, -oris). For what it's worth I think debugabit sounds nicer.
Astonishingly, use of one does not preclude use of the other! Bizarre idea isn't it? And in fact print is a very useful back-up to have in the absence of continued software support (it's how I've managed to restore many older documents that were no longer electronically accessible). Of course, it's a bit harder to transport several bookcases' worth of paper around the world than it is to transport a single pen-sized USB flash drive.
It's peculiar to think that the advantages of electronic storage had not occurred to you, as they're a significant chunk of the reason we're all here on Slashdot. Oh wait, maybe they had and you're just being a prick.
Well, since I've got office 2007 already, why would I switch?
In my case, I use OOo because I need documents I create today still to be accessible to me in 10 years' time. I've had too many disasters over the years with old documents becoming permanently inaccessible, either when migrating between different word processors (e.g. when I first moved to MS Office, ca. 1993), different platforms (moving between Mac and Windows back in the mid-90s), and different versions of MS Office.
I need long-term access to my own documents. And now I don't have to worry about it any more, because they're all stored in an open format. That kind of security is something you'll never get from MS Office -- or at least not without the threat of extending and extinguishing.
Insert -> Note only gives you a note marker; mouse-hovering is needed to read the content of the note. Marginal notes that are visible all the time would be most welcome -- one of the few features I have occasionally missed (though not often) from another popular office suite that I once used.
(Also welcome would be a fixing of the bug that requires me to press Alt twice before I can get keyboard-shortcut-access to the menus in Impress. Yes, I reported the bug..... several years ago. Oh, and also the bug that prevents images from being inserted in a presentation if you insert it by keyboard shortcuts; that only works if I use the mouse.)
Actually, since I live in NZ, they're not our overlords yet, but we do have the RIANZ down here, who are cut from the same cloth.
In fact, here it's illegal to make any copies of music at all. Hence, until the iTMS arrived, it was a pretty good bet that almost all music on any digital devices was illegally uploaded. Law changes are proposed, and the RIANZ wants to keep the law the same, but they give their word they won't chase the little guy, but want the law to remain the same just in case.
Yup. And judging from the comments that came back from the select committee that reviewed the Copyright (New Technologies and Performers' Rights) Amendment Bill last year (I made a submission; hope you did too), there's a huge amount of resistance to changing that. The Bill, if it is ever passed, does include (at the moment) a limited exception for format-shifting audio recordings for personal use, but only audio recordings; even that has met a lot of resistance.
I guess all those videos I've got on my iPod are going to remain forever illegal, then. Politicians seem completely incapable of grasping the idea that it is just dumb to keep somehing illegal when not only is everyone doing it, but everyone is morally right to do it.
For reference, the Green Party is the only party to have opposed the DMCA-like DRM circumvention measures in the bill.
Did you know for example that it now appears that early Christians, far from being blamed for Rome burning, weren't even considered relevant, and many 'confessed' and were punished simply in order to obtain their martyrdom?
For the record, you're mixing up a range of disparate incidents. The Christians most definitely were blamed by the imperial administration for the fire of Rome in 64 CE -- and, it is always possible, correctly. (Look, I'll even cite a source: Tacitus Annals 15.44.)
I'm willing to believe there were incidents of Christians fessing up just to become martyrs (in principle; since you don't cite any proximate sources I feel no obligation to think about it much), but only decades or centuries later, and certainly not in connection with that incident.
And what on earth do you mean by "it now appears"? Is there new evidence?
or the one to the 3 letter agencies. Well, I presume it'll be the three-letter agencies sweeping the place for bugs. So I guess that answers that part of your question.
(2) when he cites someone else to assert that "faith" can usefully be thought of as "framed in terms of an ancient client-patron relationship". There is no necessary connection with proof or evidence,
Uh huh. I suppose if my patron beat and abused me then it would be blind faith indeed to trust him as a good master.
I think that reaction tells me all I need to know about how good a use of my time it would be to try to correct the author. He's all about playing word-games: taking a dictionary definition of pistis as "pledge, guarantee" in a legal context, and stretching that to claim it is primarily about evidence and proof -- in a philosophical context.
What you've done here -- taking the phrase "can [sometimes] usefully be thought of as 'framed in terms of an ancient client-patron relationship'", and stretching it to be precisely equivalent to "dependent on the existence of rigorous evidence" -- well, that's just more word-games. I'll be happy to try to explain Greek to people who actually want to know, but in this case... life's too short.
I wake up thankful every single day that US Constitution provides at least some (admittedly constantly weakening) safeguards against democracy.
Wow, now I've seen everything. An American, criticising the United Kingdom for being too democratic. My mind boggles.... well, actually I guess I've seen enough to obviate the possibility of any boggling, but I shall at least permit my jaw to drop, though.
(Not that I agree with the assessment, mind you; I should have thought it pretty clear that in both countries, the opinions of anyone other than politicians and journalists are very effectively prevented from carrying any weight whatsoever. I should perhaps also add that I am neither a US citizen nor a UK subject.)
I think the short answer is that the change in distance is measurable because the speed of light remains constant. Even if a "metre" gets longer, light will take longer to traverse it. (I shouldn't be surprised if that's one of the reasons that the metre is nowadays defined by reference to the speed of light.)
The word translated as "faith" in the biblical documents means assurance based on a track record or forensic proof i.e. just the opposite of belief without proof. See here for a longer explanation.
I teach ancient Greek. Everything that author claims is founded solely on internal evidence from four texts using words in unusual contexts.
About the only claims there that are consistent with non-biblical usage are (1) that pisteuo means "to rely on, trust in", which does not support the general argument; and (2) when he cites someone else to assert that "faith" can usefully be thought of as "framed in terms of an ancient client-patron relationship". There is no necessary connection with proof or evidence, and pistis means pretty much exactly what the crazier fundamentalists think it does. (One of the few things they do get right.)
I teach on various university courses with ca. 50-150 students each. Our term began this week. I have become so frustrated with Blackboard, and it led to a disastrous situation last month where 15 students almost failed a course through no fault of their own, and so I have given up on it. My university's IT department have been made well aware of the reasons,... and as you might expect, they plan to change nothing, and will keep on throwing good money after bad on Blackboard.
For various reasons setting up a server with Moodle isn't an option for me (and from what I've heard Moodle is better only in some respects, anyway); nor is any service that requires fees, as my school would refuse to cover it. I'd have to pay for it out of my own pocket; I hope I do not need to justify my reluctance to do that.
I'm open to suggestions, of course, but in the meantime I'm using Google Groups for information distribution. Obviously online assessment isn't possible with Google Groups, but that isn't really necessary anyway with the student numbers I'm looking at. Most of my colleagues just use Blackboard for distributing lecture materials anyway; and I reckon Google Groups, or Yahoo Groups for that matter, work just fine as an online photocopier.
The "evil corporation" was a one man outfit.. Chris didn't mention that of course.
Er, unless I'm missing something, that appears to be a wildly inaccurate reading. Vilana Financial and Vilana Realty are certainly not a one man outfit. According to the verdict they do have one person as principal shareholder, but that's really not the same thing.
Lets suppose it were something else. People are buying cigarettes for minors in supermarkets. So the government says, the anti smoking league should be able to monitor people buying cigarettes by observation. Then they give a name to the supermarkets. These then deny service to these people. Refuse for instance to accept their credit cards.
Or speeding. We get anti speeding bodies to notify their insurers that they have been observed breaking the speed limit, who then have to terminate their insurance. No court, no ticket, no magistrate, no legally established penalty. No speed camera necessary.
Can you seriously imagine this scenario?
... er, actually, thinking of Britain, I have to say I can imagine the first of those scenarios extremely easily.
The second one not. There's a very fundamental reason why: the government is always going to be on the side that ensures more taxes are paid. Petrol is an extremely lucrative source of taxes for the UK government, so that's never going to happen. That's a case where the government is always going to be on the side of the motorists, regardless of the morals of the situation -- at least to the extent of never actually banning motorists -- because morals simply don't count for anything when money is on the line.
Similarly, record sales produce taxes. Therefore governments will always, always be on the side of the people selling records, regardless of the morals of the situation. As long as any kind of music industry at all exists and produces tax revenue, there is not the remotest chance that a laissez faire attitude will be adopted towards unauthorised file sharing -- let alone legalisation.
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An extra 8 GB of storage is nice. Even better, though, would be double the battery life, which is the eee's main weakness (2.5 hours in realistic scenarios, without using wireless, and if you're careful).
Voilà. It looks that large, apparently, because it's about 100 light years across.
You're thinking of Athens, not of Greece generally, and even Athens used slaves in its navy. Hence the social importance of the battle of Arginousai: after the battle the assembly voted to give freedom to slaves who fought in the battle.
It's because it was posted by Twitter.
Heh. From your original post:
First off, Jonathan Schilling should change his name to Jonathan Tool.Yes, that's a useful bit of "factual information". Thanks for my first laugh of the morning.
For reference, the first two of those may possibly have been medical terms at some time but that certainly wasn't their original usage. "Idiot" and "moron" have always been derogatory. "Idiot" originally meant "someone who doesn't participate in public life", hence "someone completely lacking social skills"; and "moron" meant quite simply "stupid". And "retard" was never a medical term, though it is derived from one.
Maybe I've been sheltered, but this is honestly the first time I've seen what truly seems to be astroturfing for free and open source software. I find it hard to believe that there is actually someone outside Mozilla who thinks the Awesome Bar and OS integration are good ideas. Can anyone independently confirm/deny whether the parent works for Mozilla?
Note that this is significantly different than treaties,
You seem to be under the impression that the WTO is an organisation that just appeared out of thin air -- rather than, say, as a result of lots of countries signing up to binding agreements -- also known as "treaties" (such as GATT and the Marrakesh Agreement).
If you think it's a good thing for your country to abdicate the responsibilities it has itself assumed under the provisions of treaties it willingly signed, then you are simply wanting your country to be a criminal, or rogue state.
By the way, remind me never to sign any contract with you ...
Maybe you shouldn't have signed up to them, then.
For no other reason than that I have a few days' holiday and can't go out much because I need to rest following a minor operation, I have to quibble with the grammar of your sig.
You've presented the future tense debuget as though it comes from a 3rd conjugation verb, debugo, -ere. However, the noun debugatorem is clearly based on a 1st conjugation verb, debugo, -are. So either the first one needs to be changed to a 1st conjugation debugabit, or the noun needs to be changed to reflect the 3rd conjugation verb, viz. debuctorem (cf. rego, -ere => rector, -oris). For what it's worth I think debugabit sounds nicer.
Astonishingly, use of one does not preclude use of the other! Bizarre idea isn't it? And in fact print is a very useful back-up to have in the absence of continued software support (it's how I've managed to restore many older documents that were no longer electronically accessible). Of course, it's a bit harder to transport several bookcases' worth of paper around the world than it is to transport a single pen-sized USB flash drive.
It's peculiar to think that the advantages of electronic storage had not occurred to you, as they're a significant chunk of the reason we're all here on Slashdot. Oh wait, maybe they had and you're just being a prick.
In my case, I use OOo because I need documents I create today still to be accessible to me in 10 years' time. I've had too many disasters over the years with old documents becoming permanently inaccessible, either when migrating between different word processors (e.g. when I first moved to MS Office, ca. 1993), different platforms (moving between Mac and Windows back in the mid-90s), and different versions of MS Office.
I need long-term access to my own documents. And now I don't have to worry about it any more, because they're all stored in an open format. That kind of security is something you'll never get from MS Office -- or at least not without the threat of extending and extinguishing.
Insert -> Note only gives you a note marker; mouse-hovering is needed to read the content of the note. Marginal notes that are visible all the time would be most welcome -- one of the few features I have occasionally missed (though not often) from another popular office suite that I once used.
(Also welcome would be a fixing of the bug that requires me to press Alt twice before I can get keyboard-shortcut-access to the menus in Impress. Yes, I reported the bug ..... several years ago. Oh, and also the bug that prevents images from being inserted in a presentation if you insert it by keyboard shortcuts; that only works if I use the mouse.)
Actually, since I live in NZ, they're not our overlords yet, but we do have the RIANZ down here, who are cut from the same cloth.
In fact, here it's illegal to make any copies of music at all. Hence, until the iTMS arrived, it was a pretty good bet that almost all music on any digital devices was illegally uploaded. Law changes are proposed, and the RIANZ wants to keep the law the same, but they give their word they won't chase the little guy, but want the law to remain the same just in case.
Yup. And judging from the comments that came back from the select committee that reviewed the Copyright (New Technologies and Performers' Rights) Amendment Bill last year (I made a submission; hope you did too), there's a huge amount of resistance to changing that. The Bill, if it is ever passed, does include (at the moment) a limited exception for format-shifting audio recordings for personal use, but only audio recordings; even that has met a lot of resistance.
I guess all those videos I've got on my iPod are going to remain forever illegal, then. Politicians seem completely incapable of grasping the idea that it is just dumb to keep somehing illegal when not only is everyone doing it, but everyone is morally right to do it.
For reference, the Green Party is the only party to have opposed the DMCA-like DRM circumvention measures in the bill.
For the record, you're mixing up a range of disparate incidents. The Christians most definitely were blamed by the imperial administration for the fire of Rome in 64 CE -- and, it is always possible, correctly. (Look, I'll even cite a source: Tacitus Annals 15.44.)
I'm willing to believe there were incidents of Christians fessing up just to become martyrs (in principle; since you don't cite any proximate sources I feel no obligation to think about it much), but only decades or centuries later, and certainly not in connection with that incident.
And what on earth do you mean by "it now appears"? Is there new evidence?
Uh huh. I suppose if my patron beat and abused me then it would be blind faith indeed to trust him as a good master.
I think that reaction tells me all I need to know about how good a use of my time it would be to try to correct the author. He's all about playing word-games: taking a dictionary definition of pistis as "pledge, guarantee" in a legal context, and stretching that to claim it is primarily about evidence and proof -- in a philosophical context.
What you've done here -- taking the phrase "can [sometimes] usefully be thought of as 'framed in terms of an ancient client-patron relationship'", and stretching it to be precisely equivalent to "dependent on the existence of rigorous evidence" -- well, that's just more word-games. I'll be happy to try to explain Greek to people who actually want to know, but in this case ... life's too short.
Wow, now I've seen everything. An American, criticising the United Kingdom for being too democratic. My mind boggles .... well, actually I guess I've seen enough to obviate the possibility of any boggling, but I shall at least permit my jaw to drop, though.
(Not that I agree with the assessment, mind you; I should have thought it pretty clear that in both countries, the opinions of anyone other than politicians and journalists are very effectively prevented from carrying any weight whatsoever. I should perhaps also add that I am neither a US citizen nor a UK subject.)
I think the short answer is that the change in distance is measurable because the speed of light remains constant. Even if a "metre" gets longer, light will take longer to traverse it. (I shouldn't be surprised if that's one of the reasons that the metre is nowadays defined by reference to the speed of light.)
I teach ancient Greek. Everything that author claims is founded solely on internal evidence from four texts using words in unusual contexts.
About the only claims there that are consistent with non-biblical usage are (1) that pisteuo means "to rely on, trust in", which does not support the general argument; and (2) when he cites someone else to assert that "faith" can usefully be thought of as "framed in terms of an ancient client-patron relationship". There is no necessary connection with proof or evidence, and pistis means pretty much exactly what the crazier fundamentalists think it does. (One of the few things they do get right.)
Just for interest: IE6 gets 4. That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
That's practically never the fault of the airline, but of the airport baggage handlers.
I teach on various university courses with ca. 50-150 students each. Our term began this week. I have become so frustrated with Blackboard, and it led to a disastrous situation last month where 15 students almost failed a course through no fault of their own, and so I have given up on it. My university's IT department have been made well aware of the reasons, ... and as you might expect, they plan to change nothing, and will keep on throwing good money after bad on Blackboard.
For various reasons setting up a server with Moodle isn't an option for me (and from what I've heard Moodle is better only in some respects, anyway); nor is any service that requires fees, as my school would refuse to cover it. I'd have to pay for it out of my own pocket; I hope I do not need to justify my reluctance to do that.
I'm open to suggestions, of course, but in the meantime I'm using Google Groups for information distribution. Obviously online assessment isn't possible with Google Groups, but that isn't really necessary anyway with the student numbers I'm looking at. Most of my colleagues just use Blackboard for distributing lecture materials anyway; and I reckon Google Groups, or Yahoo Groups for that matter, work just fine as an online photocopier.
Er, unless I'm missing something, that appears to be a wildly inaccurate reading. Vilana Financial and Vilana Realty are certainly not a one man outfit. According to the verdict they do have one person as principal shareholder, but that's really not the same thing.
Or speeding. We get anti speeding bodies to notify their insurers that they have been observed breaking the speed limit, who then have to terminate their insurance. No court, no ticket, no magistrate, no legally established penalty. No speed camera necessary.
Can you seriously imagine this scenario?
... er, actually, thinking of Britain, I have to say I can imagine the first of those scenarios extremely easily.
The second one not. There's a very fundamental reason why: the government is always going to be on the side that ensures more taxes are paid. Petrol is an extremely lucrative source of taxes for the UK government, so that's never going to happen. That's a case where the government is always going to be on the side of the motorists, regardless of the morals of the situation -- at least to the extent of never actually banning motorists -- because morals simply don't count for anything when money is on the line.
Similarly, record sales produce taxes. Therefore governments will always, always be on the side of the people selling records, regardless of the morals of the situation. As long as any kind of music industry at all exists and produces tax revenue, there is not the remotest chance that a laissez faire attitude will be adopted towards unauthorised file sharing -- let alone legalisation.