would you object? In particular, if the choice was between having advertising unremovably intertwined with your free (illegal) music or no free music at all, just "pay" music, would you pay for your music or would you accept the advertising?
I see this as similar to music radio stations, where you get free music, but there's advertising that comes with it, and you can't avoid hearing the ads.
Assume WOLOG that Amy does something stupid in college, say, littering, running a red light, or DUI. How do we know that Amy has changed her habits since then? For all we know, she may have been plotting all these years and planning to launch a rocket into the crowd at a football game. Should we allow everyone to partake of the privileges of democracy?
You can't enjoy the full freedom allowed by the law unless you abide by the law; any time you don't abide by the law, your freedoms are reduced under the law. Certainly if the US were a democracy* then this restriction on part of the population would go against our grain, but the US government does not value democracy over liberty**. Nor should it - if the US government valued democracy as much or more than freedom from interference by the government, we would have a state similar to the former Soviet Union, where the citizens were nearly politically equal, but there was significant interference in citizens' lives by the government.
The Founding Fathers desired less democracy than we have today. Today we have less democracy than you would like, for then you and your fellow-citizens would have your way. If today we have too little democracy, assuredly the Founding Fathers desired too little democracy, thus even if this restriction does go against the principles the US was founded on, it's not on the side of lessening democracy. This restriction is perfectly justified by the Constitution, by the Founding Fathers' intent, and by common sense and logic. Too much democracy is never justified.
*democracy: a system of government based on rule of the people, evidenced by political equality of all citizens.
**liberty: freedom from government interference in citizens' pursuit of happiness and their full potential, insofar as these pursuits do not interfere with other's pursuit of happiness and their full potential.
I was reading a article on zdnet a couple days ago about how the problem of Web2.0 and Web2.0 storing its data online was that you couldn't use this data when you weren't connected to the internet. Here's the answer: a small app that reads and writes using this API, but can store to your computer for later online storage when reconnected to the internet. I can't wait till it comes to Linux.
But there isn't a PostScript font package for most fonts. (i.e. Electra or Georgia, which I want to use for my book, but my book is in LaTeX and I haven't found Electra or Georgia for LaTeX. Do you know of one?)
Absolutely right. The only problem with LaTeX is fonts and font sizes, which are somewhat limited. I wrote my entire science fair project in LaTeX last year, and everyone from the regional fair to ISEF remarked on how professional and clean it looked in LaTeX. The problem, again, is the fonts; if I could increase the font size more than 36 points, it would be helpful.
The German government is threatening subpoenaing Google. The Germans want to know when Google spotted this great bug so that they may wage war on it. 3 battalions of the world-famous German army have been dispatched to the area, but the Germans desire Google to tell them when they caught the bug on camera, so that they know how far it may have fled and thus how much area they must search to find this.
So is WordPowerRocks! more secure than BrAnViCl? (Neither of which are my/. password, which is highly insecure.)
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Then break the actual electronics from that flimsy case and build your own. 5 minutes work with a screwdriver and pliers does the job of breaking open that case; then you can either just carry the bare drives in your pocket (and show them off to everyone) or build some enclosure yourself. They're stronger than you imagine.
Agreed, for any launch that beach rocks. Also, for all those naysayers who claim that it's just a dot with flame shooting out, it's really considerably more impressive than that. I've only seen a smaller rocket launch, but it was from the space shuttle pad.
Truly when I saw the headline, I wondered why we were reporting on the wiretap-illegality ruling this late... I'd say more of Bloggers 1, Smoke-Filled Room 1+ (because we don't know what else is happening in other smoke-filled rooms.)
You see, something that makes plane jane Mozilla so amazing is that it doesn't come as a bloated application waiting to error.
Indeed "plain jane" Seamonkey is amazing that it doesn't come as a bloated app. But I think you meant plain jane Firefox. Since when has Firefox not taken up as much memory as it can? Firefox not bloated? Ha.
I have 10GB swap on my desktop with 2.5GB RAM, because I have 700GB of hd space, and I don't have to be conservative with it. 10GB is enough for any application that I'm liable to install to need for the next, eh, 4 years, and in 10GB swap you can have some incredibly huge python range() arrays.
On the other hand, on my laptop with 256MB, I have (iirc) 1GB swap, and on my laptop with but 96MB ram, I have (again, iirc) 25% of my disk in swap. (But then, the disk is only 2GB anyway...)
So do as much as you can spare. Sure, you may never use it, but hd space is cheap these days.
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It happens. It happens when some Luddites are hosting their own website, about 1 hit a day, and are smoking a cigarette. Then they get slashdotted and they're still using card catalog databases, so the Luddite has to get to work serving out of the database, the cig falls out of his mouth, and the database catches on fire.:)
Xgl rules for zooming in. How else can you zoom from 200 to 1600% no matter how clunky and non-resize-friendly the app is you're zooming on? Unfortunately, presently you cannot click while zoomed, but otherwise, Xgl is great.
I'll admit I didn't read the article, but the summary said that the sim was based on one bone.
As for the process of fossilization, how did the rock get there?
Eh, seems to me from reading the article that Mr. Submitter was just a little over-enthusiastic about using the word over; the article claims -exactly- 6,831 batteries.
Does anyone else see something wrong with basing something on one bone that's been fossilized? When mainstream scientists can't even explain exactly how these bones lasted as long as they think they did?
Indeed, I use my blog to keep family and friends apprised of the latest events in my life, so they can make sure I'm all right. Sure beats email or telephones. Friends encourage friends to blog.
Wellll, last time I installed Ubuntu it was on a laptop with 32 MB RAM, which is just a little below the minimum required; the installer was pretty slow, and I had to have a large swap and it still went pretty slowly once installed.
The advantage of being so 50 megs is that it takes only a quarter as many days for a dialup user to download it. Between DSL and Slax being as small as they are, I tried Linux and found it pleasant. Had it taken more than 2 days to download each, I'd have not done it.
Actually, having been in Hartsfield-Ja'son Airport myself recently, which I presume is the Atlanta airport referenced, they have WiFi too, quite good wifi I must say, as I waited there for 3 hours using it. In any case, you plunk down $100 for a shuffle, $8 for internet access, and you have your music. (Why not use the laptop to play music? Tinny speakers? But that is a good point... Maybe the iPods come with wireless adapters and run Linux, so they can get their own music?)
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I see this as similar to music radio stations, where you get free music, but there's advertising that comes with it, and you can't avoid hearing the ads.
You mean http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/13/200 254&from=rss ? Nope, no progress. Sorry, but I have tried and failed already :-).
You can't enjoy the full freedom allowed by the law unless you abide by the law; any time you don't abide by the law, your freedoms are reduced under the law. Certainly if the US were a democracy* then this restriction on part of the population would go against our grain, but the US government does not value democracy over liberty**. Nor should it - if the US government valued democracy as much or more than freedom from interference by the government, we would have a state similar to the former Soviet Union, where the citizens were nearly politically equal, but there was significant interference in citizens' lives by the government.
The Founding Fathers desired less democracy than we have today. Today we have less democracy than you would like, for then you and your fellow-citizens would have your way. If today we have too little democracy, assuredly the Founding Fathers desired too little democracy, thus even if this restriction does go against the principles the US was founded on, it's not on the side of lessening democracy. This restriction is perfectly justified by the Constitution, by the Founding Fathers' intent, and by common sense and logic. Too much democracy is never justified.
*democracy: a system of government based on rule of the people, evidenced by political equality of all citizens.
**liberty: freedom from government interference in citizens' pursuit of happiness and their full potential, insofar as these pursuits do not interfere with other's pursuit of happiness and their full potential.
I was reading a article on zdnet a couple days ago about how the problem of Web2.0 and Web2.0 storing its data online was that you couldn't use this data when you weren't connected to the internet. Here's the answer: a small app that reads and writes using this API, but can store to your computer for later online storage when reconnected to the internet. I can't wait till it comes to Linux.
But there isn't a PostScript font package for most fonts. (i.e. Electra or Georgia, which I want to use for my book, but my book is in LaTeX and I haven't found Electra or Georgia for LaTeX. Do you know of one?)
If you want to see it, my science fair paper may be found at http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Resources/Paper s/FracBase.pdf.
So is WordPowerRocks! more secure than BrAnViCl? (Neither of which are my /. password, which is highly insecure.)
Then break the actual electronics from that flimsy case and build your own. 5 minutes work with a screwdriver and pliers does the job of breaking open that case; then you can either just carry the bare drives in your pocket (and show them off to everyone) or build some enclosure yourself. They're stronger than you imagine.
Agreed, for any launch that beach rocks. Also, for all those naysayers who claim that it's just a dot with flame shooting out, it's really considerably more impressive than that. I've only seen a smaller rocket launch, but it was from the space shuttle pad.
Truly when I saw the headline, I wondered why we were reporting on the wiretap-illegality ruling this late... I'd say more of Bloggers 1, Smoke-Filled Room 1+ (because we don't know what else is happening in other smoke-filled rooms.)
Indeed "plain jane" Seamonkey is amazing that it doesn't come as a bloated app. But I think you meant plain jane Firefox. Since when has Firefox not taken up as much memory as it can? Firefox not bloated? Ha.
On the other hand, on my laptop with 256MB, I have (iirc) 1GB swap, and on my laptop with but 96MB ram, I have (again, iirc) 25% of my disk in swap. (But then, the disk is only 2GB anyway...)
So do as much as you can spare. Sure, you may never use it, but hd space is cheap these days.
It happens. It happens when some Luddites are hosting their own website, about 1 hit a day, and are smoking a cigarette. Then they get slashdotted and they're still using card catalog databases, so the Luddite has to get to work serving out of the database, the cig falls out of his mouth, and the database catches on fire. :)
Xgl rules for zooming in. How else can you zoom from 200 to 1600% no matter how clunky and non-resize-friendly the app is you're zooming on? Unfortunately, presently you cannot click while zoomed, but otherwise, Xgl is great.
I'll admit I didn't read the article, but the summary said that the sim was based on one bone.
As for the process of fossilization, how did the rock get there?
Eh, seems to me from reading the article that Mr. Submitter was just a little over-enthusiastic about using the word over; the article claims -exactly- 6,831 batteries.
Does anyone else see something wrong with basing something on one bone that's been fossilized? When mainstream scientists can't even explain exactly how these bones lasted as long as they think they did?
Indeed, I use my blog to keep family and friends apprised of the latest events in my life, so they can make sure I'm all right. Sure beats email or telephones. Friends encourage friends to blog.
Wellll, last time I installed Ubuntu it was on a laptop with 32 MB RAM, which is just a little below the minimum required; the installer was pretty slow, and I had to have a large swap and it still went pretty slowly once installed.
On Gentoo 2.17 vanilla sources have the broadcomm driver available, which works tolerably well with encrypted wireless networks. So try Gentoo.
It is actually possible to represent "8-bit data" with 6 bits; less for certain datum.
Also, I don't quite comprehend why you couldn't just store 8 8-bit values as 7 8-bit values; could you explain that please?
The advantage of being so 50 megs is that it takes only a quarter as many days for a dialup user to download it. Between DSL and Slax being as small as they are, I tried Linux and found it pleasant. Had it taken more than 2 days to download each, I'd have not done it.
Actually, having been in Hartsfield-Ja'son Airport myself recently, which I presume is the Atlanta airport referenced, they have WiFi too, quite good wifi I must say, as I waited there for 3 hours using it. In any case, you plunk down $100 for a shuffle, $8 for internet access, and you have your music. (Why not use the laptop to play music? Tinny speakers? But that is a good point... Maybe the iPods come with wireless adapters and run Linux, so they can get their own music?)
Question is, will these new species be able to survive now that they have been opened up to the outside world?