I'd like to know where this guy does his shopping. Around christmas time you were able to buy spindles of 200 CDs for like 25 bucks CDN at many major retailers. That's 12.5 cents a disk before tax. I don't remember getting CDs that cheap *before* the levy.
I have seen no noticeable impact of any levy whatsoever. Blank CDs are still dirt cheap.
Besides, with car audio and portable players all moving toward using memory-based media nowadays anyway, and DVDs offering vastly more storeage for the same price, CDs are rapidly going the way of the dodo bird.
... it is up to the SCOTUS to interpret that quote you just pasted:)
It's a bit of a round robin. The constituion says that Congress can give jurisdiction to a body other than the SCOTUS, but in order for that law to be upheld, the SCOTUS would have to rule on it's constituionality in the first place. In this case though, it would be hard to argue that this wording meant anything *else*. They would be pretty much be forced to agree.
However, just to point out - the point of this is basically to give power to the congress to appoint bi-partisan comittes to excercise judicial authority in special cases. It would most certainly never be excercized lightly.
The problem with ceramic mugs is not that they are breakable, it is that you can't have a cup of coffee sit in them more than 10 minutes before it is nearly ice cold.
Make me a mug that looks like a nice ceramic, but has the termal insulation value of my vaccum sealed travel mug.
The SC *is* the last word when it comes to interpereting the constitution. If the SC rules a law is unconstitutional, the other branches have basically four options - re-write the law so that it is constitutional, give up, wait until the structure of the SC changes enough that they may win a reversal, or amend the constitution.
The last option, is of course, difficult to pull off. So for the majority of issues you only have the first three options. But none of this says that the government can not continue to push new evidence before the SC to try and get it to reverse it's opinion. Then again, the SC doesn't have to hear those cases either.
What's really going on here, is the government is trying to get new evidence just as *an excuse* to place the issue befor ethe SC again, because they think that with the recent change son the bench, they will prevail regardless of the new evidence.
Check out some of Professor Kahan's shiznat at UC-Berkeley...
As I understand it, the "wrong" pictures are computed using Java's strict 64-bit requirement; the "right" pictures are computed by embedding the 64-bit calculation within Intel/AMD 80-bit extended doubles
I can see the people responsible for the Java engine now...
That's easy to say when you are not responsible for the re-training for a 10,000 person workforce, many of whom know nothing about computers aside from their specific application they trained on when they were hired.
Every Linux distribution I know of ships with the ability to install any of several different media players, or office suites. Linux has inherent choice built in.
The problem EMusic has is that it is impossible to browse their catalogue unless I sign up for a "free trial".
I don't want to sign up for anything unless I know WTF I am going to be able to buy. I find most people fit into the same mindset. You need to know what artists are available before you are going to jump into this new unknown site.
What difference does it make if these are random errors or a conspiracy?
The fact that there are a hundred thousand errors in one county is the problem. It is mostly irrelevant whether the errors were intentional or not. This error rate is simply unacceptable. If such a rate occurs across the whole country wherever voting machines were used (and maybe it did? Who knows, we don't get access!), then the whole election is a sham, intentional or not.
If the contracts for these machines were assigned to companies required to open their hardware and software to public scrutiny, perhaps these errors would never have made it into an actual election. At the very least, one would no longer be able to raise the spectre of tampering.
If you have a Blackberry, your phone's radio is constantly on and connected to the server. Otherwise the push functionality would not work.
With a polling phone, the radio only has to power up every poll interval to make a connection.
Since the radio is the main battery draw of any phone, not the CPU, I would hardly think a blackberry would be easier on batteries than a polling phone.
Like a friend of mine said recently on this subject, "I don't care about pushing or pulling as long as it gets me where I am going".
There is useably no difference between a phone that polls every 2-3 minutes and a blackberry. If a message is make-or-break-must-read and two minutes is too long, it probbaly shouldn't have been in an email in the first place.
This about it - what do most people use a computer for? Surfing the web, listening to music, watching videos, reading email, writing documents.
Google is already the portal to most people's web browsing. They already have email, instant messaging. They already have a multimedia player and indexing for it. They already have an instant messanger.
What is the only often used piece of software left? The office suite. If Google can make a successful office suite online with Ajax, then they will succeed where Netscape failed, in untying the user from the OS. When you think about it, Google Pages is nothing mroe than a rudimentry word processor, where your documents are save dpublically. Add in the ability to save private documents, and you instantly have a low-budget replacement for Word.
This is where I think Google is going, and why MS should be scared. This is why they are investing in Firefox so hevaily, because if all your activities run online off of the google.com cluster, then what need do you need for Windows? Or any OS for that matter? Why not just boot into a browser-based shell?
Companies spin-off their larger profit makers all the time. It is called 'unlocking value'. Basically if one division of a company is vastly outpserforming the others, then it makes good financial sense to spin it off, so that the shares of both seperate companies more accuratly reflect their marketplace, instead of one division pullling another one down.
Look at Viacom spinning off CBS for example, or Wendy's spinning off it's cash-cow Tim hortons subsidiary.
It would not be unreasonable to suggest Apple spin off it's iTunes music store, since it fits right into this category.
If what you said was true it would delete test.txt since you have tw permissions to both it and it's parent. But it doesn't because it aborts since you don't have rw permissions to the current dir.
The summary and headline are misleading. HAL is a desktop independant technology and is also used heavily KDE in 3.4, and will likely be even more so in KDE 4.0.
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I'd like to know where this guy does his shopping. Around christmas time you were able to buy spindles of 200 CDs for like 25 bucks CDN at many major retailers. That's 12.5 cents a disk before tax. I don't remember getting CDs that cheap *before* the levy.
I have seen no noticeable impact of any levy whatsoever. Blank CDs are still dirt cheap.
Besides, with car audio and portable players all moving toward using memory-based media nowadays anyway, and DVDs offering vastly more storeage for the same price, CDs are rapidly going the way of the dodo bird.
... it is up to the SCOTUS to interpret that quote you just pasted :)
It's a bit of a round robin. The constituion says that Congress can give jurisdiction to a body other than the SCOTUS, but in order for that law to be upheld, the SCOTUS would have to rule on it's constituionality in the first place. In this case though, it would be hard to argue that this wording meant anything *else*. They would be pretty much be forced to agree.
However, just to point out - the point of this is basically to give power to the congress to appoint bi-partisan comittes to excercise judicial authority in special cases. It would most certainly never be excercized lightly.
The problem with ceramic mugs is not that they are breakable, it is that you can't have a cup of coffee sit in them more than 10 minutes before it is nearly ice cold.
Make me a mug that looks like a nice ceramic, but has the termal insulation value of my vaccum sealed travel mug.
...what turned on Macs as a sexy iPod, just waiting for it's upload.
I guess it's hard to compete with an "agressive worm".
The SC *is* the last word when it comes to interpereting the constitution. If the SC rules a law is unconstitutional, the other branches have basically four options - re-write the law so that it is constitutional, give up, wait until the structure of the SC changes enough that they may win a reversal, or amend the constitution.
The last option, is of course, difficult to pull off. So for the majority of issues you only have the first three options. But none of this says that the government can not continue to push new evidence before the SC to try and get it to reverse it's opinion. Then again, the SC doesn't have to hear those cases either.
What's really going on here, is the government is trying to get new evidence just as *an excuse* to place the issue befor ethe SC again, because they think that with the recent change son the bench, they will prevail regardless of the new evidence.
... I find it hard to conceentrate on the TV while moving my head all around the room.
Check out some of Professor Kahan's shiznat at UC-Berkeley...
As I understand it, the "wrong" pictures are computed using Java's strict 64-bit requirement; the "right" pictures are computed by embedding the 64-bit calculation within Intel/AMD 80-bit extended doubles
I can see the people responsible for the Java engine now...
KKKAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!
That's easy to say when you are not responsible for the re-training for a 10,000 person workforce, many of whom know nothing about computers aside from their specific application they trained on when they were hired.
Every Linux distribution I know of ships with the ability to install any of several different media players, or office suites. Linux has inherent choice built in.
They're a patent holding company. They don't compete against *anyone*, they just patent shit.
Too bad there's no link from www.emusic.com
The problem EMusic has is that it is impossible to browse their catalogue unless I sign up for a "free trial".
I don't want to sign up for anything unless I know WTF I am going to be able to buy. I find most people fit into the same mindset. You need to know what artists are available before you are going to jump into this new unknown site.
If it's killing off regedit then it is probably not a virus but a lame worm that has just added it'self into the registry to start at bootup.
Rebooting into safe mode, or with a Linux boot disk with Windows rescue tools installed, and you should be able to remove it from the registry.
A phone does not need a web browser, chat client, and e-mail client.
Mine does.
Next.
The fact that there are a hundred thousand errors in one county is the problem. It is mostly irrelevant whether the errors were intentional or not. This error rate is simply unacceptable. If such a rate occurs across the whole country wherever voting machines were used (and maybe it did? Who knows, we don't get access!), then the whole election is a sham, intentional or not.
If the contracts for these machines were assigned to companies required to open their hardware and software to public scrutiny, perhaps these errors would never have made it into an actual election. At the very least, one would no longer be able to raise the spectre of tampering.
BS. The blackberry packet radio sends positive connectivity messages off to the towers. This is how the protocol ensures delivery of the data.
Why do you think, the tower just beams out the email and hopes the device is connected?
Care to back that up with a link?
If you have a Blackberry, your phone's radio is constantly on and connected to the server. Otherwise the push functionality would not work.
With a polling phone, the radio only has to power up every poll interval to make a connection.
Since the radio is the main battery draw of any phone, not the CPU, I would hardly think a blackberry would be easier on batteries than a polling phone.
You sound like a marketdroid.
Like a friend of mine said recently on this subject, "I don't care about pushing or pulling as long as it gets me where I am going".
There is useably no difference between a phone that polls every 2-3 minutes and a blackberry. If a message is make-or-break-must-read and two minutes is too long, it probbaly shouldn't have been in an email in the first place.
I know lots of people (including me) who routinely plug their laptop into the TV to watch a movie they just downloaded.
This about it - what do most people use a computer for? Surfing the web, listening to music, watching videos, reading email, writing documents.
Google is already the portal to most people's web browsing. They already have email, instant messaging. They already have a multimedia player and indexing for it. They already have an instant messanger.
What is the only often used piece of software left? The office suite. If Google can make a successful office suite online with Ajax, then they will succeed where Netscape failed, in untying the user from the OS. When you think about it, Google Pages is nothing mroe than a rudimentry word processor, where your documents are save dpublically. Add in the ability to save private documents, and you instantly have a low-budget replacement for Word.
This is where I think Google is going, and why MS should be scared. This is why they are investing in Firefox so hevaily, because if all your activities run online off of the google.com cluster, then what need do you need for Windows? Or any OS for that matter? Why not just boot into a browser-based shell?
Thanks for making my point for me.
.. you don't know shit about it.
Companies spin-off their larger profit makers all the time. It is called 'unlocking value'. Basically if one division of a company is vastly outpserforming the others, then it makes good financial sense to spin it off, so that the shares of both seperate companies more accuratly reflect their marketplace, instead of one division pullling another one down.
Look at Viacom spinning off CBS for example, or Wendy's spinning off it's cash-cow Tim hortons subsidiary.
It would not be unreasonable to suggest Apple spin off it's iTunes music store, since it fits right into this category.
The rm will abort at the first permission error. So it will delete nothing.
./testdir ./testdir/test.txt
If you don't believe me try it yourself:
$ mkdir testbed
$ mkdir testbed/testdir
$ touch testbed/testdir/test.txt
$ sudo chown root testbed
$ cd testbed
$ rm -Rf testdir
rm: cannot remove `testdir': Permission denied
$ find
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If what you said was true it would delete test.txt since you have tw permissions to both it and it's parent. But it doesn't because it aborts since you don't have rw permissions to the current dir.
You have a habit of taking random perl code you don't understand off of people's signatures and executing it as root, do you?
If so I don't feel too sorry for you.
The summary and headline are misleading. HAL is a desktop independant technology and is also used heavily KDE in 3.4, and will likely be even more so in KDE 4.0.
This is a not a GNOME-centric development.