How do they argue that Gnucash has a "bit of a learning curve"? I picked it up a couple months ago, and in maybe 15 minutes had figured it out. It truly is a wonderful app for personal finances.
I've been fairly impressed with MythTV's commercial detection. It has one drawback though: it doesn't skip those short promos channels throw in right before cutting back to the show (e.g. "Politicians are inept, full story at 10"). It seems to get the rest of the commercials. Of course, this is a little picky, as once I start a show I rarely have to touch the remote again (unlike with a TiVo), but is there any hope of them improving it to catch these? I'm guessing there are no blank frames between it and the show to catch.
There I was thinking it was the job of society (i.e. the people themselves) to decide what rights people should have, and the job of the government to put into place laws describing and safeguarding (and where appropriate, limiting) those rights.
And here I was, thinking that people were endowed with certain inalienable rights nautrally. I guess I'm just getting old with this "natural rights" voodoo.
Even if the paper was withdrawn, I'd venture that it's likely it will still lead to a correct proof. Even Wiles' proof of Fermat was originally flawed and had to be corrected.
My bank does something similar with their online banking. They put up a clickable image of a keyboard and make you key in your PIN/password by mouse. It is a complete PITA. Plus, it takes me much longer to mouse click it in that to punch it in on the keyboard, so it seems like it could be even more at risk of shoulder surfing.
Not true. Gmail works fine in both modes in Opera (8.5+ for sure). Google claims not to support it in Calendar, but it works okay for me upon clicking through their warning. I will say that I haven't tried doing anything with rich text in either though.
Yep, that article more clearly states that they really just stumbled upon this idea--Bergmann was using the technique to look at iron levels in spinach leaves, and just by chance read an article about the Archimedes palimpset and thought the same technique could be used. I think in the NPR interview he said his mother gave him the article--now how's that for random chance?
The article's selection of cities seems random at best. Huntsville by far has the largest tech industry base in the state, and is roughly the same cost of living as Montgomery. Growing up here, roughly 40-50% of the kids I knew had at least one parent in some form of engineering. The defense/aerospace industry is huge here, so there are plenty of SW Engineering opportunities.
Nothing is stopping you from paying for support if you want to.
This is a genuine question, not a cynical response, but does anyone offer corporate support for Ubuntu? Debian? Gentoo? The only corporate support I'm aware of is Red Hat; if other companies offer enterprise support for other distros then they really need to work on their marketing.
CSPAN? Maybe I'm just spoiled living in Huntsville, but I've always watched the NASA select channel for launches and such. I take it cable providers elsewhere don't carry it?
And these days, the internship is through before you get clearance. I'm doing an internship at a defense contractor for the summer and am on temporary clearance, and don't expect to get full clearance before I leave.
So neither of us has an incentive to let the other guy sell his service on our network for less than we could sell it on our network ourselves--if you could sell on my network for less than I did, I'd have to lower my price to stay competitive, and the net effect would be less revenue for me from the deal.
Actually, there are a couple incentives that I see. First, I don't think it will uncommon for two companies to both think they can outcompete the other; in that event, they'll both think it benificial to enter such an agreement. Second, there's market pressure from consumers that value choice; I would be much more likely to buy my service from a company engaging in such a deal than one who wasn't, other things being equal.
In any event, one of the beauties of the free market is coming up with solutions that noone anticipates.
As counter-intuitive as it may seem, I suspect your choice of local phone company, cable service, etc. would still be dictated for you in a "purely free market" scenario, because the economies of scale involved would drive the phone companies to negotiate exclusive contracts with subdivision planners, builders, property managers and, yes, municipalities.
They wouldn't be dictated for you anymore than where you live is dictated for you. Many apartment complexes strike deals to only offer a single cable provider; there's no reasons communities can't do the same thing. Homeowner agreements are not uncommon. Further, what's stopping the companies from striking deals allowing access on some of their last miles for access on some of the other companies last miles?
True liberty is not the freedom to do what you want at others' expense.
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Then theres the question of the "H factor" that is, whether or not hydrogen in the form of lunar ice is tucked away within Sun shy areas at the Moons poles. If present and accounted for in such a state, thats a nifty resource to convert to oxygen and fuel.
Turning hydrogen into oxygen would be a nifty trick...
Does this mean that I won't be able to take my tin foil hat on the plane with me anymore? It could be much more dangerous than nail clippers on one of these...
Not abriding the rights of coporations means abriding the rights of citizens and consumers.
Unfounded assertion.
A monopoly is a monopoly becuase consumers have no choice but to support it.
Of course. You can't abstain from buying it, you can't produce it yourself, and you can't start your own company to try to compete. No choice at all there.
The sad irony of Libertarianism is that if it achieved it's goal, people would have less freedom and money than with government taxes and regulation.
If you define freedom as the ability to get what you want at others expense, then yes. However if you define freedom as the ability to do what you want without infringing upon others rights, then your statement is absurd at best.
Were it not for legislation, there's be no check to their anti-competitive practices
Right, because consumers stopping buying their products because they don't agree with their business pracitices isn't a check.
What you "the market requires legislation to be free!" don't seem to get is that coercion of any sort abridges freedom. If consumers want to support a monopoly that is their right. I am of the opinion that competition is good, and hence do not give my dollars to Microsoft. If you disagree with me (as many people seem to given Microsoft's success), you are free to keep doing business with them. Legislation would/does remove our options to deal with Microsoft in a manner that each of us deems most beneficial to ourselves.
It depends on your definition of young people. From personal experience, it seems to me that people pick up coding in college as part of a degree, and few "young people"/high schoolers are interested. So I don't see this as conflicting the other article, merely as narrowing the scope of the term "young people".
I suppose I was unclear. What I should have said was "If your only rationale is 'try before you buy', with a service like this, why bother pirating...?"
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How do they argue that Gnucash has a "bit of a learning curve"? I picked it up a couple months ago, and in maybe 15 minutes had figured it out. It truly is a wonderful app for personal finances.
The most libertarian member of Congress remains most libertarian when only considering tech issues. Who would have thunk it?
I've been fairly impressed with MythTV's commercial detection. It has one drawback though: it doesn't skip those short promos channels throw in right before cutting back to the show (e.g. "Politicians are inept, full story at 10"). It seems to get the rest of the commercials. Of course, this is a little picky, as once I start a show I rarely have to touch the remote again (unlike with a TiVo), but is there any hope of them improving it to catch these? I'm guessing there are no blank frames between it and the show to catch.
And here I was, thinking that people were endowed with certain inalienable rights nautrally. I guess I'm just getting old with this "natural rights" voodoo.
Even if the paper was withdrawn, I'd venture that it's likely it will still lead to a correct proof. Even Wiles' proof of Fermat was originally flawed and had to be corrected.
It's generally in a company's best interests to keep it's customers alive. Something about repeat business, they tell me.
My bank does something similar with their online banking. They put up a clickable image of a keyboard and make you key in your PIN/password by mouse. It is a complete PITA. Plus, it takes me much longer to mouse click it in that to punch it in on the keyboard, so it seems like it could be even more at risk of shoulder surfing.
This is why I majored in math. I wrote a grand total of 2 papers in my entire collegiate career.
Not true. Gmail works fine in both modes in Opera (8.5+ for sure). Google claims not to support it in Calendar, but it works okay for me upon clicking through their warning. I will say that I haven't tried doing anything with rich text in either though.
Langague codes would be a much better idea--one top level domain per language, rather than country.
Yep, that article more clearly states that they really just stumbled upon this idea--Bergmann was using the technique to look at iron levels in spinach leaves, and just by chance read an article about the Archimedes palimpset and thought the same technique could be used. I think in the NPR interview he said his mother gave him the article--now how's that for random chance?
The article's selection of cities seems random at best. Huntsville by far has the largest tech industry base in the state, and is roughly the same cost of living as Montgomery. Growing up here, roughly 40-50% of the kids I knew had at least one parent in some form of engineering. The defense/aerospace industry is huge here, so there are plenty of SW Engineering opportunities.
This is a genuine question, not a cynical response, but does anyone offer corporate support for Ubuntu? Debian? Gentoo? The only corporate support I'm aware of is Red Hat; if other companies offer enterprise support for other distros then they really need to work on their marketing.
CSPAN? Maybe I'm just spoiled living in Huntsville, but I've always watched the NASA select channel for launches and such. I take it cable providers elsewhere don't carry it?
And these days, the internship is through before you get clearance. I'm doing an internship at a defense contractor for the summer and am on temporary clearance, and don't expect to get full clearance before I leave.
Actually, that's very useful information as it tells you there's no consensus on it.
In any event, one of the beauties of the free market is coming up with solutions that noone anticipates.
They wouldn't be dictated for you anymore than where you live is dictated for you. Many apartment complexes strike deals to only offer a single cable provider; there's no reasons communities can't do the same thing. Homeowner agreements are not uncommon. Further, what's stopping the companies from striking deals allowing access on some of their last miles for access on some of the other companies last miles?
True liberty is not the freedom to do what you want at others' expense.
RPS is exactly what I think of when I read "due process of the law"!
Turning hydrogen into oxygen would be a nifty trick...
Does this mean that I won't be able to take my tin foil hat on the plane with me anymore? It could be much more dangerous than nail clippers on one of these...
Unfounded assertion.
A monopoly is a monopoly becuase consumers have no choice but to support it.
Of course. You can't abstain from buying it, you can't produce it yourself, and you can't start your own company to try to compete. No choice at all there.
The sad irony of Libertarianism is that if it achieved it's goal, people would have less freedom and money than with government taxes and regulation.
If you define freedom as the ability to get what you want at others expense, then yes. However if you define freedom as the ability to do what you want without infringing upon others rights, then your statement is absurd at best.
Right, because consumers stopping buying their products because they don't agree with their business pracitices isn't a check.
What you "the market requires legislation to be free!" don't seem to get is that coercion of any sort abridges freedom. If consumers want to support a monopoly that is their right. I am of the opinion that competition is good, and hence do not give my dollars to Microsoft. If you disagree with me (as many people seem to given Microsoft's success), you are free to keep doing business with them. Legislation would/does remove our options to deal with Microsoft in a manner that each of us deems most beneficial to ourselves.
It depends on your definition of young people. From personal experience, it seems to me that people pick up coding in college as part of a degree, and few "young people"/high schoolers are interested. So I don't see this as conflicting the other article, merely as narrowing the scope of the term "young people".
I suppose I was unclear. What I should have said was "If your only rationale is 'try before you buy', with a service like this, why bother pirating...?"