By my own calculations using your helpful data, it means a slashdotter in average wastes each work hour 2500 times...
Using relativity formulae, I guess we would come close to the speed of light...
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s/Ubuntu/Debian/g
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I think he is referring to the lack of polish that Debian has. I find Debian's default Gnome desktop atrocious. I prefer their KDE or their base install. Debian, on the other hand, does a very good job with Gnome while Kubuntu lags.
I think you meant s/Ubuntu/Debian/ , only first occurence replaced, not all. Using v to only select
I think he is referring to the lack of polish that Ubuntu has.
is cheating, no real hacker uses vim-specific features;)
the fact that the patent lapsed and others got to use the tech seems to me to be an illustration of how the patent system is supposed to work
But is it ? I thought the first and foremost intention of patents was to reward inventors ? Only the second intention is to get a public domain pool of technologies when the patent expires.
One could argue that patents in that case could have prevented the earlier emergence of MP3 players. In that case it's obviously wrong, as the technology wasn't ready yet in 1988 (neither solid state storage capacity nor compression techniques), but it already happened in other cases (like for the airbag IIRC).
Also from TFA, the patent was simply about a (single song) music player with solid-state storage, which means it's the ancestor of every "MP3 player", not only the iPod, which wasn't the first MP3 player anyway.
A very bad summary indeed, and a quite bad article to start with.
In other news: half of jokes made on Slashdot are incorrectly interpreted as serious commentary. More like (made-up stat) : "At least 90% of posts are incorrectly interpreted by at least 30% of readers".
What do you mean by "invented" and what do you mean by "discovered"? What difference do you see between the two? Yes, the question asked is a question of semantics and philosophy.
Semantics:
In old French, both were essentially synonymous.
-You can find mentions of Christopher Columbus having "invented" America(s).
-From my harrap's shorter french and english dictionnary of 1962 : inventer v.tr. To invent. (a) To find out, discover. [...]
Philosophy :
Under platonism, there's actually no distinction (see allegory of the cave). By suggesting to let platonism die, the anonymous reader seems to want us answer "invent"...
would limit the penalties for infringement in cases where the copyright holder could no longer be identified. Aren't RIAA, MPAA and BSA members The Copyright Holders of Everything (R) ?
Does that mean, "when the members can't decide which of them will get the propriety of that piece of work" ?
bet that you need an internet connection open every single time you open Office You don't need an internet connection at all if you get open Office on a CD:P
I've heard that latest build of IE8 would do 103.6/100 . But, in order to get that remarkable achievement, you might need to use it in conjunction with MS Excel 2007...
There is nothing wrong with visiting a publicly available URL. No exceptions. I guess you never stumbled upon a goatse or tubgirl publicly available link, then:P
Euro an ECU are not the same thing, but when the second replaced the first one, its value was chosen to be initially the same. Look for the ECU and Euro wikipedia pages.
Also coins and notes are available only since 2002.
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Couldn't they stop to give ideas to the Britons ?
I never close paragraph and line break tags, but otherwise my html is compliant.
In that case I think you're compliant when using the transitional doctype
By my own calculations using your helpful data, it means a slashdotter in average wastes each work hour 2500 times...
Using relativity formulae, I guess we would come close to the speed of light...
s/Ubuntu/Debian/g
gives
I think he is referring to the lack of polish that Debian has. I find Debian's default Gnome desktop atrocious. I prefer their KDE or their base install. Debian, on the other hand, does a very good job with Gnome while Kubuntu lags.
I think you meant s/Ubuntu/Debian/ , only first occurence replaced, not all. Using v to only select
I think he is referring to the lack of polish that Ubuntu has.
is cheating, no real hacker uses vim-specific features ;)
> If random number = 30, then do no read article
Next time, try < rather than < ...
It's about the TiVo Multimedia time warping system patent.
/me tried to pronounce it... :P
Windows DvIamEwBsOstLDf ?
Was that intentional ?
Will it have the same reliability ?
24 hours of word processing, or 24 hours of actually using your computer.
Yes.
6.40K transactions/second ought to be enough for everyone.
the fact that the patent lapsed and others got to use the tech seems to me to be an illustration of how the patent system is supposed to work
But is it ? I thought the first and foremost intention of patents was to reward inventors ? Only the second intention is to get a public domain pool of technologies when the patent expires.
One could argue that patents in that case could have prevented the earlier emergence of MP3 players. In that case it's obviously wrong, as the technology wasn't ready yet in 1988 (neither solid state storage capacity nor compression techniques), but it already happened in other cases (like for the airbag IIRC).
Also from TFA, the patent was simply about a (single song) music player with solid-state storage, which means it's the ancestor of every "MP3 player", not only the iPod, which wasn't the first MP3 player anyway.
A very bad summary indeed, and a quite bad article to start with.
Pollution/GDP is not an effective measure as a lot of GDP in developped countries is produced by services.
IMHO, a more useful measure would be to account for pollution/manufactured goods
And they are working 6 days a week. That's 6x15 = 90-hour weeks. All weeks. But go ahead...
And while we're talking about editors, don't get me started about emacs. ;)
Huh, emacs is an operating system, not an editor ?!!
Hey, that only makes sense.
MS Windows just can't catch with housewives until it becomes user-friendly like Linux... :P
Semantics:
In old French, both were essentially synonymous.
inventer v.tr. To invent. (a) To find out, discover. [...]
Philosophy :
Under platonism, there's actually no distinction (see allegory of the cave).
By suggesting to let platonism die, the anonymous reader seems to want us answer "invent"...
Does that mean, "when the members can't decide which of them will get the propriety of that piece of work" ?
On the contrary, I hope it becomes the primary MS distribution model.
People currently don't perceive the cost of MS software as it is included in the cost of the computer.
If this becomes the primary distribution model, cheaper (and free) alternatives will be perceived all the more interesting.
Isn't the one-time purchase cost what made MS popular in the first place (against mainframe subscription model) ?
I've heard that latest build of IE8 would do 103.6/100 .
But, in order to get that remarkable achievement, you might need to use it in conjunction with MS Excel 2007...
Nitpicking with an AC...
Euro an ECU are not the same thing, but when the second replaced the first one, its value was chosen to be initially the same. Look for the ECU and Euro wikipedia pages.
Also coins and notes are available only since 2002.
You mean the selected "right" answer is the one between brackets ?
I thought the one in brackets was the one discarded...
The 2nd step is "???", so you're not sure it's a bird, it could very well be a dragon.