You can still get bikes of that size. Dual-use (aka enduro) bikes are street-legal and generally are 225/250 cc or 400/450/500 cc single-cylinder 4-stroke machines. They're relatively rare around where I live as most college kids prefer 14000 rpm crotch rockets but some people do ride them.
I know it's called poutine, but I also know that most people outside Canada don't know what that is, so I simply explained what it was. Sorry if I struck a nerve.
Oh, come on, you guys have some distinctive food. Gravy and cheese on French fries and a ham pizza are two staples I get when I in Canada but haven't yet gotten to the lake yet.
They tried to throw x86 out with the Itanium. That initially went over about as well as selling ice to Eskimos in December but IA64 has started to get a little more traction in the huge-iron arena as of late. While it would be nice to be done with x86, IA64 isn't where it's at as Intel owns the ISA licenses lock, stock, and barrel. This means it's back to the Bad Old Days when chips cost a fortune and performance increases were small and infrequent. Also, IA64's EPIC model sucks on most code as it's strictly in-order.
945G northbridges are rated somewhere around a dozen watts as they're made on the old 130 nm process node. My laptop has the 945GM and the northbridge actually runs hotter than the CPU, which isn't surprising as the CPU's TDP is a couple watts less (C2D U7500.)
The Missouri University of Science and Technology is simply the new name for the University of Missouri-Rolla. The University of Missouri with the capital T in "the" is in Columbia and it used to be called the University of Missouri-Columbia.
You just have to love politically-motivated name changes...
1. OOo is OSS software and the code is available. I've compiled OOo from source before and it's certainly doable. You will need to grab GCC, a bunch of X11 libs, and a few cans of Mountain Dew to do the compile- the first two are to do the compile and the Dew is to drink while you're waiting for it to compile. I'd guess 2-3 hours or so on a dual-CPU dual-core G5, 4-6 hours on a single-CPU dual-core or a dual-CPU single-core G5, overnight on a single-CPU single-core G5 and a day or more on G4s and G3s. It takes my 2.2 GHz Athlon 64 X2 about 4-5 hours to compile OOo 2.x and 12-13 hours for my old 2.2 P4 if it is any help.
OOo also has the ability to export to PDF, which is something I use very frequently. A PDF is even better at preserving original formatting than using Office 2007 to send somebody else running Office 2007 a.docx file as they may not have the font you used or have different printer metrics adjusting their margins. Very rarely will somebody have to edit something, so PDFs work very well. If they need to edit the file, I usually tell them to edit the PDF as most people with Office also pay a bunch of money for Adobe Acrobat or then I will send them a.doc file along with the PDF, noting that the PDF is what the original was supposed to look like and any mangling of the.doc is their computer's doing.
I routinely work with documents well in excess of that size (usually slideshows with 30-100 slides and 30-70 MB) and the last several builds of OOo haven't given me nearly as much trouble as MS Office XP/2003 did. OOo 2.1 and earlier did sometimes have a bit of trouble locking up with multiple big documents open, but not anymore. The 64-bit Linux builds run especially nicely and they're pretty snappy as well, even on my 1.06 GHz (C2D ULV) system. I also do work with some pretty big spreadsheets (10k rows X dozens of columns) and OOo 2.2+ has been more stable than MS Office as well, the 64-bit Linux builds particularly.
OOo also starts up instantly if you are willing to part with 30 MB or so of RAM and use the quickstarter, otherwise it's a 2-3 second load the first time you open the app after you power on your machine and then almost instantly after that.
Well, if the songs are considered the labels' property, are they subject to property taxes? If I were the assessor, I'd use the own RIAA's estimates of what they think their songs are worth in lobbying efforts and copyright trials. That should provide more than enough money to the state, no?
Most university students rarely forget that professors are employees of the institution they pay money to attend, especially when the professors do something ridiculous. However, professors do not consider themselves employees of a university in the normal you get paid Y dollars to do X job like everybody else does. Most universities also do not consider professors employees in the same way that they would other staff, like the secretary or janitor. Professors have a very nebulous job description of "you'll do research and (maybe) teach every so often if you want to and we'll pay you." There are few specific requirements, most of which involve the minimum amount of classes they have to teach, ADA stuff, and to some extent class scheduling. Just about everything else is at the professor's discretion under the umbrella of "academic freedom." Couple that with tenure and you have what is essentially the ability to do pretty much whatever they want to and have permanent and largely complete immunity.
And a few words about this topic from a student's perspective: 1. DO NOT EVER BRING UP THE ISSUE OF A PROFESSOR BEING AN EMPLOYEE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN FRONT OF ANY PROFESSOR. EVER. This is an absolutely sacred issue to them as they don't want the cushy perks to go away. You'll get as strong of a reaction out of the professor as you would dropping a 10 kg block of elemental sodium into a hundred-liter tank of boiling 10 M HCl.
2. "Academic freedom" WRT lecture notes means that they absolutely control anything related to giving out lecture notes. They can do anything from publish their entire annotated lecture notes online and expressly tell people it's okay to sell them to prohibiting taking of any and all notes, electronic or written, during their lectures. And there's not a thing you can do about it- I should know, I have tried and got ripped a new one on several occasions.
3. "Academic freedom" only applies to THEM, not you. You have to jump through any and all of their hoops, no matter how inane. You cannot turn in work on a yellow paper with medium green lines and get credit if the professor said only yellow paper with light green lines will be accepted. If they want you to turn in your work written in Klingon or Ogrish, that's what you have to do. They can keep anything you hand in and not give it back to you to study later if they so desire. They reserve the right to change exams completely a day before they are scheduled and completely change the format too, if they so care to. They can make you submit your papers to anti-cheating sites for archiving if they want to. They can punish you in the grades department if they don't like the subject of an assignment where they explicitly said they are grading the content only.
4. Most professors are reasonable to work with and don't run under the umbrella of academic freedom and tenure. If something is a problem, they will most likely work with you and the class to solve the problem if it is at all possible, and if not, explain why it isn't possible. The ones that do claim "academic freedom" typically are the pompous, self-righteous, egomaniac asshole type that like to be known as "the hard professor" and teach one or two freshman or sophomore classes that are required in a major. Their aim is to be THE ONE to "weed people out" as it gives them their jollies. This means they will be absolutely pedantic and grades will be artificially low. You also likely won't learn much as they tend to teach things in such a contorted manner so you don't actually understand the material, otherwise you may do "too well" on the exams without going and stroking their ego during office hours at the coffee shop. If you happen to have to take a class with one of these clowns, get out of it if it is at all possible as the class will want to make you tear your hair out. You can sometimes get around these professors as there are often more than one professor that teaches these classes. Either transfer out into another section or drop the class and wait to take it until you can get another professor. You'll be much happier.
Nope, the essay is correct. The Democrats are much more in bed with Hollywood than the Republicans are. Just watch U.S. TV in a few months and you'll see actors and actresses lay praise on Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton and hurl epithets at John McCain. The DMCA was signed into law in 1998, which was during Bill Clinton's term.
"The books being pretty-well answered by the third semester?" How long ago did you go to college if you used books that were used two semesters ago? Pretty much anymore it's a new edition of the textbook for every semester to kill the used-book market.
Oh, you mean that adapter/dongle that almost everybody that has a Macintosh laptop and needs to hook it up to a projector forgets to bring, completely wrecking the presentation or lecture they were supposed to give.
The reason you likely saw smaller laptops in Japan than you did in the U.S. is a function of where you saw them rather than tastes of Americans. People who carry around laptops a great deal (like the guys you were working with) tend to get smaller ones and people who tend to not carry their laptops around much (if they carry them around at all) get the huge ones. Go take a red-eye during the week and look at the business men and womens' laptops that you see open on tray tables. There are a lot of 12.1" and 14.1" notebooks and very few 15.4" units. The same is true if you walk into a university classroom or lecture hall- you see 12.1", 13.3", and 14.1" units but rarely anything bigger. The distribution of machines you mention sounds spot-on for what I see in my classes, with a note that almost all of the Apples are MacBooks- the people I know with MacBook Pros leave them at home because they are too big.
Your opinion of Americans liking "full-fat" notebooks is probably due to what you see for sale in your local big-box store's circulars. Those places have pallet loads of 15.4" machines, a couple of 14.1" and 13.3" machines, several 17" units, a few 19" units and if you are lucky, one 12.1" laptop. The deal with the 15.4"+ machines is that they are "desktop replacement" machines that are used exactly in that manner. They almost never leave the desk and if they do, it's more likely than not because the person is moving it to a new location for a week or more rather than taking it to class or on business or anything of that sort. Japan has an even larger popularity of laptops being used as desktops than the U.S. I bet that you'd find at least as high of a percentage of big laptops practically welded to Japanese peoples' desks at home and in dorms as you would in the U.S.
Sony already sells most of its stuff for more than their competitors and still stay in business, based on brand, design, and such. I don't see how that would change if machines like the Eee become more popular, except that fewer people will pay $2000+ for the TZ and a lot for their UMPCs.
This has already started to become very common where I go to college. You can fit a TON of stuff on a 500 GB external hard drive that costs maybe $120. Putting music files on cheap DVD-Rs is very common as well, and there can be quite a few stuffed on those.
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You can still get bikes of that size. Dual-use (aka enduro) bikes are street-legal and generally are 225/250 cc or 400/450/500 cc single-cylinder 4-stroke machines. They're relatively rare around where I live as most college kids prefer 14000 rpm crotch rockets but some people do ride them.
The only breeding an average Slashdotter will do is hamsters or cats.
I know it's called poutine, but I also know that most people outside Canada don't know what that is, so I simply explained what it was. Sorry if I struck a nerve.
Oh, come on, you guys have some distinctive food. Gravy and cheese on French fries and a ham pizza are two staples I get when I in Canada but haven't yet gotten to the lake yet.
Is that the one Simon and the PFY started?
105000 divided by 740 is 141.89. 141.89 Euros is probably the cost of the Windows license.
They tried to throw x86 out with the Itanium. That initially went over about as well as selling ice to Eskimos in December but IA64 has started to get a little more traction in the huge-iron arena as of late. While it would be nice to be done with x86, IA64 isn't where it's at as Intel owns the ISA licenses lock, stock, and barrel. This means it's back to the Bad Old Days when chips cost a fortune and performance increases were small and infrequent. Also, IA64's EPIC model sucks on most code as it's strictly in-order.
945G northbridges are rated somewhere around a dozen watts as they're made on the old 130 nm process node. My laptop has the 945GM and the northbridge actually runs hotter than the CPU, which isn't surprising as the CPU's TDP is a couple watts less (C2D U7500.)
The Missouri University of Science and Technology is simply the new name for the University of Missouri-Rolla. The University of Missouri with the capital T in "the" is in Columbia and it used to be called the University of Missouri-Columbia.
You just have to love politically-motivated name changes...
Hey, Bill, aren't you supposed to be out campaigning with your wife?
Well of course it's higher than China and any number of corrupt regimes worldwide- you don't have to stick people you've shot dead in jail.
1. OOo is OSS software and the code is available. I've compiled OOo from source before and it's certainly doable. You will need to grab GCC, a bunch of X11 libs, and a few cans of Mountain Dew to do the compile- the first two are to do the compile and the Dew is to drink while you're waiting for it to compile. I'd guess 2-3 hours or so on a dual-CPU dual-core G5, 4-6 hours on a single-CPU dual-core or a dual-CPU single-core G5, overnight on a single-CPU single-core G5 and a day or more on G4s and G3s. It takes my 2.2 GHz Athlon 64 X2 about 4-5 hours to compile OOo 2.x and 12-13 hours for my old 2.2 P4 if it is any help.
OOo also has the ability to export to PDF, which is something I use very frequently. A PDF is even better at preserving original formatting than using Office 2007 to send somebody else running Office 2007 a .docx file as they may not have the font you used or have different printer metrics adjusting their margins. Very rarely will somebody have to edit something, so PDFs work very well. If they need to edit the file, I usually tell them to edit the PDF as most people with Office also pay a bunch of money for Adobe Acrobat or then I will send them a .doc file along with the PDF, noting that the PDF is what the original was supposed to look like and any mangling of the .doc is their computer's doing.
I routinely work with documents well in excess of that size (usually slideshows with 30-100 slides and 30-70 MB) and the last several builds of OOo haven't given me nearly as much trouble as MS Office XP/2003 did. OOo 2.1 and earlier did sometimes have a bit of trouble locking up with multiple big documents open, but not anymore. The 64-bit Linux builds run especially nicely and they're pretty snappy as well, even on my 1.06 GHz (C2D ULV) system. I also do work with some pretty big spreadsheets (10k rows X dozens of columns) and OOo 2.2+ has been more stable than MS Office as well, the 64-bit Linux builds particularly.
OOo also starts up instantly if you are willing to part with 30 MB or so of RAM and use the quickstarter, otherwise it's a 2-3 second load the first time you open the app after you power on your machine and then almost instantly after that.
1E+06 fuckgrams.
Well, if the songs are considered the labels' property, are they subject to property taxes? If I were the assessor, I'd use the own RIAA's estimates of what they think their songs are worth in lobbying efforts and copyright trials. That should provide more than enough money to the state, no?
Most university students rarely forget that professors are employees of the institution they pay money to attend, especially when the professors do something ridiculous. However, professors do not consider themselves employees of a university in the normal you get paid Y dollars to do X job like everybody else does. Most universities also do not consider professors employees in the same way that they would other staff, like the secretary or janitor. Professors have a very nebulous job description of "you'll do research and (maybe) teach every so often if you want to and we'll pay you." There are few specific requirements, most of which involve the minimum amount of classes they have to teach, ADA stuff, and to some extent class scheduling. Just about everything else is at the professor's discretion under the umbrella of "academic freedom." Couple that with tenure and you have what is essentially the ability to do pretty much whatever they want to and have permanent and largely complete immunity.
And a few words about this topic from a student's perspective:
1. DO NOT EVER BRING UP THE ISSUE OF A PROFESSOR BEING AN EMPLOYEE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN FRONT OF ANY PROFESSOR. EVER. This is an absolutely sacred issue to them as they don't want the cushy perks to go away. You'll get as strong of a reaction out of the professor as you would dropping a 10 kg block of elemental sodium into a hundred-liter tank of boiling 10 M HCl.
2. "Academic freedom" WRT lecture notes means that they absolutely control anything related to giving out lecture notes. They can do anything from publish their entire annotated lecture notes online and expressly tell people it's okay to sell them to prohibiting taking of any and all notes, electronic or written, during their lectures. And there's not a thing you can do about it- I should know, I have tried and got ripped a new one on several occasions.
3. "Academic freedom" only applies to THEM, not you. You have to jump through any and all of their hoops, no matter how inane. You cannot turn in work on a yellow paper with medium green lines and get credit if the professor said only yellow paper with light green lines will be accepted. If they want you to turn in your work written in Klingon or Ogrish, that's what you have to do. They can keep anything you hand in and not give it back to you to study later if they so desire. They reserve the right to change exams completely a day before they are scheduled and completely change the format too, if they so care to. They can make you submit your papers to anti-cheating sites for archiving if they want to. They can punish you in the grades department if they don't like the subject of an assignment where they explicitly said they are grading the content only.
4. Most professors are reasonable to work with and don't run under the umbrella of academic freedom and tenure. If something is a problem, they will most likely work with you and the class to solve the problem if it is at all possible, and if not, explain why it isn't possible. The ones that do claim "academic freedom" typically are the pompous, self-righteous, egomaniac asshole type that like to be known as "the hard professor" and teach one or two freshman or sophomore classes that are required in a major. Their aim is to be THE ONE to "weed people out" as it gives them their jollies. This means they will be absolutely pedantic and grades will be artificially low. You also likely won't learn much as they tend to teach things in such a contorted manner so you don't actually understand the material, otherwise you may do "too well" on the exams without going and stroking their ego during office hours at the coffee shop. If you happen to have to take a class with one of these clowns, get out of it if it is at all possible as the class will want to make you tear your hair out. You can sometimes get around these professors as there are often more than one professor that teaches these classes. Either transfer out into another section or drop the class and wait to take it until you can get another professor. You'll be much happier.
Nope, the essay is correct. The Democrats are much more in bed with Hollywood than the Republicans are. Just watch U.S. TV in a few months and you'll see actors and actresses lay praise on Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton and hurl epithets at John McCain. The DMCA was signed into law in 1998, which was during Bill Clinton's term.
Why do you think that the telecoms wanted immunity? Duh...
Just a heads-up as the domain is ID'd as yahoo.com.
"The books being pretty-well answered by the third semester?" How long ago did you go to college if you used books that were used two semesters ago? Pretty much anymore it's a new edition of the textbook for every semester to kill the used-book market.
Oh, you mean that adapter/dongle that almost everybody that has a Macintosh laptop and needs to hook it up to a projector forgets to bring, completely wrecking the presentation or lecture they were supposed to give.
The reason you likely saw smaller laptops in Japan than you did in the U.S. is a function of where you saw them rather than tastes of Americans. People who carry around laptops a great deal (like the guys you were working with) tend to get smaller ones and people who tend to not carry their laptops around much (if they carry them around at all) get the huge ones. Go take a red-eye during the week and look at the business men and womens' laptops that you see open on tray tables. There are a lot of 12.1" and 14.1" notebooks and very few 15.4" units. The same is true if you walk into a university classroom or lecture hall- you see 12.1", 13.3", and 14.1" units but rarely anything bigger. The distribution of machines you mention sounds spot-on for what I see in my classes, with a note that almost all of the Apples are MacBooks- the people I know with MacBook Pros leave them at home because they are too big.
Your opinion of Americans liking "full-fat" notebooks is probably due to what you see for sale in your local big-box store's circulars. Those places have pallet loads of 15.4" machines, a couple of 14.1" and 13.3" machines, several 17" units, a few 19" units and if you are lucky, one 12.1" laptop. The deal with the 15.4"+ machines is that they are "desktop replacement" machines that are used exactly in that manner. They almost never leave the desk and if they do, it's more likely than not because the person is moving it to a new location for a week or more rather than taking it to class or on business or anything of that sort. Japan has an even larger popularity of laptops being used as desktops than the U.S. I bet that you'd find at least as high of a percentage of big laptops practically welded to Japanese peoples' desks at home and in dorms as you would in the U.S.
Sony already sells most of its stuff for more than their competitors and still stay in business, based on brand, design, and such. I don't see how that would change if machines like the Eee become more popular, except that fewer people will pay $2000+ for the TZ and a lot for their UMPCs.
This has already started to become very common where I go to college. You can fit a TON of stuff on a 500 GB external hard drive that costs maybe $120. Putting music files on cheap DVD-Rs is very common as well, and there can be quite a few stuffed on those.