A slow typist may want to write code as well as possible the first time round to avoid refactoring to follow the company's naming convention and code review. If the slow typist is using an IDE with autocompletion, he only needs to type the meaningful symbol name at declaration, so it may not be as much of a disincentive as if he's using notepad.
"If I ask you for your userid and password, did I get them by tricking you?"
If I gave them to you when you asked, you did not get the password and username by tricking me. But if I wasn't aware of the potential consequences of doing so, I am tricked into doing something I shouldn't have done.
This reminds of an idiot in an online forum who insisted that it is illegal to lend your friend a dvd or book which you own, that only you can watch/read your dvd/book.
Most dvds state that rental is not allowed, while most books just prohibit the illegal reproduction of the book without saying that rental of book is not allowed. To prove my point that it is perfectly alright to lend your friend a dvd or book, I emailed the IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore) but instead of a reassurance that it is alright, I got a reply that told me to consult my lawyer. Nonetheless, I'm pretty sure that something is considered rental only if there is monetary gain.
Indeed this hurts the business model of the book authors and the publishing firms. In this case, there is only one physical copy of the book so it is not copyright infringement. Also, would those who use the service have bought the book in the first place? Without this service, will they eventually borrow the book from their friend's friend anyway (through word of mouth or online networking tools), go without the book, or share a book with a course mate?
If someone who has a book wants to lend it to others, it should be perfectly alright. At any point of time, the (total time of all bought books in existence)/(total time of bought books being read) is already way greater than one. Why should it be the case that we are not allowed to decrease this ratio just to ensure that authors and publishing firms can earn more? It makes better sense for mother earth if the ratio is close to one.
At the end of the day, if students do not photocopy the books in excess of what is legally permitted or do not pay the photocopying copyright fee, there is no copyright infringement. This service is just to facilitate the sharing of resources. Even if this service makes a profit through membership or advertisement, and it actually does contribute to lesser people buying books, it shouldn't be illegal. The internet makes it easier for people with similar interests to communicate and achieve their common goals, money-grubbing companies should just get over with it.
If this is illegal, so should bookcrossing, freecycle, craigslist, free giveaways, garage sales etc... In fact, I see this as a specific application of the first-sale doctrine (just that money being exchanged is 0).
I'm pretty such this is the same laziness that makes many people (including myself) go from windows to linux and back to windows. Reluctance to leave one's comfort zone to relearn something new.
Make her two accounts. One with Internet access but with 'password' as password so your parents can have access to what she's doing online. Another without Internet access with whatever strong password methods you find here. Don't teach her about deleting Internet histories and changing passwords as she's really too young to have unfettered Internet access.
Alternatively, just burn her a puppylinux cd. Young girls like puppies.
The emails using gmail, hotmail or yahoomail can all be easily authenticated if sent using the web interface or an smtp server which requires authentication. The same goes for the gmail invites mail.
However in this case, I believe that they're blocked due to the filter heuristics that target the form of the message rather than gmail addresses specifically.
Remote controls are but an extension of the on/off button on TV sets. You don't go round physically pressing the on/off button but somehow many are of the opinion that it's alright to use TV be gone to off other people's TV sets. Is it because of the veil of anonymity it offers or some flawed logic that it's alright to use a lightsaber to go round killing people because "hey, it's only light and light's a wave, not a matter" (ok, can we ignore the wave-particle duality here please.)
Actually, I'm not too sure if this should be considered good news. After all, they will be replaced by other journalists who may or may not yield to the authority.
In any case, in Anna Politkovskaya's words, "...the duty of for doctors(sic) is to give health to their patients, the duty of the singer to sing, the duty of the journalist to write what this journalist sees in reality. It's only one duty."
Loren G. Martin, professor of physiology at Oklahoma State University, claims* that the appendix is involved in immune functions. Some people are born without an appendix, but there were no reports of impaired immune or gastrointestinal functions. This means that these people, as a result of mutated genes, have a loss of a phenotype, but their health are not affected by it. However, as very few literatures exist (also due to little number of cases) about people with a congenital absence of an appendix, we cannot exclude the possibility that the appendix is involved in immune functions. Nonetheless, we can assume that the appendix has little or no useful function, and thus congenital absence of an appendix as a result of mutation does not lead to any significant effect on the mutant.
As such, we cannot conclude if the appendix is vestigal or not, rather that people can live healthy lives without it. Heck, we can't even conclude if something is vestigal or not coz we'll never know ALL the bodily functions, not forgetting that the whole is greater than the sum of parts.
If any, the VCD died before the VHS in developed nations like American and England that is. In most parts of Asia (less Japan), VCDs are pretty much the rage and the market for DVDs is still small, though that is set to change as DVD players become cheaper. However, as long as VCDs are still being produced and cost less than DVDs, they will not cease to exist as many people just want to watch the movie and are not too concerned about the video quality. This is the case even in Singapore...I should know as I live there.
For me, I'm hanging onto my VHS until I transfer them all to DVD.
I tried Dvorak for a week before switching back as most shortcuts are based on the qwerty layout. About two weeks after quiting, I could still switch to Dvorak sometimes. Now, I doubt I can type in Dvorak without retraining.
ctrl+x,ctrl+y,ctrl+v are not exactly easy to use on Dvorak. Thankfully shift+del,ctrl+insert,shift+insert can cut, copy and paste as well.
However, there are too many keyboard shortcuts to deter the average qwerty-efficient user who rely heavily on keyboard shortcuts. Sure, I could use autohotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) to remap all the shortcuts in the different applications that I use but it would simply be too tedious.
Anyway, you can type the word 'typewriter' using one row. I read that it was intentionally create as such so that typewriter salespeople wouldn't embarrass themselves.
I forgot the exact physics of this but I've read it somewhere too that due to the excitation of the valence electrons and promoting them, the theoretical maximum efficiency of the conventional solar cells is capped at 50%.
According to wikipedia, dye-sensitized solar cells have a theoretical max of ~33%. I'm not too sure about the physics of this though but I was pretty excited about this a few years ago as I thought that the theoretical max of such cells is 100% (less the inefficiency due to impedance)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sensitized_solar_ cells
Another reason is that people are lazy. I consider myself to be an above average computer user. I'm been using Windows my whole life and I tried Linux.
The problem is with dual-boot. I am able to boot into either Windows or Linux. Initially it was pretty fun using Linux and figuring things out. However as time passed, I found myself booting into Windows more and more until that Linux partition was just taking up space on my hard disk. In the end, I uninstalled Linux.
This cycle happened about three times.
Now I'm rather determined (since I'm studying CS now)to about being proficient in *nix and I have accquired a laptop. With the laptop, it would be easier for me to play around on my desktop and look for solutions on my laptop, and should my desktop break, I've another computer to use. Guess this is the part where the article said that users want a usable computer at all time.
Well, if google decided to abandon the concept of privacy altogether, everyone who cares about their privacy will decide to abandon the concept of using google altogether.
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A slow typist may want to write code as well as possible the first time round to avoid refactoring to follow the company's naming convention and code review. If the slow typist is using an IDE with autocompletion, he only needs to type the meaningful symbol name at declaration, so it may not be as much of a disincentive as if he's using notepad.
"If I ask you for your userid and password, did I get them by tricking you?"
If I gave them to you when you asked, you did not get the password and username by tricking me. But if I wasn't aware of the potential consequences of doing so, I am tricked into doing something I shouldn't have done.
This reminds of an idiot in an online forum who insisted that it is illegal to lend your friend a dvd or book which you own, that only you can watch/read your dvd/book.
Most dvds state that rental is not allowed, while most books just prohibit the illegal reproduction of the book without saying that rental of book is not allowed. To prove my point that it is perfectly alright to lend your friend a dvd or book, I emailed the IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore) but instead of a reassurance that it is alright, I got a reply that told me to consult my lawyer. Nonetheless, I'm pretty sure that something is considered rental only if there is monetary gain.
Indeed this hurts the business model of the book authors and the publishing firms. In this case, there is only one physical copy of the book so it is not copyright infringement. Also, would those who use the service have bought the book in the first place? Without this service, will they eventually borrow the book from their friend's friend anyway (through word of mouth or online networking tools), go without the book, or share a book with a course mate?
If someone who has a book wants to lend it to others, it should be perfectly alright. At any point of time, the (total time of all bought books in existence)/(total time of bought books being read) is already way greater than one. Why should it be the case that we are not allowed to decrease this ratio just to ensure that authors and publishing firms can earn more? It makes better sense for mother earth if the ratio is close to one.
At the end of the day, if students do not photocopy the books in excess of what is legally permitted or do not pay the photocopying copyright fee, there is no copyright infringement. This service is just to facilitate the sharing of resources. Even if this service makes a profit through membership or advertisement, and it actually does contribute to lesser people buying books, it shouldn't be illegal. The internet makes it easier for people with similar interests to communicate and achieve their common goals, money-grubbing companies should just get over with it.
If this is illegal, so should bookcrossing, freecycle, craigslist, free giveaways, garage sales etc... In fact, I see this as a specific application of the first-sale doctrine (just that money being exchanged is 0).
I'm pretty such this is the same laziness that makes many people (including myself) go from windows to linux and back to windows. Reluctance to leave one's comfort zone to relearn something new.
Those experts are weasels.
They're trying to psycho us to read the article, duh!
1)turn your mac into a PC
2)turn your PC into unix
3)???
4)profit!!
I doubt nintendo will be pissed. They may in fact be secretly pleased as it means additional reason to get a wii -- remember xbox-linux?
That would have implications on whether he is (or was) an evil genius.
Make her two accounts. One with Internet access but with 'password' as password so your parents can have access to what she's doing online. Another without Internet access with whatever strong password methods you find here. Don't teach her about deleting Internet histories and changing passwords as she's really too young to have unfettered Internet access.
Alternatively, just burn her a puppylinux cd. Young girls like puppies.
The emails using gmail, hotmail or yahoomail can all be easily authenticated if sent using the web interface or an smtp server which requires authentication. The same goes for the gmail invites mail.
However in this case, I believe that they're blocked due to the filter heuristics that target the form of the message rather than gmail addresses specifically.
Remote controls are but an extension of the on/off button on TV sets. You don't go round physically pressing the on/off button but somehow many are of the opinion that it's alright to use TV be gone to off other people's TV sets. Is it because of the veil of anonymity it offers or some flawed logic that it's alright to use a lightsaber to go round killing people because "hey, it's only light and light's a wave, not a matter" (ok, can we ignore the wave-particle duality here please.)
Actually, I'm not too sure if this should be considered good news. After all, they will be replaced by other journalists who may or may not yield to the authority.
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In any case, in Anna Politkovskaya's words, "...the duty of for doctors(sic) is to give health to their patients, the duty of the singer to sing, the duty of the journalist to write what this journalist sees in reality. It's only one duty."
http://www.bolt.com/bliz/music/Exerpt__Anna_Polit
And on the other spectrum, Celera is using publicly available data from HGP while not allowing HGP to use their data freely.
Loren G. Martin, professor of physiology at Oklahoma State University, claims* that the appendix is involved in immune functions. Some people are born without an appendix, but there were no reports of impaired immune or gastrointestinal functions. This means that these people, as a result of mutated genes, have a loss of a phenotype, but their health are not affected by it. However, as very few literatures exist (also due to little number of cases) about people with a congenital absence of an appendix, we cannot exclude the possibility that the appendix is involved in immune functions. Nonetheless, we can assume that the appendix has little or no useful function, and thus congenital absence of an appendix as a result of mutation does not lead to any significant effect on the mutant.
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As such, we cannot conclude if the appendix is vestigal or not, rather that people can live healthy lives without it. Heck, we can't even conclude if something is vestigal or not coz we'll never know ALL the bodily functions, not forgetting that the whole is greater than the sum of parts.
* http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?artic
If any, the VCD died before the VHS in developed nations like American and England that is. In most parts of Asia (less Japan), VCDs are pretty much the rage and the market for DVDs is still small, though that is set to change as DVD players become cheaper. However, as long as VCDs are still being produced and cost less than DVDs, they will not cease to exist as many people just want to watch the movie and are not too concerned about the video quality. This is the case even in Singapore...I should know as I live there.
For me, I'm hanging onto my VHS until I transfer them all to DVD.
I tried Dvorak for a week before switching back as most shortcuts are based on the qwerty layout. About two weeks after quiting, I could still switch to Dvorak sometimes. Now, I doubt I can type in Dvorak without retraining.
ctrl+x,ctrl+y,ctrl+v are not exactly easy to use on Dvorak. Thankfully shift+del,ctrl+insert,shift+insert can cut, copy and paste as well.
However, there are too many keyboard shortcuts to deter the average qwerty-efficient user who rely heavily on keyboard shortcuts. Sure, I could use autohotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) to remap all the shortcuts in the different applications that I use but it would simply be too tedious.
Anyway, you can type the word 'typewriter' using one row. I read that it was intentionally create as such so that typewriter salespeople wouldn't embarrass themselves.
I forgot the exact physics of this but I've read it somewhere too that due to the excitation of the valence electrons and promoting them, the theoretical maximum efficiency of the conventional solar cells is capped at 50%.
_ cells
According to wikipedia, dye-sensitized solar cells have a theoretical max of ~33%. I'm not too sure about the physics of this though but I was pretty excited about this a few years ago as I thought that the theoretical max of such cells is 100% (less the inefficiency due to impedance) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sensitized_solar
Another reason is that people are lazy. I consider myself to be an above average computer user. I'm been using Windows my whole life and I tried Linux. The problem is with dual-boot. I am able to boot into either Windows or Linux. Initially it was pretty fun using Linux and figuring things out. However as time passed, I found myself booting into Windows more and more until that Linux partition was just taking up space on my hard disk. In the end, I uninstalled Linux. This cycle happened about three times. Now I'm rather determined (since I'm studying CS now)to about being proficient in *nix and I have accquired a laptop. With the laptop, it would be easier for me to play around on my desktop and look for solutions on my laptop, and should my desktop break, I've another computer to use. Guess this is the part where the article said that users want a usable computer at all time.
Well, if google decided to abandon the concept of privacy altogether, everyone who cares about their privacy will decide to abandon the concept of using google altogether.