As long as megastores only sell high volume books (e.g. Harry Potter), bookshops can always compete by selling low volume books. If that is not profitable enough, then the bookshops must raise their prices.
perhaps the french recognise that it is not in their best interest to allow the megastores to decide in advance which is to be the next best-seller. certainly without the bookstores that stock a wide range of new and old books then j.k.rowling would be unknown.
Your argument boils down to "listen to my words, not my actions." Your words say bookstores are important to you, but your actions (i.e. what you spend money on) say bookstores are not.
au contraire, the vast majority of my spending is in local businesses in the town where I live and I never use megastores.
I confess, I've never used amazon either, they have grown too big for my liking..
Which doesn't make sense. Let the big chains stock the big names at no profit. Let the small guy charge full price for the low-volume titles that the big chains can't carry because, even at full price, there's not enough volume. Everyone (including the consumer) wins.
except it doesn't work that way. the megastores have unreasonable buying power and use it wilfuly to beat down the price they pay for goods, with the result that they can undercut everybody else and still make bigger profits. since they only sell high volume items they don't care but it is the profit on high volume items that allows booksellers to keep other stock on the shelves for long periods of time and makes a good bookshop. so, the good bookshops close and the only winners are the investment banks who own shares in the megastores.
That's not exactly a fair comparison. While Windows Server 2008 is the same codebase as Windows Vista, it's not "just" the server version of Vista.
If its the same codebase and the only difference is that with one 'version' you get licenced to tie your shoelaces with your left hand and with the other one you get licenced to allow your mother to tie your shoelaces or on the gripping hand you can get another licence that costs 20x more which allows anybody in your family to do the same, then I say that you've been conned if you buy any one of them because you didn't need a licence to tie shoelaces in the first place and whats more Chewbacca doesn't even wear shoes.
Fortunately, you are not limited to two online identities (the real and the pen name.) You can have as many as you want, and use them in proper spheres.
Don't forget though that there are spiders out there trawling the internet now and recording everything for future reference. Think about the future, there will be awesome software written that will analyze everything and be able to say with a reasonable amount of certainty that foobar123@ford.com and otaku456@manga.com was exactly the same person.
I don't know who will write that software or when it will be written but you can count on it happening at some point.
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I'm sure that commercial pilots aren't doing that since the autopilot is flying the plane and there is more than one pilot on board, so a nap is feasible.
I wonder why long haul military pilots are any different, surely they also have more than one person on board?
It is easily arguable that the huge economic downturn in the airline industry post-9/11 was a contributing factor to this, but what hobbled supersonic commercial flight to begin with (what made the Concorde a losing economic model, and the Boeing SST a no-go) was the worldwide Luddite reaction to the supersonic boom controversy, which limited the avenue for commercial SST traffic to the route between NY and London/Paris exclusively.
I'm not sure what the luddite reaction is, but my grandparents lived in cornwall (sw england) for many years and you could barely hear the sonic boom but it was present at about 8pm each night IIRC, would rattle the windows..
However, I have been in the middle of the english channel on a [sailing] yacht when the concorde went over and that was a different story, the crack was as loud as if a sail had blown out. Gave us a real shock.
Personally I don't generally care about noisy conditions (because I'll just up and go live somewhere else) but I don't think they should be making that noise over places where people are living. Its just not polite.
True, but an attacker who knows the pairing code (PIN), and can eavesdrop on the pairing conversation can recover the key. An attacker who doesn't know the PIN and can eavesdrop on the pairing conversation can perform a brute force search to recover both PIN and key. Devices that care about security don't use default or fixed PINs and allow you to set a PIN that is long enough to make brute force infeasible.
I would be interested to know if, for example, you pair with a device with a fixed PIN, then regenerate the key a few times does that disassociate the PIN from the key far enough that knowing the PIN (even if it were basic 0000) would no longer be of any use?
Thats not automatic, you (the software managing the link) would have to request that the controller generate a new key but it is possible to do. I guess it depends on which bluetooth stack you are running if that happens automatically or not.
Yes in general its false. Even with my very old 1.0b spec device I never had any trouble with mouse and keyboard running at once, but I do find that if the piconet gets congested (eg I'm also on dialup through the phone) then sometimes the mouse connection is degraded somehow and the pointer gets a bit jerky.
The two problems with that are, one, corporations, and two, it's reasonable for an artist's dependents to be fed by his work for a little while even if he's hit by a bus one day.
My employers will not continue paying my dependents for any significant amount of time after I die.
No. I seem to be dissatisfied that the cretins who develop bluez have disabled all methods for pairing except through a HAL registered PIN agent. There is no longer a way to specify a hardwired PIN in your hcid.conf. Any PINs there do not work.
Well, its nice to see that 'the cretins who develop bluez' have finally got a clue then. PINs should never be hardwired in a general purpose computer, they should only be needed to authenticate the pairing and generate a link key which is used to authenticate the connection at a later time.
I can't comment about the cretinous HAL framework..
1 - It was said it would not work in low winds (5/10 mph) because the demo used a fan. Prove it I say. it may be a combination of material tension and mass of the magnet.
I think low winds are just fine. You want this to resonate, and as was apparently demonstrated by the bridge incident, resonation can be induced with low wind speeds. The lines on my sailing yacht resonate if the windspeed is low enough, causes enough hum to wake me on a calm night
actually, I think a wider or longer belt might work better in lower windspeeds. It should be possible to tune the resonation at any given windspeed with an adjustable hard point - as is done with a guitar string using a finger.
2 - It was said it would buzz. Prove it. Build one and measure the decibels produced. Can the sound be dampened without losing efficiency.
frankly, you want it to buzz. it will buzz when its vibrating at maximum amplitude, which will be at max power output.
A mid-range recreational yacht (Say, $60k and 28 feet) will get anywhere from 0.5 - 4mpg. Usually towards the lower end of that scale.. considering the size and speed of that catamaran, it's really not too bad.
I'm not sure what mid-range planet you are from, but I'm on a yacht right now. It cost me about $19k and is 31 feet long. For US mpg under engine, I would get about 10 (it drinks about 2litres per hour making 4-5 knots). I sailed across the atlantic a few years ago (~4000 miles) and only used about 80 litres (full tank is 140 litres) though I admit my average speed was considerably lower..
The reporter is clueless. It's all a matter of money. It's very expensive to take an old piece of software, written in some obscure language, running on an old machine with a weird architecture, reverse engineer the requirements, rewrite it for a modern machine, and debug and test it thoroughly. You need people who understand the old system and the environment that it ran in. It's usually much cheaper to keep the old hardware running. Plus, many older systems were custom designs, optimized for a particular task, and can still do a better job than more generic modern hardware.
Ok, here is an idea then.. open source. Yes, there are thousands of geeks out there who, if the protocol was simply published, would write that software for the pure pleasure of it.
I didn't read TFA, but TFS said they were 'tracking faint whispers' which would make it a one way street I guess, is there any way to control these spacecraft remotely that would be not safe to publish?
The vast majority of authors don't make a hell of a lot of money. Pournelle has been one of the top-tier SF writers over the last couple decades and he certainly can't retire on his residuals. Authors aren't like some sixteen-year-old made-up pop icon that's gonna make millions and blow it all on coke whether or not you copy her songs. When they lose residuals it hurts.
Lifes a bitch. When I need money I make an exchange (usually my time and effort) for it. Although it would be nice for me, I don't really see any reason why I should be able to go back to the people who paid me 10 years ago and demand more money just because I did a great job for them. Why should that be different for authors?
There is a major pragmatic purpose to the GPL for the developer. Any new developments by any party are conveyed back to the original author. Thats why people like Linus love to use it.
This is not strictly true. If Boris forks Alices project, he is under no obligation to convey anything back to her. He is required to distribute source to the users of his fork, but that doesn't mean that Alice gets much benefit. The users are not obligated to publish the source, and even if one does, Boris might like a different code style and apply a prettyprinter to the code, such that patches are not easily made. Whatever.
I know this is GB...but, I'd suspect the tv squad couldn't just drive up to random houses without something like probably cause, and force you to let them in....can they?
Of course, they can drive where they like on the public roads..
The way that a RF tuner works is that it produces a signal on the antenna that is the same frequency of the remote signal, which resonates with the local signal, and the tuner detects this resonation complete with modulations and hence you have the signal in the electronics. So, no matter if your antenna is internal or external, the detector van can detect your TV antenna emitting the carrier wave.
They are very accurate, and can pinpoint a TV to within a few feet, so if you had the TV in the upstairs back bedroom against the wall they could tell the difference between the one in your neighbours house on the other side of the wall.
No, they don't have a right to enter your house, though they CAN get a warrant and come back later.. but these days, there are not many TV detector vans, its much cheaper to hassle people who don't have a licence since if 95% of the population have TV's and 80% have licences, there is a 75% chance that the people you write to will need to buy a licence and might just do that. They can also get a warrant if they come to your house and although you deny the existence of a TV they can hear one in the background..
personally, I used to have a TV in my flat though rarely watched it and had no licence. One day I went out (at 9pm!) and when I returned, I had a note that they had called around and would come back later. I hastily packed up the TV and rearranged the living room and was pleasantly surprised that the room looked much nicer and I never got the TV out again. (but no, they never did come back:)
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I confess, I've never used amazon either, they have grown too big for my liking..
the french are against that.
perhaps taco could make a poll about that, but certainly I don't read any of those other sites..
If its the same codebase and the only difference is that with one 'version' you get licenced to tie your shoelaces with your left hand and with the other one you get licenced to allow your mother to tie your shoelaces or on the gripping hand you can get another licence that costs 20x more which allows anybody in your family to do the same, then I say that you've been conned if you buy any one of them because you didn't need a licence to tie shoelaces in the first place and whats more Chewbacca doesn't even wear shoes.
Don't forget though that there are spiders out there trawling the internet now and recording everything for future reference. Think about the future, there will be awesome software written that will analyze everything and be able to say with a reasonable amount of certainty that foobar123@ford.com and otaku456@manga.com was exactly the same person.
I don't know who will write that software or when it will be written but you can count on it happening at some point.
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I wonder why long haul military pilots are any different, surely they also have more than one person on board?
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I'm not sure what the luddite reaction is, but my grandparents lived in cornwall (sw england) for many years and you could barely hear the sonic boom but it was present at about 8pm each night IIRC, would rattle the windows..
However, I have been in the middle of the english channel on a [sailing] yacht when the concorde went over and that was a different story, the crack was as loud as if a sail had blown out. Gave us a real shock.
Personally I don't generally care about noisy conditions (because I'll just up and go live somewhere else) but I don't think they should be making that noise over places where people are living. Its just not polite.
Yeah, well he didn't think there was anything secret going on - but maybe they just didn't tell him either!
Thats not automatic, you (the software managing the link) would have to request that the controller generate a new key but it is possible to do. I guess it depends on which bluetooth stack you are running if that happens automatically or not.
Yes in general its false. Even with my very old 1.0b spec device I never had any trouble with mouse and keyboard running at once, but I do find that if the piconet gets congested (eg I'm also on dialup through the phone) then sometimes the mouse connection is degraded somehow and the pointer gets a bit jerky.
| Yep, if you read TFA, that's what they did.
Thats funny, I read TFA and linux was not mentioned at all..
"open source" > "linux"
Well, its nice to see that 'the cretins who develop bluez' have finally got a clue then. PINs should never be hardwired in a general purpose computer, they should only be needed to authenticate the pairing and generate a link key which is used to authenticate the connection at a later time.
I can't comment about the cretinous HAL framework..
actually, I think a wider or longer belt might work better in lower windspeeds. It should be possible to tune the resonation at any given windspeed with an adjustable hard point - as is done with a guitar string using a finger.
frankly, you want it to buzz. it will buzz when its vibrating at maximum amplitude, which will be at max power output.Well, publishing specs may or may not produce something, but its a better chance than not publishing anything I would think..
Ok, here is an idea then.. open source. Yes, there are thousands of geeks out there who, if the protocol was simply published, would write that software for the pure pleasure of it.
I didn't read TFA, but TFS said they were 'tracking faint whispers' which would make it a one way street I guess, is there any way to control these spacecraft remotely that would be not safe to publish?
Lifes a bitch. When I need money I make an exchange (usually my time and effort) for it. Although it would be nice for me, I don't really see any reason why I should be able to go back to the people who paid me 10 years ago and demand more money just because I did a great job for them. Why should that be different for authors?
lets just set the code free. lets not chase it down the street to make sure it stays free, just let it go as it will.
Of course, they can drive where they like on the public roads..
The way that a RF tuner works is that it produces a signal on the antenna that is the same frequency of the remote signal, which resonates with the local signal, and the tuner detects this resonation complete with modulations and hence you have the signal in the electronics. So, no matter if your antenna is internal or external, the detector van can detect your TV antenna emitting the carrier wave.
They are very accurate, and can pinpoint a TV to within a few feet, so if you had the TV in the upstairs back bedroom against the wall they could tell the difference between the one in your neighbours house on the other side of the wall.
No, they don't have a right to enter your house, though they CAN get a warrant and come back later.. but these days, there are not many TV detector vans, its much cheaper to hassle people who don't have a licence since if 95% of the population have TV's and 80% have licences, there is a 75% chance that the people you write to will need to buy a licence and might just do that. They can also get a warrant if they come to your house and although you deny the existence of a TV they can hear one in the background..
personally, I used to have a TV in my flat though rarely watched it and had no licence. One day I went out (at 9pm!) and when I returned, I had a note that they had called around and would come back later. I hastily packed up the TV and rearranged the living room and was pleasantly surprised that the room looked much nicer and I never got the TV out again. (but no, they never did come back :)