Yep. Basic research will almost NEVER be done by private industry, simply due to the fact that any benefits that come about due to it tend to be long-term, if there are any benefits at all. The purpose is purely to expand knowledge without knowing if and how that knowledge can be used. Private industry has no desire to do research simply to expand our understanding of the world--they only want knowledge that can be monetized quickly. It seems that most people that argue that government shouldn't fund research don't understand the distinction between basic research and applied research.
But I also have it because it has one feature I dearly wish kpdf did: the ability to rotate the rendered PDF. Take a widescreen, clamshell laptop/notebook, turn it on its side, and let a page of a book fill the screen, and you have a pretty nice eBook reader.
I did that for a while a few summers ago. Take a Project Gutenberg text file (or any text file), throw it into your favorite word processor/page layout program, choose a nice body font, give it some reasonable margins, stick page # footers in, then export it all out to a PDF. Fire up Acrobat Reader, set the background color to a nice cream color, rotate the page 90 degrees, hit fullscreen, find a nice comfy chair and read! Flipping the page was a matter of hitting the mouse button, which is where my thumb was resting anyways. Worked quite well.
It's pretty sad when Americans need to travel with blank laptops for fear of having their data seized by US border agents...
Which also brings up the following line of questioning by border guards: "Why are you traveling with a blank laptop? You wouldn't keep a blank laptop around unless you had something to hide."
You do realize that if we all did our part to help these princes out, that eventually there wouldn't be any more Nigerian princes in need of help, right? So pitch in! The only way we'll get these Nigerians to stop bugging us is if we get all their money back to them.
I guess using your logic neither Alaska nor Hawaii are part of the United States of America.
Here's a hint: If you're going to tell other people to be correct about something, you'd better be damn sure you yourself know what you are talking about. And it's very clear here that you don't. Fucking dipshit.
I went through three original Game Boys back in the day because the LCD screens kept on losing vertical lines. These were generally near the edges of the screen, but one got so bad that nearly half the screen didn't work. I'm sure they probably still power up just fine, but if you can't see what's on the screen it doesn't really matter.
Obviously Yahoo wasn't going to vanish, but in terms of search engine usage, it's nowhere close to Google.
Right, which is why a long time ago Yahoo began to diversify their offerings. They're not #1 in any field, but they are reasonably strong players in a dozen or so other fields.
Yes, I definitely think that buying Yahoo was a smart move at a great longterm price...
The move was simply them "buying" marketshare in an attempt to trump Google.
Ummm, you are aware that Microsoft has not actually bought Yahoo, right? MS has made Yahoo an offer. Yahoo has not yet responded to that offer.
I'm not familiar with that phrase, and I have no idea wtf the submitter meant by that. The best I can come up with is that he feels that the ideas conveyed in the experiment are beyond clever. *shrug*
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Yep. Basic research will almost NEVER be done by private industry, simply due to the fact that any benefits that come about due to it tend to be long-term, if there are any benefits at all. The purpose is purely to expand knowledge without knowing if and how that knowledge can be used. Private industry has no desire to do research simply to expand our understanding of the world--they only want knowledge that can be monetized quickly. It seems that most people that argue that government shouldn't fund research don't understand the distinction between basic research and applied research.
But I also have it because it has one feature I dearly wish kpdf did: the ability to rotate the rendered PDF. Take a widescreen, clamshell laptop/notebook, turn it on its side, and let a page of a book fill the screen, and you have a pretty nice eBook reader.
I did that for a while a few summers ago. Take a Project Gutenberg text file (or any text file), throw it into your favorite word processor/page layout program, choose a nice body font, give it some reasonable margins, stick page # footers in, then export it all out to a PDF. Fire up Acrobat Reader, set the background color to a nice cream color, rotate the page 90 degrees, hit fullscreen, find a nice comfy chair and read! Flipping the page was a matter of hitting the mouse button, which is where my thumb was resting anyways. Worked quite well.
I wonder why a spell checker couldn't be made to look for a misplaced comma in a number?
I wonder why a so-called "editor" can't be bothered to read through a summary before hitting the "approve" button.
I guess this means the Colbert/Stewart/O'Brien fued has been resolved, too...
Please, please, just once, go and see the Grand Canyon.
What, you don't think they have 6000 year old rock formations in Europe?
And yet simply making a disc image of the install discs with Disk Copy or Disk Utility always worked with no problems under OS9 and OSX.
It's pretty sad when Americans need to travel with blank laptops for fear of having their data seized by US border agents...
Which also brings up the following line of questioning by border guards: "Why are you traveling with a blank laptop? You wouldn't keep a blank laptop around unless you had something to hide."
All I can say is they better use a really big UPS.
Brown and blue really don't mix well....
You do realize that if we all did our part to help these princes out, that eventually there wouldn't be any more Nigerian princes in need of help, right? So pitch in! The only way we'll get these Nigerians to stop bugging us is if we get all their money back to them.
I guess using your logic neither Alaska nor Hawaii are part of the United States of America.
Here's a hint: If you're going to tell other people to be correct about something, you'd better be damn sure you yourself know what you are talking about. And it's very clear here that you don't. Fucking dipshit.
Fedora 9: Sulphur Alpha
Isn't this a new show on the SciFi channel?
I went through three original Game Boys back in the day because the LCD screens kept on losing vertical lines. These were generally near the edges of the screen, but one got so bad that nearly half the screen didn't work. I'm sure they probably still power up just fine, but if you can't see what's on the screen it doesn't really matter.
Things are looking grim for SCO? I obviously missed something. When did this happen?
Reading garbage like this makes me want to nuke Redmond from space.
But garbage can't read....
Yahoo doesn't own Digg. How does crap like this get modded up?
MShoo!
(gezundheit)
Obviously Yahoo wasn't going to vanish, but in terms of search engine usage, it's nowhere close to Google.
Right, which is why a long time ago Yahoo began to diversify their offerings. They're not #1 in any field, but they are reasonably strong players in a dozen or so other fields.
idle = diggdot?
Well, at least he'll never have to explain this picture to his kids...
Yes, I definitely think that buying Yahoo was a smart move at a great longterm price...
The move was simply them "buying" marketshare in an attempt to trump Google.
Ummm, you are aware that Microsoft has not actually bought Yahoo, right? MS has made Yahoo an offer. Yahoo has not yet responded to that offer.
He is the only one with hands off approach to government. And the best technologies emerge and evolve just so.
Y'mean technologies like the internet?
Give me $7.2B and I'll conveniently "lose" it for you. And I have no skills!
Could the LAN actually be nearing the end of its lifecycle?
Not as long as they let me control my own home network...
Not to mention the power and heat issues...
I'm not familiar with that phrase, and I have no idea wtf the submitter meant by that. The best I can come up with is that he feels that the ideas conveyed in the experiment are beyond clever. *shrug*