Just chalk it up as an offhand comment by the parent. Most other people know that the text of all of Shakespeare's known works can be downloaded for free online. As you undoubtedly know, biographies and commentaries are not works of Shakespeare, per se, but information written by others about either the man, his works, or both. That kind of stuff is usually in print and is certainly not free from copyright restrictions.
For the record, I have seen and owned bound, annotated compilations of Shakespeare's works that are worth their weight in gold (and are priced like they're made of the stuff, too!).
Good idea concerning The Penguin Classic Library, but the thing is, most of the titles in the collection are already 100% free from copyright restrictions, making purchasing the rights to them a foolish endeavor. Dickens? Shakespeare? Plato? That's all public domain stuff, and most of it is already available on Gutenberg. The $7,989.50 that you're charged is literally to defer the costs of printing and shipping to you 1,082 different paperback books.
The dimensions are less of a concern as long as it fits in a backpack or roomy laptop case, but to even call this monster a laptop is disingenuous. It is more of a "portable" computer in the sense that it can all be transported in one piece should you ever attempt to break your back moving it.
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Make the array bigger and put Tetris on that thing, kind of like these guys or even these guys.
The WTO does this by allowing the people making the complaints to place some decided amount of import tariffs on any of the [violating country]'s export goods. The country(s) making the complaint can decide the products they want to place tariffs on.
This is true, and no offense, but frankly I'm impressed that you are aware of this. It's a welcome relief from the overwhelmingly ignorant "globalization this" and "free trade that" rants that I often read on Slashdot. What you might not know, however, is that allowing the nation who petitioned the Dispute Settlement Body to choose the way in which they are to be compensated has had an unexpected political side-effect, at least in the U.S. It turns out that one of the best ways of putting pressure on lawmakers and even the President of the United States is to impose tariffs on goods that are made in certain politically volatile states.
For instance, let's say it's 3 years ago and you're, I dunno...Germany. You just won your DSB case because you successfully demonstrated that you were harmed because of let's say, an economic initiative by George Bush that involved giving domestic steel producers in the northeast an unfair subsidy. As Germany, you turn around and impose a heavy tariff against all oranges coming from the United States, knowing full well many of those oranges come from Florida. Then, the pressure is ramped up on Bush, because he must then explain to Florida orange growers (who have a powerful lobby, by the way) why it is that they're having trouble selling their oranges in certain European markets.
I can't seem to access the site, and I live in Kansas. Maybe it's just a technical problem. Please, could somebody pray to Our Lord and have Him fix my innerweb, in His mercy?
to characterize anti-immigration politics as racist? It's nothing but a patent, ad hominem rhetorical trick to try to change the subject from "Are U.S. immigration and naturalization policies sound?" to "Are people who want to change U.S. immigration and naturalization policies racists or not?" I am a liberal democrat and I'm fucking offended by it. It insults the intelligence of everyone who wants to have a rational debate about the immigration issue.
A little strange: I just unmasked and emerged the Firefox 9 beta, and it works great on Firefox but only kinda sorta works with Opera. Opera has detected the new plugin just fine (right clicking on a flash movie on YouTube brings up an "About Adobe Flash Player 9" option) but most YouTube movies stall out when I try to play them under Opera. The player UI loads, but the movie never plays. If I go to hardocp.com or other sites which make heavy use of flash ads, some show up but not others. In the past, all Mozilla plugins have worked flawlessly with Opera, but I think this Flash beta might be a little questionable. Does anybody else have the same problem?
I don't know what I would do if little WeeBeard were diagnosed with autism. You certainly seem to be taking this in stride, and my hopes and prayers will be with you. Best of luck to you and your son in the future. May he grow to be as resilient and understanding as you are.
"As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it," Apple said on its site.
(emphasis added)
It's nice that they're "upset with themselves for not catching it" in the last part of that statement, but what's that first part in bold all about? Oh yeah, it's the part where they shirk complete responsibility for this by half-blaming Microsoft for the virus Apple introduced in its own hardware. It's the most half-assed way of apologizing imaginable.
In other news, rapists who blame their victims will now be in charge of issuing Apple's PR statements on their website.
Hmm, I was using plenty of computers in the 80's and don't remember the Prime Computer. Did it transform? Did it roll out? I must see these commercials!
I'm not sure it's the goal of every open source developer to turn a project into a feature-rich, widely adopted juggernaut. Feature requests might have been brushed aside out of deference to project goals, which can sometimes be as unambitious as "We needed a free tool that did X, Y, and Z and now we have that."
While it would be great if the GIMP could burst onto the graphics scene going "I'm the widely adopted Juggernaut, bitch" we may have to just face the fact that it's already topped out in terms of features and development milestones. If the GIMP remains a pet project, then so be it. There are plenty of other projects that are turning a corner, such as Inkscape and Krita. Heck, Photoshop fans might even be pleasantly surprised by how well their favorite graphics program runs under WINE.
In any case, we need not be concerned that all of our eggs do not fit in this one basket.
Pardon my American sensibilities, but I like Øvind Kolås based solely on the difficulty of typing and pronouncing his name. Woo woo alien character set!
Yes, good point. Forking isn't always the best way, but it does demonstrate the power of determined people to turn open source products into exactly what they want or think other people want--for whatever that's worth. I mean, next thing you know, we'll be forking Firefox because of its logo. Hmm bad example...
Gimpshop. It's a great attempt at making The Gimp more comprehensible to people with a Windows/Photoshop background. And like The Gimp, it too is free.
That's a great point. The only thing I can think is that people in Metropolis were so dedicated to prudish 1930's-era social conventions that they all just averted their eyes anyway whenever Clark Kent went into a phone booth. You know:
Little Girl: "Mommy, Mommy! That man is making a phone call!" *points to Kent in the booth* Her Mother: "Look away, dear. We must give him his privacy!"
Personally, if I were out in public and had to change my clothes, I'd probably try to do it in the men's room. If I tried to change clothes in a phone booth, even quickly, I'd be risking arrest. But that, my friend is what makes me just a man and no...SUPERman. That and the no superstrength and superspeed thing. And the flying thing. And let's not forget the heat vision. Oh and Superman is from an alien planet. And wears red and blue. But you know, other than THAT...the phone booth thing is probably, you know, like the biggest difference...;)
I guess all these 14 year-old mods have never heard of Monty Python, or don't realize that the group that was tested was British, and the group doing the testing was France. You guys sure can't recognize a nerd joke to save your lives.
For starters, let me disabuse you of the notion that I spend my evenings looking through the dirt-stained glass of an abandoned feed factory, breath frosting up the glass, spying on the secret meetings of the local MENSA chapter and hoping against hope that this week--oh god let it be this week--will be my chance to finally get admitted.
I actually have received invitations to attend MENSA meetings in the past, but have always declined. (Is that how recruitment is done? God only knows.) I politely say that I have a "differing philosophy". Namely, I believe that intelligence and success should be measured in terms of real, humanistic achievement in the real world, and not by corny metrics that determine whether or not a person should be admitted to a shamelessly self-promotional smarty-pants club. But of course I don't say all that. Politely declining the invitation is really enough.
I know that must just fry you--that there are people out there in the world who are at least reasonably smart and reasonably socialized, and who look at their introverted and prideful intelligent brothers with pity. It may seem at odds with what I read as teenage angst, but I assure you we exist.
And speaking of teenage angst, you might want to stop using the lexicon of a teenager. "Jocks"..."frat guys"...it's the language of someone who still thinks of people in terms of symbolic high school lunch tables (i.e. somebody not all that smart after all). If you're just some silly immature kid (I understand that about half of Slashdot readers fit that description)--then you get a free pass, because that's all you've seen so far in terms of how people organize themselves. But if not, then, well, there's that whole pity thing again. To phrase this in terms you've voluntarily adopted, I am no jock, or frat-guy, or anything else. I sit at everyone's lunch table, and I don't use their interests as some kind of bogus reason to judge and dismiss them.
So I guess to be more crass about things, that, my boy, is why I haven't joined your fruity little club.
Good luck--may your false pride and wanton disdain for others take you to great new heights.
In fairness, the French will look for any opportunity to make fun of the British, including but not limited to calling them fat, stupid, or implying that their mothers were hamsters and their fathers smelt of elderberries.
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Just chalk it up as an offhand comment by the parent. Most other people know that the text of all of Shakespeare's known works can be downloaded for free online. As you undoubtedly know, biographies and commentaries are not works of Shakespeare, per se, but information written by others about either the man, his works, or both. That kind of stuff is usually in print and is certainly not free from copyright restrictions.
For the record, I have seen and owned bound, annotated compilations of Shakespeare's works that are worth their weight in gold (and are priced like they're made of the stuff, too!).
Good idea concerning The Penguin Classic Library, but the thing is, most of the titles in the collection are already 100% free from copyright restrictions, making purchasing the rights to them a foolish endeavor. Dickens? Shakespeare? Plato? That's all public domain stuff, and most of it is already available on Gutenberg. The $7,989.50 that you're charged is literally to defer the costs of printing and shipping to you 1,082 different paperback books.
Check out the specs on this thing on Dell's website.
The dimensions are less of a concern as long as it fits in a backpack or roomy laptop case, but to even call this monster a laptop is disingenuous. It is more of a "portable" computer in the sense that it can all be transported in one piece should you ever attempt to break your back moving it.
Make the array bigger and put Tetris on that thing, kind of like these guys or even these guys.
Soooooo expensive if you're paying for it yourself!
This is true, and no offense, but frankly I'm impressed that you are aware of this. It's a welcome relief from the overwhelmingly ignorant "globalization this" and "free trade that" rants that I often read on Slashdot. What you might not know, however, is that allowing the nation who petitioned the Dispute Settlement Body to choose the way in which they are to be compensated has had an unexpected political side-effect, at least in the U.S. It turns out that one of the best ways of putting pressure on lawmakers and even the President of the United States is to impose tariffs on goods that are made in certain politically volatile states.
For instance, let's say it's 3 years ago and you're, I dunno...Germany. You just won your DSB case because you successfully demonstrated that you were harmed because of let's say, an economic initiative by George Bush that involved giving domestic steel producers in the northeast an unfair subsidy. As Germany, you turn around and impose a heavy tariff against all oranges coming from the United States, knowing full well many of those oranges come from Florida. Then, the pressure is ramped up on Bush, because he must then explain to Florida orange growers (who have a powerful lobby, by the way) why it is that they're having trouble selling their oranges in certain European markets.
That's the theory, anyway.
I can't seem to access the site, and I live in Kansas. Maybe it's just a technical problem. Please, could somebody pray to Our Lord and have Him fix my innerweb, in His mercy?
to characterize anti-immigration politics as racist? It's nothing but a patent, ad hominem rhetorical trick to try to change the subject from "Are U.S. immigration and naturalization policies sound?" to "Are people who want to change U.S. immigration and naturalization policies racists or not?" I am a liberal democrat and I'm fucking offended by it. It insults the intelligence of everyone who wants to have a rational debate about the immigration issue.
A little strange: I just unmasked and emerged the Firefox 9 beta, and it works great on Firefox but only kinda sorta works with Opera. Opera has detected the new plugin just fine (right clicking on a flash movie on YouTube brings up an "About Adobe Flash Player 9" option) but most YouTube movies stall out when I try to play them under Opera. The player UI loads, but the movie never plays. If I go to hardocp.com or other sites which make heavy use of flash ads, some show up but not others. In the past, all Mozilla plugins have worked flawlessly with Opera, but I think this Flash beta might be a little questionable. Does anybody else have the same problem?
Guys, you've gotta try this tabbed browsing! Have you ever seen anything like it before?!?
*wink*
No, the answer is "Who cares."
Signed,
The Happiest Man on Earth
I don't know what I would do if little WeeBeard were diagnosed with autism. You certainly seem to be taking this in stride, and my hopes and prayers will be with you. Best of luck to you and your son in the future. May he grow to be as resilient and understanding as you are.
There might be a future for you at Apple! Just kidding :)
(emphasis added)
It's nice that they're "upset with themselves for not catching it" in the last part of that statement, but what's that first part in bold all about? Oh yeah, it's the part where they shirk complete responsibility for this by half-blaming Microsoft for the virus Apple introduced in its own hardware. It's the most half-assed way of apologizing imaginable.
In other news, rapists who blame their victims will now be in charge of issuing Apple's PR statements on their website.
Not anymore. Zed's dead, AC. Zed's dead.
Oh please, let it have improved font kerning in KWord. T he str ange way it pu ts gaps betwe en words keeps me from using it full time.
Hmm, I was using plenty of computers in the 80's and don't remember the Prime Computer. Did it transform? Did it roll out? I must see these commercials!
I'm not sure it's the goal of every open source developer to turn a project into a feature-rich, widely adopted juggernaut. Feature requests might have been brushed aside out of deference to project goals, which can sometimes be as unambitious as "We needed a free tool that did X, Y, and Z and now we have that."
While it would be great if the GIMP could burst onto the graphics scene going "I'm the widely adopted Juggernaut, bitch" we may have to just face the fact that it's already topped out in terms of features and development milestones. If the GIMP remains a pet project, then so be it. There are plenty of other projects that are turning a corner, such as Inkscape and Krita. Heck, Photoshop fans might even be pleasantly surprised by how well their favorite graphics program runs under WINE.
In any case, we need not be concerned that all of our eggs do not fit in this one basket.
Pardon my American sensibilities, but I like Øvind Kolås based solely on the difficulty of typing and pronouncing his name. Woo woo alien character set!
Yes, good point. Forking isn't always the best way, but it does demonstrate the power of determined people to turn open source products into exactly what they want or think other people want--for whatever that's worth. I mean, next thing you know, we'll be forking Firefox because of its logo. Hmm bad example...
Ahem:
Gimpshop. It's a great attempt at making The Gimp more comprehensible to people with a Windows/Photoshop background. And like The Gimp, it too is free.
That's a great point. The only thing I can think is that people in Metropolis were so dedicated to prudish 1930's-era social conventions that they all just averted their eyes anyway whenever Clark Kent went into a phone booth. You know:
;)
Little Girl: "Mommy, Mommy! That man is making a phone call!" *points to Kent in the booth*
Her Mother: "Look away, dear. We must give him his privacy!"
Personally, if I were out in public and had to change my clothes, I'd probably try to do it in the men's room. If I tried to change clothes in a phone booth, even quickly, I'd be risking arrest. But that, my friend is what makes me just a man and no...SUPERman. That and the no superstrength and superspeed thing. And the flying thing. And let's not forget the heat vision. Oh and Superman is from an alien planet. And wears red and blue. But you know, other than THAT...the phone booth thing is probably, you know, like the biggest difference...
I guess all these 14 year-old mods have never heard of Monty Python, or don't realize that the group that was tested was British, and the group doing the testing was France. You guys sure can't recognize a nerd joke to save your lives.
For starters, let me disabuse you of the notion that I spend my evenings looking through the dirt-stained glass of an abandoned feed factory, breath frosting up the glass, spying on the secret meetings of the local MENSA chapter and hoping against hope that this week--oh god let it be this week--will be my chance to finally get admitted.
I actually have received invitations to attend MENSA meetings in the past, but have always declined. (Is that how recruitment is done? God only knows.) I politely say that I have a "differing philosophy". Namely, I believe that intelligence and success should be measured in terms of real, humanistic achievement in the real world, and not by corny metrics that determine whether or not a person should be admitted to a shamelessly self-promotional smarty-pants club. But of course I don't say all that. Politely declining the invitation is really enough.
I know that must just fry you--that there are people out there in the world who are at least reasonably smart and reasonably socialized, and who look at their introverted and prideful intelligent brothers with pity. It may seem at odds with what I read as teenage angst, but I assure you we exist.
And speaking of teenage angst, you might want to stop using the lexicon of a teenager. "Jocks"..."frat guys"...it's the language of someone who still thinks of people in terms of symbolic high school lunch tables (i.e. somebody not all that smart after all). If you're just some silly immature kid (I understand that about half of Slashdot readers fit that description)--then you get a free pass, because that's all you've seen so far in terms of how people organize themselves. But if not, then, well, there's that whole pity thing again. To phrase this in terms you've voluntarily adopted, I am no jock, or frat-guy, or anything else. I sit at everyone's lunch table, and I don't use their interests as some kind of bogus reason to judge and dismiss them.
So I guess to be more crass about things, that, my boy, is why I haven't joined your fruity little club.
Good luck--may your false pride and wanton disdain for others take you to great new heights.
In fairness, the French will look for any opportunity to make fun of the British, including but not limited to calling them fat, stupid, or implying that their mothers were hamsters and their fathers smelt of elderberries.