Wow, you're right. In binary I can count to 1023 on my fingers and 1,048,575 if I use my toes...
Don't you mean that in binary you can count to 1111111111 on your fingers, and 11111111111111111111 if you include your toes?
Enterprise Solution - Solvent used for dissolving piles of cash in corporate vaults.
LOL. That is absolutely true at least for the company I work for.
One thing I've noticed though, is that where the 'enterprise solution' comes from entirely depends upon the decision by corporate to buy it to dissolve excess cash on hand. For some reason they don't seem to bat an eye at spending millions of dollars for any solution that carries the Microsoft brand, even though it inevitably is less interoperable than alternatives, but they balk at paying licences for Redhat or Suse products, regardless of the actual cost. Maybe Redhat, Suse and other vendors need to add some kind of strawberry flavoring to their enterprise solution.
I think you're using definitions at odds with both common usage and political theory.
We have a Democratic Republic, one of the many forms of Democracy.
You're right in that these days, the uninformed have an almost religious believe in "democracy". The folks who founded this country had no illusions as to its dangers. You will note that neither the work democracy, nor any forms or subset of same appears in the Constitution. However, it is stated quite plainly in article 4, section 4 that "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government".
A democracy is two wolves and a sheep getting together to decide what's for lunch.
What we have here, in modern parlance is a representative republic.
This will also kill the used book market.
That's the idea.
ePub is modified HTML. Or rather, it's just strict XML with stylesheets, bundled up into a zip file. That's it. If you can make a web page, you can make an ePub.
I find calibre to be a wonderful tool for creating/converting simple ebooks. Runs on Linux/Windows/Mac
Haven't tried it with anything really complex yet though.
What I really like, is that I can take a Project Gutenberg e-text, and easily convert it from plain text to epub in seconds.
Good for us. Bad for the owner. MS cannot fuck the owner on our behalf.
Strange. I thought fuck the consumer" was their business model.
See WGA
I have yet to hear an entire Pink Floyd album played on the radio.
That probably just means you're too young to remember radio stations whose format was termed "album rock". I've heard Dark Side, Animals, Wish You Were Here, and Meddle all played as entire albums on the radio. DJs loved it back then because it gave them nice long breaks. These days where everything is computerized, it's not an issue. Hell, I can set my computer up on random play with no repeats and it'll run for a month before it runs out of material.
It seems like one mp3 of the whole album should be fine to sell.
Funny. That's how I've ripped all my Floyd discs.
It's really the only way to listen to WYWH, Animals, or DSOTM,
I'll never forgive Bill for this torturous dream.
That's not a dream. It's a nightmare.
I love the snowmen cartoons as well. My favorite is the one where Calvin builds one being run over by a car, with horrified onlookers. Dad's comment is "I think we'd better get that kid to a psychiatrist."
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
