Ignorance, malice, red tape, whatever the excuse it's incompetence. Unfortunately they are large enough that incompetence is inevitable, inefficiencies of beauraucracy dominate any efficiency of scale past a certain point.
I fully expect them to ignore this situation and suffer loss of customers without batting an eyelid, and take 50x the money it would cost to enable what people want on their phone and spend it on a snazzy marketing campaign to try and woo customers back.
Somewhere in a lonely office building there is a computer engineer pleading for some sanity from his boss, when the VP of sales walks in...
Indeed, the toxic pollution from industry, not the power stations but the mining, refining and modern agriculture threatens our environment far more than any global climate change, and technological progress isn't doing a great job of lessening it when the economically prosperous but environmentally damaging solution still always wins out.
Well there's always the elitist and arrogant attitude of those who haven't used linux since 1998 and don't even realise that most modern distros are far better for common users needs than their current Windows box. These idiots who think granny and most people are going to learn how to edit registry files and remove their own viruses?
Ah, another good old Stallmanite with his 'Everything must be FREE! Well except what you choose to name your independantly developed operating system just because its taken us over twenty years to completley fail to do the same so can we hitch our wagon onto yours?' attitude.
Keep up the really worthwhile fight that isn't a complete waste of time and energy to wank off over the naming of something somebody said he was giving away to anyone who wanted to use it until he made dozens of arbitary 'guidelines' like some fascist thinking he can rename someones derivative work or do anything other than what is stipulated in the license and the law.
If you RTFA he would have been arrested just like his boss was if he'd shown his face. The cops fucked this one up and are trying to attribute their complete failure at crowd control to a twitter message not being sent, when they decided to forbid the singer from attending and think it wouldn't escalate the situation? The cops screwed this one up, no-one else, especially not a twitter message (that appears to have been sent anyway).
This is machine code that is restricted to only those opcodes found in English phrases with tricks to get other opcodes via self modification. Quite nifty really.
In short, because 10 years ago was the peak of the 'super El Nino' heat wave event.
This site has a neat analysis by a guy who is a critic of the status quo climate change science. It shows fairly unequivocally that the last 10 years has been fairly steady. Note the typical time scale used by climate scientists for measuring trends is usually 30 years, not 10.
Don't forget to look at the first graph showing the last 150 odd years and the undisputed fact that warming is happening over a long term scale.
You really think 'smokers egregiously abused their rights?' What have you been smoking? All it used to take was a small sign and smokers respected it, no need for government bans, fines etc. Smokers have had their rights egregiously abused.
I suppose it's cheating. I think it's useful though simply as a backbone for a custom processor, then patch in what you need. You might need an ALU and DSP for a complex project, and an accumulator & bit shifter for a simpler one. This lets you link them to a common bus architecture which could make for easy prototyping.
1. That's great for the apps, but what of the OS itself, the sandbox VM, drivers, browser etc. Are you saying they will never have security holes and need replacing?
2. Except there will be processes in memory with execute permission and there will be security holes and buffer overflows and some form of persistent storage somewhere. Saying there will never be a virus is naive.
3. Yeah, the OS will be open, but what of their web apps? How will we find the backdoors and trojans in them?
They also got the text of OT3 removed from slashdot after an AC posted it. Only other time that has happened I recall is when some windows source got pulled. Confirming MS and Scientology lawyers are worth the hefty fee.
Fielding is the Christian conservative rabid about censorship. Xenophon did initially support the net censorship proposal as a way to ban gambling sites, but switched views and opposes it.
Nice Godwin, but get this, Scientology is a criminal organization. When a senator acts to protect his constituents from being harmed by a criminal organization it is a good thing. His speaking out about this is the exact opposite of your intended slur. If he had stayed silent about these crimes then you could accuse him, but instead he bravely spoke out.
First the Scientologists came for the critics, but I was not a critic so I said nothing...
Your criticism is valid. It's just as crappy for me in Australia (and likely anywhere outside the US), bing has four forum posts before the #5 link you got (which is still a few clicks away from the driver) wheras google returns the proper hp driver page as the first hit from both the.com/ncr and.com.au domains. International mode my arse, their search engine just stinks.
I smell bullshit. Let's take a closer look at that document shall we?
-> sharia takes precedence over human rights, and the declaration cannot be understood except as a summary of sharia
Wrong. It actually states that such rights are integral to Islam and the document is in accordance with Shaira, not that Shaira takes precedence or that it is a mere summary.
-> women can not choose whether to marry, nor to whom
Wrong. Nowhere does it state this, though it does state "Men and women have the right to marriage, and no restrictions stemming from race, colour or nationality shall prevent them from enjoying this right."
-> women are not equal to men, and have "duties" to perform
Possibly. Article 6(a): "Woman is equal to man in human dignity, and has rights to enjoy as well as duties to perform; she has her own civil entity and financial independence, and the right to retain her name and lineage." You are wrong on equality not being mentioned, but right on the duties, but to be fair men are tasked with duties too.
-> discrimination on the basis of religion is, in fact allowed
Wrong. From Article 1(a): "All men are equal in terms of basic human dignity and basic obligations and responsibilities, without any discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, language, sex, religious belief, political affiliation, social status or other considerations."
-> any action that might in any way convince a muslim to become either atheist or other faith, is punishable by death (yes, might, you read that correctly)
Possibly. Article 10: "Islam is the religion of unspoiled nature. It is prohibited to exercise any form of compulsion on man or to exploit his poverty or ignorance in order to convert him to another religion or to atheism." It mentions a prohibition, not a death sentence.
-> muslims have the duty (not the right, the duty) to use any amount of violence if there are any non-muslim members of government
Wrong. I'm not sure where you get this from. The closest is Article 23(b): "Everyone shall have the right to participate, directly or indirectly in the administration of his country's public affairs. He shall also have the right to assume public office in accordance with the provisions of Shari'ah." Was this what you meant? Where is the duty to violence?
-> any expression of speech that leads to "weakening of faith" is punishable by death, as is anything that could (not would, could) undermine governmental authority
Wrong. From the quote I assume you mean Article 22(c): "Information is a vital necessity to society. It may not be exploited or misused in such a way as may violate sanctities and the dignity of Prophets, undermine moral and ethical values or disintegrate, corrupt or harm society or weaken its faith. " Nothing there about death or governmental authority.
So I think I'll call this myth busted. Try reading something before spouting off hyperbole about it.
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Ignorance, malice, red tape, whatever the excuse it's incompetence. Unfortunately they are large enough that incompetence is inevitable, inefficiencies of beauraucracy dominate any efficiency of scale past a certain point.
I fully expect them to ignore this situation and suffer loss of customers without batting an eyelid, and take 50x the money it would cost to enable what people want on their phone and spend it on a snazzy marketing campaign to try and woo customers back.
Somewhere in a lonely office building there is a computer engineer pleading for some sanity from his boss, when the VP of sales walks in...
Not only that, but we can root as much as we want without legal troubles (barring void warranties, returns etc.)
Optus is Singtel who was to Singapore what Telecom was to Australia. They do have experience being a monopoly carrier, just not here.
Indeed, the toxic pollution from industry, not the power stations but the mining, refining and modern agriculture threatens our environment far more than any global climate change, and technological progress isn't doing a great job of lessening it when the economically prosperous but environmentally damaging solution still always wins out.
I just learned kung-fu.
It's simple really.
Well there's always the elitist and arrogant attitude of those who haven't used linux since 1998 and don't even realise that most modern distros are far better for common users needs than their current Windows box. These idiots who think granny and most people are going to learn how to edit registry files and remove their own viruses?
Ah, another good old Stallmanite with his 'Everything must be FREE! Well except what you choose to name your independantly developed operating system just because its taken us over twenty years to completley fail to do the same so can we hitch our wagon onto yours?' attitude.
Keep up the really worthwhile fight that isn't a complete waste of time and energy to wank off over the naming of something somebody said he was giving away to anyone who wanted to use it until he made dozens of arbitary 'guidelines' like some fascist thinking he can rename someones derivative work or do anything other than what is stipulated in the license and the law.
You say that like it will be an open and shut case and not dragged out in the courts for years.
If you RTFA he would have been arrested just like his boss was if he'd shown his face. The cops fucked this one up and are trying to attribute their complete failure at crowd control to a twitter message not being sent, when they decided to forbid the singer from attending and think it wouldn't escalate the situation? The cops screwed this one up, no-one else, especially not a twitter message (that appears to have been sent anyway).
This is machine code that is restricted to only those opcodes found in English phrases with tricks to get other opcodes via self modification. Quite nifty really.
In short, because 10 years ago was the peak of the 'super El Nino' heat wave event.
This site has a neat analysis by a guy who is a critic of the status quo climate change science. It shows fairly unequivocally that the last 10 years has been fairly steady. Note the typical time scale used by climate scientists for measuring trends is usually 30 years, not 10.
Don't forget to look at the first graph showing the last 150 odd years and the undisputed fact that warming is happening over a long term scale.
You really think 'smokers egregiously abused their rights?' What have you been smoking? All it used to take was a small sign and smokers respected it, no need for government bans, fines etc. Smokers have had their rights egregiously abused.
So 62% of jailbreakers don't pirate software, and this makes it the rule rather than the exception? My arse it does.
I suppose it's cheating. I think it's useful though simply as a backbone for a custom processor, then patch in what you need. You might need an ALU and DSP for a complex project, and an accumulator & bit shifter for a simpler one. This lets you link them to a common bus architecture which could make for easy prototyping.
1. That's great for the apps, but what of the OS itself, the sandbox VM, drivers, browser etc. Are you saying they will never have security holes and need replacing?
2. Except there will be processes in memory with execute permission and there will be security holes and buffer overflows and some form of persistent storage somewhere. Saying there will never be a virus is naive.
3. Yeah, the OS will be open, but what of their web apps? How will we find the backdoors and trojans in them?
It also lets google get a hold of all your data, which also appears to be googles long term business plan. Cost is secondary.
Fine by me, it's a well known fact that 0.001% of the population holds over 90% of the wealth.
Nope, that's the other independant senator Steve Fielding from the Family First evangelicals.
Nick Xenophon is from the 'No Pokies' party, and doesn't interfere his religion with his politics.
They also got the text of OT3 removed from slashdot after an AC posted it. Only other time that has happened I recall is when some windows source got pulled. Confirming MS and Scientology lawyers are worth the hefty fee.
Nope. It's definately this.
Fielding is the Christian conservative rabid about censorship. Xenophon did initially support the net censorship proposal as a way to ban gambling sites, but switched views and opposes it.
Nice Godwin, but get this, Scientology is a criminal organization. When a senator acts to protect his constituents from being harmed by a criminal organization it is a good thing. His speaking out about this is the exact opposite of your intended slur. If he had stayed silent about these crimes then you could accuse him, but instead he bravely spoke out.
First the Scientologists came for the critics, but I was not a critic so I said nothing...
Your criticism is valid. It's just as crappy for me in Australia (and likely anywhere outside the US), bing has four forum posts before the #5 link you got (which is still a few clicks away from the driver) wheras google returns the proper hp driver page as the first hit from both the .com/ncr and .com.au domains. International mode my arse, their search engine just stinks.
I smell bullshit. Let's take a closer look at that document shall we?
-> sharia takes precedence over human rights, and the declaration cannot be understood except as a summary of sharia
Wrong. It actually states that such rights are integral to Islam and the document is in accordance with Shaira, not that Shaira takes precedence or that it is a mere summary.
-> women can not choose whether to marry, nor to whom
Wrong. Nowhere does it state this, though it does state "Men and women have the right to marriage, and no restrictions stemming from race, colour or nationality shall prevent them from enjoying this right."
-> women are not equal to men, and have "duties" to perform
Possibly. Article 6(a): "Woman is equal to man in human dignity, and has rights to enjoy as well as duties to perform; she has her own civil entity and financial independence, and the right to retain her name and lineage." You are wrong on equality not being mentioned, but right on the duties, but to be fair men are tasked with duties too.
-> discrimination on the basis of religion is, in fact allowed
Wrong. From Article 1(a): "All men are equal in terms of basic human dignity and basic obligations and responsibilities, without any discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, language, sex, religious belief, political affiliation, social status or other considerations."
-> any action that might in any way convince a muslim to become either atheist or other faith, is punishable by death (yes, might, you read that correctly)
Possibly. Article 10: "Islam is the religion of unspoiled nature. It is prohibited to exercise any form of compulsion on man or to exploit his poverty or ignorance in order to convert him to another religion or to atheism." It mentions a prohibition, not a death sentence.
-> muslims have the duty (not the right, the duty) to use any amount of violence if there are any non-muslim members of government
Wrong. I'm not sure where you get this from. The closest is Article 23(b): "Everyone shall have the right to participate, directly or indirectly in the administration of his country's public affairs. He shall also have the right to assume public office in accordance with the provisions of Shari'ah." Was this what you meant? Where is the duty to violence?
-> any expression of speech that leads to "weakening of faith" is punishable by death, as is anything that could (not would, could) undermine governmental authority
Wrong. From the quote I assume you mean Article 22(c): "Information is a vital necessity to society. It may not be exploited or misused in such a way as may violate sanctities and the dignity of Prophets, undermine moral and ethical values or disintegrate, corrupt or harm society or weaken its faith. " Nothing there about death or governmental authority.
So I think I'll call this myth busted. Try reading something before spouting off hyperbole about it.