You might think that only communists define and use open standards, but the truth is far worse. Look at the member bodies of the ISO such as ANSI, the so-called American National Standards Institute. Rearrange the letters and what do we find? That's right, NASI! Who else but fascist dictators would want to apply a single doctrine to all facets of life for every man, woman and child on the planet! Let the truth be known, only NASIs want open standards, the free world should forever remain insular, secretive and closed.
Atari and the Amiga lost, Apple is still going strong. As others have said, it wasn't the hardware that lost them the business market, it was IBMs dominance in the field. The same FUD would have been present if they'd changed hardware architectures to IBM compatibles, in fact they would have most likely been crushed and no longer around. They've always done well in the home and in the business world in publishing, design and education, but more importantly they've done well not to piss of the 800 pound gorrila in the room.
Yes, with the shocking invention of the baseball bat our society is now in utmost peril. There is seemingly no defence to a teenager armed with sporting goods except an armed response from the State.
Escalate the punishment, but for fucks sake not to the extent of criminal charges. Detention, suspension, expulsion if they hate her so bad. What happens when she gets three months in juvie thanks to a corrupt judge?
I agree with most of what you say, but it's a little naive to assume that police are permanently stationed in schools to stop litigation and not to indoctrinate them into a police state. It's futile anyway, the system where a headmaster can arbitrarily inflict punishment as judge, jury and executioner is far superior to messing around with police and courts.
If you have to call the police just because you have a 'disruptive' student silently texting, you won't get much teaching done either, and should be looking for a new profession.
For references, from wikipedia: The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world at 737 persons imprisoned per 100,000 (as of 2005).[16] A report released Feb. 28, 2008 indicates that in the United States more than 1 in 100 adults is now confined in an American jail or prison.[9] The United States has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's incarcerated population.[6]
All the 5000 cases are being reviewed, but the GP was wanting every case that ended with a child sent to this facility to be looked at, not just the ones by the judges in question. We know the prison was giving kickbacks to one judge, we should assume it was giving them for every prisoner it ever received, and review every case and every judge that ever went near the facility.
Except now to maximize profits they have an incentive to keep people out of jail, not in. Corruption would have the guilty men go free instead of the innocent locked up, a preferable solution in my book.
I'm not from the UK, there they have a comprehensive national insurance policy. Still, when I look at the USA who tax their citizens at a rate of 2.9% for medical cover that covers only the disabled and elderly (>65), and compare that to the 1.5% we pay here in Australia that gets comprehensive health cover for every citizen, I just cannot comprehend the mentality that a state run hospital service is somehow less necessary to a modern functioning society than a state run fire service or police service. They are all vital to a functional stable society, and it is in the best interests of every citizen to have full coverage for all.
Linux was designed to operate as a desktop server, the best of both worlds, able to run on minimal resources yet still have full unix server style functionality. That's why it does both admirably but only if your idea of a desktop is a CLI.
This is where BeOS and Linux philosophy diverge. Linux has gone with multiuser server style responsiveness, BeOS with single user style responsiveness. Linux has a GUI as an afterthought, BeOS has it as a central focus. Linux has many targets from the smallest to the largest computers in the world, BeOS has a much narrower focus for it's end user.
Whether Haiku can deliver on this philosophy is another matter altogether though, still Linux has always left something to be desired when used as a single user GUI client so I'm glad someone's working on alternatives.
Hell yeah. I could play back a mod while making an animation in dpaint and browsing a BBS all on a 14MHz 68020 with 4MB of memory. Not to mention you could get boot times under four seconds.
Forget the fact that right now synthesized text to speech is painful to listen vs a human voice
They're working on it. There's some decent synthesised voice stuff out there, most notably vocaloid. Sure it requires human composition to sound good, the automated results aren't the best but there's no reason e-books can't contain some metadata for the reader. Here's a couple examples of vocaloid in action - Neverending Story Hard to say I'm sorry Ievan Polka
The impressive uptime record for Apache also casts doubt on another popular myth: That open source code (where the blueprints for the applications are made public) is more dangerous than proprietary source code (where the blueprints are secret) because hackers can use the source code to find and exploit flaws.
The evidence begs to differ. The number of effective Windows-specific viruses, Trojans, spyware, worms and malicious programs is enormous, and the number of machines repeatedly infected by any combination of the above is so large it is difficult to quantify in realistic terms. Malicious software is so rampant that the average time it takes for an unpatched Windows XP to be compromised after connecting it directly to the Internet is 16 minutes -- less time than it takes to download and install the patches that would help protect that PC. [3]
As another example, the Apache web server is open source. Microsoft IIS is proprietary. In this case, the evidence refutes both the âoemost popularâ myth and the âoeopen source dangerâ myth. The Apache web server is by far the most popular web server. If these two myths were both true, one would expect Apache and the operating systems on which it runs to suffer far more intrusions and problems than Microsoft Windows and IIS. Yet precisely the opposite is true. Apache has a near monopoly on the best uptime statistics. Neither Microsoft Windows nor Microsoft IIS appear anywhere in the top 50 servers with the best uptime. Obviously, the fact that malicious hackers have access to the source code for Apache does not give them an advantage for creating more successful attacks against Apache than IIS.
Looking at the only useful thing to have come out of the LHC project so far, I predict it's just delays in the production of the video clip for their new rap song.
Seeing that malware needs background processes, perhaps they will break the app limit to do so. Now the entire third world will have infected machines because the uninfected ones are crippled to only 3 apps. Only at Microsoft can they come up with this bent of genius.
I'm sure that these dishonest astroturfers could profit from an honestly signed reply, it wouldn't look bad at all. Perhaps a thanks, perhaps a note to their potential customers, even a rebuttal of your critique, whatever they say it's idiotic not to use your venue to get in some sort of direct advertising via a reasonable signed comment instead of backhanded indirect astroturfing. Such is human nature I guess, always looking for the easy way when the obvious but harder way is staring them in the face.
There is much war and strife in the world, but when you look at the reality the 3rd world is very much like ours. Microsoft isn't marketing this for the Congo or Afghanistan, but for India, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Brazil etc. Marketing it to countries that have stable infrastructure and cities with millions of middle class office workers, not to war torn backwaters. Either way, it's still a bad investment.
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I think that willingly volunteering for a suicide mission should be more than enough to disqualify you from becoming an astronaut.
You might think that only communists define and use open standards, but the truth is far worse. Look at the member bodies of the ISO such as ANSI, the so-called American National Standards Institute. Rearrange the letters and what do we find? That's right, NASI! Who else but fascist dictators would want to apply a single doctrine to all facets of life for every man, woman and child on the planet! Let the truth be known, only NASIs want open standards, the free world should forever remain insular, secretive and closed.
Atari and the Amiga lost, Apple is still going strong. As others have said, it wasn't the hardware that lost them the business market, it was IBMs dominance in the field. The same FUD would have been present if they'd changed hardware architectures to IBM compatibles, in fact they would have most likely been crushed and no longer around. They've always done well in the home and in the business world in publishing, design and education, but more importantly they've done well not to piss of the 800 pound gorrila in the room.
Yes, with the shocking invention of the baseball bat our society is now in utmost peril. There is seemingly no defence to a teenager armed with sporting goods except an armed response from the State.
Escalate the punishment, but for fucks sake not to the extent of criminal charges. Detention, suspension, expulsion if they hate her so bad. What happens when she gets three months in juvie thanks to a corrupt judge?
I agree with most of what you say, but it's a little naive to assume that police are permanently stationed in schools to stop litigation and not to indoctrinate them into a police state. It's futile anyway, the system where a headmaster can arbitrarily inflict punishment as judge, jury and executioner is far superior to messing around with police and courts.
Yes he is, he's doubting his intelligence.
If you have to call the police just because you have a 'disruptive' student silently texting, you won't get much teaching done either, and should be looking for a new profession.
It's true. U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations
For references, from wikipedia: The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world at 737 persons imprisoned per 100,000 (as of 2005).[16] A report released Feb. 28, 2008 indicates that in the United States more than 1 in 100 adults is now confined in an American jail or prison.[9] The United States has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's incarcerated population.[6]
All the 5000 cases are being reviewed, but the GP was wanting every case that ended with a child sent to this facility to be looked at, not just the ones by the judges in question. We know the prison was giving kickbacks to one judge, we should assume it was giving them for every prisoner it ever received, and review every case and every judge that ever went near the facility.
Except now to maximize profits they have an incentive to keep people out of jail, not in. Corruption would have the guilty men go free instead of the innocent locked up, a preferable solution in my book.
No, it just means it's a likely candidate, but it's not the only candidate by a long shot.
I'm not from the UK, there they have a comprehensive national insurance policy. Still, when I look at the USA who tax their citizens at a rate of 2.9% for medical cover that covers only the disabled and elderly (>65), and compare that to the 1.5% we pay here in Australia that gets comprehensive health cover for every citizen, I just cannot comprehend the mentality that a state run hospital service is somehow less necessary to a modern functioning society than a state run fire service or police service. They are all vital to a functional stable society, and it is in the best interests of every citizen to have full coverage for all.
Copyright really truly shouldn't exist at all. Nothing crazy about that.
Linux was designed to operate as a desktop server, the best of both worlds, able to run on minimal resources yet still have full unix server style functionality. That's why it does both admirably but only if your idea of a desktop is a CLI.
This is where BeOS and Linux philosophy diverge. Linux has gone with multiuser server style responsiveness, BeOS with single user style responsiveness. Linux has a GUI as an afterthought, BeOS has it as a central focus. Linux has many targets from the smallest to the largest computers in the world, BeOS has a much narrower focus for it's end user.
Whether Haiku can deliver on this philosophy is another matter altogether though, still Linux has always left something to be desired when used as a single user GUI client so I'm glad someone's working on alternatives.
Hell yeah. I could play back a mod while making an animation in dpaint and browsing a BBS all on a 14MHz 68020 with 4MB of memory. Not to mention you could get boot times under four seconds.
links will be ported
but without graphics you face
a life without porn
It would also make you giant hypocrites as the US government has done exactly the same thing regarding phone companies and inhumane detention.
Forget the fact that right now synthesized text to speech is painful to listen vs a human voice
They're working on it. There's some decent synthesised voice stuff out there, most notably vocaloid. Sure it requires human composition to sound good, the automated results aren't the best but there's no reason e-books can't contain some metadata for the reader. Here's a couple examples of vocaloid in action -
Neverending Story
Hard to say I'm sorry
Ievan Polka
From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
Myth: Open Source is Inherently Dangerous
The impressive uptime record for Apache also casts doubt on another popular myth: That open source code (where the blueprints for the applications are made public) is more dangerous than proprietary source code (where the blueprints are secret) because hackers can use the source code to find and exploit flaws.
The evidence begs to differ. The number of effective Windows-specific viruses, Trojans, spyware, worms and malicious programs is enormous, and the number of machines repeatedly infected by any combination of the above is so large it is difficult to quantify in realistic terms. Malicious software is so rampant that the average time it takes for an unpatched Windows XP to be compromised after connecting it directly to the Internet is 16 minutes -- less time than it takes to download and install the patches that would help protect that PC. [3]
As another example, the Apache web server is open source. Microsoft IIS is proprietary. In this case, the evidence refutes both the âoemost popularâ myth and the âoeopen source dangerâ myth. The Apache web server is by far the most popular web server. If these two myths were both true, one would expect Apache and the operating systems on which it runs to suffer far more intrusions and problems than Microsoft Windows and IIS. Yet precisely the opposite is true. Apache has a near monopoly on the best uptime statistics. Neither Microsoft Windows nor Microsoft IIS appear anywhere in the top 50 servers with the best uptime. Obviously, the fact that malicious hackers have access to the source code for Apache does not give them an advantage for creating more successful attacks against Apache than IIS.
Looking at the only useful thing to have come out of the LHC project so far, I predict it's just delays in the production of the video clip for their new rap song.
Feynmannism (QED), or Einsteinism (relativity)
Does a rose by any other name not smell as sweet?
Malware.
Seeing that malware needs background processes, perhaps they will break the app limit to do so. Now the entire third world will have infected machines because the uninfected ones are crippled to only 3 apps. Only at Microsoft can they come up with this bent of genius.
I'm sure that these dishonest astroturfers could profit from an honestly signed reply, it wouldn't look bad at all. Perhaps a thanks, perhaps a note to their potential customers, even a rebuttal of your critique, whatever they say it's idiotic not to use your venue to get in some sort of direct advertising via a reasonable signed comment instead of backhanded indirect astroturfing. Such is human nature I guess, always looking for the easy way when the obvious but harder way is staring them in the face.
There is much war and strife in the world, but when you look at the reality the 3rd world is very much like ours. Microsoft isn't marketing this for the Congo or Afghanistan, but for India, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Brazil etc. Marketing it to countries that have stable infrastructure and cities with millions of middle class office workers, not to war torn backwaters. Either way, it's still a bad investment.