Not even close. Most current US "high-speed" rail projects are focusing on getting the rail up to the standards for regular intercity rail in the reset of the industrialized parts of the world (around 170-200 kph) after decades of neglect. The only exception that has any chance whatsoever to come to fruition is the California high-speed rail project, and that has been in the works for quite a while before that plan. Don't get me wrong, that's a good thing, you have to be able to walk before you can run.
Yes, expensive, just like all the highways that require just as much compensation. The problem is that there isn't enough political will, and this goes for many other countries as well including my own.
I'm using Bahnhof as well, but I had no idea they had IPv6 now (I'm using Arch, so not much is configured for me unless I do it myself;)). I did some poking around a few years ago, none of the ISPs seemed to have any interest or plans for configuring IPv6, including Bahnhof.
What exactly is the definition of a "smartphone"? Is it being able to install third party applications? In that case my previous phone from Sony Ericsson (released almost 4 years ago) and most phones sold are smart phones. Is it a touch interface? In that case there are several smartphones that run neither of the Operating Systems that a smart phone must have according to the article. Before you can come up with a good impartial definition of the word "smartphone" you cannot know how large the market share of a specific smartphone is, or even if it qualifies as a smartphone.
Arch works quite well. It has a lightning fast binary package manager and there's a community repository (AUR) of build scripts for various less popular software. And I love the rolling releases. I've got it on both my laptop and desktop. It will take a bit longer to set up than Ubuntu and its ilk obviously but the reward is a very quick, light and responsive system with the latest packages always available. And the KDE packages rock.
In most European countries, 170,000 means 170.000. ' is a perfectly valid delimiter.
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Well professors are already paid to write these books, it's not like they refrain from working on the book while at work. Universities giving professors some kind of incentive to write books and publish them for free electronically would be much preferred to the current system of book publishers cashing in at the expense of poor students. It's not like the authors actually receive that much of the price of a book anyway, most of it goes to the publisher.
And this is a great idea. I tend to download books off the Internet when I can find them, it saves me a ton of money, but I've never bought a book only to copy and return it.
Keyboard shortcuts for moving the window to another screen: System Settings->Keyboard & Mouse->Global Keyboard Shortcuts->Select KWin->type screen in the search field to filter out all the screen shortcuts, including moving a window to the next screen and to an arbitrary screen and moving focus between screens. KDE also has screen specific wallpaper functionality (which from what I understand Windows 7 does not) and of you can of course have multiple taskbars if you wish.
Where is the "elitism" in the previous conversation? All I see is one guy asking if an AC can post his xorg.conf (ie trying to help), and the AC not responding.
Re Firefox: You can't, the Windows version is compiled with performance guided optimization, the Linux version is not. Try chromium though, it'll blow the socks off of firefox wrt performance (and the Linux and Windows versions are about equally fast from what I've heard) and it seems to be a hell of alot more stable (mostly because one tab crashing doesn't bring down the whole browser, ditto flash).
Some Android phones are already "free" with contract over on this side of the Atlantic. The HTC Tattoo is "free" with a 299 SEK/month (42 USD/month) contract. (I've got an HTC Magic, but I'm very interested in the Nokia N900, won't be buying a new phone for a year or two, but maybe the equivalent phone with Maemo then)
My parents have had a (heavily used, as they're running a small business) HP-5P printer for like 10-15 years, and it's working as well now as the day they got it. That's quality. (me I don't have a printer, I don't print much and I live close to school so I use one of theirs (HP, color, duplex) for free when I need one:))
The EU ceased being simply about an internal market the moment they gained the power to legislate. Giving the EU parliament actual power is a hell of alot better than allowing government (not parliamentary) representatives to legislate and having unanimous control over international treaties. But that is of course not nearly enough, the central EU "government" has far too much power. IMO, any decision made by the EU should be subject to veto by any national parliament along with a (required) referendum in all countries.
The problem is that the ministers aren't really held accountable for their actions in the Council of Ministers, in large part because there is no transparency whatsoever regarding its day to day business. A government could in principle advocate one (popular) position in public and another (unpopular) position in the council, with the people having no idea what's really going on.
As an (unwilling at this point) EU citizen I can only agree. The council of ministers is easily one of the most corrupt, non-transparent and unaccountable governing bodies in existence. There is virtually no transparency, despite individual countries (like Sweden) having strict laws regarding government transparency. This is completely ignored by governments when it comes to the EU-level.
I'm all for European cooperation, but not like this. I want a transparent democratic union with little power of its own. Stuff like this should have oversight by both the EU parliament and national parliaments, all of whom should have the right to veto. Preferably, a referendum would also be required (given the unreliable nature of politicians), with at least 60% or so in favor.
I think a larger part of it is the fact that Android is more popular with open source developers, and has a wealth of free open source applications. To earn money on Android, you have to offer something extraordinary that does not exist otherwise. I think having to play by Apple's rules is a big deterrent for many open source developers who develop as a hobby.
How does an extradition treaty allow the US government to kidnap an Italian citizen from Italian streets? This is outrageous and has been repeated in several other locations. If any extradition treaty is to remain, these US agents have to be extradited to Italy.
If they're savvy enough to get flash installed they should be savvy enough to get google frame installed, or is it that hard? (speaking as a Linux user who hasn't used IE in 10 years)
I wouldn't do that specificially, but I can't see how that would be a problem. There is a javascript interface to the video and you can find out if the video has paused, after that you may do whatever you wish, show suggestions of other videos ala youtube, show a video advertisement (if you're bent on driving users away by annoying them when they specifically requested a paused video) or anything else you could do with flash.
I'm afraid it's not as simple as that. While the parliament get some more areas of responsibility, it does not get to be free of the council "co-decision" procedure, and the council gets more power as well. The parliament will bend over backwards to satisfy the council just as it always has, and the council will continue to push draconian laws and will continue with their policy of complete non-transparency.
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I had no idea about the property tax situation, if that is true, US railroads have to be the largest taxed continuous "property" in the world.
Or even decent (160-200 kph) intercity rail outside of the northeast corridor, where, incidentally, the tracks are owned by Amtrak. ;)
Not even close. Most current US "high-speed" rail projects are focusing on getting the rail up to the standards for regular intercity rail in the reset of the industrialized parts of the world (around 170-200 kph) after decades of neglect. The only exception that has any chance whatsoever to come to fruition is the California high-speed rail project, and that has been in the works for quite a while before that plan.
Don't get me wrong, that's a good thing, you have to be able to walk before you can run.
Yes, expensive, just like all the highways that require just as much compensation. The problem is that there isn't enough political will, and this goes for many other countries as well including my own.
I'm using Bahnhof as well, but I had no idea they had IPv6 now (I'm using Arch, so not much is configured for me unless I do it myself ;)). I did some poking around a few years ago, none of the ISPs seemed to have any interest or plans for configuring IPv6, including Bahnhof.
What exactly is the definition of a "smartphone"? Is it being able to install third party applications? In that case my previous phone from Sony Ericsson (released almost 4 years ago) and most phones sold are smart phones. Is it a touch interface? In that case there are several smartphones that run neither of the Operating Systems that a smart phone must have according to the article.
Before you can come up with a good impartial definition of the word "smartphone" you cannot know how large the market share of a specific smartphone is, or even if it qualifies as a smartphone.
Arch works quite well. It has a lightning fast binary package manager and there's a community repository (AUR) of build scripts for various less popular software. And I love the rolling releases. I've got it on both my laptop and desktop. It will take a bit longer to set up than Ubuntu and its ilk obviously but the reward is a very quick, light and responsive system with the latest packages always available. And the KDE packages rock.
Apparently it is widely used in Switzerland, and I've seen it used many times before.
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In most European countries, 170,000 means 170.000. ' is a perfectly valid delimiter.
Well professors are already paid to write these books, it's not like they refrain from working on the book while at work. Universities giving professors some kind of incentive to write books and publish them for free electronically would be much preferred to the current system of book publishers cashing in at the expense of poor students. It's not like the authors actually receive that much of the price of a book anyway, most of it goes to the publisher.
And this is a great idea. I tend to download books off the Internet when I can find them, it saves me a ton of money, but I've never bought a book only to copy and return it.
Keyboard shortcuts for moving the window to another screen: System Settings->Keyboard & Mouse->Global Keyboard Shortcuts->Select KWin->type screen in the search field to filter out all the screen shortcuts, including moving a window to the next screen and to an arbitrary screen and moving focus between screens.
KDE also has screen specific wallpaper functionality (which from what I understand Windows 7 does not) and of you can of course have multiple taskbars if you wish.
Where is the "elitism" in the previous conversation? All I see is one guy asking if an AC can post his xorg.conf (ie trying to help), and the AC not responding.
Re Firefox: You can't, the Windows version is compiled with performance guided optimization, the Linux version is not. Try chromium though, it'll blow the socks off of firefox wrt performance (and the Linux and Windows versions are about equally fast from what I've heard) and it seems to be a hell of alot more stable (mostly because one tab crashing doesn't bring down the whole browser, ditto flash).
Some Android phones are already "free" with contract over on this side of the Atlantic. The HTC Tattoo is "free" with a 299 SEK/month (42 USD/month) contract.
(I've got an HTC Magic, but I'm very interested in the Nokia N900, won't be buying a new phone for a year or two, but maybe the equivalent phone with Maemo then)
My parents have had a (heavily used, as they're running a small business) HP-5P printer for like 10-15 years, and it's working as well now as the day they got it. That's quality. (me I don't have a printer, I don't print much and I live close to school so I use one of theirs (HP, color, duplex) for free when I need one :))
Um... Osmotic power (or did you forget the topic already)?
The EU ceased being simply about an internal market the moment they gained the power to legislate. Giving the EU parliament actual power is a hell of alot better than allowing government (not parliamentary) representatives to legislate and having unanimous control over international treaties. But that is of course not nearly enough, the central EU "government" has far too much power. IMO, any decision made by the EU should be subject to veto by any national parliament along with a (required) referendum in all countries.
The problem is that the ministers aren't really held accountable for their actions in the Council of Ministers, in large part because there is no transparency whatsoever regarding its day to day business. A government could in principle advocate one (popular) position in public and another (unpopular) position in the council, with the people having no idea what's really going on.
As an (unwilling at this point) EU citizen I can only agree. The council of ministers is easily one of the most corrupt, non-transparent and unaccountable governing bodies in existence. There is virtually no transparency, despite individual countries (like Sweden) having strict laws regarding government transparency. This is completely ignored by governments when it comes to the EU-level.
I'm all for European cooperation, but not like this. I want a transparent democratic union with little power of its own. Stuff like this should have oversight by both the EU parliament and national parliaments, all of whom should have the right to veto. Preferably, a referendum would also be required (given the unreliable nature of politicians), with at least 60% or so in favor.
I think a larger part of it is the fact that Android is more popular with open source developers, and has a wealth of free open source applications. To earn money on Android, you have to offer something extraordinary that does not exist otherwise. I think having to play by Apple's rules is a big deterrent for many open source developers who develop as a hobby.
Unfortunately, our politicians didn't get the PM.
Agreed. I'm getting sick of this corrupted, money means everything society that we've had for centuries. There is more to life...
How does an extradition treaty allow the US government to kidnap an Italian citizen from Italian streets? This is outrageous and has been repeated in several other locations. If any extradition treaty is to remain, these US agents have to be extradited to Italy.
If they're savvy enough to get flash installed they should be savvy enough to get google frame installed, or is it that hard? (speaking as a Linux user who hasn't used IE in 10 years)
I wouldn't do that specificially, but I can't see how that would be a problem. There is a javascript interface to the video and you can find out if the video has paused, after that you may do whatever you wish, show suggestions of other videos ala youtube, show a video advertisement (if you're bent on driving users away by annoying them when they specifically requested a paused video) or anything else you could do with flash.
I'm afraid it's not as simple as that. While the parliament get some more areas of responsibility, it does not get to be free of the council "co-decision" procedure, and the council gets more power as well. The parliament will bend over backwards to satisfy the council just as it always has, and the council will continue to push draconian laws and will continue with their policy of complete non-transparency.