It looks just like the US government when they were trying to make us buy the story that there were WMD's in Irak. Big statements, a lot of adjectives, no contents. I'm sorry, but the whole choice of words just scream "fake!". The more rich and wolly words you use to convey the message, the thinner the message itself.
It's like a piece of gum on the street. You walk by it without noticing it but if you step on it and sticks to you, it bothers you.
Hate to burst your bubble, but over here (the Netherlands) it was always the rule that on a 4-answer multiple-choice, everything lower than 25% correct means 0 correct. Just because of the guessing. Tests are graded 0 (bad) to 10 (good), so on a 100 question 4-answer multiple choice test, getting 25 questions right you receive a 0. For getting 63 questions right, you get a 5. Or better: for a 100 question 2-answer multiple choice test, getting 50 questions right still gives you a 0 and you need 75 questions to get a 5.
Please tell me we are not so advanced that that practice isn't used in the US?
I could do this as an Anonymous Coward, but I'm sure noone can object if you flame Microsoft ever again. There are no words in the world to describe how stupid Microsoft behaves here. My 5 year old son does a better job of lying when he is caught with his hands in the cookie jar and knows he isn't supposed to do that.
Come on Microsoft you can do better than that!? Are you now really changed from Micro$oft to MicroFUD? You, sirs, are subject of the laughter of all the world. It is absolutely hilarious. It would be all a big joke if you weren't so serious about it. I sincerely entertain the thought of going to some venue where Bill is speaking to ask him what comicbooks are on Steve's shelves. I want a piece of that.
No really, words cannot describe the utter astonishment of how stupid you are.
I've always wondered. Why are there these stupid audible warnings in US cars? I mean, you will see if a door is open, wouldn't you? Or maybe some light or message on the dashboard would have sufficed? Do US carmakers think their customers are blind?
This is not "radiation eating", this is "radiation enabling". Eating radiation implies that the radiation is removed or converted. There is no mention of that. That's the same like saying "solar rays eating fungi discovered".
I tried a Ubuntu live CD (both 6.06 and 7.03) on my (aging) laptop some time ago. After the splash screen, just showed an undeline cursor, nothing else. That's not usefull.
As a start tu use Linux on my desktop, I installed and tried OpenOffice. I converted one for the Excel spreadsheets I had. This took 2 hours and the resulting savefile was several 100's MB large. The Excelfile is just 100 kB. That's not usefull. Starting this spreadsheet from scratch (with all formula's and graphs) is a big task, especially since OpenOffice has a learning curve.
On top of that, I play games that use DirectX. And I believe a) that's not available on Linux and b) these games aren't even available for Linux so the have to be run in Wine. I doubt that will work.
So Linux just doen't cut it for me. I'm very happy with other FOSS like Firefox and Thunderbird (to name the obvious), but not as an OS.
When I was 9 or 10, I was throwing rocks at some odd piece of black slab, 1:4:9, standing at my cave entrance!
I also remember my first HD. Whopping 40MB. Wait, I remember that typing DIR and seeing more than 6 digits was a *wow* factor (admittedly, that was on a floppy disk).
The cost the owner spends is probably less than $0.50 per mile. Could you explain to me who is sponsoring the driving of this car by at least $2.75 per mile?
I say that because I assume that the cost of material of the car is calculated in the sales price. As in: all of the costs the manufacturer has to pay to manufacture their car (which includes labour, probably not factored in the Dust to Dust study) will be charged to the customer, or the manufacturer will be out of business very soon. The same goes with the supplier of the materials the car is made of. The steel factory will charge all their costs to the car manufacturer. The ironore mine will chare all their costs to the steel factory.
Please explain where in this line there are hidden costs that are paid by company A but not charged to company B.
Exactly. I do not understand that Toyota offers the Prius with a 1460cc 77hp petrol engine and not with their 1364cc 90hp diesel engine. Fuel efficiency will rise another 35%. So not 46 mpg but 62 mpg. That would be something nice to talk about.
#1: We get evaluated on the bugs known by the public and how fast we close them.
So fixing bugs that are not know to the public does not do anything for how good they perform in the eyes of their evaluators. If you try to steer on improper metrics, you get unwanted results. It's as easy as that. That happens in all trades.
If you are so stressed out driving at 100 mph on the motorway that you blindly follow instructions from a machine, than you should not be driving at that speed or maybe at any speed at all. I would even go so far as to say that your sanity should be checked.
This is not a situation to mock, no, but it is certainly a situation to thoroughly question the mental capabilities of the subject. You are just plain stupid to do such actions.
And I sincerely question in what way driving at 100 mph poses a pressure situation? I've driven at 120 mph regularly and felt no pressure. If I would, I would not drive that fast. Why does she? I submit again: she is clearly unfit to handle such situations and should be banned to do so. No machines have to be blamed to accuse her of that.
Don't joke about that. Someone in my company actually did that with a shared memory. It was about a search algorithm: loop
get first item
if item != wanted item, delete item until item found
He was surprised that the second time he tested it, there was only one item in the list. Needless to say he was sacked soon afterwards.
I wouldn't call it a disaster, but equally stupid to IBM's BRS was our BRS.
The technical school I attended wasn't really big. Only 200 students doing electrical and computer enigneering and some 500 students in various forms of education like economics, logistics and even a teachers education. Because it was so small, only the computer engineering had computers to speak of. HP Apollo systems, old Sun 3's and a spanking new network of IBM PS2/50's. Yeah baby, networked! (nobody used the Sun 3's for other things than playing LPMud, so to the general public they were not present). So we had this big room filled with 16 PS2/50's on a network. Of course we techies didn't need the network anyway (Internet? What's that? That's how backward we were. Usenet wasn't even available to us). So the logistics department had this big networked simulation program they were running every month. That's what the network was good for.
The room had it's own circuit breaker conveniently located in a plastic box with a BRS on it. Mounted on the feeding line which came in through the ceiling next to the door. BRS, door, see where this is going? Man that BRS did protrude far out of that circuitbreaker box. It had already happened once or twice that some joker "accidentally" hit the BRS after class, but what really made the technical staff concider moving this box was when one day, thoroughly pissed off at not being able to use the computer again all day, one of my classmates opened the door when the logistics guys were doing there simulation, said Hi and hit the BRS.
Needless to say my classmate was in big trouble afterwards.
I am also a European citizen and I think Galileo is one of the examples of how much money gets wasted in the EU. I'm not dependent on GPS, sure it is handy when on the road and I use it very often, but my world does not end when GPS would be offline. So I don't see in what way this is being dependent on the US. Having Galileo will not offer anything extra. So why spend the billions of Euro's to launch these satellites?
You say the only thing the EU is good at is using your tax money. Now, it's your (and my) tax money that is wasted on these satellites.
I expect the reasoning behind this is that since she wants to be a teacher, everything she does is an example to kids. So drinking is promoting underaged drinking. Well, being 25 (or 27 now) she very likey has a drivers licence and owns a car, so she is promoting underaged driving as well. What makes matters even worse for her, she has two children. What signal does that give to underaged children, that it's alright to have sex?
Man, this woman is depraved! She should be jailed for life!
I'm loath to say it to this audience, but Americans never cease to amaze me in what insane ways they can make asses out of themselves over and over again. I mean, really. You would expect this kind of story from Chavez or Ahmadinejad AGAINST the US, not the US against their neighbour for crying out loud.
Just look at the devices from HTC to see the evolution. They started out as smartphones, became PDA's with phone functionality (which make you look silly holding it to your head) and their latest (the Advantage) doesn't even have a speaker for use of the phone. It still has a phone for HSDPA/GPRS though, has WiFi, is now uncomfortably large to put in your pocket, has a hard drive, but won't run Vista because that's just to bloated.
But it's the natural way. I expect their next device to have a 7" 800x600 screen.
my recruiter returned to tell me that he'd talked to his supervisor and it turns out that I could have not signed it at all.
When I signed the contract for my current job, I got a paper to sign stating some anti-competitive clauses. Basically, I wouldn't be allowed to go back to my former job.
I just laughed heartily and said I would never sign this.
"Oh, no problem" was the reaction.
So my advice: start with declining, even ridiculing the whole matter. Most of the times it's some relic of the past (which, in Google's case, will be from the times when dinosaurs roamed the earth) and not enforced anyway.
Where in the whole have they made a simple, seemingly unimportant, decision?
Deleting posts, deleting users because you "fear" a lawsuit, and even worse so: doing it without proper explanation? That is not a simple, seemingly unimportant, decision. That is just plain stupid.
If you decide you don't want this key posted, say so. Don't go sneaking behind people's backs and shooting them unexpectingly. That's something Stalin did (phew, just narrowly escaped Godwin there). And why, of all the websites out there, do they want to be holier than the pope? I don't get it. This is not something you do in the spur of the moment. You never decide to kill posts and users in the spur of the moment. There always is some incentive behind that.
Especially when the same article mentions that Vista has a "2.04% share of the OS market". If 25% of businesses were using it, than businesses would only attribute, what, 5% of the total OS market? I find that very hard to believe.
Just call it what it is: Economics of scale.
The more people use Windows, the more support (programs and service) there will be for Windows. OSS is small and scattered, so support will be also.
It's like running your car on petrol or ethanol. Ethanol is better (just for arguments sake), but why doesn't everybody use it? Because the infrastructure isn't set up for it.
Same with Windows. Everybode uses Windows, so someone who doesn't use it has to adapt. And not everyone want's to do that.
That does not apply in this case. The way FON is set up in Europe is that everyone who wants to use the AP has to be registered with FON and has to enter his username and password in the startpage that the browser shows when connecting to a FON router.
That way it is not an open AP.
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It looks just like the US government when they were trying to make us buy the story that there were WMD's in Irak. Big statements, a lot of adjectives, no contents.
I'm sorry, but the whole choice of words just scream "fake!". The more rich and wolly words you use to convey the message, the thinner the message itself.
It's like a piece of gum on the street. You walk by it without noticing it but if you step on it and sticks to you, it bothers you.
Hate to burst your bubble, but over here (the Netherlands) it was always the rule that on a 4-answer multiple-choice, everything lower than 25% correct means 0 correct. Just because of the guessing.
Tests are graded 0 (bad) to 10 (good), so on a 100 question 4-answer multiple choice test, getting 25 questions right you receive a 0. For getting 63 questions right, you get a 5.
Or better: for a 100 question 2-answer multiple choice test, getting 50 questions right still gives you a 0 and you need 75 questions to get a 5.
Please tell me we are not so advanced that that practice isn't used in the US?
Incredible, that you can get a patent on a simple flowchart. Every 3-year old can see that that is nothing innovative or new!?
I need to dig up my work did at school. I think there are a few patents waiting to be registred.
I could do this as an Anonymous Coward, but I'm sure noone can object if you flame Microsoft ever again. There are no words in the world to describe how stupid Microsoft behaves here. My 5 year old son does a better job of lying when he is caught with his hands in the cookie jar and knows he isn't supposed to do that.
Come on Microsoft you can do better than that!? Are you now really changed from Micro$oft to MicroFUD?
You, sirs, are subject of the laughter of all the world. It is absolutely hilarious. It would be all a big joke if you weren't so serious about it.
I sincerely entertain the thought of going to some venue where Bill is speaking to ask him what comicbooks are on Steve's shelves. I want a piece of that.
No really, words cannot describe the utter astonishment of how stupid you are.
I've always wondered. Why are there these stupid audible warnings in US cars? I mean, you will see if a door is open, wouldn't you? Or maybe some light or message on the dashboard would have sufficed?
Do US carmakers think their customers are blind?
Mind you, I see that as a very likey option.
This is not "radiation eating", this is "radiation enabling".
Eating radiation implies that the radiation is removed or converted. There is no mention of that.
That's the same like saying "solar rays eating fungi discovered".
I tried a Ubuntu live CD (both 6.06 and 7.03) on my (aging) laptop some time ago. After the splash screen, just showed an undeline cursor, nothing else. That's not usefull.
As a start tu use Linux on my desktop, I installed and tried OpenOffice. I converted one for the Excel spreadsheets I had. This took 2 hours and the resulting savefile was several 100's MB large. The Excelfile is just 100 kB. That's not usefull. Starting this spreadsheet from scratch (with all formula's and graphs) is a big task, especially since OpenOffice has a learning curve.
On top of that, I play games that use DirectX. And I believe a) that's not available on Linux and b) these games aren't even available for Linux so the have to be run in Wine. I doubt that will work.
So Linux just doen't cut it for me. I'm very happy with other FOSS like Firefox and Thunderbird (to name the obvious), but not as an OS.
I've got some news for you Americans: gasoline prices here are 1,40 per liter. That's $ 3,92 per gallon. You've got some way to go yet.
When I was 9 or 10, I was throwing rocks at some odd piece of black slab, 1:4:9, standing at my cave entrance!
I also remember my first HD. Whopping 40MB. Wait, I remember that typing DIR and seeing more than 6 digits was a *wow* factor (admittedly, that was on a floppy disk).
The cost the owner spends is probably less than $0.50 per mile. Could you explain to me who is sponsoring the driving of this car by at least $2.75 per mile?
I say that because I assume that the cost of material of the car is calculated in the sales price. As in: all of the costs the manufacturer has to pay to manufacture their car (which includes labour, probably not factored in the Dust to Dust study) will be charged to the customer, or the manufacturer will be out of business very soon.
The same goes with the supplier of the materials the car is made of. The steel factory will charge all their costs to the car manufacturer. The ironore mine will chare all their costs to the steel factory.
Please explain where in this line there are hidden costs that are paid by company A but not charged to company B.
You miss the most important one:
#1: We get evaluated on the bugs known by the public and how fast we close them.
So fixing bugs that are not know to the public does not do anything for how good they perform in the eyes of their evaluators.
If you try to steer on improper metrics, you get unwanted results. It's as easy as that. That happens in all trades.
Oh please.
If you are so stressed out driving at 100 mph on the motorway that you blindly follow instructions from a machine, than you should not be driving at that speed or maybe at any speed at all. I would even go so far as to say that your sanity should be checked.
This is not a situation to mock, no, but it is certainly a situation to thoroughly question the mental capabilities of the subject. You are just plain stupid to do such actions.
And I sincerely question in what way driving at 100 mph poses a pressure situation? I've driven at 120 mph regularly and felt no pressure. If I would, I would not drive that fast. Why does she? I submit again: she is clearly unfit to handle such situations and should be banned to do so.
No machines have to be blamed to accuse her of that.
Don't joke about that. Someone in my company actually did that with a shared memory. It was about a search algorithm:
loop
get first item
if item != wanted item, delete item
until item found
He was surprised that the second time he tested it, there was only one item in the list.
Needless to say he was sacked soon afterwards.
I wouldn't call it a disaster, but equally stupid to IBM's BRS was our BRS.
The technical school I attended wasn't really big. Only 200 students doing electrical and computer enigneering and some 500 students in various forms of education like economics, logistics and even a teachers education.
Because it was so small, only the computer engineering had computers to speak of. HP Apollo systems, old Sun 3's and a spanking new network of IBM PS2/50's. Yeah baby, networked! (nobody used the Sun 3's for other things than playing LPMud, so to the general public they were not present).
So we had this big room filled with 16 PS2/50's on a network. Of course we techies didn't need the network anyway (Internet? What's that? That's how backward we were. Usenet wasn't even available to us).
So the logistics department had this big networked simulation program they were running every month. That's what the network was good for.
The room had it's own circuit breaker conveniently located in a plastic box with a BRS on it. Mounted on the feeding line which came in through the ceiling next to the door.
BRS, door, see where this is going?
Man that BRS did protrude far out of that circuitbreaker box. It had already happened once or twice that some joker "accidentally" hit the BRS after class, but what really made the technical staff concider moving this box was when one day, thoroughly pissed off at not being able to use the computer again all day, one of my classmates opened the door when the logistics guys were doing there simulation, said Hi and hit the BRS.
Needless to say my classmate was in big trouble afterwards.
I am also a European citizen and I think Galileo is one of the examples of how much money gets wasted in the EU.
I'm not dependent on GPS, sure it is handy when on the road and I use it very often, but my world does not end when GPS would be offline. So I don't see in what way this is being dependent on the US.
Having Galileo will not offer anything extra. So why spend the billions of Euro's to launch these satellites?
You say the only thing the EU is good at is using your tax money. Now, it's your (and my) tax money that is wasted on these satellites.
I expect the reasoning behind this is that since she wants to be a teacher, everything she does is an example to kids. So drinking is promoting underaged drinking. Well, being 25 (or 27 now) she very likey has a drivers licence and owns a car, so she is promoting underaged driving as well. What makes matters even worse for her, she has two children. What signal does that give to underaged children, that it's alright to have sex?
Man, this woman is depraved! She should be jailed for life!
I'm loath to say it to this audience, but Americans never cease to amaze me in what insane ways they can make asses out of themselves over and over again.
I mean, really. You would expect this kind of story from Chavez or Ahmadinejad AGAINST the US, not the US against their neighbour for crying out loud.
Just look at the devices from HTC to see the evolution. They started out as smartphones, became PDA's with phone functionality (which make you look silly holding it to your head) and their latest (the Advantage) doesn't even have a speaker for use of the phone.
It still has a phone for HSDPA/GPRS though, has WiFi, is now uncomfortably large to put in your pocket, has a hard drive, but won't run Vista because that's just to bloated.
But it's the natural way. I expect their next device to have a 7" 800x600 screen.
I just laughed heartily and said I would never sign this.
"Oh, no problem" was the reaction.
So my advice: start with declining, even ridiculing the whole matter. Most of the times it's some relic of the past (which, in Google's case, will be from the times when dinosaurs roamed the earth) and not enforced anyway.
Where in the whole have they made a simple, seemingly unimportant, decision?
Deleting posts, deleting users because you "fear" a lawsuit, and even worse so: doing it without proper explanation? That is not a simple, seemingly unimportant, decision. That is just plain stupid.
If you decide you don't want this key posted, say so. Don't go sneaking behind people's backs and shooting them unexpectingly. That's something Stalin did (phew, just narrowly escaped Godwin there).
And why, of all the websites out there, do they want to be holier than the pope? I don't get it. This is not something you do in the spur of the moment. You never decide to kill posts and users in the spur of the moment. There always is some incentive behind that.
Digg admins messed up. Big time.
Especially when the same article mentions that Vista has a "2.04% share of the OS market".
If 25% of businesses were using it, than businesses would only attribute, what, 5% of the total OS market?
I find that very hard to believe.
Just call it what it is: Economics of scale. The more people use Windows, the more support (programs and service) there will be for Windows. OSS is small and scattered, so support will be also. It's like running your car on petrol or ethanol. Ethanol is better (just for arguments sake), but why doesn't everybody use it? Because the infrastructure isn't set up for it. Same with Windows. Everybode uses Windows, so someone who doesn't use it has to adapt. And not everyone want's to do that.
That does not apply in this case. The way FON is set up in Europe is that everyone who wants to use the AP has to be registered with FON and has to enter his username and password in the startpage that the browser shows when connecting to a FON router. That way it is not an open AP.