Exactly. How can you have a system where you pay to receive something that you can not choose to not receive?
Charging someone to receive voice calls, video calls, sms messages, mms messages, mail, anything at all, is a ridiculously stupid system. If it was implemented that way here, I'd choose not to have a mobile phone at all. Unless the operator could let me have a whitelist of numbers to receive calls and messages from and block everything else.
there were a tremendous number of failures back in those days.
Just as I suspected. Couldn't find any numbers on this, but it seemed reasonable that there where a lot of failures early in the development process. =)
So, compared 1 to 1, the private endeavors don't look so bad after all. Not yet anyway. =)
Wonder what happens to the eyes of people in the vicinity of anything that gets shoot down by a laser. Even worse if the thing reflect most of it in order to be laser resistant.
High energy lasers might well become the worst weapon since bio-chemical or nuclear weapons when it comes to hurting civilians.
The US government has access to the US armed forces and nuclear weapons. It's obvious who are the more dangerous.
Al-Qaeda are probably more likely to physically harm you personally though, unless you live in one of those nations where the US currently have their offensive forces deployed.
Might be different rules depending on if it's confiscated as part of a criminal investigation or not.
If they don't suspect you of a crime, it's simply a foreign government employee stealing your stuff, in the US he's probably armed too so that even makes it armed robbery, and you might be able to receive compensation. If they do suspect you of a crime, then it's not theft.
Untrusted? I trust GRUB, at least more than the bootloader MS provides.
And that was exactly what vux984 said in his post.
If your GRUB should happen to get replaced with a modified GRUB without your knowledge, would you still want to trust it? Of course not. A bootloader that you haven't signed as trusted, shouldn't be trusted. And, as he said in his post, the biggest problem with the system MS has in place isn't that it stop you from booting with untrusted boot code, it is that you can't choose what to trust.
Same as you should be able to tell Vista about which bootloader to trust, it should be with drivers and applications. I should be able to tell Vista that "Yes. I know this application and I trust it. Unless the binary changes in any way, at which time I'd like you to stop me from running it so that I can check if it's been infected or replaced with a trojan."
I should also be able to tell Vista that I don't trust an application or maybe drivers from a certain vendor, even if they should happen to be signed and trusted by Microsoft. Maybe a certain vendor has a tendency to silently install DRM-drivers or such, or maybe their drivers simple are unstable.
I, for one, started boycotting the Olympics about 20-25 years ago, since every damn tv channel or newspaper exchange their regular programs to run this boring competition. Keep it to the sports channels and sport sections of the newspapers, where it belongs!
I meant import tax into the EU. We're talking about software developed in the US being more expensive in the EU than in the US here. And even if the packaging, manuals and physical media is made here, the data that is put on that media is imported and the income of the sale is going to a company residing outside the EU.
But I don't know if there are import-taxes on data. I just assumed that there was, since most other products are taxed going in or out of the EU.
Also, I haven't checked, but it might be that European software is more expensive in the EU than in the US too. If that's the case, it's probably more about how much the market can afford to pay, or is willing to pay, than it is about taxes.
Since the platform on which the CPU runs have such a large impact on the total score, one would have to make actual power consumption tests on the whole system under a series of identical scripted runs and see which comes out on top.
Problem with most martial arts is that they usually are one on one combative training, or at least have quite a large portion of this. This doesn't fit everyone.
I, for instance, like martial arts, but dislike the sparring training... Iaido is a good art for me. No sparring, simply swordplay kata's without any real adversary. Like Tai Chi, it can be performed on you own anywhere where there's enough space to swing around you bokken or sword.
You loose the high intensity endurance training that comes as a part of the more combative martial arts though...
I totally agree. I do about equal amount of driving, cycling and skateing to work, depending on the weather and how much time I've got.
I always cycle and skate as if I'm driving a car. Why? Because I fall under the same traffic rules as cars.
99% of the cyclist around me doesn't. They dont stop for redlight, they turn without signaling, they go the wrong way on one way streets, don't respect right of way, etc, etc. Some even get annoyed and shout at me when I stop to let cars cross when it is my duty to stop! People who skate tend to be even worse!
There should be a license required to operate a bike, so that all cyclists at least have the required knowledge of the traffic rules.
One could make the application have English as standard and then add locale support for more languages if there's a market for it.
Only one binary version to support and distribute and locale files freely downloadable via your support site at a later date once each translation is finished. This would also let customers choose their language version themselves, or even make their own translation if you don't think their particular language is profitable to support.
One has to remind oneself that the image the US gives itself internationally mainly comes from the people on the "lower" end of the intelligence or/and educational-scale from time to time. Actually, I have never actually meet anyone idiotic from the US. In my experience, most you meet are nice, intelligent and well informed people, so I assume that the idiots simply are a very vocal minority.
One have a tendency to remember the bad experiences better than the good ones, though. =(
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Exactly.
How can you have a system where you pay to receive something that you can not choose to not receive?
Charging someone to receive voice calls, video calls, sms messages, mms messages, mail, anything at all, is a ridiculously stupid system.
If it was implemented that way here, I'd choose not to have a mobile phone at all.
Unless the operator could let me have a whitelist of numbers to receive calls and messages from and block everything else.
there were a tremendous number of failures back in those days.
Just as I suspected. Couldn't find any numbers on this, but it seemed reasonable that there where a lot of failures early in the development process. =)
So, compared 1 to 1, the private endeavors don't look so bad after all. Not yet anyway. =)
Wonder how many failed test launches the programs that led up to the Titan, Atlas and Apollo rockets had though, before the products was "finalized".
Well, even the most law abiding people have probably broken a law or two.
Jaywalking, copying an application into RAM...
So anyone should be fair game. =-P
16.6% is one hell of a big chunk to pump into ones armed forces.
Wonder what happens to the eyes of people in the vicinity of anything that gets shoot down by a laser.
Even worse if the thing reflect most of it in order to be laser resistant.
High energy lasers might well become the worst weapon since bio-chemical or nuclear weapons when it comes to hurting civilians.
There's a very big difference between believing something and knowing something.
The US government has access to the US armed forces and nuclear weapons.
It's obvious who are the more dangerous.
Al-Qaeda are probably more likely to physically harm you personally though, unless you live in one of those nations where the US currently have their offensive forces deployed.
Might be different rules depending on if it's confiscated as part of a criminal investigation or not.
If they don't suspect you of a crime, it's simply a foreign government employee stealing your stuff, in the US he's probably armed too so that even makes it armed robbery, and you might be able to receive compensation.
If they do suspect you of a crime, then it's not theft.
Untrusted? I trust GRUB, at least more than the bootloader MS provides.
And that was exactly what vux984 said in his post.
If your GRUB should happen to get replaced with a modified GRUB without your knowledge, would you still want to trust it?
Of course not.
A bootloader that you haven't signed as trusted, shouldn't be trusted.
And, as he said in his post, the biggest problem with the system MS has in place isn't that it stop you from booting with untrusted boot code, it is that you can't choose what to trust.
Same as you should be able to tell Vista about which bootloader to trust, it should be with drivers and applications.
I should be able to tell Vista that "Yes. I know this application and I trust it. Unless the binary changes in any way, at which time I'd like you to stop me from running it so that I can check if it's been infected or replaced with a trojan."
I should also be able to tell Vista that I don't trust an application or maybe drivers from a certain vendor, even if they should happen to be signed and trusted by Microsoft.
Maybe a certain vendor has a tendency to silently install DRM-drivers or such, or maybe their drivers simple are unstable.
It should be our choices, since it's our systems.
threatened to boycott coverage of the Olympics
I, for one, started boycotting the Olympics about 20-25 years ago, since every damn tv channel or newspaper exchange their regular programs to run this boring competition.
Keep it to the sports channels and sport sections of the newspapers, where it belongs!
Why is it bad to offer the user the option to configure Firefox the way he/she likes it?
There's an easy tweak that at least make the 'Awesome Bar' less annoying.
Go to 'about:config'
Change 'browser.urlbar.maxRichResults' to 1 (Or 0, but I've found 1 to work well for me)
Nope.
Are they a very vocal majority there? ^_^
I meant import tax into the EU.
We're talking about software developed in the US being more expensive in the EU than in the US here.
And even if the packaging, manuals and physical media is made here, the data that is put on that media is imported and the income of the sale is going to a company residing outside the EU.
But I don't know if there are import-taxes on data. I just assumed that there was, since most other products are taxed going in or out of the EU.
Also, I haven't checked, but it might be that European software is more expensive in the EU than in the US too. If that's the case, it's probably more about how much the market can afford to pay, or is willing to pay, than it is about taxes.
But that's because we have a free international market inside the EU.
Free markets are otherwise rare in the international arena.
Yeah, the name alone makes one want it! 8-D
Up and Atom, Atom Ant!
I thought that they used desktop chipset parts due to cost and performance reasons, not availability of a compatible laptop chipset per se. =/
Since the platform on which the CPU runs have such a large impact on the total score, one would have to make actual power consumption tests on the whole system under a series of identical scripted runs and see which comes out on top.
Looks dangerous. I'd want an ejection mechanism and a parachute to accompany such a device. ^_^
Problem with most martial arts is that they usually are one on one combative training, or at least have quite a large portion of this.
This doesn't fit everyone.
I, for instance, like martial arts, but dislike the sparring training...
Iaido is a good art for me. No sparring, simply swordplay kata's without any real adversary.
Like Tai Chi, it can be performed on you own anywhere where there's enough space to swing around you bokken or sword.
You loose the high intensity endurance training that comes as a part of the more combative martial arts though...
Solution 1.
Bring a change of clothes and see if the janitor doesn't have a room with a shower you can borrow.
Solution 2.
Set out a bit earlier so that you don't have to cycle as fast and bring a change of clothes in case you do get a bit sweaty anyway.
I totally agree.
I do about equal amount of driving, cycling and skateing to work, depending on the weather and how much time I've got.
I always cycle and skate as if I'm driving a car.
Why? Because I fall under the same traffic rules as cars.
99% of the cyclist around me doesn't. They dont stop for redlight, they turn without signaling, they go the wrong way on one way streets, don't respect right of way, etc, etc.
Some even get annoyed and shout at me when I stop to let cars cross when it is my duty to stop!
People who skate tend to be even worse!
There should be a license required to operate a bike, so that all cyclists at least have the required knowledge of the traffic rules.
One could make the application have English as standard and then add locale support for more languages if there's a market for it.
Only one binary version to support and distribute and locale files freely downloadable via your support site at a later date once each translation is finished.
This would also let customers choose their language version themselves, or even make their own translation if you don't think their particular language is profitable to support.
One has to remind oneself that the image the US gives itself internationally mainly comes from the people on the "lower" end of the intelligence or/and educational-scale from time to time.
Actually, I have never actually meet anyone idiotic from the US. In my experience, most you meet are nice, intelligent and well informed people, so I assume that the idiots simply are a very vocal minority.
One have a tendency to remember the bad experiences better than the good ones, though. =(