It depends. If I go to Target and buy a toaster and the plug has four prongs, I wouldn't be too happy.
When interoperability counts, standards are essential. It's when they are abused that the problem arises. And if you don't like standards, why are you using the web anyway?
Definitely. They wanted a Microsoft Client on a Microsoft OS talking a Microsoft Protocol to a Microsoft web server (backed by a Microsoft database) running on a Microsoft server OS. Complete lockout, and nothing less, was the goal.
Nice idea. The problem is, Microsoft has a history of continuing to change the way things work to keep others from catching up. Given the choice between "Product X, industry standards compliant" and "Product X, only 6 months behind Microsoft" or "Product X, we'll never catch up", it's become clear which is the best to aim for.
Just because you're not responsible for a problem doesn't mean you don't suffer the consequences. People are ignorant a-holes and being aware of them is elementary survival. In a very busy city, you might be able to get away with being distracted around the roads but it's a bad habit to get into.
The reason why, as an environmentalist, I support GM research is because it allows for a given area of land to feed more people. It's that simple: The more productive are our crops, the more of the Earth we can keep as wilderness.
I'm sorry, I think you're wrong here. The more productive the crops, the more people can be supported. More people=less wilderness. I'm a bit agnostic as to whether it's a good or bad thing but I think that's the outcome that needs to be expected.
Corn would still be a big cash crop but higher yields would just mean lower prices. There is an incentive to increase crop yield but the diminishing return is met much earlier and the *cost* of things like GMO become less supported by the income from the crop and thus less likely to be employed.
The subsidies mean that the corn is effectively pre-bought and has to be dumped on the market any way possible
Also, go to the Mexican section at the grocery store. They may well have cane sugar coke there. Also, kosher coke for passover is made with cane sugar, not HFCS.
Definitely true. We've just started avoiding HFCS at home (I'm no left wing hippy, quite the opposite. I believe we are responsible for our own health and I believe there's enough question about its safety to make it worth avoiding) and it's extremely hard to make sure that the products you buy don't contain it. It seems to turn up in *everything*, including sausages.
If there's a problem with corn itself (I don't avoid corn particularly though I don't usually like it much. Too bland), it has the potential to have a *devastating* effect
That's not really BCD (or at least not the form being discussed). For BCD, 0x68 represents 68 decimal. And 0x10 represents 10 decimal but might be read as 16 decimal which is how this discussion relates to the thread.
I hate that crap because typically it means they're directing me through a situation which is potentially dangerous, particularly if I'm riding my motorcycle. Just use the priority as assigned to you by law, go and get out of my way.
It's a sliding scale of course. But the US doesn't have to match Chinese wages, just come close enough that it doesn't make financial sense to take things abroad. Whe way it works in the US now is: Tax the companies, tax the raw materials, tax the profits, tax the income, force them to buy goods and services through regulation then tax that too, tax the workers, tax their healthcare, tax their food, tax their transport, tax where they live, tax their taxes... The surprising thing is that anyone can afford to keep *any* business in the US.
It's a sliding scale of course. But the US doesn't have to match Chinese wages, just come close enough that it doesn't make financial sense to take things abroad. Tax the companies, tax the raw materials, tax the profits, tax the income, force them to buy goods and services through regulation then tax that too, tax the workers, tax their healthcare, tax their food, tax their transport, tax where they live, tax their taxes... The surprising thing is that anyone can afford to keep *any* business in the US.
This sixth problem is that if you have GPS, for voyages of thousands of kilometers you're not just going to pick a heading and stick with it anyway (plus you'll need to adjust the heading to compensate for things like drift anyway). But the real issue is that he took it away from the mission statement which was "how do you determine a heading with a GPS?" when compasses don't work, not "how do you navigate thousands of kilometers with a GPS?" (which is pretty trivial)
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Heck, in office you don't get the icon *or* the word anymore but you have to click on the blobby-circle-with-multi-colored-squares-thing to print.
The ribbon is a train wreck of UI design even with text. What is "Quick parts" supposed to mean?
It depends. If I go to Target and buy a toaster and the plug has four prongs, I wouldn't be too happy.
When interoperability counts, standards are essential. It's when they are abused that the problem arises. And if you don't like standards, why are you using the web anyway?
And pray tell, what does the 7 stand for in a full weekend of 24-7 gaming?
Definitely. They wanted a Microsoft Client on a Microsoft OS talking a Microsoft Protocol to a Microsoft web server (backed by a Microsoft database) running on a Microsoft server OS. Complete lockout, and nothing less, was the goal.
Hard not to concede a market when your competitor has cut off your revenue stream by providing an equivalent of what you sell for free and by default.
Though Netscape certainly was not faultless in the whole thing.
Nice idea. The problem is, Microsoft has a history of continuing to change the way things work to keep others from catching up. Given the choice between "Product X, industry standards compliant" and "Product X, only 6 months behind Microsoft" or "Product X, we'll never catch up", it's become clear which is the best to aim for.
This is Slashdot. Most of us avoid eye contact with anyone
"I have the right of way"
Neat. They can write that on your gravestone.
Just because you're not responsible for a problem doesn't mean you don't suffer the consequences. People are ignorant a-holes and being aware of them is elementary survival. In a very busy city, you might be able to get away with being distracted around the roads but it's a bad habit to get into.
Careful. I accidently typed Alt - SysRq - R + E + I + S + E + R and my wife disappeared.
Don't worry,
Your government will be taking care of that for you shortly.
The reason why, as an environmentalist, I support GM research is because it allows for a given area of land to feed more people. It's that simple: The more productive are our crops, the more of the Earth we can keep as wilderness.
I'm sorry, I think you're wrong here. The more productive the crops, the more people can be supported. More people=less wilderness. I'm a bit agnostic as to whether it's a good or bad thing but I think that's the outcome that needs to be expected.
In a pure free market system, I could slap "Sony" on my strawmen and sell them as such.
Fixed that for you.
Corn would still be a big cash crop but higher yields would just mean lower prices. There is an incentive to increase crop yield but the diminishing return is met much earlier and the *cost* of things like GMO become less supported by the income from the crop and thus less likely to be employed.
The subsidies mean that the corn is effectively pre-bought and has to be dumped on the market any way possible
Hobby horse much?
GW Bush is out of office, by the way, and is unlikely to be running again.
Also, go to the Mexican section at the grocery store. They may well have cane sugar coke there. Also, kosher coke for passover is made with cane sugar, not HFCS.
If things haven't changed, UK coke uses cane sugar, not HFCS.
US coke would too probably if corn weren't so heavily subsidised with taxpayer money.
Even Monsanto wouldn't be so stupid to wipe out their own customers and their own employees, right?
At least, not *this* quarter. If it takes longer than 3 months, that's a problem for another day.
HFCS is not Kosher. Become Jewish.
Definitely true. We've just started avoiding HFCS at home (I'm no left wing hippy, quite the opposite. I believe we are responsible for our own health and I believe there's enough question about its safety to make it worth avoiding) and it's extremely hard to make sure that the products you buy don't contain it. It seems to turn up in *everything*, including sausages.
If there's a problem with corn itself (I don't avoid corn particularly though I don't usually like it much. Too bland), it has the potential to have a *devastating* effect
That's not really BCD (or at least not the form being discussed). For BCD, 0x68 represents 68 decimal. And 0x10 represents 10 decimal but might be read as 16 decimal which is how this discussion relates to the thread.
I hate that crap because typically it means they're directing me through a situation which is potentially dangerous, particularly if I'm riding my motorcycle. Just use the priority as assigned to you by law, go and get out of my way.
But to add some typos apparently. Oops.
Minor update to remove some ambiguity)
It's a sliding scale of course. But the US doesn't have to match Chinese wages, just come close enough that it doesn't make financial sense to take things abroad. Whe way it works in the US now is: Tax the companies, tax the raw materials, tax the profits, tax the income, force them to buy goods and services through regulation then tax that too, tax the workers, tax their healthcare, tax their food, tax their transport, tax where they live, tax their taxes... The surprising thing is that anyone can afford to keep *any* business in the US.
It's a sliding scale of course. But the US doesn't have to match Chinese wages, just come close enough that it doesn't make financial sense to take things abroad. Tax the companies, tax the raw materials, tax the profits, tax the income, force them to buy goods and services through regulation then tax that too, tax the workers, tax their healthcare, tax their food, tax their transport, tax where they live, tax their taxes... The surprising thing is that anyone can afford to keep *any* business in the US.
This sixth problem is that if you have GPS, for voyages of thousands of kilometers you're not just going to pick a heading and stick with it anyway (plus you'll need to adjust the heading to compensate for things like drift anyway). But the real issue is that he took it away from the mission statement which was "how do you determine a heading with a GPS?" when compasses don't work, not "how do you navigate thousands of kilometers with a GPS?" (which is pretty trivial)