You can log on to Twitter with an anonymous account from a cyber cafe and post a message like 'drinking coffee with friends'. This is a pre-arranged code. Someone else can look at your Twitter feed in another cyber cafe, without creating an account anywhere.
You can log on to blogger/wordpress/tumblr/myspace/slashdot from a cyber cafe and post a message like 'today i'm going to be drinking coffee with friends at 12:30 at Cafe Weiss Haus'. This is a pre-arranged code. Someone else can look ad your blogger/wordpress/tumblr/myspace feed in another cyber cafe, without creating an account anywhere.
To suggest Twitter is unique (& somehow dangerous) because of its ease of use is a fallacy. Those whose job is to prevent terrorist acts should not be foiling plots at stage where the "go signal" is being given.
Looks like I'll be holding on to my 17" MacbookPro until it dies (which will probably be sooner than I'd like due to the faulty bonding materials in the 8600M gfx chip:-( )
You can program either the bottom right or left corner of the trackpad to act as a secondary mouse button. In other words, if you click in the bottom corner of the trackpad, it can be registered as a right-click. So the no-button laptop can act as a two-button laptop after all. (Thereâ(TM)s no support for any additional button mappings, however.)
AIG's fatal flaw appears to have been applying traditional insurance methods to the CDS market. There is no correlation between traditional insurance events; if your neighbor gets into a car wreck, it doesn't necessarily increase your risk of getting into one. But with bonds, it's a different story: when one defaults, it starts a chain reaction that increases the risk of others going bust.
Is it just me, or does that sound more like fire insurance?:)
maybe we should be looking instead at how vast sums of money can be moved into and out of a company in seconds?
This depends on whether it was a pure volume move or a price move - "vertical" drops are generally price moves, where someone will put in a ludicrously low offer price - which is snapped up, and records as a massive down-tick on the traded price graph. Once a couple of trades are made at a low price, the bids are going to stay low and force offers lower. Voila, price drop.
Exchanges have protections to stop ridiculous offer prices from gaming the system, but I guess 10% isn't outside their parameters.
and why are the traders who sold off their shares paying attention to unverified sources like ireport? well, probably because the trader next to them did; it's all got to a point of 'following the herd' rather than making decisions based on financial judgement.
The trader is probably hoping that he's not following the herd - hoping for a time advantage by hanging out at the 'fast-moving' frontiers of 'news'. Watch for a twitter-induced stock drop next.
Perhaps you'd like to tell us whether a GB is base 2 or base 10 then.
It's a disambiguation, and no programmer/engineer/nerd worth their salt argues for less specific information for the sole reason of being socially favorable.
Actually, upon reading the full discourse, the following is an even-more-money-quote: (emphasis mine)
With the same clear and critical gaze with which it examines and judges the facts, it discerns and recognizes there the work of creative Omnipotence, whose strength raised up by the powerful fiat uttered billions of years ago by the creating Mind, has spread through the universe, calling into existence, in a gesture of generous love, matter teeming with energy
... which, although I personally disagree with the idea of a creator, puts beyond doubt the Pope's acceptance of an old-universe (not just old-earth) theory.
The Bible itself speaks to us of the origin of the universe and its make-up, not in order to provide us with a scientific treatise, but in order to state the correct relationships of man with God and with the universe.
... pointing out that the Pope does not consider it to be taken literally;
Sacred Scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expresses itself in the terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer.
... pointing out that it was written for an audience, not an 'absolute truth';
The Sacred Book likewise wishes to tell men that the world was not created as the seat of the gods, as was taught by other cosmogonies and cosmologies, but was rather created for the service of man and the glory of God.
... pointing out that its purpose is to put forward the 'Christian'/monotheistic view, as opposed to the views of other religions, such as the contempary polytheistic religion of the Romans, and again not altogether incompatible with science.
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They're not exposing themselves to a lawsuit, because by agreeing to those terms you're certifying that anything you upload, you have permission to grant license on.
On the other hand, India is attempting to industrialise at a similar pace, but with democratic protections in place. It's a slower process, but fingers crossed, it seems to be a better one overall.
Also important to remember: in most nuclear power generating countries new plants where never outlawed. If any company wanted to build one they could. The fact that they haven't says something about the cost/benefit analysis.
It has an extra column, rank by total medals, for those searching for some redemption because of sheer numbers of participants. Aussies don't mind the American sorting though, as it puts us fourth:)
This is a very specific problem for switchers, of which there is a growing number. We're used to our "Explorer"-esque views being folders-by-alphabetical, then files-by-alphabetical - two easily distinguished alphabetical lists which make searching a binary choice followed by an alphabetical search. Finder either sorts all-by-alphabetical (simple alphabetical search), or files-by-alphabetical-by-type-by-alphabetical (simple alphabetical search ^ 2).
To expand on that - The difference is when sorting by kind, for a sufficiently large set of files, you'll have to scan multiple times through an alphabetical list - simple alphabetical searching is doubled, as you find the file type and then the file within the subset. Explorer allows you to differentiate quickly between groupings-of-files ("folders") and files themselves, and then finding the file name is simply a matter of knowing the filename.
You don't have to know any metadata about the file, such as that it is sorted by Finder into the "Video file" clumping instead of the "AVI File" clumping, for example - and keeping metadata as knowledge in the world rather than knowledge in your head is a good thing.
Apple's way around this is Spotlight - if you know the file name, don't even bother trying to navigate, just search.
Old habits die hard though, and as a usability metaphor the Windows method is just as easy to latch on to.
... that he's standing for the Democrats; they're one of the saner parties out there with real, considered positions, but their voter base is 1 - 2%, going on the results of the previous election (2007).
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Even in Vista, the spirit of Win3.1 still lives on in the Add Font dialog box!
(Anyone know if they've updated that yet in Windows 7?)
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You can log on to Twitter with an anonymous account from a cyber cafe and post a message like 'drinking coffee with friends'. This is a pre-arranged code. Someone else can look at your Twitter feed in another cyber cafe, without creating an account anywhere.
You can log on to blogger/wordpress/tumblr/myspace/slashdot from a cyber cafe and post a message like 'today i'm going to be drinking coffee with friends at 12:30 at Cafe Weiss Haus'. This is a pre-arranged code. Someone else can look ad your blogger/wordpress/tumblr/myspace feed in another cyber cafe, without creating an account anywhere.
To suggest Twitter is unique (& somehow dangerous) because of its ease of use is a fallacy. Those whose job is to prevent terrorist acts should not be foiling plots at stage where the "go signal" is being given.
Did they drop the 17"? not update it? or just not mention it...
From http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081014-apple-gives-entire-macbook-lineup-a-serious-makeover.html :
The 17" MacBook Pro is "still around," according CEO Steve Jobs, and is being "refreshed."
Looks like I'll be holding on to my 17" MacbookPro until it dies (which will probably be sooner than I'd like due to the faulty bonding materials in the 8600M gfx chip :-( )
Apple is extending warranty for affected systems, so a little reassurance there :)
Either of the bottom corners can be configured for secondary click - so if anything, it's better than the current single click - http://www.macworld.com/article/136063/2008/10/macbook_first_look.html
Is it just me, or does that sound more like fire insurance? :)
maybe we should be looking instead at how vast sums of money can be moved into and out of a company in seconds?
This depends on whether it was a pure volume move or a price move - "vertical" drops are generally price moves, where someone will put in a ludicrously low offer price - which is snapped up, and records as a massive down-tick on the traded price graph. Once a couple of trades are made at a low price, the bids are going to stay low and force offers lower. Voila, price drop.
Exchanges have protections to stop ridiculous offer prices from gaming the system, but I guess 10% isn't outside their parameters.
and why are the traders who sold off their shares paying attention to unverified sources like ireport? well, probably because the trader next to them did; it's all got to a point of 'following the herd' rather than making decisions based on financial judgement.
The trader is probably hoping that he's not following the herd - hoping for a time advantage by hanging out at the 'fast-moving' frontiers of 'news'. Watch for a twitter-induced stock drop next.
Perhaps you'd like to tell us whether a GB is base 2 or base 10 then.
It's a disambiguation, and no programmer/engineer/nerd worth their salt argues for less specific information for the sole reason of being socially favorable.
Indeed - See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Actually, upon reading the full discourse, the following is an even-more-money-quote: (emphasis mine)
I don't know about "50 years", or how deeply this counts as documentation, but there's a decent run-down here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_interpretations_of_Genesis#Contemporary_Christian_considerations
The "money quotes" are from Pope John Paul II -
The full discourse from the pontiff is linked on Wikipedia, but it's here for your convenience: http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP2COSM.HTM
HTH.
Google says: No results found for "Improve your jihad: nuclear weapons".
I'm gonna hazard a guess that that query threw up a few red flags somewhere in Fort Meade, Maryland. Just maybe.
Looking at the terms:
They're not exposing themselves to a lawsuit, because by agreeing to those terms you're certifying that anything you upload, you have permission to grant license on.
... Getting marketing data for the cost of bandwidth is practically free.
and getting marketing data for the cost of other people's bandwidth is practically free-er!
45 degrees north still ain't exactly equatorial!
My earlier point was more focused on the "have to" - it's far from impossible to launch elsewhere, it's just beneficial to do it from the equator.
On the other hand, India is attempting to industrialise at a similar pace, but with democratic protections in place. It's a slower process, but fingers crossed, it seems to be a better one overall.
Don't be an ignorant idiot. Everyone knows that space launches have to be done near the equator.
Someone forgot to tell the Russians, obviously.
Also important to remember: in most nuclear power generating countries new plants where never outlawed. If any company wanted to build one they could. The fact that they haven't says something about the cost/benefit analysis.
Wikipedia begs to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_new_nuclear_power_plants#New_plants_under_construction
There's a reasonably official one at the official site: http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml
It has an extra column, rank by total medals, for those searching for some redemption because of sheer numbers of participants. Aussies don't mind the American sorting though, as it puts us fourth :)
Although sometimes it pays to wait for Rev D -- that's usually the final version, and the most featureful.
At which point, Apple supercedes it with Shiny New Product Rev A!
This is a very specific problem for switchers, of which there is a growing number. We're used to our "Explorer"-esque views being folders-by-alphabetical, then files-by-alphabetical - two easily distinguished alphabetical lists which make searching a binary choice followed by an alphabetical search. Finder either sorts all-by-alphabetical (simple alphabetical search), or files-by-alphabetical-by-type-by-alphabetical (simple alphabetical search ^ 2).
To expand on that - The difference is when sorting by kind, for a sufficiently large set of files, you'll have to scan multiple times through an alphabetical list - simple alphabetical searching is doubled, as you find the file type and then the file within the subset. Explorer allows you to differentiate quickly between groupings-of-files ("folders") and files themselves, and then finding the file name is simply a matter of knowing the filename.
You don't have to know any metadata about the file, such as that it is sorted by Finder into the "Video file" clumping instead of the "AVI File" clumping, for example - and keeping metadata as knowledge in the world rather than knowledge in your head is a good thing.
Apple's way around this is Spotlight - if you know the file name, don't even bother trying to navigate, just search.
Old habits die hard though, and as a usability metaphor the Windows method is just as easy to latch on to.
and again, you are ok polluting it with Flash or Quicktime?
because I'm not.
How the hell did you get a Mac without Quicktime?
They also watched it sublimate. Since only water can go from solid to gas, it's a pretty good test.
Err... no, water isn't the only thing.
... that he's standing for the Democrats; they're one of the saner parties out there with real, considered positions, but their voter base is 1 - 2%, going on the results of the previous election (2007).
You'll like Hindustan Motors and their Ambassador model then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_car