Ford has also become a lot more reasonable on climate and emissions issues over even just the past three years.
Yeah. It's not like they would buy a Norwegian electric car manufacturer in anticipation of the California no-emission laws, ship 250 cars over, then when the car/oil lobby got a postponement destroy the cars instead of returning them to fill the European demand, and try and sell off the company to some sleazy company-butcher.
Well if the music industry wants to educate children about the blessings of copyright - despite their support of "sampling" rap and RnB artists - I am sure they won't mind education into their industry's contracts that make artists subject to indentured servitude, which is considered illegal if, say, you had a border farm employing Mexicans smuggled in lorries. But apparently not in the great lobbying industry, sorry, I meant music industry.
Oh, not to mention they own your name while under contract. Gee, what a nice bunch they are. They truly deserve to decide what children learn.
Coming up in history education, a pamphlet from the NRA with the "real" version of the second amendment, which removes that confusing "A well-regulated militia" bit, which goes against the obvious need of individuals to own guns without the responsibility of being part of any defence force.
I know this will upset the/. gang, but I have no problem with the FBI being able to monitor conversation between criminals.
I know this will upset the human rights crowd, but I have no problems with the Republicans being able to monitor conversations between Democrats.
See, the problem with allowing more and more surveillance of "criminals" is that you cannot know beforehand that something you do will be termed "criminal" in order to eavesdrop on something the Government wants to monitor. Who watches the watchmen and all that.
There was a story that claimed that Boeing won some airplane contract because someone among the "eavesdroppers" leaked Airbus bid information to them. Are you saying Airbus were "criminals"?
No One Lives Forever, and its sequel. Even Unreal had a proper story. Others have mentioned the Thief series and Deus Ex. There's more to life than Doom and Serious Sam.
The private corporation running the prison will collect $200/day for your stay. From the government. This money will then be funneled into more lobbying and brib... "campaign contributions" to ensure even longer sentences, meaning more customers for the prison companies.
Sony is using a different CPU (Cell), and probably a different GPU, why doesn't the same argument apply to them? Because they apparently will have "PS2-on-a-chip" to run PS2 games. You know, including backward compatibility without sacrificing current generation features.
The last one, Nemesis: Data sacrifices himself to blow up a ship about to fire a death ray weapon on a planet (Think Spock in Wrath of Khan, "the needs of the many" etc.). However, all his memories have been transferred to a Data-type android they found lying about.:)
2020 too late: As Microprose has shown us, we need to be on our way to Alpha Centauri before 2025. I mean, if SimCity can be right, why can't Civilization?
ISO doesn't manage as well as you think. The JCP is far better at managing Java than the "left to the implementation" political committees of ISO. Cases in point are that every vendor of implementations of ISO-"standard" languages add "extensions" making the standards mostly paper constructs.
There isn't much of Oracle's PL/SQL that you can find in the SQL-92 standard. And it's quite easy to end up with non-ISO C++ when using Microsoft's Visual C++. So how does the "standards" help?
Maybe you would also have preferred ISO's X.400 mail system over non-ISO internet mail?
Um, there was a fork of GCC. And the fork was later adopted as the "real" GCC.
But GCC isn't AT&T's C compiler, why should a GPL Java system need to be based on Sun's source? Mono isn't Microsoft.Net either. Why not rally behing the OSS projects that do try to make an OSS Java, like GNU Classpath and Kaffe?
What, no mention of Lotus 1-2-3, one of the better-known examples of Microsoft screwing with a third-party? Remember "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run"?
Also add the undocumented method calls in their 32-bit version of Winsock 1.1 (Win95), used by Powerpoint 4.0 and an Outlook beta, causing customers who used other vendors' Winsock implementations (read: FTP Software's) to run into trouble. Mcrosoft did release patches that removed those method calls from the afflicted programs, though, but it still counts.
The Prime Minister wasn't chosen on personal merit, she was chosen because she's from a family that's traditionally held the job of Prime Minister. It's been going on for four generations and it's an embarassment to Indian politics.
Welcome to the club. Every country has one or more "political families" that seem to dominate from time to time, e.g. Kennedy and Bush in USA. It's almost a staple of representative/parliamentary democracy.
I thought the 640k limit was a restriction that IBM put in, and Gates merely quoted their reasons or somesuch? Remember, IBM didn't want the PC to get too good - they had their "little big irons" to sell.
(Consequently, Compaq released a 386-based PC before IBM, because IBM had a vastly more expensive computer with the same performance they didn't want to ruin the market for.)
Any basic Model 2 architecture implementation with some custom tags (e.g. from JSTL) and a template set.
If you want "event driven" it should be built-in from the start, like with ASP.Net's "code behind" logic.
(Short summary of Model 2 architecture: A "front controller" servlet which dispatches to JSPs based on state. Preferrably via a template that does includes for the selected content. All JSPs are "hidden" under WEB-INF to prohibit direct access from the outside. Optinal: Lower layers (data access, EJBs, CORBA, SOAP) isolated via the BusinessDelegate pattern and value objects.
Yeah, for instance, it "blocked" my Opera because they don't think that Opera or Google should be allowed to use a business model which uses ads based on a site's content... as if it in any way whatsoever affects their content.
It boggles the mind what lengths some people will go to in order to pacify their paranoia.
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Of course! If you don't return it, they still have your money.
Ford has also become a lot more reasonable on climate and emissions issues over even just the past three years.
Yeah. It's not like they would buy a Norwegian electric car manufacturer in anticipation of the California no-emission laws, ship 250 cars over, then when the car/oil lobby got a postponement destroy the cars instead of returning them to fill the European demand, and try and sell off the company to some sleazy company-butcher.
Oh wait, they did.
Well if the music industry wants to educate children about the blessings of copyright - despite their support of "sampling" rap and RnB artists - I am sure they won't mind education into their industry's contracts that make artists subject to indentured servitude, which is considered illegal if, say, you had a border farm employing Mexicans smuggled in lorries. But apparently not in the great lobbying industry, sorry, I meant music industry.
Oh, not to mention they own your name while under contract. Gee, what a nice bunch they are. They truly deserve to decide what children learn.
Coming up in history education, a pamphlet from the NRA with the "real" version of the second amendment, which removes that confusing "A well-regulated militia" bit, which goes against the obvious need of individuals to own guns without the responsibility of being part of any defence force.
I know this will upset the /. gang, but I have no problem with the FBI being able to monitor conversation between criminals.
I know this will upset the human rights crowd, but I have no problems with the Republicans being able to monitor conversations between Democrats.
See, the problem with allowing more and more surveillance of "criminals" is that you cannot know beforehand that something you do will be termed "criminal" in order to eavesdrop on something the Government wants to monitor. Who watches the watchmen and all that.
There was a story that claimed that Boeing won some airplane contract because someone among the "eavesdroppers" leaked Airbus bid information to them. Are you saying Airbus were "criminals"?
No One Lives Forever, and its sequel.
Even Unreal had a proper story.
Others have mentioned the Thief series and Deus Ex.
There's more to life than Doom and Serious Sam.
Do Not Collect $200
The private corporation running the prison will collect $200/day for your stay. From the government. This money will then be funneled into more lobbying and brib... "campaign contributions" to ensure even longer sentences, meaning more customers for the prison companies.
Ah, capitalism.
Sony is using a different CPU (Cell), and probably a different GPU, why doesn't the same argument apply to them?
Because they apparently will have "PS2-on-a-chip" to run PS2 games. You know, including backward compatibility without sacrificing current generation features.
The last one, Nemesis: Data sacrifices himself to blow up a ship about to fire a death ray weapon on a planet (Think Spock in Wrath of Khan, "the needs of the many" etc.). However, all his memories have been transferred to a Data-type android they found lying about. :)
By switching to Linux and OpenOffice/KOffice on their desktops.
Remember to deduct the $699 Linux license fee to SCO, which leaves a $101 saving.
But VMS wasn't the only OS to run on VAX hardware - there was also Ultrix-32, which WAS a "Unix" (or BSD).
So? It's the same with the game "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3".
2020 too late: As Microprose has shown us, we need to be on our way to Alpha Centauri before 2025. I mean, if SimCity can be right, why can't Civilization?
I can't believe that an organization would put so much time, effort, and money into a product ... only to give it away to the open source community.
It happens.
ISO doesn't manage as well as you think. The JCP is far better at managing Java than the "left to the implementation" political committees of ISO. Cases in point are that every vendor of implementations of ISO-"standard" languages add "extensions" making the standards mostly paper constructs.
There isn't much of Oracle's PL/SQL that you can find in the SQL-92 standard. And it's quite easy to end up with non-ISO C++ when using Microsoft's Visual C++. So how does the "standards" help?
Maybe you would also have preferred ISO's X.400 mail system over non-ISO internet mail?
Um, there was a fork of GCC. And the fork was later adopted as the "real" GCC.
.Net either. Why not rally behing the OSS projects that do try to make an OSS Java, like GNU Classpath and Kaffe?
But GCC isn't AT&T's C compiler, why should a GPL Java system need to be based on Sun's source? Mono isn't Microsoft
I've found WMP9 to be far less resource-hungry and far better at "co-existing" with other applications than either of RealOne 10, WinAmp or iTunes.
Biodiesel is only $0.41/gallon if your time is worth nothing.
/. about refining biodiesel.
Time spent refining biodiesel is time not spent reading on and posting to
You draw the conclusion.
What's wrong with the SMTP server that Comcast provides?
It may not provide relaying. And if it does it's a spammer's paradise.
When a mail client sends mail to user@somedomain.com it looks up a mail exchange entry for the domain in DNS, and connects to port 25 on that machine.
If port 25 is blocked then either some accessible SMTP server needs to be able to relay, or you're limited to web-based mail clients.
What, no mention of Lotus 1-2-3, one of the better-known examples of Microsoft screwing with a third-party? Remember "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run"?
Also add the undocumented method calls in their 32-bit version of Winsock 1.1 (Win95), used by Powerpoint 4.0 and an Outlook beta, causing customers who used other vendors' Winsock implementations (read: FTP Software's) to run into trouble. Mcrosoft did release patches that removed those method calls from the afflicted programs, though, but it still counts.
The Prime Minister wasn't chosen on personal merit, she was chosen because she's from a family that's traditionally held the job of Prime Minister. It's been going on for four generations and it's an embarassment to Indian politics.
Welcome to the club. Every country has one or more "political families" that seem to dominate from time to time, e.g. Kennedy and Bush in USA. It's almost a staple of representative/parliamentary democracy.
While we're at it:
Redhat v Microsoft
Japanese dogs don't go "woof-woof" they go "wan-wan".
A can of gasoline an a pack of matches can make any dog go "woof".
(Yes, I'm a cat person - can you tell?)
I thought the 640k limit was a restriction that IBM put in, and Gates merely quoted their reasons or somesuch? Remember, IBM didn't want the PC to get too good - they had their "little big irons" to sell.
(Consequently, Compaq released a 386-based PC before IBM, because IBM had a vastly more expensive computer with the same performance they didn't want to ruin the market for.)
Compared to what?
Any basic Model 2 architecture implementation with some custom tags (e.g. from JSTL) and a template set.
If you want "event driven" it should be built-in from the start, like with ASP.Net's "code behind" logic.
(Short summary of Model 2 architecture: A "front controller" servlet which dispatches to JSPs based on state. Preferrably via a template that does includes for the selected content. All JSPs are "hidden" under WEB-INF to prohibit direct access from the outside. Optinal: Lower layers (data access, EJBs, CORBA, SOAP) isolated via the BusinessDelegate pattern and value objects.
Yeah, for instance, it "blocked" my Opera because they don't think that Opera or Google should be allowed to use a business model which uses ads based on a site's content... as if it in any way whatsoever affects their content.
It boggles the mind what lengths some people will go to in order to pacify their paranoia.