What you describe is a 'feature' of any government in which one or a very few have almost unlimited power. It has nothing to do with communist theory. If you look at the history of western Europe from the time of the Roman empire to the end of absolute monarchies you will see the exact same behavior time after time. Stalin's number of killed are impressive only because of technological advances which allowed it.
Ah, well that's the $64 million question, isn't it ? Part of it could be voter apathy. Another part is certainly what you've mentioned in your fist post, namely that many think placing any kind of limit on business is anti free-market and socialist. As has been proven many times, there are situations in which regulation is the only way of ensuring effective competition.
It's not that the government doesn't understand that, they certainly do. After all, many in government used to be in business. It's just that you can bribe elected officials very effectively (ie campaign contributions).
The reason you saw many many offices use the 9x line is simply because they were much cheaper compared to the NT line. A lot of places had tens or hundreds of 95/98 workstations and a few NT/2000 servers.
I see your point and completely agree, but the reason you can't update your phone's software is because Nokia designed it that way. Symbian is open source now, but Nokia will explicitly not allow you to upgrade.
As far as being where the market is headed, its only in those markets which are already saturated (North America, Europe, Japan, Australia), and there are still more normal phones sold there.
Worldwide, the largest new cell phone markets per new units sold will be those in the developing world. China and India alone account for about 40% of the world population.
Nokia will continue to have plenty of new customers for its cheaper offerings.
John Hammond: Condors! Condors are on the verge of extinction. If I was to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn't have anything to say!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No hold on, this is not some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs, uh, *had* their shot, and nature *selected* them for extinction!
The ibex is _not_ a natural extinction : their habitat didn't change, we killed them off.
I guess it could be a hybrid in a very strict sense, but generally 'hybrid' means mixing of nuclear DNA. The mtDNA doesn't really control anything, even the mitochondria themselves are mainly controlled by the nucleus. It's a very handy way of determining maternal ancestry, but makes no real difference in behavior or appearance, at least when considering two very closely related species as is this case.
If these trials are successful, genetic researches in the future would see an abrupt change in the mtDNA (and be able to trace the 'new' ibex lineage back to a specific domesticated goat), but I don't see that as a problem for the wild status of the animals, nor any change in their behavior.
I would be far more concerned with the break in parenting continuity. With no adults, how will the kids learn how to avoid predators, where the best grazing is, how to live in a herd, and perhaps most importantly - how to secure a mate ? Almost all mammals learn a great deal about the world from their parents and pass that on to the next generation. No amount of genetic manipulation can bring that back.
I know you're joking, but we _want_ them to reproduce and to spread out as far as they can, within their historical range. Otherwise we might as well just leave them extinct.
Some of the historical accounts have later been found to be based on actual events, there is also mention of 'lost' cities which are now significant archaeological sites.
Simple : the illustrations are clearly not representation of reality.
Though I suppose it could be the same kind of fiction found in the bible or other religious works - in some cases based on reality, but clearly distorted.
Well, she does say she doesn't speak Italian... If this is true then I'm sure someone familiar with medieval Italian will come along and decode the whole thing. As for the labeling, yes of course it's 'bullshit', the manuscript is recognized as being fiction for a long time now.
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The ratings are pretty silly. How can ZendStudio have a value of 10, while netbeans has 9? Netbeans is free/OSS, ZS is proprietary and $400 !!
See? Open source is communist and un-American !!
And almost all of the products based on those new technologies are made in China.
What you describe is a 'feature' of any government in which one or a very few have almost unlimited power. It has nothing to do with communist theory. If you look at the history of western Europe from the time of the Roman empire to the end of absolute monarchies you will see the exact same behavior time after time.
Stalin's number of killed are impressive only because of technological advances which allowed it.
At an early age we learn the concept of persistence, but during the rest of our lives we painfully learn how nothing last forever.
All great (and not so great) empires fall.
Ah, well that's the $64 million question, isn't it ? Part of it could be voter apathy. Another part is certainly what you've mentioned in your fist post, namely that many think placing any kind of limit on business is anti free-market and socialist. As has been proven many times, there are situations in which regulation is the only way of ensuring effective competition.
It's not that the government doesn't understand that, they certainly do. After all, many in government used to be in business. It's just that you can bribe elected officials very effectively (ie campaign contributions).
The reason you saw many many offices use the 9x line is simply because they were much cheaper compared to the NT line. A lot of places had tens or hundreds of 95/98 workstations and a few NT/2000 servers.
What do you mean? I'm watching youtube on my open source OS right now.
To be fair, Windows didn't get usable until version 3.1
Maybe, maybe not. We'll see when maemo 6 is out.
I see your point and completely agree, but the reason you can't update your phone's software is because Nokia designed it that way. Symbian is open source now, but Nokia will explicitly not allow you to upgrade.
Well, I might be the son of god, who allegedly created the universe.
Don't google apps make extensive use of open office in the backend?
Nokia has no compelling smart phone offering, and that's where the market is headed.
Apparently, half of all people worldwide do not agree with you .
As far as being where the market is headed, its only in those markets which are already saturated (North America, Europe, Japan, Australia), and there are still more normal phones sold there.
Worldwide, the largest new cell phone markets per new units sold will be those in the developing world. China and India alone account for about 40% of the world population.
Nokia will continue to have plenty of new customers for its cheaper offerings.
They're not natural in the sense of 'man-made' vs 'natural'. Like plastic and skyscrapers. I don't see where the confusion is.
How about this JP quote, then ?
John Hammond: Condors! Condors are on the verge of extinction. If I was to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn't have anything to say!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No hold on, this is not some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs, uh, *had* their shot, and nature *selected* them for extinction!
The ibex is _not_ a natural extinction : their habitat didn't change, we killed them off.
I guess it could be a hybrid in a very strict sense, but generally 'hybrid' means mixing of nuclear DNA. The mtDNA doesn't really control anything, even the mitochondria themselves are mainly controlled by the nucleus. It's a very handy way of determining maternal ancestry, but makes no real difference in behavior or appearance, at least when considering two very closely related species as is this case.
If these trials are successful, genetic researches in the future would see an abrupt change in the mtDNA (and be able to trace the 'new' ibex lineage back to a specific domesticated goat), but I don't see that as a problem for the wild status of the animals, nor any change in their behavior.
I would be far more concerned with the break in parenting continuity. With no adults, how will the kids learn how to avoid predators, where the best grazing is, how to live in a herd, and perhaps most importantly - how to secure a mate ? Almost all mammals learn a great deal about the world from their parents and pass that on to the next generation. No amount of genetic manipulation can bring that back.
I know you're joking, but we _want_ them to reproduce and to spread out as far as they can, within their historical range. Otherwise we might as well just leave them extinct.
The normal method fails here, after all they're _goats_
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cities+mentioned+in+the+bible&l=1
Some of the historical accounts have later been found to be based on actual events, there is also mention of 'lost' cities which are now significant archaeological sites.
Simple : the illustrations are clearly not representation of reality.
Though I suppose it could be the same kind of fiction found in the bible or other religious works - in some cases based on reality, but clearly distorted.
Well, she does say she doesn't speak Italian ... If this is true then I'm sure someone familiar with medieval Italian will come along and decode the whole thing. As for the labeling, yes of course it's 'bullshit', the manuscript is recognized as being fiction for a long time now.